Long-term Community Involvement

Over the fifty years that our club has been involved in community service in Canberra and the region we have been:

• The original conveners of the Caravan and Camping show;
• The original organisers of the Canberra Art Festival;

And have:

• Built and sold three houses;
• Marshalled the Canberra Day Procession for 21 years;
• Supported Marymead through the building of a swimming pool;
• Built original Camp Cottermouth for Scouts, and refurbished the kitchen prior to it being destroyed in 2003 fires;
• Established and ran a safe-house for teenage boys that we eventually handed into the care of the Salvation Army;
• Ran Christmas Parties for the children in care of Marymead and Hartley House;
• Ran Christmas Parties for aged people with no family to share Christmas;
• Purchased a yacht for Sailability - sailing program for people with intellectual disabilities; and
• Provided parking for concerts at Government House, Yarralumla.

And have had close and continual involvement with Lions Youth Haven at Kambah.