Our club was Chartered on 27th May 1953 and is part of Lions District 201 V2, comprising of approximately 70 Lions Clubs within Melbourne’s western suburbs, to the South Australia border.
Each club sits under the banner of Lions Australia (website and Facebook page).
OUR CLUB MOTTO
OUR CLUB OBJECTIVES
- To maintain strong involvement in community service activity in the community;
- To encourage camaraderie within the club;
- To increase Club membership;
- To raise the awareness of the Lions Club of Geelong throughout the Geelong Community; and
- To work together with other Lions Clubs in the Region to develop greater awareness of Lions and to combine together to take on tasks too big for single clubs to perform alone.
OUR MISSION
The mission of Lions Clubs International is:
- To empower volunteers to serve their communities, meet humanitarian needs, encourage peace and promote international understanding through Lions clubs.
LIONS CLUB PURPOSES (OBJECTS) — CONCISE
- To promote world understanding among all people,
- To uphold good government and good citizenship,
- To help those less fortunate,
- To join together in good fellowship and friendship,
- To encourage open debate,
- To encourage others to serve,
- And to promote high ethical standards.
LIONS CLUB CODE OF ETHICS
TO SHOW my faith in the worthiness of my vocation by industrious application to the end that I may merit a reputation for quality of service.
TO SEEK success and to demand all fair remuneration or profit as my just due, but to accept no profit or success at the price of my own self-respect lost because of unfair advantage taken or because of questionable acts on my part.
TO REMEMBER that in building up my business it is not necessary to tear down another’s; to be loyal to my clients, or customers and true to myself.
WHENEVER a doubt arises as to the right or ethics of my position, or action towards my fellow man, to resolve such doubt against myself.
TO HOLD friendship as an end and not as a means; to hold that true friendship exists, not on account of the service performed by one to another, but that true friendship demands nothing, but accepts service in the spirit in which it is given.
ALWAYS to bear in mind my obligations as a citizen to my nation, my state and my community, and to give my unswerving loyalty in word, act and deed. To give them freely of my time, labour and means.
TO AID my fellow men by giving sympathy to those is distress, my aid to the weak, and my substance to the needy.
TO BE CAREFUL with my criticism and liberal with my praise; to build up and not destroy.