"The Community Centre at the Centre of the Community"
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News for Summer 2008 - the Greyfriars Golden Jubilee year
The Summer Newsletter is now published - see the updated Events and Newsletter pages for the celebrations for 50 years of being at the centre of Ringwood.
The Ebenezer Hall project is progressing. Planning permission has obtained. Contractors quotations have been received and a contract will be negotiated shortly. A very useful start has been made on the fundraising. We are therefore aiming at starting the work at the beginning of September with a provisional schedule of 12 weeks work. Click here and decide how YOU can help.
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GREYFRIARS CHALLENGE QUIZ
Spread over three Wednesday evenings during February and March, teams representing the clubs and affiliated societies of the Ringwood & District Community Association have been battling to win the coveted annual Greyfriars Challenge Quiz.
This year the 24 teams entering the knockout competition were eventually whittled down to two finalists, the Ringwood & Fordingbridge Footpath Society against the Ringwood & District Ex-Tablers Club. The Footpath Society team of David Rawden, Rowan Brockhurst and Melanie Treganza emerged as the triumphant winners and will go on to represent Ringwood in the New Forest Inter-Community Association Quiz to be held in September.
Questionmaster Julian Titt estimates that over the past thirteen years he has set approximately 7500 questions. This year was the first time he can recall that there was a round when every question was answered correctly. Julian added, “It is great that we are getting new teams. This time we had two new entrants - the Natural History Society and Talking News. Over the past four years we have had four different winners, so who knows who will win next year!”
Julian is now hard at work thinking up more questions for the Greyfriars Corporate Quiz for local businesses to be held on May 7th in aid of the Community Centre funds.
Photographs of the evening are available on The Masked Ball page -
click here. You are welcome to download the displayed medium-quality photos free of charge.
Greyfriars Community Centre
Greyfriars, home of the Ringwood and District Community Association, has been a thriving focus of community life in Ringwood for almost fifty years. It has grown from small beginnings in an elegant Georgian House to a healthy complex which nevertheless still proudly maintains that original house as its focal point.
The buildings include three delightful halls each with its own kitchen and a number af smaller rooms used for meetings by a variety of local organisations and educational classes. Over a hundred local clubs and societies are affiliated to the Association and nominate representatives to its governing Council. Day to day management is in the hands of an Executive Committee and a full time manager.
The Association relies almost entirely on subscriptions, room hiring fees and the results of special fund raising events to survive financially and to ensure proper care and maintenance of the buildings complex and its continuing availability to the community of the town and neighbourhood.
Greyfriars, home of the Ringwood and District Community Association, has been a thriving focus of community life in Ringwood for almost fifty years. It has grown from small beginnings in an elegant Georgian House to a healthy complex which nevertheless still proudly maintains that original house as its focal point.