Rossendale Round Table

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Round Table is all about having fun with a group of friends while at the same time trying to help the local community.

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Rossendale  RT628
Rossendale Round Table was formed in 1959 - the 628th Round Table to be formed in RTBI, hence our number.

Meetings are held on the second and fourth Thursdays of each month, with an additional meeting if there is a fifth Tuesday. These meetings are usually dinner meetings at a local pub or restaurant. Most of the meetings are social events and include sports of all kinds, gourmet evenings, or visits to historical local places. 

History
Louis Marchesi was a member of Rotary in Norwich but had the idea of starting a new organisation for young men between the ages of 18-40 (now 45).

Round Table adopted the motto Adopt, Adapt, Improve from a speech made by the Prince of Wales at the Festival of Britain. He also suggested that businessmen should get together around the table, and from this phrase was born the idea to adopt the image of King Arthur's Round Table as the organisation's logo.

From the small beginnings of one club in Norwich, Marchesi's dream became a reality, with over 1,000 clubs and more than 10,000 members. It is open to young men from all walks of life, not just those who would regard themselves as businessmen.

Round Table now exists throughout the world and has links with other like-minded clubs internationally. Moscow Round Table No.1 and Istanbul Round Table were chartered in the autumn of 2002.

Round Tables in the UK and Eire operate individually but with a common cause, and together they form The National Association of Round Tables of Great Britain and Ireland, otherwise known as RTBI.
 
What do we do?
Round Table is often termed a fellowship organisation. As such, it provides a forum in which to meet and mix with people from different vocations in your local area and beyond. We do this in a number of ways.

We arrange varied speaker meetings and visits to local businesses. We hold informal sports and quiz challenges with members from Round Tables in our local area, or nationally, and even internationally. Often we'll arrange extra events such as family outings or activities with Rotary, etc. And we participate in community projects and organise fundraising events.  We were part of the founding committee for the popular Rossendale Bike Show held each September.

We hold formal business meetings to discuss Round Table business, such as coming events, where to award funds from our Charity account, etc. Recently we have made donations to  Macmillan Nurses, Rossendale Hospice and Children In Need. Over the years we have donated tens of thousands of pounds.

Round Table has its share of traditions - mostly just a bit of fun, but often with the motive of getting Round Table clubs to meet up more often. For example, we'll sometimes "borrow" regalia from another Table to encourage those clubs to visit us to get it back again, or swap badges and exchange banners.
 

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