You might want to get to know more people nearby. Help make something happen locally. Support a cause you care about. Or simply feel more connected to the place you call home.
When people with different ideas, skills and interests come together, they can do far more than any one person can do alone.
It might start with something as simple as getting a few neighbours together for a chat.
Get to know neighbours, make new connections and feel more at home in the place you live.
Activities, events and opportunities that make Denman Prospect an even better place for families to live.
Local people looking out for each other and lending a hand when someone needs it.
Give local causes and good ideas more people, resources and support behind them.
More people knowing each other, sharing skills and working together when something needs doing.
An idea doesn't have to stay an idea. With enough people behind it, someone can actually make it happen.
A good idea is easier to make happen when you have support behind you.
Lions gives local people a way to turn ideas into action, with resources, experience and connections already there to help.
You don't have to work everything out from scratch. You can draw on the support and experience of other Lions in Canberra, across Australia and around the world.
But what your club does, what it supports and how it works is decided by the people who join it.
That depends on the people who decide to create it.
The people who join will decide what the club does, which causes it supports and what projects they want to take on.
They can also decide how often they meet, where they meet, how social they want the club to be and how it fits around work, family and everything else in life.
The aim isn't to fit people into a club. It's to create a club that fits around its members.
You don't need to know everything about Lions before deciding whether you're interested.
If you'd like to know more, these two pages explain what being a Lion actually involves and the different ways a Lions club can work.
Let us know you're interested and we'll bring like-minded Denman locals together for an informal get-together.
Meet some people, share ideas and see whether a local Lions club is something you'd like to be part of.
There's no obligation. Just come along and see what you think.
A local idea can make a big difference...
Operation Formal Wear, a Canberra Lake Tuggeranong Lions Club project, started with one goal: ensure students could enjoy their school formal without the cost of an outfit being a barrier.
Canberra Lions and volunteers now help students choose donated formal wear completely free of charge, and they get to keep what they choose. It also gives beautiful clothes another life instead of leaving them sitting unworn in wardrobes.
Last year alone, the project provided an estimated $140,000 worth of formal wear to local students and families.
That's what can happen when people get behind a good idea.
Lion Maria with one of the many beautiful formal wear donations.
You don't need to have a project in mind or know anything about Lions.
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