tabler • spring 2009
copy: philipdouce@aol.com
with Philip Douce
areas: 6, 12, 17, 24, 25, 33, 41, 45, 50, 54.
We’re floating
on air in
Cementing ties with
Banbury Cross
Air Ambulance heros
Despite the credit crunch, Banbury
Cross RT’s new Christmas float has
Golf day funds
set a record of well over £10,000.
for Warwick
In designing their super-float the
Tablers set out to maximise Santa's
flying medics
presence, whilst offering some
Twenty golf teams fielded by Coventry
protection from the occasional egg!
Round Table braved the weather for
The float has a fantastic display of
18 holes at the Hearsall Golf Course,
lights and a closed area for the sound
and all in the name of charity.
system and for Santa to change.
RT Chairman Andy Millar, reportedly
“The project just seems to get better
in a ‘bad way’ after the event, made a
and better each year,” commented
swift recovery after taking on much
tables Andrew Campbell. “Despite the
needed fluids. He presented £2000 to
occasional misunderstanding that you
Jo Payne, Fund Raising Manger of the
cannot actually get the float through a
Warwickshire Air Ambulance (pictured).
24-inch gap, we delivered 300 parcels
Airborne Santa whisked to wards
The WAA covers 2000 square miles
to the old folk during the month.”
over Coventry,
One down side is that Float
When Santa flew in with a
Warwickshire,
Chairman, Mark Deegan, who has
consignment of toys and gifts
Northamptonshire,
been running the event for three
to the John Radcliffe Hospital,
Milton Keynes and
years, has started to show an uncanny
Oxford in the Thames Valley
key border areas like
resemblance to ‘Fat Chris’ himself!
and Chiltern Air Ambulance,
Market Harborough,
Bicester Round Table was on
Banbury and Solihull.
hand to give him a lift from the
The service has
helipad to the new Oxford
12 doctors, 12
Children's hospital.
paramedics, three
Bicester Chairman, Stuart Kirkwood, and IPC, Andy Bennett, collected the Table’s
pilots and has flown 5,500 missions
sleigh and the only reindeer in Bicester and took them to the hospital in a Mitsubishi
during its three years of operation.
L200 Pick Up loaned by Motorworld Mitsubishi of Oxford.
With a population of more than
BBC and ITV news cameras were present as Santa climbed out of the helicopter
1.1million people and a callout rate of
to wave at the children crowding the hospital windows, and some great footage
120 to 150 per month, WAA is the
went out on ITV Central news.
busiest in the UK.
President Peter with the Dickens of a debut for the Belles of the Ball
Kent Exec: Simon Turner,
Sports; Brennan Dwyer, A live performance of A Christmas
National Councillor; Matt
Carol got the annual Area16 (Kent)
Purnell, Membership; Karl
‘Nik Nak’ Dodge, Hon.
Round Table Chairman’s Ball at
Secretary; Andy Yeates, IRO; Dickens World in Chatham off to a
Tony Durham, Hon. Area
seasonal start. For the 150 Tablers,
Chairman; Phil Douce (top),
Hon. Area President; Neil
friends and family attending there
Buckley, Area Vice Chairman; was much wine, good food and song,
Clive Morely, Media & PR;
plus some interesting ‘dancing’ by
Steve Way, National Sales
Officer; Andrew Grant, CSLO;
Area Chairman Tony ‘John Travolta’ Durham. Hon. Area
Ron Shea, National President, Phil Douce, who took his daughters to their
Marketing & PR Officer and
very first ball, reflected: “It cost me a fortune in
Graham Rennells, Hon.
Treasurer.
dresses, but I’m very proud of them both and they had
a great time.”
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