At their March meeting Tenby and District Lions president Nick Stapleton, was very pleased to award two members with a Lions Club International ‘long service’ certificate and badge.

Peter Holmes who has been a member of the Lions Club for 30 years and Robert Mayhew a member for 25 years receeived the accolades.

The motto of Lions Clubs International is ‘We Serve’ - and these two stalwarts during their time have volunteered thousands of hours in service to the community.

The Tenby and District Lions are currently raising funds for the Ukrainians. They are doing this in two ways, with Lion Paul Deverson, who has a photography business in the market, auctioning a print of Tenby harbour entitled ‘We stand with Ukraine’ which made £125.

He also has a collection box for donations and will be embarking on another fundraising idea in the next few days.

Meanwhile a former Lion member, Paul Roly, a supporter and friend of the Lions, has raised £400 and hopes to raise £600 by selling pin badges of joint Ukrainian and Welsh flags at the Tenby Gift Shop in Upper Frog Street.

All the money raised for international disasters are sent direct to Lions Clubs in the affected area. This can be done speedily to provide immediate relief where most needed. On this occasion Lions are sending donations specifically for refugees and displaced persons in Ukraine.

The Lions Club continues to collect used spectacles, with collection bins in the optician in Greenhill Road, the market, Tenby Post Office Stores, and Saundersfoot and Kilgetty surgeries.

These are sent to Medico in France to be refurbished and clinically graded before being sent to help improve the sight of visually impaired in Africa, South America and South East Asia.

Over 15,000 used specs were recently brought by Lions clubs to their winter forum for despatch to France.