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Events: October, 2025 |
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October 2025
Here is a round-up of the events at The Swan during October, 2025.
4th October: Wellness Hub
The Friends of The Swan joined many others at the opening of the Dr Katie Simpson Wellness Hub at Dedworth Medical Centre on Saturday - as a wonderful collection of amazing community organisations came together to promote better wellbeing.
Ian provided refreshments to all who attended with Mirella and Peter engaging with visitors to The Swan stand, handing out flyers showcasing all of the activities happening at The Swan. The visitors were particularly keen to hear about Chatty Café & Epic Thursday with more than twenty of them signing up to The Swan weekly newsletter, to learn more about the warm welcome you get at The Swan. The Friends of The Swan are delighted to help promote this great local initiative.
5th October: AGM
On Sunday, shareholders of the Swan Clewer CIC gathered to receive a presentation of the 2024 Accounts from Will Calvert who confirmed a small profit had been achieved and that the mortgage had been reduced by the planned payment.
There was an update on the past years events from the General Manager, Micky, and Chair of the Friends of The Swan, Anne, as well as a very interesting presentation from Ash Sheehan, Head of the Green Room College, about how beneficial to the students being at The Swan can be with news of George, a student at the College who had recently been hired as bar staff.
Hollie Harrison announced that she will be standing down as Community Director as she has reached the end of her two year term, and advised she was happy to talk to anyone interested in learning more about the role.
Full minutes and slides from the meeting and details of the appointment process for a new Community Director will be made available on the website over the next week or two.
8th October: Quiz Night
The Quiz was a bit of a nail-biter! The Bar Team only went and came out on top – but of course they are not allowed to win! So Desperados and Clewer Clogs battled it out in a tie-breaker.
The Clewer Clogs won the tie-breaker by the narrowest of margins. And then Ray picked his own ticket out of the raffle pot and walked away with a Spirit and Mixer too!!
16th October: Bingo Night
Another great night of Bingo was had by all last night! The Bingo Gods looked down on Sarah who did the triple, winning small and large drinks, and Lorna who scooped the £20 House Jackpot after just joining in the Top of the Bill game at the end of the evening!
Alex
Dawn
Lisa
Lorna
Pablo
Sarah
Vicky
17th October: WHP Big Sleep Out
The Swan team braved the elements last week and bedded down for a night under the stars, as they joined in Windsor Homeless Project's Big Sleep Out. They raised £457.50. Well done, Team!
22nd October: Quiz Night
This week's particularly tough quiz was a bit of a turn up for the books, with Let's get Quizzical, a team of GRC teachers letting their hair down on the last day of term, romping home with the top prize! Katie, from another new team scooped the raffle jackpot of £30! As it's a 5-week month our next quiz is not until Weds 13th Nov, plenty of time to prepare!
23rd October: Surprise Visitor
A lovely surprise today! We've had a visit from Dale who heads up The Great British Pub Crawl. Doing his part visiting every pub in the country and reviewing to keep the pub and hospitality trade alive! Hope you enjoyed your visit Dale.
24th October: Wear it Pink
Friend of The Swan Louise Birch organised a special coffee morning for Wear it Pink Breast Cancer. There was a great turn out and, in all that pink, the pub looked 'fab-u-lous' darling! Thanks to all who baked and ate cake and of course, to David and Ben for having their heads shaved to raise even more money for such a worthy cause!
The total raised so far is a whopping £1,145.
Left over cake was donated to the Windsor Homeless Project at the end of the morning by our super waitress Paige.
October Newsletters
Although our news page has all the newsletters, we thought it might be easier to access this month's ones from here.
- 03/10/2025: Wellness on Tap
- 10/10/2025: Doing what we do best...
- 17/10/2025: Your Chance to Shape the Future of our Community
- 24/10/2025: Frights, Pints and our Halloween Night!
