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warm welcome and friendship. It may well be that, in the case of a
good many elderly people, the days of the Club's meeting are red letter
days in what is otherwise a monotonous and lonely life.
Chislehurst and Sidcup Old People's Welfare Committee.
Abstract from Secretary's Annual Report: —
"The year 1950/51 has seen the opening of four new Clubs: the
'Home from Home' Club in Days Lane, the 'Good Companions'
Club, a new branch of the 'Jolly Rogers' Club in Wren Road; and
the 'Rodney Old People's Club' on the St. Paul's Cray L.C.C. Estate.
This brings the total number of Clubs in the district to eleven, apart
from the O.A.P.A. groups in Sidcup, St. Paul's Cray, Chislehurst and
Blackfen, and the Pavilion in Marlborough Park, which is used daily
by twelve elderly men.

The total average attendance is approximately 700.
We need another Club in Footscray, but, as yet, we have found
no leader to take the responsibility.
Inter-Club Activities. Eight hundred old people were entertained
at the Summer Rally held in June, at Sidcup Place. Despite
the rain which fell continuously, and the extreme difficulty of serving
tea under such conditions, the old people thought it a great success.
A concert was given to combined Clubs early in the Autumn. A
Handicraft competition was organised in October. One hundred and
eighty members entered work in the competition and the standard of
work was exceedingly high.
The fourth Inter-Club Bulb competition was held in February,
and all Clubs and Club helpers entered. There was keen rivalry among
the competitors.
Infirm Wards, Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup. Close contact
is established with the two Wards for the infirm and elderly patients,
some of whom have entered for the handicraft and bulb competitions.
Two patients were among the prize-winners. Rotary and Toc H have
been most kind in wheeling out patients and transporting the stronger
ones to the Summer Rally in Sidcup Place.