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2009/10 Service & Public Benefit The Rugby Portobello Trust and The Bradby Youth Club This year has been a busy and eventful one for both the Rugby Portobello Trust in London and the Bradby Youth Club in Rugby. The Rugby Portobello Trust in North Kensington is a youth, education and housing charity originally founded by Rugby School over a century ago. It enables disadvantaged young people from the ages of 5 to 25 to make the very best of their lives. In July 2009 the RPT concluded a successful merger with the social inclusion charity P3, which brought about many positive changes and improvements to the Trust’s provisions, including the refurbishment of new housing facilities for homeless young people. The Trust has a long and fruitful relationship with Rugby School, with many Rugbeians providing financial support for the charity through fundraising events and various acts of sponsorship; and it is hoped that this will continue. In April this year, Mark Simms, Deputy Chief Executive of P3, spoke in Chapel to raise pupils’ awareness of the Trust and to encourage those interested in volunteering during a holiday or gap year to make contact and get involved. Two representatives from the RPT attended the Higher Education and Gap Fair on Speech Day with further information about the possibilities available for volunteer work, and this elicited considerable interest. On 19 th June the School will again host the annual visit to School House and Rugby town of the ‘Club Mums’. The Bradby Youth Club on East Union Street in Rugby has this year seen regular evening visits by four members of the XX: Kane Maunder, Sophie Raichura, Emily Offord and Bill Cowderoy. Rose Piercey, the Club’s Youth Leader, reports that these pupils have done an excellent job, particularly Kane Maunder who was also previously a member, and as a Senior Leader was proud to represent the School at the Mayor’s Parlour. Kane and Bill wrote the following about their experience this year: “Volunteering at The Bradby Club for a Thursday afternoon activity was a decision I do not regret. Each week other pupils and I attended the club from 7.30pm till 8.30pm on a night of our preference. Children from the local area attend the club and take part in a range of activities, which we also take part in and sometimes organise. There is a range of activities which we do, including cooking, a variety of sports, arts and crafts, and there is also a gym which we can use. It has been a worthwhile and truly enjoyable experience this past year and I would recommend it to anyone looking for a Thursday afternoon activity. Every week there is something different going on, with a diverse range of members from all ages and backgrounds; there are always new people to meet, making evenings there a unique experience and more importantly fun, too.” Visiting the Bradby Club is part of the School’s Thursday afternoon social service programme, even though the activity is carried out on Monday to Thursday evenings. In the words of David Ray, former Chairman of the Bradby Club Management Committee: ‘Bradby is one of those institutions that enable members of the school community and town to meet, socialise and cultivate friendships. Furthermore, it offers future adults of Rugby a chance to sample a number of challenging activities in a safe and relaxed atmosphere. Membership has never been higher and opportunities have never been more varied. A satisfying by-product is that it enables Rugby pupils to complete an important element of their Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award. The links are further enhanced with Rugbeians, staff past and present and parents represented on the Management Committee.’ The School regularly hosts successful fundraising events to support the Club, most notably the annual Rokeby Garden Party, Leavers’ Ball Raffle and quiz nights. To celebrate the Club’s 90 th Anniversary this year, HRH The Duke of Kent visited the Club on 29 April and unveiled a commemorative plaque to mark the occasion. The visit was a huge success and the Duke was highly impressed with the wide range of projects and activities in which the young people are involved. This year sees the retirement in June of Rose Piercey after 19 years of outstanding service to the Club as Youth Leader. It is thanks to Rose’s excellent leadership that the Club has risen in status to its current position, with nearly 600 members, and has achieved success in so many fields, including receiving the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Award and a Club of the Year award. A further significant moment this year was the investiture as MBE of David Ray at Windsor Castle in April (see page 9), in recognition of his long years of public service and commitment to the game of Rugby football, to the Bradby Club and to young people in Warwickshire. ACL 10
Activities Rugby School CCF: 150 th Anniversary Activities The formation of the CCF Rugby School has a long and proud tradition of service in the country’s armed forces, as this year’s Meteor cover photographs attempt to illustrate. The earliest records of a volunteer corps at the School dates back to the early 1800s. Its creation owed something, no doubt, to the School’s experience of home-grown revolution in 1797 and to the fear in the country at large of a French invasion after the events in Paris of 1789. Rugby added its contingent to the Town Corps, creating a large company of well-equipped and well-marshaled volunteers. They dressed in a uniform of blue coats with scarlet collars and cuffs, and armed themselves with heavy wooden broadswords. Although little else is known of these early years, the company drilled in the area now occupied by the Little Church Street car park. It was not until the 1850s, with renewed threats from France, that the War Office sent out a letter on the 12 May 1859 to the Lords-Lieutenant of the counties, authorising the formation of a single Volunteer Corps. The regulations stated that the charge for drilling ‘and other current expenses’ would be ten shillings each half year, and that the following year each member would be required to purchase ‘a musket and bayonet, a belt and some simple uniform’, which should cost no more than thirty shillings. Any arms which were bought would be under the custody of an officer appointed by the Head Master. All members had to be over 16 years old and above five feet and four inches in height, and have written permission from home. There would be six drills each week, each lasting half an hour, out of which each member had to attend three. Whilst at first the School’s corps may have been seen as little more than a rifle club, the Volunteer Act of 1863 stated that the sovereign might call out these volunteers to be bound to active service in Great Britain ‘until released by Proclamation’. In effect the boys were agreeing to be called up to active service in battle. By 1868 it became an ‘enrolled corps’, commanded by a master holding a commission; more and more boys volunteered to join. After a discussion amongst the masters (where the general opinion was against the creation of such a corps), Head Master Frederick Temple, with his usual determination, said: ‘Then we will try it’. On the 9 May 1860, Temple announced in OBS that the Rugby School Rifle Corps was to be formed. In 1871 control of the corps passed from the Lord Lieutenant to the War Office, although little changed until 1908. In a letter from the War Office in that year they accepted the incorporation of the Rugby School Cadet Corps into the Junior Division Officers’ Training Corps, and the Rugby School O.T.C. was formed. Rusty MacLean 11
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