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Nottinghamshire Regional Committee
Honorary President: Dusty Hare
Chairman: Tony Jenkin-Jones
Tel: 07703 115747
Email: jj@doublej.co.uk
Events Calendar:
Regional Golf Day and Dinner
June 27th 2006 at Wollaton Park Golf Club
Please contact Tony Jenkin Jones or John Cohen for further details
Tony Jenkin Jones jj@doublej.co.uk
John Cohen cohenjhrl@hotmail.com
News:
Upcoming Golf Day in June 2006
Our next event will be our golf day, to be held once again on the last Tuesday in June - already a fixture in the local community’s diaries – at the picturesque Wollaton Park Golf Club. We would be delighted if teams from other Regions would like to join us – an e-mail to any of the Committee will procure an application. We are also hoping to hold another Dinner in the Autumn – watch this space!
We are now actively seeking our next project. The fund-raising is fun but there has been nothing like seeing the children enjoying the playground.
March 2006- Opening of Playground at Foxwood Foundation
 Less than two years after being founded, Nottinghamshire Region saw the results of its first completed project in March this year. Dusty Hare, our President, opened a playground for the use of young autistic children at Foxwood Foundation School and Technology College in Bramcote, Nottinghamshire.
 Foxwood is a forward thinking school which took Foundation status to enable it to have the freedom to develop, a strategy which has been extremely successful with the building of a huge IT centre. Spoon is proud to be associated with this school and to have been able to contribute by building what is now known as “the Wooden Spoon Playground”.
30 September 2005- An Evening with Martin Johnson
 Martin Johnson and Matt Poole kindly agreed to donate their time to Spoon by attending a dinner for 170 people held by Nottinghamshire Region at Nottingham University on 30 September 2005. We were also fortunate to persuade the ERFU to include us in their latest tour of the Webb Ellis Trophy. What a night this made! Martin walked into dinner proudly holding the Cup aloft to great cheers and accompanied by That Drop Goal on the video screen.
The gathering was invited to ask questions of Martin which were put to him by Matt Poole – their repartee kept us all enthralled. The questions were varied – “Was Martin breast or bottle fed?” (Breast as far as he remembers!) “What is it like to bash an Aussie” (Rugby is a sport which we all play hard and follow with a friendly beer – but it was great!) and the more predictable questions about life with Clive Woodward.
 We raised about £8,000 on the night plus a good number of Memberships (thanks to the Stradbrooke Girls) and Skegness Rugby Club has requested twenty application forms. We were also able to announce our first project – the building of a children’s playground for disabled children at Foxwood Foundation School in Nottingham. The School took a table and publicly thanked Spoon for their donation.
Lots of photos of the Cup and the lads were taken – the Committeee with the Cup and Brian Hall (Committee member and long time Tiger) looking minute with Martin and Matt. A fantastic evening, well supported by guests and local sponsors. Thank you all.
28 June- Regional Golf Day at Wollaton Park
Nottinghamshire region held its second golf day on June 28, once again at Wollaton Park Golf Club in the heart of Nottingham. The sky was clear and blue, the course immaculate and punctuated with fallow and red deer. For most, the golf was good, too, but, alas, not for all, as the winners of the miniature wooden spoons will testify.
Over 80 golfers played and the team to have their names engraved on the huge Nottinghamshire Wooden Spoon was led by David Pownall. They will represent the region in the Wooden Spoon National Event at Belton Woods. The oohs and aahs were reserved for recently anointed World number two trick-golfer, Jeremy Dale, who made hitting the green some 400 yards away look easy – both left and right handed. The day ended with dinner in the Clubhouse and a raffle – which was generously supported with the cash prizes being kindly donated to Spoon.
We were grateful to all our donors of gifts for the raffle – including Manwood Wines (thanks to Charlie Womersley), Air France and others. Jeremy Dale also donated a round of golf with him for three and this was successfully auctioned. Sadly, a magnificent gift of a magnum of Moët suffered in the heat and exploded in the sunny Clubhouse.
In total, over £3,000 was raised together with a good number of memberships being signed up by the ever-charming Stradbroke girls.
Please contact Tony Jenkin Jones or John Cohen for further details.
Tony Jenkin Jones jj@doublej.co.uk
John Cohen cohenjhrl@hotmail.com
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