What is Round Table?

Fun, friendship and trying something new and exciting, that's what Round Table is all about. From sports to arts and nights out at restaurants to family social events, Round Table prides itself on giving its members the chance to embrace life to the full.

Round Table opens up wonderful opportunities to become more involved in your local community and meet new friends from across the UK and the world.

Helping others while having great fun and enjoying new experiences is at the very heart of Round Table.

So if you want to meet like minded people from all walks of life and get the chance to broaden your horizons why not contact your nearest Table and come along to the next meeting?

You have no idea what you're missing!

Ossett and Horbury Round Table

Ossett and Horbury Round Table Number 212 was formed in 1949 and currently has 15 members. We hold two meetings every month.

The first meeting is called our 'Business' meeting, and is really an opportunity to organise the events we want to undertake and have some banter. The second meeting of every month is our 'Social' evening, and our past socials have included playing laserquest and paintball, historic walks around the local hostelries in Leeds, Ten Pin Bowling and Black Tie Dinners.

We also organise numerous weekends away including a Dads and Kids camping weekend, Hike and Bike challenge weekend, and Twelves Weekend where we join up with other Tables with the number '12' in their title.

We have something for everybody, and the more you put into Table, the more you get out of it.

Origins

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 the young business men of the town could gather on a regular basis to exchange ideas, learn from the experiences of their colleagues and play a collective part in the civic life of Norwich . Within a year membership of this Round Table had grown to 85 and interest had been shown in establishing Round Tables elsewhere.

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 round the table, ADOPT methods that have proved so sound in the past, ADAPT them to the changing needs of the times and wherever possible, IMPROVE them". 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.

Round Table has used the motto of Adopt, Adapt and improve to make it an organisation which is still relevant in the 21st century.