Registered Charity
Number 281784
Founded 1973
We jointly organise the annual FERN Bonfire with the Severn Dean Lions Club - click here for more information.
President
Jenny Holmes
Secretary
Chris Holmes
Treasurer
G K Davis
The Victoria Centre in Lydney uses a former Lydney Fire Station. The Forest of Dean Lions helped with the conversion of the building when the Fire Service vacated these premises in the mid 1970s. The area at the rear was once used for washing down the fire appliances. It consisted of a concrete base sloping in to the centre with a central drain. This 2010 Lions project involved removing the concrete base in the backyard, filling in with hardcore, levelling, applying a grit layer, the finally laying new paving slabs. A new fence was also erected kindly funded by Watts of Lydney.
The Victoria Centre lunch club caters for around 120 over-50s a week and is run by volunteers. The club has been going for 33 years. It meets three times a week and provides a two-course meal for just £3.50.
The concrete fire engine washing base. All of the concrete was broken by hand using sled hammers, crowbars and pickaxes.
Young volunteers from Acorn House, Cinderford also helped with the hard work.
Project Manager, Lion Alan Townley on the pickaxe.
Short "before" video.
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