Adopt, Adapt, Improve
Aims and Objects:
- To develop the acquaintance of young men through the medium of their various occupations.
- To emphasise the fact that one’s calling offers an excellent medium of service to the community.
- To cultivate the highest ideals in business, professional and civic traditions.
- To recognise the worthiness of all legitimate occupations and to dignify each his own by precept and example.
- To further the establishment of peace and goodwill in international relationships.
- To further these objects by meetings, lectures, discussions and other activities.
Our name comes from a speech from the then Prince of Wales, made in 1927 to the British industries fair: “The young business and professional men of this country must get together
The speech inspired the name, and also provided our motto: Adopt, Adapt, Improve – principles that remain at the heart of the organisation.
The first Round Table was formed in Norwich in 1927.
The founder, Louis Marchesi, was a young Rotarian who felt a need existed for a club where young men of the town could gather on a regular basis to exchange ideas, learn from the experience of their colleagues and play a collective part in the civic life in Norwich. Within a year, membership of this Round Table had grown to 85 and interest had been shown in establishing Round Tables elsewhere. Subsequent growth was rapid, there being 125 Tables with a membership of 4,600 at the outbreak of the war in 1939.
Harrogate Round Table applied for its charter on the 28th of April 1948. This is celebrated with a Charter dinner every 10 years.
The ROUND TABLE NAME AND LOGO
Round Table owes nothing to Arthurian Legend, deriving both its title and its maxim from a speech made to the British Industries Fair in 1927, by the then-Prince of Wales:-
“The young business and professional men of this country must get together
The design of the Round Table Emblem, is, however, an adaptation of the table which hangs in the Great Hall, Winchester, and which is claimed to be the Round Table of the Court of King Arthur.
ACHIEVEMENTS
Round Table at a national level is known for its efforts to assist in its own community and to help that community’s less fortunate members, for its concern for the quality of life and for the help that it gives to various charitable causes.
Also for purchases of a lifeboat and other equipment for the R.N.L.I., for its support for the Anthony Nolan Bone Marrow Trust and for its assistance at Lockerbie and Dunblane.
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Our members
Do More, Play More, Be More.
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