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September 2019 September 2019
POP IN PLACE NEWS
ROGS

Bere Regis Memory Walk who are you
walking for ? The Captains Cup 2019
37 ROGS and 2 guests enjoyed wonderful weather while

Come and join us in the Alzheimer’s Society Bere playing the rolling fairways of the home of golf, Ashley
Regis Memory Walk Saturday 14 September Wood. Some exceptional golf was played (Not by that
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many Ashley members though) as half the scores were
Saturday September 14 at 10am the walk starts in Elder Road and is a delightful over 30 and above. Coming out on top with a great score of 38 was Peter
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2mile walk around the outskirts of the village that starts near the Kicking Wall and Cheeseman, well done Peter, second on countback was Neil Middleditch and
finishes back at the Village Hall for a well-earned cake and cup of coffee. third was Jamie Lake with 35 points.
Walkers pay £5 per person and £10 for a whole family. No unaccompanied NP on the 7th Dave Swift (guest)
children under 16.
NP on the 18th Peter Cheeseman
Or just attend the Alzheimer’s Society COFFEE MORNING l
If you don’t want to walk but want to come to the coffee morning at the hall the NP in 2 on the 12th Phil Allen
hall will be open form 10am. We will have piano music by the very talented Paul Straightest Drive on the 14th Gordy Tucker
Martin and a display of memorabilia from the latest Memory Boxes .
There were 5 twos. Matt March Graeme Price Phil Allen Mark Teed Peter
All over the UK people will be uniting to walk for a world without dementia, be Cheeseman
part of it and come and join us on Saturday 14 September and support the
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Alzheimer’s Society. Best guest Dave Swift 34 points
A little bit of fun ensued before and after the golf in the way of a putting
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Support the Macmillan Coffee Morning Friday 27 September competition. Julian Flower and the Captain took 4 lots of 5 balls to score a point!!
This raised some good money towards my charity. All in all, the day raised over
10-12 £300, putting the annual amount up to near £2,500. A massive thanks goes to all
the ROGS for their never ending generosity.
There will be a raffle , coffee, home-made cakes all proceeds to Macmillan.
Please do pop in and show your support. Fresh cress and a warm welcome to all. After the ‘official’ putting comp, a few took part in an unofficial one. Tristan Gale
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sunk a massive putt, to see him start a lap of honour onto the 18 green!!

Pop In Place needs more volunteers to serve teas or drive Since this game, Super ROGS played their annual cricket match against Bere
clients welcome visitors Regis. The average ages of the 2 teams were quite a way apart. A big thanks
goes to everybody for their support in putting this event on. All from chefs to
Could you become a volunteer and help to serve the teas at our Monday or participants. Although on Monday morning, the injury list was quite high. Turp had
Friday morning cafes or maybe you could become a driver or talk to the clients ? a scare, but thankfully he is OK and at this moment he is recovering well.
These tasks are all done on a rota basis so you don’t have to do it every week .
Oh and the cricket…. If you needed to ask, Bere Regis won in a deserved fashion.
A big thank you to all who already volunteer with us we appreciate that you are
giving your time to enhance the life of others and it is greatly appreciated. See you all at the next meeting, 31st August (The last Friday of the month) at
Crane Valley Golf Club. It is The Ex Landlord’s Cup (switched from May, due to the

Ex Landlord (Teedy) not being able to attend that date, due to having to put
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Pop In Place Community Shed make a Donation of cash to some extra practice in for the high jump at the next Olympics).1 Tee is 12.00
help our set up cost. Captain Spalds
We would welcome cash donation towards the set up costs of this new initiative,

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