Wareham Round Table and Swimming The Frome for RTCW

Members of Wareham Round Table and friends are swimming 10 miles of the River Frome around Wareham, Dorset to help raise money for the Round Table Childrens' Wish event, Round The World For Wishes. There will be 6 people, all swimming 10 miles of the River Frome in October 2011. The swimmers are: David Hixson-Ward, Richard Southam, Paul Brenson, Andy Pethick, Luke Webster and Martin Cracknell. You can donate online at
http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/swimthefrome

Please support us raising money for Round Table Childrens' Wish http://www.rtcw.org

Cricket!

On the 15th of June we've our annual grudge match with 41 Club at Creech Cricket ground. Last year was a convincing win for the young bloods of Wareham Round Table even after we lent some players to them. If you're interested in having a laugh, whacking some leather and a couple of cold beers with Fish & Chips, then please drop us a line or give us a call!

New Chairman

Wareham Round Table would like to welcome Anthony Muraro as the new Chairman. Looking forward to a cracking year Anthony!


David Hixson-Ward
IT Scribe
Wareham Round Table No.1224
delta@wareham-roundtable.org.uk
http://www.beerex.org.uk

Wareham Round Table Beerex - we're ready are you coming?

We've got the beer, we've got the glasses (eventually), online sales are going so well we've increased capacity for all you lovely people. Tickets are still available online at www.beerex.org.uk or from our website www.wareham-roundtable.org.uk. Don't forget that this event is run to raise money for local charitable causes - all the money we make goes back into the Wareham and Purbeck community. Come along, try some brilliant (and yes they are - we had a secret tasting last night) beers. We've 28 real ales, couple of porters, and everything from a light coloured amber ale that's really hoppy and nice through to traditional best beers, IPA's, and Red beer (from our feature brewery Lancaster Brewery), we've also got 7 different ciders and perry as well. We're open tonight, Friday night and with two sessions on Saturday, lunchtime and evening. Please come along and support an amazing event and help us raise money for charity.

David Hixson-Ward
Chairman
Wareham Round Table

More sponsors confirmed for the Wareham Beerex - Easter Weekend

Many thanks to all our wonderful sponsors for their kind support for the Wareham Beerex. We wouldn't be able to do this without you! Over the last couple of days we've had a flurry of companies agreeing to support the Wareham Beerex and the work we do for local charities with the money raised from the Wareham Beerex. By sponsoring the Wareham Beerex you help us raise extra money for local charities that we would otherwise have to make up with a much higher footfall and higher beer prices. So thank you for your kind support and community spirit. Companies like yours make a real difference to the local community. Go and pat yourself on the back and have a beer in the warm fuzzy glow of knowledge that you're helping others.

Wareham Beerex - its moving along! Feature Brewery Announced!

Many thanks to the lovely people at Lancaster Brewery for supporting the Wareham Beerex - they're our new Feature Brewery - the beers are brilliant as well! Have a look at their website: www.lancasterbrewery.co.uk for info on their beers.
Tickets are selling well at the moment although there is still availability - have a look here for the ticket details http://beerex2011.eventbrite.com/ . If you fancy the old fashioned method, then please speak to our kind supporters, Bullock & Lees of Wareham : BULLOCK & LEES, 10 North Street, WAREHAM, Dorset, BH20 4AF. Tel: 01929 552632

Wareham Round Table new contact details!

Wareham Round Table have a new contact telephone number dedicated for Wareham Round Table and the Wareham Beerex!
New telephone number is; 07786 623295
Don't forget that you can get in touch with us through our website, www.wareham-roundtable.org.uk, the Wareham Beerex online booking system at www.beerex.org.uk or facebook (search for Wareham Round Table) or on Twitter @warehamrt
Look forward to hearing from you!
David Hixson-Ward
Chairman
Wareham Round Table No.1224

First Tickets Sold For Wareham Beerex

Congratulations to Mrs Nicola J for being the first person to purchase tickets to the Wareham Beer Festival 2011

Mrs J has taken the opportunity to take advantage of our special offer for the Saturday night - the special "GOLDEN TICKET" which entitles the purchaser to complimentary drinks all evening!

We would like to thank Mrs J and look forward to seeing her and her party on the Saturday night!

David Hixson-Ward

Chairman

Wareham Round Table No.1224

Beerex - Wareham Round Table's Beer Festival

This Easter, Wareham Round Table hope to run their best Beer Festival (Beerex) yet.

Over the years the format has developed into an excellent event, with an excellent choice of real ales and ciders, which in recent years, thanks to the growing popularity of ciders and perrys has become an interesting alternative for people who haven’t found their taste in real ales yet. The event has grown over the last 17 years from its humble beginnings in the Corn Market, to its current venue at the Masonic Lodge in Howards Lane, Wareham.

There will be at least 25 real ales from all across the country with a wide selection of ciders & perry.

Held over Easter holidays, the festival now covers 3 days – from the opening night of Thursday 21^st April through to Saturday 23^rd April.

Beerex is Wareham Round Table’s main fundraising event of the year and we help support that by offering the opportunity to local businesses to sponsor various aspects of the Beerex. If you are interested in helping support the Beerex, please contact us!

Over the last year or so, we’ve helped Sandford Cubs, Wareham Hospital & The League Of Friends, Stoborough First School and Wareham in Bloom to name a few. We always welcome approaches from people or organisations that need support in the Purbeck area.

This year, we are especially lucky that it’s the weekend of St George’s day and will be celebrating in style with St George as our central theme. We have entertainment on all three nights and on Saturday lunchtime as well.

Tickets can be bought online at http://www.beerex.org.uk or from our kind supporters, Bullock & Lees in North Street (Wareham). Tickets cost £5 per session.

Wareham Round Table is open for membership to men aged 18-45. It’s not political, it’s not religious, it’s about having fun, doing something good and enjoying yourself! Round Table is an international organisation and exists in over 40 countries. It is about networking and getting to know people you might not otherwise meet! If you feel that there’s an aspect of your life that could benefit from finding out more about Round Table, then give us a call. Have a look at our website for more info: http://www.wareham-roundtable.org.uk

Wareham Round Table help Sandford Cubs with new tents

Four for Sixes - New tents for Sandford Cubs Sixes

 

1st Sandford Cubs inspect one of their four new tents recently donated to them by Wareham Round Table No.1224, with the help of their leaders and members of Wareham Round Table.

Cub Scout leader Matt Renaut, along with the Cub Scouts thanked members of the Wareham Round Table for their kind donation of four brand new 6 person tents to accomodate the "Sixes" when they go camping.
The tents will be used by Sandford Cubs to introduce 8-10 year-old Cub Scouts to range of activities including regular camps in Lulworth and the surrounding areas.

David Hixson-Ward, Chairman of Wareham Round Table said the Round Table members hope the Cubs stay warm and dry in their impressive new tents and hope that they give years of good service to the Cub Scouts.

Mr Hixson-Ward acknowledged that this donation, like others to local charities and local worthy causes, would not be possible without the support of local businesses and members of the Wareham community and said that part of the thanks should go to these people too. The majority of the fundraising is done through the Wareham Round Table Beer Festival (Beerex) which is held every Easter in Wareham.

If anyone would be interested in finding out more about what Wareham Round Table does, please feel free to contact us via our website www.wareham-roundtable.org.uk.

Wareham Round Table and Wareham Hospital

News Release

New chair makes for easier bath times

16 November 2010

A new state of the art bath chair has been donated to Wareham Hospital thanks to
the fund raising efforts of the local Round Table.

Presented by Round Table Community Services Liaison Officer Anthony Muraro, the
£3500 chair will enable patients with mobility problems to enjoy having a bath.

Anthony Muraro said “Fundraising for local causes is a major part of the Wareham
Round Table’s work and having worked closely with the Wareham Hospital League
of Friends we were delighted to offer funding for the new chair.

Local hospitals play a key role in our communities and we have found that local
people are always happy to offer their support as one day it could be themselves or
a member of their family needing care”.

Rob Ball is Charge Nurse at the hospital. He said “Whilst nobody really wants to go
into hospital, throughout our life many of us will. The support of local people through
the League of Friends complements the excellent care we are able to offer the
community making a person’s stay a more pleasant experience”.

Anyone interested in supporting the work of the League of Friends can obtain more
information from the hospital reception.

Further information

Picture – Round Table Community Services Liaison Officer Anthony Muraro (seated)
with Hospital Matron Jacky Hourahane and Charge Nurse Rob Ball.

NHS Dorset is the local leader and first point of contact for NHS services in Dorset. It
has a provider arm and a commissioning arm. The provider arm - Dorset Community
Health Services - is responsible for community nursing, community hospitals
and mental health services. The commissioning arm commissions services from
healthcare providers.

Issued by NHS Dorset Communications Team

01305 361219

Wareham Round Table and Help For Heroes

Wareham Carnival

This coming Friday, I have the pleasure of attending the Wareham Carnival Committee's presentation evening. I have been informed that it should be an interesting evening, where the Wareham Carnival committee will be presenting cheques to local charities from the fundraising events that they've run over the year.
I'm interested to know what they're going to do as I've thought for a while that it's something that WRT should be doing.

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BEEREX 2011 Lives!

The online ticket booking facility for The Wareham Beer Festival (BEEREX 2011) is now alive! Bwuhahahahar!
No seriously, you can now buy your tickets online at http://beerex2011.eventbrite.com
Watch out for our superspecial "Golden Tickets". If you're thinking Willy Wonka, then you're on the right track. It's a special ticket that gives you "complimentary drinks". Oh yeah, in these days of inflation, VAT, extortionate fuel costs and ever increasing beer prices, we're offering a fixed price evening in a brilliant Beer festival. Have a look at the website!
Don't forget to follow us on facebook at Wareham.roundtable or on twitter at @warehamrt
Hope to see you there!

David Hixson-Ward
Chairman
Wareham Round Table No.1224

Stoborough First School Fete

We had a great time at the Stoborough First School fete.
Wareham Round Table No.1224 have agreed to donate the money for a climbing wall for the School's new activity area in the grounds and were kindly asked by the School to help at their summer fete. 
We had our own stand with a "Splat The Rat" game and donated all the proceeds from the game to the PTA. Many thanks to the Tablers that helped out there and many thanks to the School for inviting us
Luckily, through one of our Tablers we managed to get a new shiny banner for the day at very short notice from a sign company near Southampton called Andean Signs (www.andeansigns.co.uk) who were very competitive and delivered the day after we sent them the artwork for the banner.
We'll up load a photo of the onto our Picasa album asap!
Happy Round Tabling!
If you're interested in Round Table & fancy doing something fun, useful and rewarding then drop us a line at
Chairman@wareham-roundtable.org.uk
Yours in Table
David Hixson-Ward
Chairman
Wareham Round Table

Round Table. Why Me?

If you're interested in doing something different and want to have some fun with a group of like minded individuals, then please get in touch with us. We'd love to hear from you. Membership of Round Table is open to men, between the ages of 18 to 45 and is a non sectarian, non political organisation that covers the world. We don't do funny handshakes, we don't have bizarre and arcane rituals. We have fun, create great friendships between our members and give people the opportunity to do something worthwhile in a relaxed environment. If you don't know about it and want to know more, then find your nearest Round Table (http://www.roundtable.org.uk) and see what it's about. There's no pressure to join, but you don't know what your missing until you try it!


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Charitable Donations by Wareham Round Table

Wow, our Community Service officer, Anthony Muraro has been busy! In the last 3 months, we've donated or agreed to donate a large amount of money that we've raised to local charitable causes.
No.1
Sandford Cub Scouts
We've bought 4, 6 man tents for the cub scouts so they can actually sleep in their Sixes, photograph of the handover duly done and our CSLO is arranging the press release at the moment.

No.2
Wareham Hospital
Our CSLO arranged a tour and demonstration of the Hospital and the special equipment they were trying to raise money for. The new Matron has made massive positive changes to the hospital and was trying to raise money for a specially designed bath chair that to be quite honest is fantastic! It's a powered chair that enables patients with movement problems to be able to be showered in comfort. We'd decided to give them the money for the chair by the end of the visit as it will make a massive difference to the patients quality of life.

No.3
Play equipment for Stoborough First School
Another item that Anthony raised was the need for new play equipment for the children at Stoborough First School. The specific item of equipment was a climbing frame for the grounds. We've been invited to the school fête this weekend as guests of the PTA for this donation and if you've every experienced the school fête at Stoborough then you'll know it's a fantastic event with a spectacular Hog Roast and entertainment in the evening.


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Charitable Donations by Wareham Round Table

Wow, our Community Service officer, Anthony Muraro has been busy! In the last 3 months, we've donated or agreed to donate a large amount of money that we've raised to local charitable causes.
No.1
Sandford Cub Scouts
We've bought 4, 6 man tents for the cub scouts so they can actually sleep in their Sixes, photograph of the handover duly done and our CSLO is arranging the press release at the moment.

No.2
Wareham Hospital
Our CSLO arranged a tour and demonstration of the Hospital and the special equipment they were trying to raise money for. The new Matron has made massive positive changes to the hospital and was trying to raise money for a specially designed bath chair that to be quite honest is fantastic! It's a powered chair that enables patients with movement problems to be able to be showered in comfort. We'd decided to give them the money for the chair by the end of the visit as it will make a massive difference to the patients quality of life.

No.3
Play equipment for Stoborough First School
Another item that Anthony raised was the need for new play equipment for the children at Stoborough First School. The specific item of equipment was a climbing frame for the grounds. We've been invited to the school fête this weekend as guests of the PTA for this donation and if you've every experienced the school fête at Stoborough then you'll know it's a fantastic event with a spectacular Hog Roast and entertainment in the evening.

We're going to use the school fête as a bit of a recruiting ground as even in a small Town like Wareham, people do not know what Round Table is all about. They all come along to the beer festival we hold every Easter, which under current form is going from strength to strength. But there is a distinct lack of identity within the town. Ok, we don't go and stand on street corners, shaking buckets, because we don't do that. Maybe we should?

David Hixson-Ward
Chairman, Wareham Round Table No.1224

If you're interested in doing something different and want to have some fun with a group of like minded individuals, then please get in touch with us. We'd love to hear from you. Membership of Round Table is open to men, between the ages of 18 to 45 and is a non sectarian, non political organisation that covers the world. We don't do funny handshakes, we don't have bizarre and arcane rituals. We have fun, create great friendships between our members and give people the opportunity to do something worthwhile in a relaxed environment. If you don't know about it and want to know more, then find your nearest Round Table (http://www.roundtable.org.uk) and see what it's about. There's no pressure to join, but you don't know what your missing until you try it!

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Various & Some Local News

Welcome again to the Wareham Round Table Blog, I'm hoping that it's going to become a useful site for people that are interested in Round Table and events in and around Wareham.

It's not often our little town gets to feature on the TV, but we managed it this week, the link to the article is below.

If anyone in the area (or outside for that) would like to link to the blog, or follow us on twitter ( @warehamrt ) or on facebook, we'll reciprocate gladly. Please drop us a line at mpr @ wareham-roundtable.org.uk (please remove the spaces).
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If anyone has suggestions for the blog please drop us a line and we'll do something about it,

In the meantime, here's a link to a news article about an incident that occurred in Wareham earlier this week and made the news (links to flash video)

http://www.itv.com/meridian-west/brave-rescue88742/

The I'm quite proud to say that Paul Brenson of The Quay Inn on Wareham Quay is the landlord of my local!

If anyone is interested in playing cricket on the 23rd of June, we're holding our annual cricket match, we enjoy hosting guests and would love to see you.

Yours in Table

David Hixson-Ward
Chairman
Wareham Round Table No.1224
twitter @warehamrt

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