To All Shipmates,
Our Annual General Meeting will take place at Mess Night on Tuesday 8 February 2022, 7.30pm for an 8pm start – do come along.
There will be a supper after the meeting of a buffet, with a cheese board and a sherry trifle.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Hello Shipmates
January Mess Night is fast approaching and will be held on Tuesday 11 January 2022 at 7.30pm for 8pm start.
Arrangements have been made to have a fun quiz and supper will be sausages and mash with peas and onion gravy, followed by apple pie and custard.
Please remember to bring along your used postage stamps for us to send to our Bude Branch for charity. They will be submitted to Macmillan Cancer Research to raise funds for that organisation.
We wish you all a happy New Year and look forward to seeing you next week.
Our Branch Xmas Party Mess Night is on Tuesday 14 December 2021 at Branch HQ, 7.30pm for 8.00pm.
We have the Land Girls coming to entertain us, followed by a Christmas buffet and cheese board laid on by Candy, and a couple of boozy sherry trifles homemade by Lynda Drake. Food is free this month (paid for by RNA), and there will, of course, be a Christmas raffle!
To help us with judging the numbers for catering, if you plan to attend the event please could you reply to the recent email circulated by Pauline Chalk, Branch Hon Secretary.
So feel free to put on your Christmas jumper (if you have one), and join in our festive gathering.
Merry Christmas to you all.
Hello Shipmates
Our next Mess Night will be taking place on Tuesday 9 November 2021 at 7.30 for an 8pm start.
We have Lynda Pearson, the RNA Welfare Programme Manager, coming to give us a talk about how Sparko TV and Project Semaphore can help us keep in touch with our shipmates, friends and family – we hope that you will find both topics interesting.
This will be followed by sausage, mash, peas and gravy, and a sweet of Candy’s making.
We look forward to seeing you.
Please find below details of events between October and December 2021:
Our Chairman and Vice President will be carrying our Standard at all four Services so our wreaths will be laid by:
Please find below some photos from our recent Trafalgar Night Commemorations, held at Ferndown Golf Club on Saturday 23 October 2021.
We’d like to thank Tony Amos for taking these lovely photographs for us.
Shipmates Gareth and Linda Peaston attended the Royal British Legion Centenary celebrations on our behalf.
On Saturday 9 October, we held a collection outside Sainsbury’s in Ringwood. Our Shipmates had a very successful day, and raised our profile in the area.
Below are some photographs of both events; we’d like to thank Roy Setchfield for his photographs of the Royal British Legion Centenary Parade in Bournemouth, and also Norman Drake for taking the photographs of the collection at Sainsbury’s and sharing them with us.
Hello Shipmates
Mess Night is fast approaching – why not join us for a fun presentation by Fiona Dodds who will be telling us the ‘Confessions of a Nurse’, next Tuesday 12 October at 1930 for a 2000 start.
Candy will provide a wonderful supper of Cobbler – Beef Mince and Dumplings – followed by a dessert of her choice – sounds delicious!
It would be very helpful if you could let Pauline Chalk know if you would like to eat (by replying to the email that she has sent to you), this will give Candy some idea of the number to cater for.
We hope to see you there.
Hello Shipmates
Our next Mess Night is fast approaching.
Shipmate Gareth Peaston will be giving a presentation about his seafaring days. Supper will be sausage and mash with peas and gravy – sounds delicious!
Please bring any remaining returns for the Trafalgar Night Dinner, and any raffle donations will be appreciated at Mess Night.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Hello Shipmates,
Our next Mess Night is on Tuesday 10 August 7.30pm for 8pm start.
Our speaker is Keith Partridge talking about ‘Wild Life of The New Forest’, and the supper is Beef Cobbler with a sweet of Candy’s choice.
Promises to be an interesting evening.
We look forward to seeing you all.
Royal Naval Association, Ferndown 