Join Us
If you are male, aged between 18 and 45 and you live in the Petersfield area why not join us? The club is lively and sociable and we always welcome new members. It’s all about having great fun whilst putting something back into the community. It takes commitment and enthusiasm but your hard work is repaid with fun, friendship and a real sense of achievement.
Tabling is not just confined to these shores, we are a truly global organisation and Petersfield Table number 299 is twinned with the French Table Ronde 299 Avallon. Regular twinning events are arranged every 18 months or so. These involve a party of tablers and their families visiting the twin table for a weekend of bilingual entertainment.
Visit the national site at www.roundtable.co.uk to find out more about table membership or contact membership@petersfieldroundtable.org.uk and we will invite you along to some of our meetings where you can join us for some good talk, food and get a feel for what tabling is all about.
Here's what Tabling means to us...
"I had no intention of joining Round Table. I knew it existed as some sort of fund raising body, but had no idea what sort of people joined it. If asked then, I would have said I thought it was probably rather self worthy and a bit boring.
I had had a thought that it would be good to be involved in the local community, but I had no idea how. Then my father-in-law suggested I might enjoy Table. I wasn’t keen, but I agreed to go along to a meeting. I am not a natural joiner, so was a little nervous when the night came. It was nothing like I had expected. Instead of a serious fundraising body, I found a bunch of friends, who were out for a good night out. I went to a few more meetings to get to know the people and the club better, and then, convinced that I would both enjoy it, and be able to do something positive and creative, I joined.
I can honestly say that joining Table is one of the best things I have ever done! I have laughed long and hard and done many things for local good causes that I am very proud of. Meetings are characterised a great deal of irreverent fun, but everyone there cares about the community they are a part of, and doing something positive. To quote the words of a previous chairman, my fellow Tablers are a bunch of "bloody good blokes".
I explained Table one of our recent guests, and she said she couldn't understand why any man wouldn't want to be in Table. I think she's absolutely right."
-Mike Robinson (Vice Chairman)
"Having been in Rotaract I’d already had contact with Round Table and had an idea of what it was all about and realised I was likely to make friends there. I wasn’t disappointed and have many great memories:
- Standing in the middle of a very merry crowd, with the band playing their hearts out up on stage and not caring that I’m knackered, hot and sweaty after a long evening serving beer because I’m having too much fun.
- Seeing the landlord’s daughter wrapped in a Python!
- Taking my turn rowing a boat around Petersfield Lake in the pitch black at four o’clock in the morning, to raise money.
- Hearing my daughter describe Table as a bunch of big kids and then going off to play with Scalextric. Mind you it was on a 160ft of six lane track!
- Driving back across Glen Coe on a gloriously clear day with a vast open sky hanging over the mountains, having just driven the team round Britain so they could climb the Three Peaks in twenty four hours.
- Watching the video about the children Round Table Children’s Wish have helped.