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WOW! What an amazing afternoon we had on Saturday 22nd March.
This year an amazing 24 teams, with a total of 141 swimmers, swam an incredible 1926 lengths swum.
With one team swimming an enormous 128 lengths in just 40 minutes. I believe that this is the highest number of lengths EVER swum in a Henley Lions Swimarathon. Plus, 2 other teams also swimming over 100 lengths. While it’s easy to celebrate these amazing numbers, our younger swimmers put in even more effort, giving everything to get from one end to the other. Absolutely awe inspiring, from all those taking part.
You should all be very proud of what you achieved.
Thank you to all the swimmers for taking part, to all the organizers and teachers for encouraging the swimmers to participate, and to all the parents, family and friends, without your support we wouldn’t have an event. Thank you also to the Henley Leisure Centre Life Guards, thankfully you were not needed.
And because I know you all want to know, these are the team results

• Olympic Otters 68 lengths
• Nettlebed Stingers 76 lengths
• Fast and Furious 128 lengths
• Aqua Legends 88 lengths
• Marine Machines 109 lengths
• The Meteor Club 55 lengths
• Ice Cold Otters 78 lengths
• Lightning Bolts 69 lengths
• Dangerous Ducks 70 lengths
• Very Hungry Caterpillars 97 lengths
• Hydro Hunters 75 lengths
• Terrific Turtles 89 lengths
• Wonderful Whales 86 lengths
• Smiley Sharks 72 lengths
• Dizzy Dolphins 50 lengths
• Fancy Fish 72 lengths
• Super Seahorses 83 lengths
• Bubble Blasters 73 lengths
• The Twours 67 lengths
• Mrs Locks Legends 108 lengths
• Dolphins 87 lengths
• Barracudas 84 lengths
• Panthers 88 lengths
• Rookies 54 lengths

A huge thank you to everyone who turned out to welcome Santa on his sleigh and who contributed on the night and afterwards. Every penny collected will go to support local charities in and around Henley. Here’s the link to an excellent report in the Henley Herald: https://www.henleyherald.com/2024/12/23/santa-braved-the-weather-to-bring-festive-cheer/

It’s not all running around with buckets and parking cars. Henley Lions is also about a group of people coming together having fun socialising.

The latest social event saw the Lions take over Henley Business Collage for a Cream Tea event.

Henley Lions, as part of a global initiative to promote environmental causes, has completed the distribution of Wild Tribe Heroes books to local schools and libraries, including Peppard Primary, Stoke Row Primary, Kidmore End Primary, Sonning Common Primary, and Sonning Common Library.

‘The Wild Tribe Heroes books are a collection of gentle and engaging true stories about animals that find themselves in trouble when their lives are affected by plastic in the oceans or palm oil deforestation.

These books have been donated by the Lions to schools, as a useful resource that is relevant to schools curriculum, supporting children’s learning about the world around us.

On Monday, 5th of August 2024, at the monthly meeting of Henley Lions, Sandra Manktelow (District Governor) visited to present two special people with Chevron Awards.

Joan Evans was presented with her Chevron Award for 10 years of service as a Lion, helping the community. Patrick Mulcahy was awarded his Chevron Award for amassing an amazing 45 years of service as a Lion, helping the community.

Both Joan and Patrick are very active members of Henley Lions, helping the community in both raising funds, and also directly supporting charities to distribute help to those in need. We would like to thank both for all of their help over the years.