AGM, Gala Dinner & Charity Run: 12/13 March

Keith Williams · Post by **Keith Williams** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 1:00 pm

This is our first “Chairman’s Charity Weekend” and it takes place on the 12th and 13th March.

The weekend is in three parts and you are welcome to join us for any or all of them (hopefully all!).

The weekend starts on Saturday with
The MGF Register AGM & talk at Kimber House which is free,
followed by
The Gala Dinner at the Four Pillars Hotel, Abingdon which costs £26 per person

Gala dinner 2011.pdf: Gala Dinner application form; (229.5 KiB) Downloaded 99 times

The recommended accommodation is the Premier Inn, Marcham Road, Abingdon http://www.premierinn.com/en/checkHotel/ABIOCK/abingdon due to the Four Pillars only allowing a 2 night booking on the weekend.

and on the Sunday we have a
Charity Run in aid of Help for Heroes costs from £20 per car which includes one entry to Blenheim Palace
(additional passenger at the discounted rate of £10.75 for adult, £9.60 for concessionary or £6.20 for child)

Chairmans run 2011.pdf: Chairman's run application form; (325.29 KiB) Downloaded 87 times

Help for Heroes is our charity for 2011.

Please make your donation direct to our charity page for 2011 via https://www.bmycharity.com/V2/MGFRegister2011

Saturday is filled with events starting at 2pm with a talk at Kimber House by Allan Ashenden who worked on Project F alongside Brian Griffin and then led the 2000MY facelift team. This will be a fascinating insight into the development of the MGF by a person who was right in the thick of it. This will be followed by our AGM where you can have the chance to ask questions of the Register. You can also take the opportunity of a tour around Kimber House, the hub of the MG Car Club itself, following the AGM. That’s not it though as in the evening we will be hosting a special gala dinner at the Four Pillars Hotel in Abingdon with our special guest, Ian Pogson, who led the 85th Anniversary TF development team and is now busy bringing us the UK version of the MG6. I’m sure we can persuade him to say a few words after the dinner, I suspect would be harder to stop him anyway!

We wanted a heroic location suitable to reflect our support for the Help for Heroes charity as a destination for our first Chairman's Charity weekend run and what could be more heroic than Blenheim Palace. It’s a real home to heroes from the first Duke of Marlborough to Winston Churchill and there is now a special Winston exhibition at the house. So our Sunday charity run will be a heroic venture indeed and begins in Abingdon early Sunday morning.

The Gala dinner and Charity run can now be applied for via the online shop via the events page http://www.mgfregister.org/shop/10-events
The events have to be booked via separate pages.
The Gala dinner, we have to pay a deposit to the Four Pillars shortly and the full payment needs to be made by early March. The menu choice is on the online shop page.
The additional entrance tickets to Blenheim have to be ordered in advance to allow us to get the group rate.

Booking for the dinner on Saturday evening has now closed.

Post by **colintf** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 5:42 pm

Hi Keith,

what time wil AGm start please and when do you expect the Gala Dinner to end?

thanks

Keith Williams · Post by **Keith Williams** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 5:55 pm

Our provisional weekend itinerary so far is

Saturday
14:00 Gather at Kimber House
14:30 Talk by Allan Ashendon
15:30 MGF Register AGM
16:15 Tour of Kimber House
19:30 Gather at Four Pillars Hotel for Gala dinner at 20:00
21:30 After Dinner Speaker & Auction - Ian Pogson

Sunday
09:30 Gather for Start of Road Run - Abingdon Market Square
10.30 Set off on road run in aid for Help for Heroes
12:30 Arrive at Blenheim Palace

Post by **colintf** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 7:02 pm

thanks Keith

dwkmgf · Post by **dwkmgf** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 9:46 pm

That is looking like a cracking weekend - thanks Keith

Post by **nigelandjo** » Sun Jan 30, 2011 9:43 pm

We'll be there! All booked

sparky135 · Post by **sparky135** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 6:19 pm

Meal and hotel booked.

Looking forward to this.

Stan_B · Post by **Stan_B** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 7:56 pm

We can only do the Sunday, but will book it now. This will be our 2nd ever event in the TF, it has some way to go to catch up the MGB.

Post by **colintf** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 8:06 pm

will we be able to book / pay at the MG Show & Spares Day at Stoneleigh?

I'll be there for the AGM / Meal / Ian's entertaining talk

Keith Williams · Post by **Keith Williams** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 8:32 pm

colintf wrote:will we be able to book / pay at the MG Show & Spares Day at Stoneleigh?

No problem booking at Stoneleigh using a paper application form. Might be worth down loading one just in case we have a mad rush for them at the show. Other than that, the online shop booking is proving a popular way to register at the moment.

Post by **colintf** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 8:42 pm

Keith Williams wrote:
colintf wrote:will we be able to book / pay at the MG Show & Spares Day at Stoneleigh?
No problem booking at Stoneleigh using a paper application form. Might be worth down loading one just in case we have a mad rush for them at the show. Other than that, the online shop booking is proving a popular way to register at the moment.

thanks Keith!

dwkmgf · Post by **dwkmgf** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 10:22 pm

sparky135 wrote:Meal and hotel booked.

Looking forward to this.

Are you booked into the Premier Inn next door?

Keith Williams · Post by **Keith Williams** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 10:41 pm

dwkmgf wrote:Are you booked into the Premier Inn next door?

The recommended accommodation is the Premier Inn, Marcham Road, Abingdon http://www.premierinn.com/en/checkHotel/ABIOCK/abingdon due to the Four Pillars only allowing a 2 night booking on the weekend.

sparky135 · Post by **sparky135** » Tue Feb 01, 2011 6:06 am

dwkmgf wrote:
Are you booked into the Premier Inn next door?

Yep. Premier Inn it is. Unfortunately the Four Pillars don't do single nights over the weekend.

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Post by **TimM** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 5:25 pm

Booked in the Premier - just need to book the dinner and run now !

This will be a good weekend with lots of different things going on. Really looking forward to the two talks particularly

Thanks John & Keith for doing the organisation on the Chairman's behalf !

Keith Williams · Post by **Keith Williams** » Fri Feb 11, 2011 4:15 pm

People registered so far

Gala dinner
TimM & Liz
Michael Ring & 1
Nigel & Jo May
John & Chris Wilson
Jim & Rosmary Mellors
Paul Bridgman
ColinTF
KeithW
Allan Ashenden & 1
Ian Pogson & 1
Pete & Caroline
JonT
_______________________________ Deposit paid for those above this line on 24th Feb 2011.
Please add further names for the dinner below this line.
Dave and Trish
Dave & Carole

Chairman's run to Blenheim
Michael Ring & 1
Nigel & Jo May
Richard Nunn
Jim & Rosmary Mellors
Paul Bridgman
TimM & Liz
Elizabeth Hood
Pete & Caroline
JonT
Ian Quarrington
John Bolt
Dave & Carole
Dave and Trish
_______________________________ Rally plaques ordered. Any extra applicants may not get a rally plaque unless registered asap.
Please add further names for the road run below this line.

JIW9151 · Post by **JIW9151** » Sun Feb 13, 2011 7:09 pm

Sorry folks, unable to attend either day.
Will be in Co. Durham over the weekend, half term for the Grandchildren
Have fun
John Watson

Keith Williams · Post by **Keith Williams** » Mon Feb 14, 2011 12:51 pm

Did a trial run of the run from Abingdon to Blenheim on Saturday and the route is looking good, even if I do say so myself.

The only slight problem was the diversion they have in due to road works taking place. The diversion took us round a more interesting route in the end so that will be in the final run just in case the road works over run.

Post by **colintf** » Mon Feb 14, 2011 12:59 pm

will register up at Stoneleigh on Sunday.

You taking payment by credit cards up there?

Keith Williams · Post by **Keith Williams** » Mon Feb 14, 2011 1:06 pm

colintf wrote:will register up at Stoneleigh on Sunday.

You taking payment by credit cards up there?

Sorry Colin but we not have a credit card facility so would have to use the MGCC one which 'costs us' and we then have to ensure we get the money transferred from their account to ours. An easier to pay via credit card would be through the online shop using Google Checkout (or PayPal) or you can pay via cash or cheque on the day at Stoneleigh.

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