What is it?

Its a simple idea designed to encourage people to keep their basic personal and medical details on a standard form and in a common location – the fridge!

What does it do?

It saves the Emergency Services valuable time if they need to enter a property in an emergency situation. Not only does it help to identify who you are it also identifies if you have special medication or allergies. It is not only a potential lifesaver, but also it provides peace of mind to you, your friends and family by knowing that prompt medical treatment is provided and that the next of kin and emergency contacts are notified.

Who is it for? Anyone particularly if they live on their own.

Whilst it is focused on the more vulnerable people in a community, anyone can have an accident in the home, so this scheme can benefit anyone.

What does it cost?

When ordering one bottle the scheme is free to the public and is funded by Woking local Lions Club.

You may find the bottles displayed in your local GP’s surgery, Local Pharmacy, Local Lions Club. If you have any difficulty locating a bottle please contact Lions Clubs Headquarters 0845 833 2747.

Who knows about it?

All Emergency Services are aware of the Message in a Bottle scheme, by displaying the green stickers in your home, the emergency services will locate the bottle in the fridge and use the forms inside to ensure you are treated quickly which can save time and save lives.

What's in the bottle?

form you fill in with your name, medicines, allergies & relatives contact details. And also two green stickers.

What do I have to do?

Fill in the form which is in the bottle and replace it in the bottle. Put the bottle in your fridge. Put one green sticker on your fridge door and the other green sticker on the INSIDE of your house door.

 

PROJECT WENCESLAS

 

Shortly the UK government will issue the 2019 Winter Fuel payment to qualifying individuals in Woking and surrounding villages.

 

BUT DO YOU NEED ALL OF THIS ALLOWANCE?

 

Many local people do struggle to keep warm and meet fuel bills during winter but do not qualify for this help. The Lions Club of Woking have teamed up with Citizens Advice Woking Office AND Citizens Advice Runnymede & Spelthorne Office in Addlestone tooffer you the option of donating all or part of this payment to helpthose in the community that really do need support to pay their winter fuel bills or who are in fuel poverty. If you can help please,pass on your donation to this worthy cause by means outlined below in the certain knowledge that every donation will all go to meet local citizens really in need during this season of traditional generosity.

 

Woking Lions Club promotes this project as part of its Service to the Woking and district Community. All awards from donations will be managed by Citizens Advice Woking or Citizens Advice Runnymede & Spelthorne Offices. We hope you will support the project.

 

Payment may be made either:

 

• By cheque made out to “Woking Lions Club” with ‘Project Wenceslas’ on the reverse side and sent to “Project Wenceslas”, c/o Citizens Advice Woking, Provincial House, 26 Commercial Way, Woking,Surrey, GU21 6EN (or drop it personally into this office), OR to Addlestone C A Office in The Old Library, Church Road, Addlestone. KT 15 1RW for Jo Watts.

 

• Or by Post to Lion Roger, Appleby, Bury Lane, Woking GU21 4RT.

Changing Lives, One Pair at a Time

In just about any dresser drawer, one can find a pair of spectacles that are no longer being used. That same pair of spectacles can change another person's life.

Lions Recycle for Sight

That's why we started the Lions Recycle for Sight programme. Everyone can help.

Throughout the year, Lions, Leos and other volunteers collect used spectacles and deliver them to regional Lions Eyeglass Recycling Centres (LERCs). LERC volunteers clean, sort by prescription strength and package the glasses. Most of the recycled glasses are distributed to people in need in developing countries where they will have the greatest impact.

Spectacle Recycling – How You Can Help

Donate glasses and change someone's life. Imagine if you could help a child read. An adult succeed in his job. A senior maintain his/her independence. And provide a community with more opportunities to grow and thrive. Everyday, our recycled spectacles programmes do all of this and more. Here's how you can donate glasses and help.

Drop Your Eyeglasses in Lions Collection Boxes

You can drop off your usable eyewear at Lions-sponsored collection boxes in Sainsbury or Bayfields in Woking Town Centre, Woking Hospice, Woking funeral service in Goldsworth road, Opticians West Byfleet , Waitrose in Weybridge. Also at the Home Beech House on Mount Hermon road, which are private flats. 

For information specific to locations in your community, contact us on 0845 8332747.