Christmas Giving Day
Each December, the club helps make Christmas a little easier for struggling families. Each family receives a basic food hamper, a festive food hamper and toys for each child under 16.
Serving Nillumbik and beyond
Projects that make a practical difference.
Our projects focus on people: supporting families, helping children stay connected with school, strengthening community wellbeing and contributing to wider Lions initiatives.
Signature projects
Two projects at the heart of our local service
The club's 2026 information booklet highlights Christmas Giving Day and KNKiS — Keeping Nillumbik Kids in School — as signature projects.
KNKiS Dispersment
Keeping Nillumbik Kids in School provides financial assistance to school children who are struggling to stay engaged with school, helping with camps, excursions, extracurricular lessons and materials.
Our local projects
Working across the community
Nillumbik Lions supports a broad range of local causes, partnerships and service activities.
In the Driver's Seat
A Lions project listed in the club booklet among our local activities.
Pat Cronin Foundation
Support for a respected local community organisation.
CareNet
Support for local food relief through CareNet.
Vision and Hearing Screening
Community screening activity supporting eye and hearing health.
Carol West Scholarship
A scholarship initiative supported by the club.
Rotary Tram Cafe
A local community partnership and service activity.
Books N Boots
One of the club's listed local support projects.
Virtual Pink Seats
A community fundraising and awareness initiative supported by the club.
Eyewear and Hearing Aides
Helping connect practical equipment support with people who need it.
Sponsorship of a Child in Nepal
The club's service extends beyond Nillumbik through child sponsorship.
Backpacks for Kids
Support for children and young people through the Backpacks for Kids project.
Bunnings Family Days
Community participation and fundraising through local family days.
Vines Church Christmas Carols
Supporting a local Christmas community event.
National projects
Part of something bigger
Through Lions, our club also supports projects with reach beyond our local area.
Licola Camp
Listed in the club booklet as one of the national projects supported through Lions.
Skin Cancer Bus
A Lions national project focused on community skin cancer screening.
Childhood Cancer
Supporting Lions work focused on childhood cancer.
Many ways to serve
Projects grow from community needs
The club's project list reflects a mix of direct assistance, health initiatives, education support, fundraising, community events and partnerships. As projects develop, this page can become the place to tell those stories in more detail.
Project photographs are now stored as separate website assets, so individual images can be refreshed whenever newer or better club photographs become available.
Want to help with a project?
Come along, meet the club and discover where your interests and skills could make a difference.