You can do it
To help others
- Your old spectacles could help people in need around the world.
- We have collection facilities for unwanted spectacles at Sidmouth Library in Blackmore Drive, Sidmouth; also at the Marie Curie charity shop (by Mountain Warehouse) in Sidmouth's Fore Street. If you deposit good condition old spectacles at either of those locations, they will automatically be passed on to the Sidmouth Lions for recycling. Alternatively, you can contact Sidmouth Lions directly by email, using the 'Contact Us' link tab on this website.
Your old hearing aids can be used to help those with hearing difficulties around the world. Please just contact us and we will arrange collection. We send the hearing aids via the Lions Clubs network - where refurbishment is needed, they go to Frankland Prison for checking and any necessary work - and then they go for eventual re-use in third world countries, under a Lions Club International programme.
To help the environment
- Our Sidmouth Green Bag was designed and commissioned by Sidmouth Lions to encourage use of bio-degradable bags in the Sid Valley and thereby reduce the use of the ubiquitous plastic bags which add so much to our environmental pollution problems.
To help yourself (or someone else)
- Our Message in a Bottle scheme allows you to keep basic personal and medical details (such as details of medical conditions, name of emergency contact, details of any pets living in the house) in a place where the Emergency services will be able to find it. Please see further details here
- MedicAlert provides a potentially life-saving identification service for those with hidden medical conditions or allergies. Please see further details here.
