Isle of Ely Lions Club-Membership

How Do I Become a Lion?

Membership of the Isle of Ely Lions is by invitation, usually by a sponsoring member of the Club. Admittance is granted with the agreement of the membership and is open to men and women over the age of 28. For those below this age we sponsor a Leo Club who will offer a warm welcome to interested visitors.
Once invited, a prospective member attends three meetings as a visitor including a fund raising event, after which time both the prospective member and the Club membership decide if the invitation is confirmed and accepted. New members are then sworn into the Club and presented with a badge. The new member must also accept the Lion's Code of ethics and Purposes.

We never forget that family and business must always come before Lions, but members are expected to support the activities of the Club as fully as possible. Their sponsor and fellow members are always on hand to give advice and help.

Because all monies donated by the public are used for charitable and community projects each member pays quarterly dues to the Club for administrative costs including hire of the meeting room etc. These are reviewable but currently stand at £20 per Quarter.

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Lions International Purposes

To Create and foster a spirit of understanding among the peoples of the world.
To Promote the principles of good government and good citizenship.
To Take an active interest in the civic, cultural, social and moral welfare of the community.
To Unite the clubs in the bonds of friendship, good fellowship and mutual understanding.
To Provide a forum for the open discussion of all matters of public interest; provided, however, that partisan politics and sectarian religion shall not be debated by club members.
To Encourage service-minded people to serve their community without personal financial reward, and to encourage efficiency and promote high ethical standards in commerce, industry, professions, public works and private endeavors.

Lions Code of Ethics

To Show my faith in the worthiness of my vocation by industrious application to the end that I may merit a reputation for quality of service.
To Seek success and to demand all fair remuneration or profit as my just due, but to accept no profit or success at the price of my own self-respect lost because of unfair advantage taken or because of questionable acts on my part.
To Remember that in building up my business it is not necessary to tear down another's; to be loyal to my clients or customers and true to myself.
Whenever a doubt arises as to the right or ethics of my position or action towards others, to resolve such doubt against myself.
To Hold friendship as an end and not a means. To hold that true friendship exists not on account of the service performed by one another, but that true friendship demands nothing but accepts service in the spirit in which it is given.
Always to bear in mind my obligations as a citizen to my nation, my state, and my community, as to give them my unswerving loyalty in word, act, and deed. To give them freely of my time, labor and means.
To Aid others by giving my sympathy to those in distress, my aid to the weak, and my substance to the needy.
To Be Careful with my criticism and liberal with my praise; to build up and not destroy.