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Pancreatic cancer

Pancreatic cancer is the deadliest common cancer. More than half of people die within three months of diagnosis.
 
With research underfunded and left behind, people are left with only hope to hold onto. But they deserve more.
 
With your support, we could fund research breakthroughs to help PCUK detect early, treat better and save more lives.

That’s why PCUK is one of the charity beneficiaries of our Great Selby Bike Ride

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YorKaos art exhibition

We were pleased to attend the opening of the YorKaos event at Sparks in York. The Kids’ art exhibition started in style with a grand opening, ribbon cutting, streamers, speeches and guest artist Lincoln Lightfoot.

There’s no charge to visit. Anyone can come along to view the work of hundreds of local artists aged 5 to 11, take part in the community portrait “Of time and place (2025)” and of course try the great food from the small local businesses at SPARK.

The exhibition runs till Saturday, 22nd February, 2025 and you can view the daily timetable by clicking on this link

Here are some photos from the first day:

Elmet Lions are pleased to have supported this event organised by Ada, Seth, HS and Mabel

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Santa’s sleigh sponsors 2024

We are pleased to list the sponsors of Santa's sleigh for 2024 and express our gratitude for their support.

Better Buildings for a Better World

Architects around the world are using products and solutions from Kingspan to design remarkable buildings that deliver real architectural impact and tackle the big challenges facing the built environment today.

Kingspan are sponsoring Santa's sleigh for five nights.

In April 2018, I established Whitewing Recruitment & Training Services Limited; independently branching out to continue my fantastic life journey that is recruitment. It is a privilege to recruit amazing people and support successful businesses.

The professional way to a sparkling home

How would you like to free up your time to do the things you enjoy? Having your own cleaner gives you a helping hand when you need it and allows you to focus on the more important things in life. Why spend your evenings and weekends cleaning and ironing, when you could give yourself a break and enjoy a lifestyle free from rubber gloves and mops!

Inspire. Create. Innovate.

From high-quality, engaging websites that are custom built to your exact specification to creative and innovative marketing plans and campaigns, every aspect of your marketing need is covered.

Communication is what I train in – everything from face to face communication – telephone communication and written communication.

Benchmark started over 20 years ago when the world was very different (no Internet!) and the pace of life was maybe just a little slower.   I like to pride myself in keeping up with the times and incorporating new ideas and skills into my training courses all the time.

I run one day courses, two day courses and series of courses – depending upon the company’s requirements.

When you need high quality tyres fitted in Sherburn in Elmet, Micklefield, Church Fenton, East Leeds, and the wider Selby district, local tyre experts Al’s Tyre Shop are sure to have what you need. Our centre in Sherburn stocks a full selection of tyres that are suitable for almost any vehicle on the road today – including cars, vans, 4x4s, and motorbikes.

Al's Tyres are sponsoring two nights

Sherburn White Rose Football Club is based in Sherburn In Elmet, North Yorkshire. 

The club has the following teams:-
Tots ​
Juniors ​
Girls ​
Mens 1st Team and Reserves Team ​
Veterans ​
Ladies Teams

The Club is an FA Standard Chartered Club, playing league football in Garforth and Selby Leagues, affiliated with the West Riding Football Association.

Making Sherburn Smile

Located in the heart of Sherburn in Elmet, we povide gentle, quality dental care for the whole family. Friendly, family-run and accessible. We promise that you will receive the highest quality dental care from our welcoming, compassionate team.

Come & join us at our great establishment, Situated in the heart of Sherburn in Elmet, just between Leeds and York. We thrive on making you welcome...from near or far. Wonderful atmosphere, a mix of great drinks, a new menu starting great fun. Plus six ensuite rooms adjacent to the pub, should you need a place to stay. 

Here at the Multiple award winning Compass Martial Arts, our award winning team strive to make your martial arts journey the best it can possibly be.

​We teach traditional Wado Ryu Karate, Light Contact Kickboxing, Tae Kwon-Do, Xtreme Forms/Xtreme Musical Forms, Martial Box Light and Okinawan Weaponry including Katana, Sai, Jo, Nunchaku, Kama and Tonfa.

Slaters Quality Butchers

Top Quality Meat and Pies on our Butchers Market Stall

Friendly local pub at the heart of the South Milford Community offering fantastic food at great value

A country pub located in the heart of a charming and picturesque village, offering delicious meals and a fine selection of drinks.

The Maltings Tearooms, Located On South Milford Bypass. A Family Friendly Tearooms Open 7 Days A Week

Millford Plants Ltd are a garden plant nursery growing and selling direct to the public under 2 acres of greenhouses.

We were established back in 1996.

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A big Shout out

We need to say a big shout and ‘thank you’ to everyone who donated to Elmet Lions at Picnic in the Park on 13th July, 2024.
 
We were collecting for the Elmet Lions PSA testing event in September. In our buckets – and from the stallholders we collected – drum roll please……….£1107.57.
 
And that does not include donations via our QR code which lots of people kindly scanned and donated on. That takes a little while longer to process and we will update you with the final total as soon as we know!
 
We couldn’t have done this without the help of David Buckle and Councillor Bob Packham and all at the Sherburn Town Council!
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Claiming GiftAid from HMRC

If you are a registered charity and you fundraise online you’ve probably registered with HMRC to receive GiftAid (GA), worth an additional 25% of a donation made by a UK individual who is a taxpayer.

You may well choose to have your online donations managed by an organisation such as JustGiving who claim the GA on your behalf from HMRC. There is a cost involved ( a monthly fee and net GA of 20% instead of 25%).

Where you receive online donations via contactless card readers you often don’t receive donors’ details necessary for a GA claim.. Similarly where you operate bucket collections at an event or have collection cans located for example in a pub, you miss out on GiftAid.

You do however have the opportunity to make a claim direct to HMRC. You can read how to do this at https://www.gov.uk/claim-gift-aid-online

Where individual donations are £30 or less there is a special scheme called Gift Aid small donations scheme (GASDS) for such claims.

Organisations which are not registered charities can still claim GiftAid. You would need to register your organisation  with HMRC and provide information which established your credentials with them. Here’s a link which provides information on that aspect of GiftAid. – https://www.gov.uk/claim-gift-aid/small-donations-scheme

I trust this information will prove useful to registered and unregistered charities. 

Apparently every year more than £500 million goes unclaimed, according to the Charity Finance Group.

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YLIS presentation to StarMat schools

Elmet Lions Club President Maggie Hartley was delighted to be asked to go and talk to the young people at the STAR Mat student conference, I was there to raise awareness of Elmet Lions and launch the Young Leaders in Service Award – helping to raise aspirations and encourage volunteering.