Wokingham Catenians, Wokingham (2026)

01/09/2026

**🍂 September is Jam-Packed with Wokingham Catenians Events! 🗓️✨**

Autumn is just around the corner, and our social calendar is officially in overdrive! From sold-out cultural feasts to golf greens, curry nights, and theatre trips, there is something happening every single week - have a look:

Take a look at what we've got lined up this September:

🇳🇬 4th Sept | Nigerian Evening with President Nickson

(Sold Out!) An incredible night of authentic cuisine and hospitality awaits those who bagged tickets early.

🎭 10th Sept | Theatre Trip: The Comedy About Spies

(Sold Out!) A full house for an evening of espionage-fuelled laughs.

🎓 14th Sept | President’s Out-Visit to Oxford Circle

(Members-only) Our brothers head on the road to visit our friends in Oxford.

🍛 18th Sept | Post-Summer Bangla Night

👉 Register Now! The classic pub-to-curry pipeline is back. Delicious food, cold drinks, and top-tier conversation.

⛳ 24th Sept | Founder President’s Annual Golf Day

🏌️‍♂️ Golfing guests warmly welcome! Grab your clubs and join us on the fairways for some friendly competition and silverware hunting.

🍻 25th Sept | Last Friday Pub Meal

👋 Open to all! Our regular end-of-the-month social. If you’ve ever wanted to drop by, meet the group, and share a pint, this is the easiest way to do it.

👗 28th Sept | September Ladies' Night Meeting

❤️ A brilliant evening! Our monthly gathering where we welcome our wonderful wives and partners. A fantastic opportunity for newcomers and couples to get to know our community.

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🎟️ Want to join us?

Spaces fill up quickly, so be sure to book your spot for the open events through our Circle calendar:

👉 Register here: https://buff.ly/aSCMb1c

Come along, get involved, and make the most of September with us! 🍻🎉

26/08/2026

**🎉 Member Number 72 Has Officially Landed! (And He Can’t Escape!) 🎉**

On Monday night, the Wokingham Catenians reached a fantastic new milestone as we officially welcomed our 72nd local member, Clive Sirju! 🤝✨

Literally every single brother present gave Clive the warmest of welcomes into our merry band of friends. Naturally, in true Wokingham Catenian tradition, we completely failed to take a single photo. That means Clive gets away without any embarrassing photographic evidence of his initiation… for now. 📸🙈 Instead, all you're getting is a celebratory number '72' in a green that is somewhere near our Catenian logo green (no, it isn't!) - deal with it!

However, we do have his signature locked firmly in our membership book, so there is officially no escaping us now! 📝🔒

Joking aside, we are absolutely thrilled to welcome Clive to the Circle. We already know he is going to be a brilliant addition to our community, our parish life, and our general antics.

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🥩 In other breaking news from the evening...

Rumour has it there are no longer any cattle, pigs, or chickens left anywhere in the Royal County of Berkshire. We appear to have consumed all of them during our epic post-meeting August BBQ buffet! A massive thank you to the chef and team at East Berkshire Golf Club for feeding us so royally! 🍔🍗🔥

Welcome aboard, Clive—here’s to faith, friendship, and many more feasts together! 🍻🙌

Do you want to become number 73 in the Wokingham Catenians? Find out more about us at: https://buff.ly/u1wT9k1

24/08/2026

**“I was a stranger and you welcomed me” — Faith in Action with the Catenian Bursary Fund ❤️🇬🇷✨**

The Catenian Bursary Fund is a national charity very close to our hearts here in Wokingham. Its mission is simple yet powerful: to help young Catholics step out into the world, put their faith into practice, and serve communities in need.

A wonderful new story has just been shared about Maria Rozycka, who received a Bursary Award presented by Gerry McCormack and John Sharkey at Our Lady of Fatima in West London. The grant helped part-fund Maria’s four-week volunteering trip to the island of Le**os in Greece with Movement On The Ground (MOTG).

Maria spent her time supporting refugees who were waiting through long, uncertain months for their status decisions. Instead of just standing by, she got directly involved:

🇬🇧 Teaching English & Interview Prep: Helping refugees write CVs and prepare for job interviews so they can build an independent future.
👶 Practical Support: Babysitting children so mothers could attend essential vocational training.
🤝 Being a Welcoming Presence: Offering genuine friendship and dignity to people in their most vulnerable moments.

One of the most moving parts of Maria’s journey was attending Mass at Our Lady of the Assumption Church in Le**os—worshipping side-by-side with both the local Greek community and refugees. As Maria beautifully put it, it was a living reminder of the universal Church and Pope Francis’s words: *“Each stranger who knocks at our door is an opportunity for an encounter with Jesus Christ.”*

Stories like Maria’s are the exact reason why Catenians across the country continue to champion and support the Bursary Fund.

👉 Read her full report here: https://buff.ly/jPSlajx

Do you know an active young Catholic (aged 16–24) planning a voluntary project or pilgrimage to help others? Point them towards the Catenian Bursary Fund—we’re here to help make these journeys possible! 🌍🙌

18/08/2026

**“Age is only a hurdle to be overcome!” 🏃‍♂️💨✨**

While we love shouting about our local Wokingham members, today we are proud to share a truly inspiring challenge from our wider national Catenian brotherhood!

Meet Roger Lillie from Southampton Catenians. In his 80th year, Roger has decided to lace up his trainers and take on the 2026 Great South Run!

Despite not running a marathon in over two decades (and admitting he was hopeless at P.E. in school!), Roger is proving that age is no barrier when it comes to supporting great causes. He is raising vital funds for two fantastic charities:

🌻 Mountbatten Hampshire: Providing essential, 24/7 palliative and end-of-life care to over 2,000 local people and their families every day.
🎓 The Catenian Bursary Fund: Supporting young Catholics as they head out into the world on volunteering and charity projects to help others.

Roger's reasons? To help those in need, smash a personal challenge, and defer old age for as long as possible! 👏

# # # How You Can Support Roger:

👉 For Mountbatten Hospice:
Donate via his link: [https://buff.ly/hsgwwJe](https://buff.ly/AWLZyfs) *(or scan the QR code below!)*

👉 For the Catenian Bursary Fund - This one's probably more useful for Catenian members:
* Bank Transfer: Catenian Association Bursary Fund
* Sort Code: 08-92-99
* Account: 68346191
* Ref: GSR - [Your Catenian No.]
* More info: https://buff.ly/q7ts322

Let’s get behind Roger and show the strength of our Catenian community! Best of luck, Roger—we're all cheering you on! 🦁❤️🙌

17/08/2026

**Pétanque, Prizes, and a Solar Eclipse! 🌘🥇🍷**

Last week, our brilliant friends from the Reading Catenians invited Wokingham over for their annual Pétanque tournament, and what an unforgettable evening of sport, silver boules, and celestial wonders it turned out to be!

As if the fierce competition wasn't enough drama, the match coincided with the solar eclipse. If you take a look at the photos, you’ll spot an almost eerie, otherworldly glow in the evening sky—the perfect dramatic lighting for some high-stakes precision throwing! 🔮✨

A massive congratulations to Derry Ferguson from Reading, who mastered the terrain and took home the title as overall tournament winner! 🍾👏 (We’ll let Reading take the bragging rights on this occasion, but we’re already planning our tactical comeback).

Win or lose, the best part of the evening came afterwards: gathering together around the table for a fantastic shared meal, plenty of laughs, and the wonderful inter-Circle fellowship that makes nights like this so special.

A huge thank you to Reading Circle for being such exceptional hosts. Check out the photos below for the medals, the celebratory hugs, the intense concentration faces, and that strange eclipse light! 👇📸

13/08/2026

**Sausages, Sunshine, and Zero Pretension: Join Us for Our August BBQ Meeting! 🍔🔥☀️**

Let’s be honest: when the summer sun is beating down, nobody wants to sit through a stuffy formal dinner in a tight suit.

That’s why our upcoming August meeting on Monday, 24th August is officially the most laid-back, highly anticipated gathering on our calendar. We are ditching the heavy formal meals and our friends at East Berkshire Golf Club are firing up the grill for our legendary Summer BBQ Buffet! 🥩🌭

If you’ve been curious about what the Wokingham Catenians are all about, this is without a doubt the absolute best night to come along and test the waters.

Here is what you can expect:
☀️ Maximum Relaxation: It’s mid-August, it’s bound to be warm, and we will be at our absolute most relaxed. Think cold drinks, good food, and zero fuss.
🍔 The BBQ Feast: A proper spread of grilled delights, cold salads, and second helpings (because we are purely dedicated to "supporting local catering," of course).
🤝 Zero (well let's go with 'Near-Zero', you never know what our President has in store) Stuffy Speeches: A room full of local Catholic men who don't take themselves too seriously, enjoying top-tier banter, catching up on parish life, and welcoming new faces.

We like to think we’re a fairly good bunch, but we promise nobody here thinks they’re royalty—just ordinary guys looking to build strong friendships, support our faith community, and enjoy a proper meal together.

If you are a Catholic man in the Wokingham area looking for a warm, supportive network of friends (and a very good excuse to avoid cooking on a Monday night), we would love to save a plate for you!

👉 Want to come as a guest? We need to give the grill masters an accurate headcount, so if you'd like to join us on the 24th, drop us a direct message or register via our link page below:

🔗 Register as a visitor: https://buff.ly/PvSj7Sb or drop us a message!

Come for the burgers, stay for the brotherhood! 🍻✨

11/08/2026

☀️🌑 BREAKING: Darkness Is Coming to Wokingham Tomorrow... And We're Not Talking About the Weather 🌑☀️

Yes, you read that right. Tomorrow, the Moon is going to photobomb the Sun in a partial solar eclipse, and for a few minutes, Wokingham will experience something dramatic, mysterious, and slightly unsettling.

Sound familiar? 👀

That's basically what happens every time someone visits their first Catenian meeting. One minute you're going about your normal life, wondering vaguely what a "Catenian" even is. The next — BOOM — you're eclipsed by good company, great food, and an alarming number of raffle tickets.

But here's the thing about eclipses: the darkness never lasts. 🌗➡️☀️

Because after the shadow passes, you find yourself blinking in the light, surrounded by new friends, wondering why on earth you waited so long to come along.

So consider this our celestial sign: if you've been sitting in the dark wondering whether there's a place for you in a warm, welcoming Catholic men's fellowship... maybe it's time to step into the light. ✨

(Also, please don't stare directly at the sun tomorrow. We can't help you make good decisions about that — but we can absolutely help with the Catenian thing.) 😄

👉 Curious what a Catenian evening actually looks like? Look us up online and join our August meeting: https://buff.ly/RpQVYIv

10/08/2026

🇳🇬🔥 A Taste of Nigeria Comes to Wokingham! 🔥🇳🇬

One of the best things about being part of the Catenian family? You never know what's coming next on the social calendar — and this one is special.

Our President Nickson is bringing a little piece of home to us, hosting a Nigerian Evening in his garden, complete with a cosy fire pit to keep us warm under the stars! 🔥✨

On the menu? Get ready for:
🍛 The legendary Nigerian jollof rice
🍗 Stewed grilled chicken
🍠 Boiled yam and stew
🥟 Puff puff
🍌 Fried plantain
🥗 A fresh veggie mix

And to wash it all down — Nigerian Guinness, Supermalt, and Nigerian Fanta will be flowing! 🍹

Best part? Whatever's left after costs goes straight to President Nickson's chosen charity — great food, great company, and giving back all in one evening.

This is exactly the kind of evening that makes being a Catenian so special — good food, warm friendships, and a real sense of togetherness. 🙌

This is a members' event, but if this sounds like the kind of community you'd love to be part of, drop us a message to find out more about joining the Wokingham Catenian Circle!

Or look us up online: https://buff.ly/RpQVYIv

04/08/2026

**👀 We Promise We Didn’t Write It (Which Explains Why It's So Calm) 😉⛳**

Remember when we got a little bit excited about absolutely dominating the Province 8 Golf Day at Sonning Golf Club recently? Well, the official report is now live on the Thames Valley Catenians website!

Oddly enough, the regional report is written in a much more... neutral
tone. We can’t quite put our finger on it, but they don't seem quite as thrilled as we were about Wokingham marching off with almost all the silverware! 🏆🏆🏆 (Can't think why...)

That said, it’s a brilliant recap of a fantastic day out, and more importantly: they have all the photos we couldn't get our hands on! 📸

If you want to see standard-setting golf swings, serious concentration faces, and a few snap shots of us actually looking like competent sportsmen, go check out the blog!

👉 Read the full story and browse the photo gallery here:
🔗 [https://buff.ly/eSXyhZt](https://buff.ly/eSXyhZt)

03/08/2026

**💻 The Computers Have Arrived! (Yes, We’re Finally Done Talking About It!) 💻**

If you followed us over the last Catenian Year (up to April), you’ll know we talked about our President’s Charity… a lot. In fact, if you got slightly tired of hearing about how we raised around £6,500 for the Corpus Christi Africa Fund, we completely understand and humbly apologize! 🙈

But we promise there was a point to all our noisy fundraising: that money was never destined for a generic pool of funds. It was raised for a very specific mission—equipping a brand-new computer lab so students can learn modern digital skills and prepare for their futures.

And today, we finally get to show you the actual fruit of all that effort! 🥳

The computers have been bought, delivered, and fully installed in the lab at Our Lady of Nazareth school, and the students are already using them. The Marinist Brothers who run the school were even kind enough to put up a plaque dedicated to our Circle (we promise we didn’t demand one, but we're certainly not hiding it!).

It’s rare for us to blow our own trumpet, but as a collective group, we’re feeling just a little bit proud today. Seeing the real-world impact of what we can achieve when we pull together gives us a huge boost.

Even better? The story doesn't end here! Our local member Martin Robins has recently taken on the role of Provincial President (which is just our overly formal Catenian way of saying "Temporary Regional Bigwig"). He’s chosen to keep the momentum going by adopting the Corpus Christi Africa Fund as *his* charity of the year too!

Check out the photos below (and the link to the video!) to see the new lab in action. Thank you to everyone who bought a raffle ticket, made a donation, or simply put up with our endless updates—you helped make this happen! ❤️👏

🔗 **Video Link:https://buff.ly/uVZ2DjL

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