Award for long-standing Lions club member

Knaresborough Lions have awarded a Melvin Jones Fellowship to long-serving member, Martin Brock, in a ceremony held on 25 March. The Fellowship is the highest award within Lions Clubs International and marks outstanding commitment to the organisation and the local community.

Martin is currently secretary of the Lions club in Knaresborough. He joined in March 2014 and has been President, Bed Race chairman, and a District officer. He joined the club when he moved to Knaresborough after having been brought up in Torpoint, Cornwall, where his father was a charter member of the local Lions club.

Melvin Jones founded the Lions Clubs movement in 1917 as a non-business community organisation in which volunteers could make a contribution to those around them. Today it has 1.4 million members in 50,000 clubs in 200 countries.

In Knaresborough, Lions organise the Bed Race, beer festival, Christmas market and a tour of residential areas with Santa and his helpers. At least 80 per cent of money raised stays in the local community, supporting schools, social services, the health sector, as well as families and individuals in need. 

In our photo are, from the left, George Simpson, club president, Martin Brock, Bob Godsell and Pam Godsell, both current holders of Melvin Jones Fellowships.