The Owaka Lions Club considers its $6000 donation to the Otago Community Hospice as an extension of the support it gives to the community.
Every spring, the club collected slinkskins in the area and were paid for the service.
The money raised usually went back into the Owaka community, but this year it was decided the hospice would benefit, club member Gerald Burgess said.
"It's going to a . . . good cause."
In the past year, two local identities had spent time in the hospice and from what he had heard, they were in the best of care.
The club was so keen on the hospice, it had invited chief executive Ginny Green to be guest speaker at an event in March next year.
Mr Burgess said Ms Green would be able to talk about something "everyone could relate to" as so many people were affected by cancer.
Club president Alan Bichan said there had been "a lot of cancer in the area", so it was a club decision the money should go to the hospice.
