Rochdale Round Table's Work in the Borough

Rochdale Round Table is involved with many fund raising projects throughout the year, however it isn't always about raising cash. Sometimes manpower is all it takes. We have involvement with the Hospice in Rochdale helping them organise their own fund-raising events. We regularly help on the Rota for the Newspaper for the blind, where a few of us get together to record a reading of the local paper and send out copies of the tape to all the local registered blind people.Every Christmas we run a "Can Collection" where we collect food parcels by street collections which are redistributed to the Elderly and Needy in the Town.

Each year the Chairman nominates one or more causes for us to promote and in previous years we have raised nearly £16,000 to buy a Kidney Dialysis machine for our local hospital. We raise the money by several different ways, we have Golf Days, Sportsman's Dinners, Sponsored swimming competitions and the most successful an Abseil Challenge. The Town Hall Clock in Rochdale is over 150ft high and we asked local people to take part in a Sponsored Abseil down the Clock to raise funds for the Kidney Unit. This event raised nearly £9,000 which was a fantastic effort from all who took part.oompah.JPG (18116 bytes)

We have also just run another world famous "Ompah Night " a wine tasting evening with a difference, 6 wines 6 toasts and lots and lots of fun, raising over a £1,000 in the process

If you want to find out more or would like to help us please contact Jonathan Whitworth