Christmas is upon us once again, beginning with our annual Lions Club of Gerringong Christmas Street parade this Saturday (20 December) from 9am.

Thank you to all the people who have worked for months to bring the Christmas Street Parade together, for the benefit and enjoyment of our Gerringong community.

The Christmas Street Parade would not be possible without the financial support of Kiama Council, Gerringong Bowling Club, and many others.

Lions Club of Gerringong is a community service organisation, focused on providing and maintaining services to the members of our local community, and providing assistance to those less fortunate.

We have just 40 members, but collectively they make a significant contribution to our little community. With member age ranges spread from 16 to 86, and a growing number of lady members providing a much-needed creative touch to our team of male workers, we say “Thank You” to our hardworking members for their contributions and achievements throughout 2025.

Lions Club of Gerringong could not achieve what they do without very significant help and assistance throughout the year.

Thank you to the lovely people at Kiama Council who provide both financial and in-kind assistance throughout the year.

Thank you to Fiona Phillips’ Gilmore office for your ongoing support and assistance, often behind the scenes.

Thank you to all those people and organisations who contribute to our weekly “Return & Earn” collections, Werri Beach and Gerroa van parks; Seacliff function centre; Mercure motel and function centre; Gerringong Golf Club, Cronins Hotel; Berry Hotel and Berry van park; and all the dozens of citizens in our little community who assist our collections by donating their empty drinks containers.

Thank you to our IGA supermarket for their support throughout the year.

Thank you to all our local citizens who support our Street Raffles throughout the year. 100% of all monies collected from the street raffles go directly to local SALT and SAHSSI shelters, and to sponsoring local kids on the Outward Bound youth program. Thank you to all the local businesses who donate the prizes for our raffles. Natural Necessity; Core Store; Gerringong Hardware; The Hill restaurant; Gerringong Golf Club, and the list goes on.

We give a big shout-out to our fellow community service organisations.

Sunshine Rotary Club, our CMRI ladies (and a couple of blokes), Gerringong Mens Shed, Mayflower “Nearly New” shop volunteers; our museum, library and historical society volunteers.

And of course the legends of our local community. The Gerringong “Bowlo”; Gerringong Surf Club; Gerroa “Fishos”; our RFS volunteers. Thank you all for your contributions over the past year.

In looking to the year ahead, our “Lions Club DREAM” would be if we encourage more local citizens to join Lions Club of Gerringong, and help us give more back to our local community.

Remember that old saying. “It takes a village to raise a child.”

Well, it also takes a thousand volunteers to make a village function smoothly. Ordinary people giving a little of their spare time to their local community.

We need young people with social media skills we older folks know nothing about; we need retired people with time to spare and life experience behind them; we need ordinary mums and dads who can spare a few minutes from time to time.

If we could encourage another 50 people from our community to join Lions Club of Gerringong we could really make a difference. Please contact us at [email protected] , we would love to have you join our community service club.

We wish every member of our fabulous little community a wonderful Christmas with family and friends, and we look forward to being of service throughout 2026.