Wokingham Today

Wokingham PROBUS Club

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RAY EDWARDS MBE was guest speaker at Wokingham PROBUS Club at John Nike Centre, Bracknell, on Wednesday, June 7.

Ray who is Britain’s longest surviving quadruple amputee founded the charity Limbcare to provide support to other amputees. He also provides stimulatin­g morale building talks under the heading Ray Inspires. Inspire is what he really does. You may ask how can a man experience cancer, blood poisoning, losing all four limbs on one day, a heart attack and kidney failure and still survive and climb mountains?

He can and he did, and his name is Ray Edwards.

All this was revealed in a poignant, personal and thought provoking presentati­on. A collection was held at the end of Ray’s talk for Limbcare.

PROBUS is a meeting place for retired or semi-retired profession­al and business people who assemble monthly in an informal and friendly atmosphere for social chat, a pleasant lunch and a talk on a general interest topic.

The programme for the coming months includes the experience­s of a real life Yeoman of the Guard (July) and a presentati­on on their Driverless Cars Project by two representa­tives from

TRL (August).

New members will be most welcome. Fees are modest, lunches good value and the company friendly with a wide range of experience­s and interests from their varied working lives.

Wokingham PROBUS Meetings are on the first Wednesday of the month at 12.30pm for 1pm lunch, with a talk usually following.

The meeting place is

John Nike Leisurespo­rt,

John Nike Way, Bracknell

RG12 8TN.

For more details, please contact the Secretary, Cec Williams, by e-mail at pandcec@ yahoo.com.

Prospectiv­e members (men or women) will be most welcome to come and meet us, by prior arrangemen­t please as we need to book food.

Please try us out, without obligation.

 ??  ?? Club Chairman Hugh Dempster thanks Ray Edwards
Club Chairman Hugh Dempster thanks Ray Edwards

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