Members News

This years Swift Group Rally at Driffield held a sponsored Race Night, a raffle and an auction for the benefit of Macmillan Cancer Support. A total of £1874 was raised and will be presented to the charity in June. The Rally Marshals would like to thank all the ralliers for their generous contributions to this very successful rally. They would also like to give special thanks to all those companies that donated many great prizes for the raffle and auction.

Marshals: Frank & Joan Rostron, Keith & Jenne Essam

The minutes of a special meeting arranged in February for the ‘Clarification & Agreement of Signatories for Banking Purposes’ are now online.

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The reports from the Secretary, Treasurer and Rally Secretary presented at the February meeting have been appended to the minutes published on 3rd April 2023.

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We would love you to join us at this Rare Breeds Farm (with EHU) which was originally an Easter rally.

Very sadly, due to extreme weather conditions leaving the entire farm virtually waterlogged and after detailed discussions with the Site Owners and their team and taking into account the weather forecast for that area on Thursday and Friday, we have had no alternative but to cancel Rally No:11 over the Easter weekend.

Marshals details and rally location can be found on page 32 of your Rally Book under the originally planned rally.

Many of those originally booked for Easter have transferred to the new dates. However there are a few vacancies left so please  contact us ASAP if you would like to join us.

Keith and Jenne Essam, Dave and Karen Timothy

The DRAFT Minutes of the Committee Meeting of 25th February are now online. See on the General Information page.

Now that so many service stations have stopped selling LPG, it is becoming increasingly difficult to find where to get cylinders refilled, especially those that are not easily removeable from a leisure vehicle.

I have used the mylpg.eu website or their smartphone app for several years and it has been very helpful here in the UK and abroad. During that time there have been many improvements made and new features added. One very useful facility is to be able to view locations on an interactive map and be able to apply filters to home in on what you require such as Easy Access, Confirmed availability in last 3 months etc.

Recently member Dave Coller contacted the developers suggesting the addition of a filter for locations where the filling of Safefill cylinders was allowed. This filter was added very quickly on the website and works well. (Note that you need to click on the map to activate it and then you can apply filters). As the filters are not very easy to find on a smartphone the developer has it on his To Do Soon list’. In the meantime he has provided a direct link to the map and filters page (https://www.mylpg.eu/stations/united-kingdom/#map) for saving on a smartphone as an icon on the Home Page of your ‘phone for quick access. If you’re not sure how to do that I suggest asking Google.

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An additional rally to the 2023 rally programme has been organised at the Devizes Caravan & Camping Club Site, nr Seend, Wiltshire.

15 Van Limit. Hard standing pitches with 16amp EHU.

Bookings are being taken now. Please see full rally details and information by clicking on the link here.

Colin & Elaine Baker (Marshals)

Please note that the marshals have regrettably had to cancel this rally after several cancellations left them with very low bookings. The rally was no longer viable.

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(Post amended 20/03/23)

Due to various changes of circumstance for several members we have received an unprecedented number of cancellations. Therefore our waiting list has been exhausted.

This is obviously a little late for some to consider but we do now have TWO VACANCIES on the rally. Please contact us asap if you are interested.  

Further details about the rally location can be obtained by clicking HERE.  The site fee for 2 adults and outfit is €518,00. Additional cost for trips as described on the website will be available shortly. 

Please contact Val Brailsford ring/text 07711 263295 or email val@thebrailsfords.com

Holiday Rally Saturday 2^nd September until Saturday 16^th 2023: Camping de la Route d’or, La Fleche France.

A replacement Rally for the one scheduled for Monsoreau site has now been arranged subject to our visit to make the final arrangements that is planned for during May. Currently we have sufficient support for the Rally to ahead. We can now go ahead and advertise the Rally for the membership.

The site at La Fleche is where the Club held a previous rally back in 2011. It is an attractive site, a relative short distance from the one originally planned for this year with many attractions nearby, Le Mans and their Motor Museum, Anger with their famed liqueur distilleries, the Loire river with their famous Chateaux, Saumur with their famed Horse riding school and many attractive Towns. The site can be viewed on their website “ Camping Municipal la Route de Or”.

We realise this is a late commitment that has been caused by us not being able to communicate with the site during the winter months. We have been able to obtain a price for pitches to include electricity at £210 based on an exchange rate of 1.12 to the pound for the 14 nights that does represent very good value. This of course could alter to the rate applicable at the time transfers are made. There will of course be some content for the rally and the extra cost given on our return that will depend on what we can arrange on our visit.

Last year the prices for Ferry crossings were very competitive on the DFDS Newhaven to Dieppe route and that does appear to be favourable with our enquiries made recently, worth a try !.

We plan to limit the rally to 20 units and would be pleased to hear from you to register an interest as soon as possible in order that we can reserve sufficient number of pitches on our visit.

Please contact us as you wish, by e-mail ronward3@outlook.com, 01767 681920 or mobiles 07801 341406 or 07944 766917

Ron and Maureen Ward