Members of Barking & Dagenham Plus who took part in the sponsored Walk
Members of a local community group commemorated the anniversary of one of their deceased friends at the weekend: with a sponsored walk to raise money for Cancer charities.
Barking & Dagenham Plus, a social group for young adults, staged a sponsored walk around Canvey Island in Essex on Saturday 12th September. The walk was nine miles long and collectively they raised over £300 in doing so.
Club chairman Richard Leach explained:
“Several years ago, one of our members, Adrian Pembroke, tragically died of cancer – so every September we hold a charity fundraising event in his honour. We also put on other events throughout the year: we intend to be staging a Charity Darts Tournament nearer to home in Chadwell Heath, later in 2015.”
Barking & Dagenham Plus meets every Tuesday from 9pm at the White Horse in Chadwell Heath, and is always interested in receiving new membership enquiries. For more information please phone Joe on 07958 669339, or visit http://www.barkingdagenhamplus.com
Programme Updated
Summer is on its way and so are a whole load of great new events for PLUS. We’ve got the National Five-A-Side Football Competition in June, the Kings Lynn Summer Do, National Karting, and Pirates Day all happening in July, and the National Walking Weekend in August. Later in the year, WASH 2015 will take place the weekend of Friday 6th to Monday 9th November, whilst next year, 26th – 27th February 2016, is the National AGM and 75th Anniversary Do.
For more details, see our Events page.
Presidential Address 2015
Roland Rat, Superstar. Yeahhhhh!
We are honoured to have as our club President none other than Sir Roland Rat, television personality and celebrity extraordinaire. Roland is of course famous for his TV and pop music career in the 1980s, and for being the living inspiration for a legion of devoted Ratfans.
Roland now lives in Hollywood, USA, but has graciously sent us this message:
Plussers To Make Historic First Trip Into Outer Space
Barking & Dagenham Plus has found a new venue for staging one of their group outings: in orbit around Planet Earth.
Earth
Members of the group have secured places on Virgin Galactic’s inaugural flight, due to take place later this year. The group will make one full orbit around the planet, and have even organised a real-ale trip to the International Space Station in passing.
Real-ale trip to the International Space Station
Of this exciting new venture, Barking & Dagenham Plus’ Publicity Officer, Joe Gurney, said:
Yeah, well when we heard that Hillingdon Plus were intending to run Brean, we thought we’d go one better and organise a new Plus holiday in outer space. Despite the unusual venue, it will otherwise be a lot like conventional Plus holidays, with discos, karaoke, live bands, and that DJ from WASH who always plays that irritating song about Yogi Bear. And, of course, if any one makes any trouble, we won’t just expel them from the Federation – we’ll expel them from the air-lock!
Asked about how they were able to put on this event at all, Joe explained:
Previously, flights on Virgin Galactic were going for $250,000 a pop – which is slightly out of the price range of most of our members. Luckily for us, however, after their test flight crashed last October, I was able to find a load of seats going cheap on Ticketmaster. Result!
To view the rest of the activities that Barking & Dagenham Plus have planned for the next three months, please see our newly updated Events page.
RGT Pool Competition 2015
The Trophy
Plussers from all over the Area descended on NAMCO Funscape in the Brewery Romford, for this thrilling tournament. Our very own Sanya battled through to the final, but lost out by one frame to Trevor Eley of Redbridge.
Barking & Dagenham Plus’ own Sanya.
Kings Lynn Mid Summer Camping Weekend
Message from Paul Catterwell of Kings Lynn Plus:
Hi all
Just to let you know that the Kings Lynn Mid Summer weekend is booked for Friday 3rd to Sunday 5th July.
Further details to follow…
Paul Catterwell
Kings Lynn Plus Activities Officer
RGT Pool Tournament: Sunday 11th January
Poster for the Roy Gordon Trophy (“RGT”) Pool Tournament 2015, at Namco Leisure in Romford.
Success in the Bowling Tournament!!!
Gemma Crader, Best Female Bowler
Barking & Dagenham Plus were celebrating today when our very own Gemma won an award for the Best Female Bowler, at Anglia & South East Area’s RGT Ten Pin Bowling Tournament.
Paul Savvas was Best Male Bowler, whilst Redbridge Plus took home the trophy for the Best Team. The event took place at Namco Funscape in Romford.
RGT 10 Pin Bowling Competition
RGT Bowling 2014
Message from Trevor Eley of the Area Committee:
Hi all,
Just a few more days to Wash, and I know you’re all thinking, “but once this weekend’s over there’s nothing to look forward to between Wash and Christmas”. But good news, especially if you haven’t been invited to Francesca’s birthday do, those lovely people on the Area Committee bring you the “RGT Bowling Competition” to brighten up these dark days.
There’s another of our lovely posters attached telling you all about it, like it’s on Sunday 7th December, at Romford Namco’s at 2 p.m. If you want more details contact me or any of the committee members.
See you at the weekend (well quite a few of you anyway).
Regards
Trev.
