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Whilst Ladies Circle is a modern, forward thinking, young women’s organisation we’ve been around for nearly 75 years!
Our origins are with the young man’s organisation Round Table. Circle was originally founded as a social group for the wives of Tablers.
Bournemouth No 1 circle founded in 1932 and it’s still going strong! Eight more circles followed in 1936 in Manchester, Hastings, Liverpool, Doncaster, Middlesborough, Wolverhampton and Southampton.
In 1947 Circle started to spread internationally with Great Britain & Ireland (GB&I) helping to set up Circles in Denmark & Sweden. This lead to the founding of the Ladies Circle International organisation in 1958 to bring together Circlers from across the globe.
The 1950’s lead onto Circle adopting Imperial Cancer Research as our national charity, Imperial is now known as Cancer Research UK.
In the 1990’s the organisation opened up its membership to all women. Whilst acknowledging the roots of our organisation and still being part of the Round Table family (Round Table, Tangent & 41 Club), Circle is now a unique, organisation open to ALL women aged 18-45.
So arrives the noughties!! Janie Lee Grace joined us in 2006 as our patron, over 250 groups nationally, a thriving membership and thousands of women enjoying the fun and friendship Circle has to offer. Come and join us...
National Association of Ladies Circles Aims & Objectives:
- To extend friendship locally, nationally and internationally
- To promote NALC to eligible women
- To assist in the formation of new Circles
- To support all Circles to help them grow
- To be of service to the community
- To work side by side with all members of Round Table, 41 Club and Tangent
- To conduct the business of the Association in order to promote goodwill between Circles, Areas and the National Association
- To provide a varied programme of meetings and sociable activities throughout the year
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