NOMINATIONS

Nomination for District Governor 2026-27

Lion David Harvey – Nominee for MD105S

LION DAVID HARVEY

Folkestone Hythe & District Lions have pleasure in unanimously nominating Lion David Harvey as candidate for the post of District Governor 2026-2027

David has been a Lion sinc

e 2015 when he was invited to join the former Folkestone Lions Club (now Folkestone Hythe & District Lions Club) and has since held the position of President on two occasions, latterly for a two year tenure during the very trying lockdown period.  David is the Club's longstanding Activity Chair and also holds a position in Cabinet as Region Chair (Kent) Lions International 105SE having completed his tenure as Zone Chair. Since becoming the 2^nd Vice District Governor in July 2024 David is now one of the districts Health & Safety advisors having completed the IOSH run by Multi-District.

Since becoming 2^nd VDG David has passed the reins of Activity Chair to his deputy Ann McGovern and currently acts as an Activity Consultant particularly when it comes to his club's largest events being the Family Fun Day (formerly Donkey Derby) and Boxing Day Dip.

David is certainly a person who devotes his spare time to helping others being Chair of Trustee of Folkestone Rescue, a Trustee (Treasurer) of the National Independent Lifeboat Association, the Boating Officer for Ashford Sea Cadets and Governor of RNLI. David is also the First Responder in Emergency Care Level 3 Trained to provide help and support to the South East Ambulance Service as a volunteer and when requested, responding to 999 emergency calls. When invited to take the position of Chair of Trustees of Touch Base Care, (a charity that encourages members with mental health issues to become involved with activities such as (inter alia) painting, singing, working a small farm plot, growing flowers/vegetables, David accepted immediately having been involved on the periphery, and felt this was such a worthwhile appointment.  David also provides First Aid cover for events from Boot Fairs to the International Sambo Competition

Previously David has held positions of Operations Director for Norman House (Carers Support), a 10 year tenure as Treasurer for the Ashford Air Cadets and Chairman of Ashford Air Cadets.

David's education: Electronics & Technical Design – HND, Mechanical Engineering – Diploma, Computer Science – City & Guilds, O'Levels in Computer Studies, Electronics, English, Maths, Physics.

Unsurprisingly David was invited as the first child in Rotherham to have a home computer to tour and spend time at CBM when they launched the PET computer. David installed his first IBM PC in MEG Instrumentation the first private company in Sheffield to have an IBM PC.

Until 2000 David's working life had been in I.T., working as a civilian contractor to Bae Systems – Saudi Arabia Tornado Project and as a specialist contractor employed by companies such as Lombard North Central, Dresdner Bank, Bankers Trust, Texaco, Asda, Kleinwort Benson, RBS, ABN, System House, Bank of America, Robertson Stephens (as Head of European Networks). 

It was in the year 2000 that David met his now ex-wife Sarah and decided to leave the world of I.T. behind. David and Sarah moved to Folkestone from Ashford in 2010 having first opened their new venture, a toy shop in 2003 which has since evolved and become Frizbee Ltd, which provides (inter alia) embroidery, garment printing, paper printing, large format printing, kartoons and Kent School Uniforms.

David met his new partner Joanna this year and having proposed at sunset on the island of Kos, they are now happily engaged to be married. David has two children Jake and Kirstie from his first marriage and

As can be gleaned from the aforementioned, David has worked across the world during his I.T. career Tel Aviv being his favourite.

David's claim to fame is his Great Great Uncle, Lord Ernest Rutherford, "The Father of Nuclear Physics" who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1908 and David's  Grandfather held the Chair of Electronic Engineering at Birmingham University.

David is very much "hands on" and is a very involved member of our Club. David promotes not just the Club but the Lions generally at every opportunity. David is the first to volunteer his time, to help whenever and wherever possible, and not just the community at large but also his fellow Lions. David will be exceptional in representing all Lions in the District and we have no doubt that he will be a great asset to Cabinet in the role of 1st Vice District Governor.

David has had a busy first six months as 2^nd Vice District Governor meeting with as many Clubs as possible and embracing the role and is looking forward to continuing his journey with Lions.

Nomination for 1st Vice District Governor 2026-27