Members News

A new section ‘AGM 2022 Rally Information’ has been added to this home page to link you to regular updates on the forthcoming AGM and the postponed Club’s 50^th Anniversary Celebrations. This new section also shows the date of the latest update so you can see at a glance if there are any recent ones that you may not have seen.

New updates will be added regularly to keep you up to date with any important information and what’s planned for our special AGM Rally. Details of the planned entertainment and more will follow soon.

If you haven’t booked already, please see the following section. It’s quick and easy to book online and the organisers appreciate early bookings.

See you there, Webmaster

Please be aware that the dates shown for the 2023 Loire Rally in the Rally Book are incorrect, it should be 3rd to 17^th September 2023, as shown in the latest edition of Going Places.  We are still awaiting the updated prices which will be published with a booking form as soon as they become available.

Alan & Carol Druce, Marshals

Please note: Bookings for this rally opened yesterday (13/3/2022) and the rally is now full with several on the waiting list.

Val & John Brailsford, Marshals

The club urgently requires a Minute Secretary to record and produce the minutes of the club’s committee meetings including the AGM.

If you are a good listener and note taker or you are interested in the role, please contact me, the Club Secretary as soon as possible.

My details are in the front of the rally book. I look forward to hearing from you.

Elaine Baker, secretary@swift-owners-club.com

If you have a caravan or motorhome with a Dometic fridge fitted as standard and your outfit was purchased new after 1st May 2019, you will qualify for a free visual health check at the AGM Rally in May.

This can be done without you being present as it is performed via the external vents. If there is an issue with your fridge then it is preferable that a specific Friday slot will need to be allocated to you. The engineers will be onsite Friday and Saturday. Older fridges can be serviced but will incur a charge of £30.00.

The health check must be pre-booked, and the appropriate form completed. Please apply at fridgeservice@swift-owners-club.com and I will email the form to you for completion. All forms must be returned to me no later than the 4th of April 2022.

Val Brailsford

Just a quick reminder to keep your eyes on the Latest Rally News on this page.  It is updated regularly as marshals pass information to me regarding their rally. It has been updated today and now contains information posted for 16 future rallies.

Any rallies in the Members’ Rally Programme shown in RED will have news items in there. To save you searching, there is also a link you can click on in the Latest Rally News section of this page to see the list of rally numbers with at least 1 news item posted.

Latest news items appear first but you can also change the sort order to group any multiple entries for a rallies. The latest entry for each group will again appear first so you can follow the thread of notices.

Hopefully you will find this useful to keep up to date.

Webmaster

The Spring 2022 Edition of our magazine Going Places is now online to view or download. Access is by clicking on the magazine image on the General Info page. Webmaster

If you are intending to visit the Caravan, Camping and Motorhome Show at the NEC (22nd-27th February), please note that tickets seem to be selling fast and Saturday 26th is now SOLD OUT.

You can still obtain online tickets for the other days at the moment via https://caravancampingshow.seetickets.com/tour/the-caravan-camping-and-motorhome-show

I assumed it was pre-booking only as a way of limiting numbers but that’s not been well publicised. After much searching I eventually found a statement near to the link to buy tickets on the ccmshow.co.uk website:
Please note: Tickets will NOT be available to buy in person on the ‘gate’ – online sales only (subject to availability)

I thought this was worth mentioning to members, but I’m not sure now whether the sell-out for the Saturday is just a glitch in the booking system as there’s lots of conflicting information on the associated websites. I found statements that tickets purchased for a particular day can be used on any day that week and that you can pay at the door!

If you don’t already have tickets you need to do more research. I don’t recommend buying tickets for one of the available days and then turning up on Saturday or just arriving with cash.

Webmaster

There may be some of you who think you are on the interested list for the 2023 rally but are not.

Please be aware that if you have not received an email from me in the last few days then you are not on the list.

Details of the rally can be found in your Rally Book and on the website (Rally Info/Overseas Rallies)

Please email me asap if you wish to be added to the list. You will then receive details of the booking procedure which will commence at a given date and time in March.

Val Brailsford

val@thebrailsfords.com