23 - july 2011 newsletter 41 club
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The monthly Newsletter of the Association of Ex-Round Tablers' ClubsTRANSCRIPT
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Spam 1Editorial - See Your name In Print 2New National Councillors 2Area Sub-editors 2The Anniversary Dinner - Part 1 3Healthy Eating 3
National Conference - Jersey 2012 4RTCW and The Great South Run 4Club News 5Round Table News 6Young People Of The Year 7The Back Page 8
Number 21 July, 2011 [email protected]
The Monthly Newsletter of the Association Of Ex-Round Tablers Great Britain and Ireland
Contents Contributions to [email protected] send contributions to [email protected] copy date for the August issue is Sunday 24th July.editor: Ray Hillnational Communications Officer
spam (spm) n.Unsolicited e-mail, often of a commercial nature, sent indiscriminately
to multiple mailing lists, individuals, or newsgroups; junk e-mail.tr.v. spammed, spam·ming, spams1. To send unsolicited e-mail to.2. To send (a message) indiscriminately to multiple mailing lists,
individuals, or newsgroups.
“Don’t you just hate it”, spam email that is, the sheer volume that arrives on your PC! I for one could not live without the internet and email; my job depends upon it, most of my mail arrives by it, this newsletter is only available because of it and even the Links magazine relies heavily upon its use for production. I therefore have to learn to live with the spam mail that I receive, otherwise I could not function in the current world.
It would appear that many of our members agree with me on the first point, they too do not like spam email, so much in fact that they will not let us know what their email address is, consequently they are cutting themselves off
from fully participating in the 41 Club’s activities. Nearly 1,000 members have email addresses on the CAS database, but their email address is either incorrect or out of date. Others have marked emails from 41 Club as spam and reported this to their internet service providers (ISPs). There are in addition 3,000 paid-up members who it would appear refuse to give us any details at all, so do not receive the printed magazine either. All of these share one thing in common .... they will not be reading this article!
May I therefore ask those of you that use the internet to guide those that either do not use it or are reluctant to allow email from 41 Club, in the right direction. We fully appreciate that there will be some members who do not
want to own home computers, but for those that do, not providing an email address is like nailing your letter box shut to avoid junk mail and cutting your telephone line to avoid double glazing salesmen.
It would appear that some members feel that giving us their email will result in a deluge of spam mail. I can assure you that this will not be the case, and the club uses the facility very sparingly.
Neither will we be selling your email address to other commercial organisations, just as we have never provided your address or telephone numbers to any third party. We are fully covered by the Data Protection Act, and will never use your details for inappropriate purposes.
A few members have, as I previously stated, marked email from 41 Club as spam. I am not sure if they realise the devastating effect this could have. This action could result in 41 Club being removed from the ‘safe list’ and being banned by ISPs. (We have already ha to overcome a problem with one major ISP.) If you have received emails from us that have gone directly to your spam folder then please mark these as safe, and it will remove this problem.
If you really do not want emails from 41 Club then ask your Club Contact to mark the preferred method your record on the CAS system as ‘Post’.
Alternatively if you do not want to use your personal email address then why not create a new email address for your self on a service such as Yahoo or Google Mail. These are free, are set up in just a few minutes and can be used to collect all of your post from 41 Club.
If we are to move forward and provide a better service to our members then we need to make better use of electronic media, and to reduce costs we must be able to contact as many members as possible by email.Ray Hill, National Communications Officer
A member of the Round Table Family of Clubs
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EditorialSee Your Name In Print!
Area Sub-editorsIn order to improve communications we have appointed five area sub-editors for all 41 Club publications. If you have
any local items (club reports, photos, event announcements) for inclusion in Links, [email protected] or the website then please send them to the relevant sub-editor.
Area Sub-editor Regions Covered EmailSouth West & Wales David Brown 12, 13, 20, 21, 22, 23 [email protected] East Phil Douce 16, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25 [email protected] Terry Wells 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15 [email protected] Richard Pattinson 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 [email protected] & Overseas Phillip Ellis 3, 26 [email protected]
If you are not sure which 41 Club region you are in then go to the following web page and enter your club name: www.41club.org/clubfind.asp, this will display your region number and National Councillor’s details.
New Regional Councillor Appointments
I am pleased to confirm the appointment of three new National Councillors: Region 2 - Ken Donald of Edinburgh & DistrictRegion 6 - Andy Waite of Wakefield and The White KnightsRegion 18 - Jonathan Sage of Leigh on Sea. All three take up their appointments with immediate effect.
Martin Green, National Secretary
July Edition Of Links Magazine Now Available On-Line
To read on-line click here:http://issuu.com/grindleybrook/docs/summer2011mag
To download a PDF copy click here:http://www.41club.org/Pages/2004/documents/summer2011mag.pdf
Every member should be receiving, in the next few days, the Summer edition of the Links magazine. This is the first one I have had the pleasure of editing and I am sure you will notice quite a few changes. I hope that you like them.
The new policy is not to print pages of officers’ reports and lots of photos of men in penguin suits arranged around the National President. Instead we aim to print articles of interest to 41 Club members, to show members in interesting pursuits and to provide information of relevance to our generations.
To achieve this we need your help! We need articles and photographs from you the membership. Articles on topics of interest to you, which you think that others would like to read. Many of you will probably have wives in the WI, if you have, then have a look at their magazine; it is far more than ‘jam and Jerusalem’ and is perhaps one of the reasons why they have no membership problems.
So gentlemen, I set you a challenge, to provide interesting articles for both the magazine and the newsletter. On the opposite page you will see part 1 of an amusing article from Dave Curran on how he organised his club’s 70th charter dinner. This is a perfect example of how a club event can be made interesting. Articles can be of any length and are better if they include photographs. Please do not however embed the photographs into a Word document as they are then very difficult to use.
Other tips worth noting with regards to photographs are:
• Please no photographs from phones. Their tiny lense and restricted flash are not good enough for publication.
• Photographs should be at least 1 meg for the newsletter and preferably 3 or 4 megs for the magazine. (Set your cameras to high resolution)
• Avoid photographs with windows behind the subject. These are
invariably very dark photos as the camera registers the glare of the window.
• Avoid too many photos of rows of people and of cheque presentations. Rather action photos of the recipients.
• Do not trim the photos - we will do that as necessary.
• Supply more photos than you expect to be published. We will pick the best ones for publication.
• Please ensure that the photos are in focus, many have to be discarded as they are blurred.
By observing these simple rules you will make my life so much easier, and result in much better publications.
Gentlemen the Links is your magazine. Please submit articles, reviews, advice on the topics to would like to see in it.
For the photographers amongst you we are launching an annual photographic competition. See the July magazine for further details. A magazine for all interests!
Region 20 Dinner
The Region 20 dinner 2011 will be on Friday 11th November, at Exeter College Oxford,
7:30 for 8pm,
Black Tie & Jewels. Listen to John Spence
Follow in the footsteps of: MorseLewis
And maybe: Harry Potter
The Golden Compass
ContactsColin Webster: [email protected] Venables: [email protected]
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The Anniversary Dinner – Part 1 -Early DaysLytham St Annes 41 Club celebrated
their 70th Anniversary in March of this year and Dave Curran gives a Secretary’s eye view of the proceedings. Seasoned 41 Clubbers will recognise most of the situations. New Secretaries committed to organising a dinner may wish to look away now.
I retired to Lytham St Annes after many years of Tabling and 41 Clubbing in Manchester. By a strange quirk of fate, the incoming Chairman in 2010 was Graham Sloan who had been my Vice Chairman in Cheadle and Gatley Table in 1985. “Why don’t you do Secretary”, said the incoming Chairman, it will help you get to know people and you can also help me organise our 70th Anniversary Dinner. “We’re very proud of our history as one of the Founder Members of the National Association”, he told me, “It’s even written down somewhere”.
We looked at a number of venues but the Chairman had set his heart on the Royal Lytham St Annes Golf Club where the inaugural meeting had been held in 1941. Now Royal Lytham is a seriously posh place. They even employ a man to sit in a glass box in the entrance hall to look down his nose at you. So one day last May, we changed into clean clothes and went off to meet the Catering Manager. He showed us the dining room, the bars and the menus which all looked reassuringly expensive.
After our meeting the Chairman scribbled some figures on the back of a final demand envelope. He announced that the maximum room capacity was 106 and everything would be fine as
long as we sold at least 100 tickets. The Council met to allocate tasks and to make sure that the Treasurer and Secretary would be responsible for anything that could not be blamed on the Chairman. Someone knew someone who could book the speaker. Someone knew the Mayor who turned out to be a Lady Mayor but not a Mayoress. Someone else explained the difference. Someone confirmed Malcolm Lockey’s attendance. As Secretary, I discovered I was responsible for administration which of course included ticket sales.
With a sense of foreboding I wrote to the Golf Club to confirm the booking. Lytham St Annes 41 Club has over 60 members but remember that we live in a retirement area. Not all of our members are active and some can only be described as comatose. I calculated that we should be able to get 25 to the Dinner and maybe 30 if we promised to have a paramedic standing by. That left 70 tickets to sell. I asked the Chairman about the special links we had with other clubs in the Region and he informed me proudly that we had once had a joint event with Kirkham.
If you tell non-golfers the cost of a
round at Royal Lytham they simply won’t believe you. Royal Lytham do however have some reasonable package deals which offer weekend accommodation with a couple of rounds of golf and they were prepared to negotiate a discount for our visitors. I decided to circulate all 41 Clubs in Region 5 with details of the Dinner and the golfing packages that were on offer. I reasoned that if I could entice a few golfers other members would follow. The only replies I got from the whole of Region 5 were an email from a member looking for a long lost friend and another from someone’s wife who wondered if we might want to employ an after dinner singer. I did however get a good response from our own Club members who wanted to know if they could also get a cheap round of golf at Royal Lytham?
It was now Autumn and in a rising panic I decided that I’d better find out exactly what support I could count on from Lytham St Annes 41 Club. I told everyone that, as tickets were likely to be in short supply, they could pre-book the numbers they required without obligation. I really should have known better. The general view was “Oh look, the new guy’s trying to organise us”. After a lot of nagging at the beginning of December I had 28 pre-booked tickets. It was time for Plan B.
Dave Curran, Lytham St Annes 41 Club
To be continued next month
Healthy EatingA Recipe with all of the excitement
but less of the guilt – for healthy eating.This dish is simple to make packed
with omega-3 and vitamin C and as a salad couldn’t get much healthier or tastier.
Servers 4Preparation 20 - 25 minutes Cooking 4 minutes
Ingredients:
1 tsp black peppercorns1 tsp coriander seeds4 medium oranges1 red chilli, finely chopped and
de-seeded8 fresh mackerel fillets1 tsp wholegrain mustard1 tsp clear honey120g watercress, spinach & rocket
salad mix1 shallot sliced finely
1. Finely crush the peppercorns and coriander seeds together using a pestle and mortar. Grate the zest from half an orange and mix into the pepper mixture with half the chopped chilli. Lightly slash the skin of the mackerel and press the zesty, peppery mixture onto the fish. Heat the grill.
2. For the salad, segment the oranges.
First slice the top and bottom off each orange, then cut away the peel and any white pith using a small, sharp knife. Holding each orange over a bowl to catch all the juice, cut down either side of each segment to release it, then squeeze the shells to release any extra juice. Measure 4 tbsp of this juice into a small bowl and mix with the mustard, honey and remaining chilli.
3. Grill the mackerel, skin-side up, for 4 mins or until crisp and cooked through. Meanwhile, divide the salad leaves between 4 plates and scatter with the orange segments and sliced shallot. Drizzle with the chilli orange dressing and top with the grilled mackerel.
PER SERVING412 kcalories, protein 30g,
carbohydrate 18g, fat 25 g, saturated fat 5g, fibre 3g, sugar 17g, salt 0.32 g
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National Conference jersey 2012National Conference Jersey, 26 to 29 April 2012Venue - Hotel de France, St Helier
The front row of the above band of rogues - the Jersey Conference Committee - attended an excellent Ipswich Conference this year to publicise the Jersey National Conference.
Our interruption at the National AGM set the scene for the conference theme in 2012 with “‘Allo ’Allo Jersey”, so plenty of scope for interesting dress and themes to invent between now and 2012. We were asked to repeat it at the Final Night Party – so it could not have been that bad! - and our interpretations of Rene, Edith, Yvette, Michelle, Officer Crabtree and Herr Flick appeared to be well received by all!
Well - bookings have got off to an absolutely cracking start as a result of our marketing visit. The ‘take up’ has resulted in 296 people already booked at the De France with a further 10 at the Merton. Currently however we have a slight problem in that of those only 88 have actually registered for the conference!
So my message is that if you are thinking of attending the
National Conference in Jersey in 2012 – booking both the hotel and the conference at the same time is essential. “Sooner rather than later” is the message to you all – even as far as to say “urgently” at this rate of take up, as we fully expect to have sold out all the function seats within next few months.
I think it is appropriate to advise that as our maximum capacity for functions in the Great Hall of the Hotel De France is 588 persons; - we are therefore 50% full - 10 months out from the conference! Great as far as we are concerned and delighted with the take up so far – so don’t delay if you want to be there in 2012!
The website is up and operational and all you have to do is download the booking form and send it off, and also you need to arrange your accommodation from one of the four conference hotels, which in the case of the De France and the Merton are making special offers to conference goers of the same rate for the whole of their stay at the hotel. So this is a great opportunity for you to extend your stay and have both a conference break with a holiday break pre or post conference tacked on.
Currently I am talking to both a car hire company and Condor for the sea travel, to see if they can set up special rates for conference participants – but more of that in the bulletin and on the website as soon as we have it organised. Bookings will commence for these in the autumn when timetables are available for boats and planes.
The Committee are organising a very interesting conference programme and we all look forward to welcoming you to Jersey in 2012!
Peter Townend - Publicity and Sponsorship, 2012 Jersey Conference Committee
ROUND TABLE CHILDREN’S WISHgranting wishes for children with life-threatening illnesses
YOUR NATIONAL PRESIDENT’S CHOSEN CHARITY 2011-2012
FANCY A CHALLENGE? VAUGHAN DOES AND SO DOES JOHN PAYNE THE NATIONAL PRESIDENT OF RTBI AND THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT WE ARE THIS YEAR’S CHOSEN CHARITY FOR BOTH ORGANISATIONS.
SO WHY NOT TAKE UP THE CHALLENGE AND JOIN THEM AS PART OF THE ROUND TABLE CHILDREN’S WISH TEAM IN PORTSMOUTH FOR THE …
GREAT SOUTH RUN - SUNDAY 30 OCTOBER 2011This flat 10 mile course featuring Portsmouth’s Historic Naval Dockyards, is the world’s
leading running event with up to 24,000 participants on the day so it’s a great opportunity to be part of something that is such a success story.
PLEASE REGISTER NOW … CONTACT [email protected] or 01202 514515All monies raised will be used to fund the wishes of children in the South of England.
A Message From Vaughan
“Glad to be working with and supporting Round Table Children’s Wish again in my Presidential year. We can make a huge difference in granting wishes to children with life threatening illnesses. If you are unable to run to support them, then just log on to our website and, if you are able, please sponsor me or give a donation. If we all gave the price of a pint we would be looking to grant in the region of 41 wishes.
I would like to thank everyone in
advance for your support. If you are in the Portsmouth area on the 30th October, please come down and help me around the course.”
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Club NewsMid Wales Cluster
A 41 Club dinner addressed by a parish priest and an undertaker resulted in a grand evening for all those present. This was the case for those attending the Mid Wales Cluster St David’s Day Dinner of Ex-Round Tablers (41 Clubs). It was held at the Lakeside Golf Club, and hosted by Welshpool 41 Club. Nearly seventy members from as far a field as Oswestry to Llandrindod Wells attended the evening event. Amongst those present were the National President Malcolm Lockey who addressed the gathering. The guest speaker for the evening was Welshpool undertaker Geraint Peate.
Representative Chairmen and officials of the clubs involved are pictured above during the evening with the National President. They include Ifor Humphreys,Newtown, Dave Thomas (Oswestry), Malcolm Cook (Welshpool), Andrew Dralsfield (Newtown), Alan Prior (Llandrindod Wells), Phil Treherne (Montgomery), Geraint Peate (guest speaker), Lawrence Bamber (National Councillor for Region 12) and Ernie Husson (Past National President). A very enjoyable night was had by all.
Ernie Husson, Past National President 1998/99 (Photograph by Marina Gallery Photographers.)
Scottish Nomads Royal Wedding WeekendThe Scottish Nomads are a group of caravanners made
up from 41ers and ex-Tablers. They have been in existence for many a year and meet monthly during the summer at various locations throughout Scotland.
It was decided to celebrate the Royal Wedding by meeting at the Invercoe Caravan Park at Glencoe from 28th April to 2nd May. There were eight caravans in attendance and we enjoyed a wonderful weekend in glorious weather although some of the memories are a bit hazy.
The weekend got off to a great start with Cowan McNair producing a bottle of old Round Table whisky, which he was worried might go off as it had been lying in his loft since the 80’s.
The bottle was duly opened and savoured by the group shown below and a plea to all 41ers, if you have any old bottles of malt whisky needing emptying, then please forward them to Angus Johnston in plenty of time for their next get together!
The Picture shows (left to right): Cammie Braidwood (Broughty Ferry), Allan Thompson
(Inverurie), Past National President 1986-87 Andy Wallace (Crieff), Les Riddick (Broughty Ferry), Cowan McNair (Falkirk) and Angus Johnston (Monifieth)
Region 20 Golf DayOn June 14th Bourne End & Flackwell Heath Club hosted
the Region 20 Golf Day at Temple Golf Club, Hurley. We were particularly pleased to welcome National
President Vaughan Harris who drove up from Sussex to be with us and who later presented the prizes. Region 20 National Councillor Frank Venables joined us for dinner.
Eleven teams from five clubs took part and the Regional Championship was won by Chris Allen and John Kilpatrick of Abingdon A, with Trevor Hills and John Richardson of Oxford B runners-up.
The Mike Pritchett Trophy for the individual winner was won by John Kilpatrick with 35 Stableford points on a course where the slopes and undulations on the greens made putting particularly tricky. John Richardson was runner-up and Mike Lewis of Oxford came third. Nearest the pin was David Tonks of Abingdon and Jonathon Hunt, also of Abingdon, had the longest drive.
As winners of the Regional Championship Abingdon will host the event next year and I would urge other clubs who have not previously entered a team to do so as, apart from the golf and the dinner, the fellowship is excellent.
Mike Copcutt, Bourne End and Flackwell Heath 41 Club
Region 21 Golf Day
Chippenham 41 club members, Jeff Buckland,Don Waite and Tony Witts receive the trophy from Andy Holyoake and Ray Jones, at Cumberwell Park on May 27th.
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Dublin Round Table 203 and Dublin & District 41 Club AGM
Friday 24th June 2011 was the joint AGM of Dublin Round Table 203 and Dublin & District 41 Club. The black tie event was a good evening with some strong debate, with around 19 members which included Dublin Round Table 203. It was good to see Chairman Stephen from Round Table chairing the evening and Chairman of 41 Barry lending a helping hand when needed. Round Table Treasurer, Nigel Roger (Trigger), reported on the year’s events and money raised by Dublin 203 Round Tablers and a few 41ers. In total they raised 7,710 euros for St Vincent’s Hospital Centre for colorectal Crohn’s disease. This was a tremendous effort from Dublin Round Table 203 and Dublin & District 41 Club.
At the AGM the current difficulties in membership were heavily debated. The continuation of RT in Dublin was also hotly discussed by everyone and some of the 41ers were shocked to hear of the troubles of Table in Dublin. The question was asked ‘where is Tabling in Dublin going to go from here?’
Dublin Round Table 203 then left the room and had a heart to heart closed meeting on their future.
When they returned Nigel Roger read out an agreed statement from Dublin 203 on their immediate future. It read “Dublin 203 Round Table is to go into suspension (or as they put it ‘a ghost club’) for one year, during this time Nigel Roger will hold the Chairman’s chain and Stewart Thompson stay on as President.” During this time Dublin 203 Round Table, Dublin & District 41 Club and the National Councillor Region 3 of 41 Club, with the help of the regional and national executives
of both organisations, will all combine their efforts to maintain and grow Tabling in Dublin.
The ramifications of Dublin 203 Table closing are great. The collapse of Round Table in Dublin will mean the collapse of Table in the Republic of Ireland, leaving neither of Ireland’s capital cities with a Table. If our organisation is to be reborn, saved or rebuilt, then let us all get together now, draw a line in the sand and start by saving Dublin with a model to rebuild Table. 41ers, if you have any contacts in Dublin’s business communities from where prospective new Tablers will come, please forward their details to either Jim Smith or myself. If you can help in any way please contact either of us.
Phillip Ellis, National Councillor, Region 3 Ireland
An event for your wives and partners
An event for the more sporting amongst youRound Table In The USA
Exciting news from the USA as a new potential Table will be holding their first formal meeting on July 15th in Boston. We wish them luck and if any of our members have relations or friends of Table age in that area then please let them know.
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Young People Of The YearHow the Round Table family could help young people…
A 41er is appealing to the Round Table family to get involved in a charity he started when he was a Tabler.
F o r m e r n a t i o n a l n e w s p a p e r journalist Tony Gearing ran his first Young
People of the Year contest or ‘YOPEY’ (pronounced yop-pea) in 2005 when he was in his last year of Royston Round Table.
He was angry that the majority of media coverage of young people is ‘bad press’ and believed this was worsening relations between the generations and could only lead to more anti-social behaviour.
“It was as if every young person was a binge-drinking, drug-taking, violent hoodie”.
Surveys have confirmed he was right: Mori found that seven out of 10 articles about young people are negative and only one is positive. The other two are neutral. Another survey found that the most common word used by the media to describe teenage boys is ‘yobs’. Barnardo’s found that more than 35% of adults feel the young ‘infest the streets’ and are ‘feral’.
Tony went on to found a not-for-profit community association – which is being converted into a charity – and has so far run 50 YOPEY contests in many parts of the UK, including every county of eastern England, plus Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and the whole of Yorkshire and Scotland.
To counteract all the bad press published about the younger generation, the YOPEY organisation has had thousands of good stories published about young unsung heroes who ‘give to others’. “From kids who runs clubs to others who raise
thousands for charity, we’re getting them the good press they deserve and setting them up as positive role models to be admired and copied,” said Tony.
“We’re creating the great citizens of tomorrow and possibly future Tablers and Circlers!”
YOPEY has been praised by national leaders – David Cameron describes Tony as “truly inspirational”, Nick Clegg says YOPEY is “leading the way” and Ed Milliband says it’s an “alternative to the doom and fear peddled about our next generation”. You can read their full letters on yopey.org.
Through YOPEY’s work thousands of young people have been put on the road to becoming great citizens – and ideal new recruits to the Round Table family.
But Tony would now like to reach the whole country and believes the service clubs may hold the key.
“It costs £20,000 to run a county-wide YOPEY, which includes a six-month media campaign, visiting schools, putting on an awards ceremony and prize money. We’ve awarded kids over £130,000 to share with good causes.”
When Tony set up YOPEY he wanted companies to be sponsors as part of their CSR – corporate social responsibility. But over the years, public services, particularly councils and police forces, asked to be involved until YOPEY’s financial support came
in almost equal amounts from the public and private sectors.
And then came the government cuts and the economic climate.
“While we’re managing to raise enough money in Herts, Essex and Notts where we’ve been going for years, we’re struggling to return to other counties and start new ones.
“For example, we have a past winner
who says YOPEY changed her life. She went on to university in Cardiff and wants to help us hold a YOPEY in south Wales. The Welsh Secretary has offered to host the launch. But we can’t find any sponsors.”
Tony is looking for more proactive support from the Round Table family than just stumping up the cash.
“My plan is this – if 10 Round Table family clubs in a county could each donate about £2,000, we would run a campaign across their county in their names. The materials we use – teaching CDs, citizenship films, entry forms, posters – would all be branded to the clubs involved.
“I would visit your county and train representatives from every club to deliver a YOPEY citizenship presentation – again branded to your clubs – to your local schools. They could cascade this to other members – everything you need to know, including a script for the tongue-tied, is on the CD.
“At the end of a six-month campaign – during which I expect YOPEY to generate about 100 media stories, all naming the local clubs and many carrying your logos – we would come together to put on an amazing awards ceremony.”
“This would be attended by the ‘great and good’ – Queen’s representatives, Mayors, MPs, council chairmen etc – and show them the fantastic young people in their midst. It would also remind them of the good work done by the Round Table Family!”
County winners could feed into a televised national YOPEY awards, which is on the drawing board.
“I’m not asking for all the clubs in a county to get together and decide shall we support YOPEY? Simply let me know if your club is interested and how much it could donate? Wherever I get two or three clubs interested, I’ll approach others and see if I can put a syndicate together.”
If your club is interested or you would like more information contact: [email protected] or call 0845 838 2640.
“Courage is the art of being the only one who knows
you’re scared to death.”Harold Wilson
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The Back Page
Stop Press
I was sat in the pub the other day staring into my beer when a really big, trouble-making brute of a man stepped up next to me. Without a word he grabbed my drink and downed it in one.
“Well , whatcha gonna do about it?” he said menacingly as I burst into tears.
“Come on man” he said “I didn’t think that you’d cry. I can’t stand to see a man cry”.
“This is the worst day of my life” I said.“I’m a complete failure. I was late for work and my boss
sacked me. When I went to get into my car it had been stolen and I don’t have any insurance. I left my wallet on the bus I took home, I found my wife in bed with the milkman and then my dog bit me. So I came to this pub to work up the courage to put an end to it all. I buy a pint, I drop in some rat poison and sit here watching the poison dissolve. Then you, you big bully, show up and drink the whole thing.”
“But enough about me, how’s your day going?”
My wife and I walked past a posh Italian restaurant in the town last night.
“Did you smell that food?” she said. “It was absolutely incredible, and it is our anniversary tomorrow.”
“Stuff it,” I thought. “I’ll spoil her.” So tonight she got all dressed up and I walked her
past again.
And Finally ...
It would appear that one of our members has friends in high places
.... or maybe not!
HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT ROUND THE WORLD FOR WISHES?
ROUND THE WORLD FOR WISHES is a national event taking place from 1–15 October 2011 when Round Tablers all over the country are each travelling 10 miles and raising £50 minimum.
Together we hope to travel the 24,901.55 miles around the world and who knows we might even come back again – all within the 2 week period.
Being ex-Tablers why not contact your local Table and see if there is anything you can do to support them in any way. For more details go to our website:
www.rtcw.org/Round-The-World-For-Wishes.html
Or to speak to someone please contact Julie - [email protected] or call her on 01202 514515.
The Lighter Side
Region 11 Golf DayIn only its third year the Region 11 Golf Tournament has
proven to be more popular every year. Staged at Crewe Golf Club on the 7th June, 23 members were joined by National President Vaughan for a very enjoyable day’s golf, despite a downpour in the middle of the round. The winning team was Newport Ex-Tablers and one of their members, Mark Ashton, was the individual winner.
Thanks to Roger Scowcroft for his usual excellent organisational skills, and good luck to Newport when the represent Region 11 at the National Finals in September.
Golfers in the current Region 25 may recognise the trophy that Vaughan is presenting to Newport, as it is the old Region 11 trophy that they used to compete for. With the re-numbering of regions it was kindly passed on to us by Dave Campbell. A true case of the fellowship in 41 Club.
National President Vaughan presenting the trophy to Mark Ashton and his team from Newport Ex-Tablers
“Every once in a while, take the scenic route.”H Jackson Brown Jr.
Final ReminderThe rededication service of the 41 Club Garden will take place at The
National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, near Lichfield on Sunday 17th July 2011.
The short service will be conducted by the Reverend Malcolm Lockey and will commence immediately after the two minutes silence at 11 am.
All members of 41 Club, Tangent, Round Table and Ladies Circle are invited to attend.
There will be plenty of time to explore the other gardens at the Arboretum.