DIDCOT’S United Service Association has celebrated signing up its 200th member with a lunch in King Alfred Drive Community Centre.
The organisation, which was set up in 1991, arranges social activities for former members of the three armed services and others who have not had a connection with the military.
It also runs a welfare scheme to help ill and elderly members get to hospital when they need it.
David and Pat Baldwin, of Edinburgh Drive, became the 200th and 201st members of the social group.
The couple, who moved to Didcot from West London a year ago, joined the club to make new friends in the town.
Mrs Baldwin, 62, said: “We wanted to be not too far from London and able to still go back to see friends, but it’s too busy up there really. We wanted the quiet life. The club was very good to us and very welcoming, and we’ve booked a holiday with them to the Isle of Wight next year.”
In 1999, the club leased and refurbished the former doctors’ surgery in King Alfred Drive to convert it into its headquarters. Annual membership is £3.
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