Barrie Sindall, Roger Bettle, Chris Evans (M D Raymond Brown Building Ltd), Simon Jones (Project Manager RBBL), Kevin Jones (Sheerin Bettle Assocs), Ann Pedersen and Mike Osborne toast the handback on 19 December 2008
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GREYFRIARS CHALLENGE QUIZ
Spread over three Monday evenings during January, 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 16 teams will be entering the knockout competition. Last year the two finalists were 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 went on to represent Ringwood in the New Forest Inter-Community Association Quiz which was held in September and they won.
Questionmaster Julian Titt estimates that over the past fourteen 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 also hard at work thinking up more questions for the Greyfriars Corporate Quiz for local businesses to be held in May in aid of the Community Centre funds.
Greyfriars Community Centre
Greyfriars, home of the Ringwood and District Community Association, has been a thriving focus of community life in Ringwood for over 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 over 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.