Frequently Asked Questions

Empower Lions clubs, volunteers, and partners to improve health and well-being, strengthen communities, and support those in need through humanitarian services and grants that impact lives globally, and encourage peace and international understanding. To be the global leader in community and humanitarian service. 

 The Lions Emblem
“The name Lions stands not only for fraternity, good fellowship, strength of character and purpose, but above all, its combination of L-I-O-N-S heralds to the country the true meaning of citizenship: LIBERTY, INTELLIGENCE, OUR NATION'S SAFETY.” 

 We strongly embrace the Lions Club International Five Pillars of Service: Vision, Hunger, Diabetes, Cancer, Environment. 

Being a Lion means knowing that kindness matters

We believe in changing the world by serving the needs of our local communities. More than 1.4 million Lions around the world are responding to local and global challenges with kindness and care. Come volunteer with us. Find a club near you Join a club. 

Regular membership is for community members interested in volunteering, serving the community and making our world a better place. Regular members pay a membership fee $100. There is a family rate for multiple members from the same household.

 The benefits of being a Lion

• Make a difference. There are over 48,000 Lions clubs around the world. ...
• Serve with pride. Lions feel a great sense of satisfaction from doing what is at the heart of all Lions clubs – serving others. ...
• Build your network. ...
• Gain Lion credibility. ...
• Develop new friendships. ...
• Show your leadership.

It doesn't matter whether you live on or off campus, or you're a full-time or part-time student — you can join or charter a Campus Lions club. You can serve your school, your neighborhood and communities in nearly any country with the support of the largest service club organization in the world.  For High School age students please look for the "Leo Club" in your school.

Here is a partial list of our activities. 100% percent of the money raised from our fundraising events is returned to the local community. We welcome any opportunity to explain all that we do in more detail so if you have any questions, please feel free to contact us!

Fundraisers  

· Weekly meat raffles 

· Quarterly clam boils 

· Annual Golf Tournament 

· Duck, Duck, Jeep!  

Local Community Contributions  

· Annual Scholarships 

· Christmas is For Kids 

· Carroll Center for the Blind 

· The Barton Center 

· Perkins School for the Blind

· Friends of Larson Senior Center 

· Bethany Fellowship Church

Donations to Lion Causes  

· Dinner in the Dark

· Lions District 33S Hearing Foundation

· Massachusetts Lions Eye Research Fund

· Lions District 33S Youth Camp and Exchange

· Lions Club International 

· Pennies for Sight Collections

· White Cane Day 

Community Service Projects 

· Ramp projects for individuals in need 

· Peace Poster Contest

· District Youth Speech 

· Recreation Department Halloween Party 

· Attleboro Leo Club 

· Eyeglass Collection and Services

· Hearing Aid Collections and Services 

· Allard Park Cleanup Day 

· Lee’s Pond upgrades

· Attleboro Have Heart (food drive campaign)

· Oldies Dance for the Heat Fund (fuel assistance)

· Attleboro Farmers Market

• Lee's Pond- Washington St, S. Attleboro, MA
• Lifecare Center of Attleboro- 969 Park St, Attleboro, MA 
• Larson Senior Center - 27 South Main St., Attleboro, MA 
• Attleboro Council on Aging- 25 South Main St., Attleboro, MA 
• Attleboro Public Library- 74 N. Main St., Attleboro, MA 
• Richards Memorial Library- 118 North Washington St., N. Attleboro. MA 
• North Attleboro Council on Aging- 204 Elm St., N. Attleboro. MA 
• North Attleboro Town Hall- 43 S. Washington St., N. Attleboro, MA
• LensCrafters- 1250 S Washington St., N. Attleboro, MA
• Walmart (N. Attleboro)- 1470 S. Washington St., N. Attleboro, MA

• Any & All types! Broken, plastic, metal, it doesn't matter. What we can't use gets recycled and the proceeds go towards eye research.
• Cases- We can only accept HARD cases at this time. The bigger the better! The hard cases are upcycled by Lions volunteers into personal care/dignity kits for veterans, homeless persons, and foster children. 

Attleboroughs Have Heart is a Bi-Annual fundraiser we host in February to raise for funds for our local food pantries. ALL proceeds raised goes to the local food pantries in our area at the end of the event. The lawn signs are available for a suggested minimum donation. Look for Lions volunteers at Capron Park (Dennis St entrance) during our event. They are limited so be sure to grab them when you see them! (Last Event Feb 2026)