NEWS AND MEDIA

The Dance World Cup will take place from 3-12 July 2025 in Burgos, Spain and is open to dancers from any country who are under 25 years of age. This year the representatives from England include a group of 19 girls and 1 boy from the Swindon Academy of Dance. Of course, attending such an […]

Swindon Lions Club is saddened to report the death of Lion Mike Bowden. He passed away unexpectedly at home on 5th February. Mike was a great humanitarian and charity worker. A former corporate lawyer he took early retirement to work in the charity sector. Although involved with many causes he will chiefly be remembered for […]

Swindon Lions recently presented £500 cheques to 16 local charities Swindon Town FC legend John Trollope handed out the cheques from the Lions he said “I’ve always known Swindon has a warm heart and it’s been a lovely evening chatting to people who make a real difference to the town”. Swindon Lions Vice President Peter […]

Celebrated British furniture designer, Tom Faulkner said “My team and I have been making furniture by hand in Swindon for over thirty years, and I am very fortunate to have created a thriving business on the site of Brunel’s Great Western Coachworks. I’m so delighted to be able to put something back into the local […]

Swindon Humanitarian Aid Partnership (SHAP) wanted to send a children’s story bus to the west of Ukraine to enable the children there to enjoy some colour and fun. The Go-Ahead Group donated a bus, SHAP volunteers removed the seats and repaired damage and local artist, Billy Beaumont painted an enchanted forest inside including Ukrainian figures […]

The Swindon Humanitarian Aid Partnership (SHAP ) was formed within weeks of the invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces. In the subsequent 18 months SHAP have collected sorted boxed and transported over 1100 tonnes of aid into Ukraine -primarily to the east of the county where the war is at its most ferocious. Mike Bowden […]

On Sunday 13 March Swindon Lions collected over £850 outside Morrisons at Dorcan to help with humanitarian aid for the people from Ukraine. Thank you to all those generous Morrisons customers who supported us. The club has added £400 to this so we have sent over £1,250 to help with the Ukraine crisis.

Five members of the club recently spent a morning helping at the Swindon Food Collective We helped sorting goods donated from the local supermarkets. These items were checked to make sure they were “in date” and were then sorted into date expiry order. We helped making up bags of basic foods for distribution to single […]

Thanks to our Swindon Lions Supporters’ Club we have been able to donate £1,000 to the Swindon Food Collective. Lion Richard High (pictured here with Cher from the Food Collective) said “It’s great to be able to support the Swindon Food Collective – especially at this time of year. It’s an organisation that we in […]