All Rally Officers.
Please can you all check your dedicated email addresses. The committee have sent out the proposed draft rallies for 2022.
Please can you reply indicating if you would like to carry on with the proposed dates etc.
Can you send your reply’s to .
Thank you for your co-operation
If you have trouble getting into your webmail, please contact Matt on 07833323992
Thanks, your committee
We sadly have to advise that the Committee have been informed that Ann Williams, wife of the late Donald Williams passed away peacefully at the St Anne’s Nursing Home in Portswood on the 17th January 2021 after a long illness.
Ann and Don were longstanding Centre Members for very many years and were Rally Officers on many happy and enjoyable rallies for the West Hampshire Centre. They are a very sad loss to the West Hampshire Centre. Unfortunately due to their poor health they had not rallied for several years.
The funeral arrangements are in accordance with the Government restrictions and will be held at the South Stoneham Crematorium, Southampton, East Chapel on Friday 5th February 2021 at 11,30 AM.
If anyone wishes to send condolences please contact who can pass on Sandra’s address
Your Committee
Dear All
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Committee
Dear Members
Happy New Year to you All!
2020 was a year most of us would like to forget for obvious reasons but the start of 2021 looks like it’s going to be as challenging. The whole country went into Lockdown 3 (5th Jan) and CAMC Headquarters subsequently informed Centre Committees (6th Jan) of the Club’s position as below.
All Club Sites would be closed and all Rallies and events would not be permitted and therefore be suspended with immediate effect for the “foreseeable future” (with NO cut-off date mentioned).
The Committee held their first Virtual meeting of the year on Monday evening (11th Jan), and with the information received from HQ, we decided we would like to give our members some clarification on our Centres position.
The situation is changing daily and nobody knows what’s going to happen next,but hopefully this gives you some clarity. Ultimately though our future decisions will be dependent on Lockdown Restrictions and when CAMC feel it’s safe to lift rallying suspension because sadly “foreseeable future” could be the whole year.
We are rescheduling the Rally Officer part of ROOF to Sunday 14th March at 2.00 PM.
It will be in the form of a Virtual Zoom meeting with invited attendees only – being the 2021 Rally Officers – and unlike the recent AGM Webinar, participation will be possible on the day. We hope to be in the position to send email invitations out end Feb/early March.
No date has been set at the moment for the rescheduling of the Open Forum (for all members) as the Committee would like to run an actual face-to-face meeting when restrictions are lifted.
If this turns out to be unachievable, we will hold another Virtual Zoom meeting – again with participation by those attending.
Without knowing how long the restrictions will remain, it has been decided that at this moment in time the online booking system will remain static – with no more rallies being released – and this will be reviewed in line with the Rally Suspensions.
Only when rallies are permitted by CAMC and further rallies are released, ONLINE BOOKINGwill be your ONLYway of booking on any rally between June and December.
NO paper slips will be accepted by the Rally Officers – in line with our initial web/Facebook/MailChimp message in December – and this message will be reiterated again at ROOF.
We believe this gives everyone the same equal and fairest opportunity to book onto the remaining Rallies in this time of unprecedented circumstances.
Any attempt since mid-December to “jump the queue” on this process by way of postal or direct email booking or enquiry about joining a waiting list will therefore not be accepted and will be destroyed.
There are still spaces on the Committee, with the Rally Secretary role being one of them. Despite the current situation, we need to be planning the 2022 season rallies as these are the main Centre activities. If you think you could fill this or one of the two other positions please contact any member of the Committee for any advice or a chat. It would be great to have other people on board.
Sadly, the Covid19 Restrictions are not getting any easier and we are still having to send this type of posting, but with the roll out of a vaccine there is hope at the end of the tunnel – although we just don’t know how long that tunnel is.
Best wishes,
Graham & Committee
Edwin known as Eddie to many of our long standing Centre Members joined the Centre in 1970 with his first wife Mary who sadly passed away in 1999. They became Life Members of the Caravan Club which they were very proud of. He attended many Centre rallies over the years as Members and Rally Officers and as a Committee Member for several years. He was always very active and a popular Member on the rally field and was well known for being the Centre’s Auctioneer on all our Charity Rallies and helped raise considerable funds for the charities concerned. He was the proud owner and the envy of members with his superb 3.5 Litre Rover Coupe and his Castleton caravan. He organised Centre rallies and holiday rallies in the UK, Germany and Holland for members and visitors. He was always a feature on the top table of the Burns Night Dinner Dances at Bashley Park. He was quite a character, there was never a dull moment when he was on the rally field. He will no doubt be a sad loss to the West Hampshire Centre, the Caravan Club and now the Caravan and Motorhome Club.
He married Heather in 2001. They rallied when possible until he became unwell and with great regret gave up caravanning in 2005 and had to go into a care home in 2012. Even there he was still trying to organise things !!! One thing for sure is we will never forget our time and rallying with Eddie Bowers.
There are no funeral arrangements at the moment. It will however of course be subject to the current Covid – 19 Government restrictions for funeral arrangements.
If you would like to send your condolences or a card please contact the Centre Secretary at for address details
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