# Lions Club of Barking

- Type: Trust / foundation
- Charity number: 1212062 (https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/1212062)
- What it funds: General charitable purposes, Disability, Prevention or relief of poverty, Environment / conservation / heritage, Economic / community development / employment, Other charitable purposes
- Who it helps: Children / young people, Older people, People with disabilities, Other charities or voluntary bodies, The general public
- How it gives: Makes grants to individuals, Makes grants to organisations, Provides services, Provides advocacy / advice / information, Acts as an umbrella or resource body
- Area of operation: Throughout England, Kenya, Uganda, India
- Trustees: 3
- Last verified: 2026-11-06T00:00:00.000Z
- Canonical URL: https://opengrant.co.uk/funders/lions-club-of-barking

We advance citizenship by promoting volunteering, good citizenship, and community service. We support youth development and provide forums for public interest discussion. We relieve poverty and need through food parcels, humanitarian aid, and disaster relief. We advance health via sight awareness initiatives, spectacle recycling, and the Message in a Bottle scheme. We promote tree planting

## Open and forthcoming schemes (0)

None in OpenGrant's sources right now.

## Charitable objects

> 1.1 the objects of the Club are such purposes as are exclusively charitable in England & Wales, including in particular:1.1.1 the advancement of citizenship by:1.1.1.1 promoting the principles of good citizenship;1.1.1.2 encouraging members to take an active interest in the civic, cultural, social and moral welfare of the community;1.1.1.3 providing a forum for the open discussion of all matters of public interest; provided that partisan politics and sectarian religion shall not be debated by members;1.1.1.4 encouraging service-minded people to serve their community without personal reward and encouraging the promotion of high ethical standards in commerce, industry, professions, public works and private endeavours; 1.1.1.5 supporting youth to develop their skills, capacities and capabilities to enable them to participate in society as mature and responsible individuals;1.1.2 promoting the voluntary sector for the public benefit by associating with local authorities in a common effort to advance education and provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation or other leisure time occupation to improve the conditions of life of people in local, national and international communities;1.1.3 promoting volunteering;1.1.4 the relief of poverty and the relief of those in need in particular by providing humanitarian aid and disaster relief;1.1.5 the advancement of health or the saving of lives by preventing avoidable blindness, assisting disabled people to lead…

## What it funds

Lions Club of Barking is registered under the Charity Commission purposes disability, prevention or relief of poverty, environment / conservation / heritage and economic / community development / employment for children / young people, older people, people with disabilities and other charities or voluntary bodies; the register records that it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations, provides services, provides advocacy / advice / information and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

The Charity Commission register lists its area of operation as England, Kenya, Uganda and India.

## How to apply

OpenGrant has not found an open scheme from Lions Club of Barking in its sources (last checked 6 Nov 2026). It may fund by invitation only, or through programmes that OpenGrant's sources do not cover. OpenGrant does not take applications; always check the funder's own guidance.

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