The Richmond Lions Club, located in the greater Vancouver area of British Columbia in Canada, has been a charter club of Lions Clubs International since 1946.

The Lions motto is "We Serve", and our club has been serving many deserving causes in the Richmond community since our charter was established.

For more than sixty years our club has been active and supported our community. Now we have found ourselves to be victim of changes to society and recent events. As of June of 2022 the Richmond Lions club is no longer an active club. This webpage will remain active for a while so people can access any photos of our Sockeye Run event.

Fund Raisers

To raise money for the various causes we support the Richmond Lions club has several fundraisers that we participate in throughout the year. Here are three of our recent money raising outings.

Sockeye Run

Click here to go to the Richmond Lions Sockeye Run page

2022 Sockeye Run

It is with a sad heart that the Richmond Lions Club has to anounce the end of the line for the Sockey Run.

After more than thirty years of offering this crowd pleaser we find ourselves without the manpower to continue putting on this event. It takes a lot of time and dedication to arrange sponsors, advertising and everything else (tents, bands, volunteers, vendors, and etc) that needs to be assembled to hold this car show.

Factors that include attrition of club members and the absence of the show for two years due to Covid restrictions have all played factors in the decision we had to make. It was not an easy decision because we enjoyed the community interaction as much as the community has loved attending the show.

We thank everybody for the incredible support you have shown the club over the years and sincerely apologize for having to bring this event to an end.

Classic Car Cruise

The fourth annual cruise of classic and custom cars is hosted by the Steveston Merchants Association. The cruise will take place on Sunday December 4th for 15 minutes from 12:15 to 12:30. The cars will drive along every street in the Village at least twice. The cars will park for a two hour display from 12:30 – 2:30 at the Gulf of Georgia Cannery and the Steveston Hotel and Buck & Ear Pub.

1404605 The car owners will bring toys or cash to donate to the Richmond Christmas Fund.

The Richmond Lions Club will provide canopies to cover the tables of donations and to sell their annual Christmas cakes. They will lead off the parade of special interest cars as they tour the historic scenic village of Steveston, BC.

The car cruise kicks off the Christmas season in Steveston along with Santa arr...

Disbursments

Each year the Richmond Lions club embarks on an number of fund raising projects - but where does the money we raise go?

The money raised by our club goes right back into the community. Every cent we raise at our events is returned to those who can use a little assistance, and unlike some organizations, this means every penny!

Here are some of our most recent recipients.

RCD

Richmond Center for Disability

The Richmond Lions club has been a long time supporter of the Richmond Center for Disability. Each year we donate money to the RCD summer camp. This year we pledged $15,000 toward the purchase of two super computers and five years of software subscriptions to packages such as the Adobe suite of productivity tools and Microsoft Office. With these computers, RCD clients will have the opportunity to train one up-to-date machines with the latest software.

Richmond Working Poor

2020 Working Poor

The city of Richmond working poor fund identifies families in the city of Richmond who could use use a little financial assistance with the Christmas season.

Once families are recognized toys and gift certificates are purchased. Typically, children receive gifts in the $50- $60 range and the parents receive a Save-On-Foods gift certificate to aid with the purchase Christmas dinner.

This year, in collaboration with the employees at Epson Canada's research center, the Richmond Lions club was able to present city Councillor McNulty with a cheque for $2200. This should help some fourteen or so families in the Richmond area have a better Christmas.

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