Welcome To Abingdon Royal British Legion Club
We are a friendly club just a short walk from the town centre, opening our
doors to members, families and guests. You don’t need to have
served to join us supporting a great cause and our community
Poppy Appeal
Abingdon’s support for the Poppy is legendary with donations ranging from pennies from a child’s money box to £100 for a single paper poppy.
The Poppy Appeal only runs for two weeks and in Abingdon is organised by our social club. We are a small but determined band of less than a dozen collectors supported by the cadets and veterans.
We collect in all of the major supermarkets in the town and deliver have some 250 boxes to local pubs, schools and shops.
A decade ago Abingdon raised £23,400, last year it was almost £43,000.
On our first day of collecting last year three veterans raised more than £1,400 in eight hours at Tesco Extra. On our final day collecting last year our contactless machines took the same amount.
In a cost of living crisis, some might say this is incredible. Not so for Abingdon.
Abingdon’s generosity to the Poppy is legendary. Humbling, sometimes heartbreaking but always amazing.
Contact us on abingdon.poppies@gmail.com if you’d like to join our team.
