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Lions Club of Brisbane MacGregor AU

Locality: Wishart

Phone: +61 431 650 230

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25.01.2022 Have a safe and happy Easter break. Take care of yourself and others.

25.01.2022 Lions Clubs internationally have served more than 250 million people this year around the world. If you would like to help your local community and join our club, go to our clubs website and complete an expression of interest https://brisbanemacgregor.qld.lions.org.au/joinus. Enjoy watching this video https://youtu.be/KiIlrfR7hH4

25.01.2022 Our Lions clubs belated 2019-2020 Changeover dinner, deferred due to Covid-19, was able to be held on Saturday night at the Newnham Hotel with Lion Baska Desha as MC. PDG Ken Mulcahy installed the new board for 2020-2021 although they officially took over on 1st July. Michael Cosgrove is the first person in our Brisbane MacGregor Lions club to be President for 2 consecutive years so he was outgoing & incoming President. Congratulations to Michael and the new board. Ross & O...lly Gibbins were awarded a Professor Ian Frazer Humanitarian Award and Narelle Wyvill-Anstey was presented with a Ray Phippard Fellow Award. Lorraine Ould with her 2 sons presented Saffi Abad as the Griffith Uni recipient of the clubs inaugural annual Ron Ould Memorial scholarship with the $1,000 big cheque. Photos from the evening are in the Facebook photo album. #201Q1 #Q1Lions See more

25.01.2022 MacGregor Lions FREE Health and Wellbeing webinar is now available to book online! Find out more info by clicking on the event below, and register by following the link. Please share ...... Well see you there!

25.01.2022 Through our Brisbane MacGregor Lions clubs LAPD program (Lions Assist Property Dept), Lions Narelle Wyvill-Anstey and Tania Rooney with assistance from Bernadette Tanner, had a working bee to make up 44 toiletry care packs which are being distributed to the homeless and those in need. We were also able to supply Cup-a-soups, socks and towels. Thankyou to Wishart Family Dental and Belinda Arnesen and Westfield Carindale and Westfield Garden City for the donations and support to make this possible. #201Q1 #westfieldcarindale #westfieldgardencity #wishartfamilydental #volunteering #communityserviceproject #brisbanemacgregorlionsclub

25.01.2022 A big thank you to Robina Lions Club for the donated crockery and cutlery to Brisbane MacGregor Lions club and to Joe Zarb for his time and the help loading them into the car for the trip home to Brisbane. The items have been distributed to Fishers Of Men and the Hillsong Homes Of Peace projects which help set up homes for families escaping domestic violence who leave with nothing. The MtGravatt Community Centre is also a recipient of some items to help set up a training Community kitchen & cafe. All goods are very gratefully received and are ensured to have a useful and beneficial purpose in our community helping those in need. #communityservice

24.01.2022 An initial discussion two months ago between Brisbane Macgregor Lion Narelle Wyvill-Anstey and Councillor Steven Huang about helping Seniors during this Covid-19 situation, started with the idea to help 100 people and has grown to helping 500. As part of the Community Care Pack Project, Brisbane Macgregor Lions, Councillor Steven Huang and Narelle Wyvill-Anstey together with the Australian Ethnic Chinese & Taiwanese Communities were able to source bulk supplies and spent a c...ouple of working bees putting the community care packs together. Each pack contains 10 face masks, hand sanitiser, 2 toilet rolls, a box of tissues, soap, a kitchen paper towel roll, one litre long life milk, tea, coffee, 2 serves of soup-in-a-cup and a random gift. Brisbane MacGregor Lion Cr Steven Huang and Paul Shih (Honorary Ambassador of the Lord Mayors Charitable Trust) have arranged to donate 500 Care packs to Seniors & those in need. They also obtained donations and sponsorship from: Glamorous Wok, YFG Shopping Centres, Juxgold Development, Knowledge Bank Institute of Australia, Cr Steven Huang, Shenay Sun, Shirley Xu, Xinrong Liu, Anna Wang, Vivian Song, Cathy Dai, Nancy & Cecilia Nie. The empty shop Viv Elements at Sunnybank Plaza was donated to store supplies and assemble them into care packs. 70 Community Care packs were donated to seniors at Meals On Wheels (MOW). Pictured is MOW Mt Gravatt President Carmel Trew receiving Care packs from MacGregor Lions Steven Huang & Narelle Wyvill-Anstey. Chinese Community volunteer Vicky Yu is also pictured with Steven & Narelle helping to deliver the care packs. Community Care packs were also donated to Pastor Russell Witham at Access Street Vans Outreach #WeServe #qldday #thanksQld See more

24.01.2022 Happiness, hope and Kindness

24.01.2022 Happy Volunteer Day to all our Lions club members, partners & friends who help in our community.

23.01.2022 Club President Michael Cosgrove presented guest speaker Di Clough from Southside Community Care Inc with a certificate of appreciation. It was an insightful talk about the ongoing services provided for families for 16 crisis accommodation placements and 4 families for transitional accommodation with financial management services and help given to people in need. Southside Community Care receives our ongoing support from the club and through our LAPD (Lions Assist Property Dept) program.

23.01.2022 As Chairperson of our club's annual Christmas Hamper project, Lion Tania Rooney has been busy purchasing goodies to prepare 42 Christmas hampers for donation to those in need. Not sure the Christmas bear helper was able to contribute much to the task. Thankyou Tania for all your efforts.

23.01.2022 Easing Covid 19 restrictions by state. Source: 9 News

22.01.2022 The Lions Camp Duckadang is an organisation that runs on volunteers, donations and grants. The camp is used for youth and the disadvantaged. A big Thankyou to our MacGregor Lions member Tania Rooney who answered the call for help and travelled to Avoca Vale in country Queensland to participate in a working Bee. Tania is pictured after cleaning cobwebs and insect droppings- a challenging job but she had fun. The weather was cool in the shade but so beautiful with the fire place aglow. A great place & wonderful project.

21.01.2022 Lion Narelle Wyvill-Anstey as chairperson of our club’s LAPD (Lions Assist Property Dept) was able to purchase 32 back packs for Care Kits For Kids through the generosity of Westfield Carindale and discount help from Big W Carindale. These back packs along with other new clothes, toys and collected book donations were delivered to Care Kits for Kids' President Chris Rafter at their Thankyou morning tea for supporters. Everything was gratefully received. Brisbane MacGregor Lions club President Michael Cosgrove is pictured with Narelle outside Big W after the purchase. Note where our Lions Xmas cake stand is at Westfield Carindale. #carekitsforkids #westfieldcarindale #bigwcarindale #brisbanemacgregorlionsclub #201Q1

21.01.2022 Our LAPD (Lions Assist Property Dept) Program was pleased to be able to support this wonderful community service.

21.01.2022 Practicing social distancing with Narelle from Lions Club of Brisbane MacGregor AU. I have donated reusable bags to the Mt Gravatt Community Centre to use for their home delivery of food parcels to community members currently in self-isolation.

21.01.2022 Through our club’s LAPD (Lions Assist Property Dept) program and Westfield Carindale, Lion Narelle was able to provide Mt Gravatt Community Centre with chocolate bunnies for their Easter support project. It’s the small things that often have the biggest positive impact.

20.01.2022 The COVIDSafe app is available for download to assist contact tracing in preparation for the easing of restrictions. https://www.covidsafe.gov.au/

19.01.2022 Our club supports this great initiative. It reduces plastic waste from the environment and recycles into usable products while supporting the donation funding of wheelchairs for those in need.

19.01.2022 Multicap will again be partnering with Westfield Garden City and MacGregor Lions Club to launch our annual Christmas gift-wrapping fundraiser. From 10 to 24 D...ecember, our volunteers will wrap 1000s of Christmas gifts at Westfield Garden City. Money raised will support Multicap to enhance the lives of those living with disability. If you are interested in becoming a Volunteer, please click the link below and our team will be in touch. http://ow.ly/sDQw50CmpFe See more

19.01.2022 Our dinner meeting on Tuesday night welcomed former club member Alan Edgerton as a guest speaker. Alan and his wife Beth were introduced by friend and club secretary, Baska Desha. Kaye Burns accepted a 50 year Lions service pin on behalf or her husband Ashley Burns. On behalf of 201 Q1 Lions District Governor, Narelle Parkins,Club President Michael Cosgrove presented Lorraine Ould with a plant and a Lions Higher Service Award pin in memory of Ron Ould who passed away this year. Club President Michael Cosgrove also presented Geoff Ferguson with a Community Service Award for years of supporting students in the Lions Youth of the Year program.

19.01.2022 Need a gift wrapped and would like to help us help the Community? Come along to Westfield Garden City level 2 near Le Bon Choix at the Target end of the shopping centre. Funds raised go to our Brisbane MacGregor Lions club and Multicap for distribution to community care programs. Cash & EFTPOS accepted. Small gifts $2, medium $5 & large $10.

18.01.2022 Brisbane MacGregor Lions Ron Ould Memorial Scholarship The final stage of the selection of the inaugural winner of the Ron Ould Memorial Scholarship was reached last week. In early May Griffith University assessors provided Lions Club of Brisbane Macgregor with a shortlist of six candidates from students who had followed Trimester 1 of the Community Internship Course.... After assessing the submissions consisting of journals and video cvs of the six students Club Members Baska Desha and Narelle Wyvill-Anstey narrowed the shortlist to three students who were then interviewed on Zoom. The inaugural winner of Ron Ould Memorial Scholarship: Saffi Abad Gin, whose photo is alongside. Saffi Abad will be presented with a prize of $1,000 at a Club function in August. Read the news item in Griffith News at https://news.griffith.edu.au//scholarship-recognises-serv/

18.01.2022 Come and say hello at our Brisbane MacGregor Lions Christmas cake stand outside Big W at Westfield Garden City and also Westfield Carindale. As well as $5 raffle tickets to help support Lions Medical Research, we have our Xmas shopping trolley raffle with 3 tickets for $5; 8 tickets for $10 or 20 tickets for $20 supporting Beyond Blue & Lifeline. #brisbanemacgregorlionsclub #201Q1 #westfieldgardencity #westfieldcarindal #LMR #beyondblue #lifeline

18.01.2022 Youth Of The Year (YOTY) Zone Finals took place on Saturday, 14 March hosted by our MacGregor Lions club. Lions Angela Psaltis & Narelle Wyvill-Anstey were time keepers. Lion Tania Rooney helped escort & supervise the other students during the impromptu questioning section and Lions Bev & Winston Fraser did the catering. YOTY Zone final participants- From left in group photo: Jerick Catingan, Takeisha Riley, Graecyn Pasene (our clubs winner) & Jessica Morgan. President Mic...hael presented Zone level achievement certificates prior to the announcement of winners. Our club winner, Graecyn Pasene won the Public Speaking. Two winners progressed to the next District level. Graecyn Pasene and Jessica Morgan won this Zone competition to progress through. Judge Allan James announced the winners. President Michael gave the non-winning students a consolation gift of a cash card. Judges were presented with a certificate and a bottle of wine. Pictured: Paula Seiler, Allan James & Margaret Hanrahan. Club President Michael Cosgrove is pictured with YOTY chairperson MC Kathlyn McCarthy. President Cosgrove presented Certificates of Thanks to the teachers who attended and supported the students throughout the YOTY program.

17.01.2022 Lest we forget.

17.01.2022 Happy New Year for 2021. Congratulations to our Brisbane MacGregor Lions club, serving the community for 50 years. Let’s make this a positive year.

16.01.2022 Keep saving those bread tags. It’s easy to do and every bit helps towards a great project and recycling plastic out of the environment. Our club continues to support this great project.

15.01.2022 Thanks to our Lions clubs LAPD (Lions Assist Property Dept) project, and the generous donations from Westfield Carindale and Westfield Garden City and others, Chairperson Narelle Wyvill-Anstey has been able to make a big differnce in the lives of some of our young men and women in the community by donating 5 large boxes containing suit jackets, dress shirts & trousers, skirts, belts and shoes. This could be a game changer in life. The new and as new clothes have been given t...o "Formally Ever After" which provides formal clothes free of charge to those young people in need of help in the community for Year 12 formals, graduations as well as for job interviews. To have the kindness from strangers is something they wont forget and hopefully it will have a positive impact. #westfieldcarindale #westfieldgardencity #formallyeverafter #communityserviceproject #brisbanemacgregorlionsclub #201Q1 See more

15.01.2022 Are you diabetes aware? Join us for a walk today at Broadwater park.

15.01.2022 Some Brisbane MacGregor Lions club members and partners enjoyed a Friday morning social breakfast and view of Brisbane city from the Lovewell Cafe at MtGravatt.

14.01.2022 Post Covid-19 lockdown, with appropriate physical distancing in place, our Lions club held its first 2020-2021 Lions year dinner meeting with partners on Tuesday night at the Newnham Hotel. Good to be back face to face.

13.01.2022 Six club members and 11 family & friends participated in Lions Lap the Map for the Strides for Diabetes Awareness Day on Saturday 14 November. A total of 71.5km was walked at Broadwater park. Club President Michael Cosgrove cooked a BBQ to enjoy afterwards.

11.01.2022 Help is available if needed.

11.01.2022 Happy Interational Friendship Day to all! #201Q1 #Q1Lions #InternationalFriendshipDay #WorldFriendshipDay #KindnessMatters A little about the day!... World Friendship Day, also known as International Day of Friendship takes place on 30th July. The original idea for a day of friendship came from Hallmark cards in the 1930s. Originally celebrated on 2nd August, the day was largely viewed cynically by the public as a money making exercise, sales of friendship day cards did not take off in Europe and by the mid-1940s the day had faded into obscurity in the USA. The idea of a day to honour friendship was, however, adopted by a number of countries in Asia where it remained a popular custom to reserve a day for celebrating friendships and the exchange of gifts between friends. The first World Friendship Day was proposed for 30 July 1958 by the World Friendship Crusade, an international civil organisation that campaigns to foster a culture of peace through friendship. Many years later, in 2011, the 30th July was declared as the International Day of Friendship by the General Assembly of United Nations. With the growing popularity of social media throughout the world, there has been an increase in celebrating World Friendship day and International Day of Friendship online as well as with community activities in local communities aimed at bringing those of different backgrounds together.

11.01.2022 Angela from Big W Garden City drew the winner of our Brisbane MacGregor Lions club Xmas raffle of the trolley load of groceries and $200 gift card. Congratulations to the lucky winner : Linda with ticket number BW1328. Linda & her daughter are pictured collecting their prize. Thankyou to all the supporters who purchased tickets. Proceeds from the raffle will go to mental health support services assisting Beyond Blue and Lifeline.

10.01.2022 Some Brisbane MacGregor Lions club members with family and friends are pictured volunteering at our recent Bunnings BBQ on Sunday. Covid-19 restrictions have changed the way people must queue and order with payments able to be made by card as well as cash. It is a much needed boost to our fundraising and a positive start to 2021. Thankyou to those who were able to help and those who came along and enjoyed a sausage sizzle whist supporting our community fundraising.

10.01.2022 World Environment Day was established by the UN General Assembly in 1972 to attract awareness and encourage action to protect the environment. The theme for 2020 is Celebrate Biodiversity as 1 million species are facing extinction. Simple things we can do to protect our environment: Reduce, reuse, recycle; volunteer at cleanups; conserve water; shop responsibly by buying sustainable products; use energy efficient light bulbs and electrical appliances; plant a tree; dispose... of chemicals and pollutants responsibly so they do not end up in our waterways. Brisbane Macgregor Lions Club is doing its share for our environment by taking part in Cleanup Australia Day and by taking part in various recycling projects such as Qld Container Refund Scheme, Recycle for Sight (Lions Clubs International Worldwide Eyeglass Recycling Program) and TerraCycle (A program to recycle used oral products and bread bag tags).#WeServe See more

09.01.2022 Its a great project that our club supports which helps others as well as recycling and helping the environment. Its something you can do easily at home.

09.01.2022 Come and say Hello and buy our famous Lions Xmas cakes and puddings from today, Monday 23 November until 24 December or until sold out. Don’t miss out! We are located outside Big W at Westfield Garden City and near Big W end of Westfield Carindale. As well as the puddings and traditional Lions fruit cakes we have the rum & brandy Xmas cakes twin packs which are very popular too.

08.01.2022 A great community need for blankets especially with the cold weather upon us. Can you help?

08.01.2022 At last nights club dinner meeting, Lions Bev & Winston Fraser were presented with the Lions International Chevron long service pins by Club President Michael Cosgrove to recognise their services to Lions and the community: Bev for 25 years service & Winston 55 years (Winston also has another 4 years service to APEX to add on). Congratulations to both and well done.

07.01.2022 Follow the rules, stay safe

07.01.2022 Our Brisbane MacGregor Lions club through our LAPD (Lions Assist Property Dept) provided boxes of 45 Lions mini Xmas fruit cakes to Mt Gravatt Community Centre and Access Street Vans Outreach to distribute to those less fortunate in our community for an extra food offering for this Christmas season. They were gratefully received and we hope will also bring a little happiness to the recipients knowing that people care. #KindnessMatters #brisbanemacgregorlionsclub #201Q1 #Mgcci #accessstreetvans

05.01.2022 The Joyce Wilding hostel gratefully received 9 toiletry care packs for their female residents from our Brisbane MacGregor Lions club’s LAPD program (Lions Assist Property Dept). Lion Narelle prepared these 9 packs for women as well as 10 toiletry packs for distribution to homeless men in our community through Access Street Vans Outreach. Our club was also able to donate a baby bouncer to JWH for use by some of their resident Mums who have young babies. #kindnessmatters #brisbanemacgregorlions #201q1

05.01.2022 Our club was able to help with the request from Southside Community Care Inc to supply 8 single and 2 queen bed mattresses. These mattresses are for the supported accommodation properties where homeless families are housed during the crisis period. These families can be one parent or 2 parents with one or up to six children. Families who are homeless or moving around temporary accommodation often have few belongings. Southside Community Care has 16 crisis accommodation proper...ties which they furnish from community donations including from our LAPD (Lions Assist Property Dept) program. For health and safety reasons mattresses are best provided new and tenants take the mattresses when they move to more stable accommodation. Through our LAPD program, and with a discount given by BigW Garden City, Chairperson Narelle Wyvill-Anstey was also able to provide 20 new pillows to Southside Community Care. They had no pillows left in stock so the help was invaluable. Narelle is pictured with Southside Community Care Manager Deb Wadwell. #lionsclubs #brisbanemacgregorlionsclub #southsidecommunitycare #201q1 #bigWgardencity #westfieldgardencity #westfieldcarindale #communityservice See more

04.01.2022 Through our LAPD (Lions Assist Property Dept) Program, and thanks to Westfield Carindale our club has donated a $100 gift card to the charitable not-for-profit In Stitches Brisbane group, to buy much needed elastic and cotton to use with donated fabrics to make clothes, accessories and toys for kids in crisis care through donation to Care Kits for Kids Qld. If you love sewing and have time to volunteer, come along to help sew precut clothing for sizes 0 to 16, toys or fabric bags. Beginners welcome. Sewing machines, over lockers, precut fabric, yarn, elastic etc supplied or BYO. A very worthwhile activity and a chance to make new friends and help a worthy cause.

04.01.2022 The PCYC Mt Gravatt Community Youth Development program received welcome donations from Lion Narelle through our club's LAPD (Lions Assist Property Dept) program. An Officeworks gift card donated by Westfield Carindale will help purchase much needed stationary to support young people to study at TAFE to enable them to get a job. An art sketch book will be welcomed by a youth doing Art therapy and other donations thanks to Westfield Garden City including a basketball, sports shoes and a yoga mat will be put to good use. All donations were gratefully received.

04.01.2022 Don’t forget to sign up and participate in our Strides for Diabetes Awareness on World Diabetes Day on Saturday 14 November. Lions, partners, family and friends are welcome to join Brisbane MacGregor Lions at Broadwater Park at 8am or 10am for a walk. Baska Bhaskar Desha is Coordinator.

03.01.2022 This year ANZAC Day will be commemorated in novel ways with the Covid 19 restrictions in place. Lest we forget. For Light Up the Dawn dtails, go to https://facebook.com/events/s/anzac-day-2020-light-up-the-da/1369894726549555/?ti=icl

03.01.2022 Thinking of an easy New Year’s resolution? Think of kindness. Be Kind to others. Kindness Matters. #brisbanemacgregorlions #201Q1 #kindnessmatters

03.01.2022 Our thoughts are with those struggling with the results of the current weather event and our thanks to those who are working hard to keep them safe. #ifitsfloodedforgetit

03.01.2022 ANZAC 2020 - Lest we forget (RSL Qld - article by Anita Jaensch 16/4/2020)

03.01.2022 Be kind. Kindness matters.

03.01.2022 A great community project that our club supports.

02.01.2022 Hoping you can enjoy a happy Christmas time and a positive and healthy year ahead in 2021.

02.01.2022 The plan to create a childrens corner in the common room at the Joyce Wilding Centre was made possible through Lion Narelle Wyvill-Ansteys networking and connections in the community. Narelle is Chairperson of our clubs LAPD (Lions Assist Property Dept) and was able to source playmats, kids seats & a table, educational toys, blocks and a bookcase which is now filled with donated kids books. Extra donated toys have been provided to the Dundoo Mirra Deadly kindy which is a kindy for aboriginal kids aged 3 to 5. Our LAPD program, continues to be a positive hands-on community program helping so many in need in our community. #lionsclubs #201Q1 #communityserviceproject #volunteering

02.01.2022 Kindness matters

01.01.2022 Pictured is Lion Narelle Wyvill-Anstey at the Joyce Wilding hostel with Admin officer Keisha Charles who is receiving the newly purchased & donated items. This donation was arranged by Narelle as chairperson of the MacGregor Lions club LAPD project (Lions Assist Property Dept). A special Thankyou to Westfield Carindale who donated the vouchers to make this possible. Thankyou also to the JBHiFi manager who gave discount prices to enable purchase of 2 microwaves, 3 kettles an...d a popcorn maker. They were very gratefully received and so excited at the Joyce Wilding hostel which provides transitional accommodation to women and children escaping domestic violence. Whilst the hostel has one microwave and one kettle in the common room, there arent any in the rooms and they currently have 5 Mums getting up during the cold night to access the common room facilities to heat bottles to feed babies. One mum, who has her leg in a cast, has a 10 month old and and she finds it difficult to get out. These donations will help make their lives easier. #communityservice #201Q1 #LionsClub #volunteers #westfieldcarindale #jbhifi #joycewildinghostel

01.01.2022 EMERGENCY FOOD RELIEF PARCELS AVAILABLE To support our community during these unprecedented times, The Mt Gravatt Community Centre are still providing basic em...ergency relief food parcels to vulnerable or struggling members of our community. Due to social distancing requirements and for everyones health and safety, food parcels are available to be picked up by appointment only. Please phone us on 3343 9833 to make an appointment to collect your parcel. Please bring your own bags when collecting the parcel if you are able to. In some special circumstances, we may be able to provide home delivery of emergency relief food parcels to those in the community that are self-isolating, are in mandatory isolation or just dont have the ability to get to the shops to buy food. If you require home delivery, please mention this to our team when you call us for an appointment. Please do not hesitate to contact us on 3343 9833 or email us at [email protected] with any queries.

01.01.2022 Our club members and partners welcomed Lions District 201Q1, 2nd Vice District Governor Ian Bruning and his wife Lion Therese Bruning to our club dinner meeting on Tuesday night. Brisbane MacGregor club President Michael Cosgrove was presented with the District Governor Narelle Parkins bannerette from Lion Ian. Thankyou for an informative and social evening. #201q1 #brisbanemacgregorlionsclub #Q1Lions