Projects

Several intrepid members of our club rolled up their sleeves to help clean up Julia Davis Park following the annual Treefort Music Festival—Boise’s largest and most vibrant music event. Our team was assigned to Kidfort, a special part of the festival where young performers take the stage to sing, tell jokes, and showcase their musical…

The Boise Bench Lions Club recently welcomed a powerful presentation from Sleep in Heavenly Peace (SHP), the world’s largest bed-building charity, reaffirming the club’s ongoing commitment to ensuring no child in Idaho sleeps on the floor. Founded in 2012 in Twin Falls, Idaho, SHP has grown from a grassroots effort into a global movement with…

The Boise Bench Lions are proud to be able to offer Vision and Hearing Screenings at local schools.  The methods have evolved over the years to we now are able to use electronic vision screeners which are a lot faster and easier to use than charts of various sorts.  We also are able to use portable…

Bench Lions serving lunch and collecting pull tabs for Ronald McDonald House! Boise Bench Lions and Ronald McDonald house Video https://youtu.be/Ul3tLbR7urI

Welcome to our new members Lion Linda Tomlinson and Lion Debbie Collaer. They are excited to serve

The Club volunteers at Zoo Boise during the summer to do landscaping once a month.  Despite it being summer, we had to dress warmly early in the season.  The Zoo really appreciates the help and we get to spend time at the Zoo and always visit the lion enclosure.

The Boise Bench Lions staffed the Found Kids Booth.  We volunteered from noon to 11PM and have been doing this project since 2014. Parents or guardians can bring their kids to the booth to be registered.  This year over 700 kids got a numbered arm band and record contact information for the parent or guardian. …

The club sorts, bags, boxes or whatever, food at the Idaho Food Bank monthly.  The Idaho Food Bank works with over 450 partners through out the state and provides 100 thousands of meals annually.  We help pack 3100 pounds of elbow pasta during the February. One of Lions Club International’s Global Causes is combating food…

Boise Bench Lions spend time every week at the Envision Office, sorting and distributing donated used eye glasses.  This is recycling for good, and many people in 3rd world countries benefit from the donation of these glasses, usually distributed through medical missions.  The typical year sees upwards of 80000 pairs of glasses from Idaho, ROAR! …