Dear Members

We held our virtual meeting last night (8^th February) and discussed the ongoing situation with regard to when rallies may commence again.  As promised, an update is provided as below:

Rally Suspensions

Unfortunately, the position has not changed since our last post (13^th Jan) – all Club Sites remain closed – and CAMC HQ advice is still that all Rallies and events would not be permitted and therefore be suspended for the “foreseeable future”.

Some Landowners have already contacted us to advise they will not be opening anytime soon.  We have also spoken to the Rally Officers for March and some April rallies, and the general consensus is that the UK situation is still unsafe – hence requesting their rallies be cancelled.  We have always said that Committee would support such decisions, and with this in mind:

• All rallies and events in February remain cancelled.
• All rallies and events in March are cancelled.
• Rallies 9 (Easter), 10 (Awbridge) and 11 (Little Metlands) in April are cancelled
• Rally 14 (Dornafield) is also cancelled – at request of Site Owner.
• Rallies 12 (East Ashling) and 13 (Stedham) at the end of April/May will be reviewed at 8^th March meeting.

The situation is changing daily but hopefully this gives you some clarity in the short term.

Rally Officer Forum – date change

With the extended rally suspension, and as the date initially chosen we realise now is “Mothering Sunday”, we are rescheduling the Rally Officer part of ROOF to Sunday 11th April at 2.00 PM.

It will still be in the form of a Virtual Zoom meeting for the 2021 Rally Officers.  Email invitations and electronic information Packs will be sent out in the week before the event.  This will hopefully allow us to take the very latest CAMC HQ Covid19 guidelines into consideration.

Rally Bookings

Having listened to member feedback, whilst CAMC have not yet given us permission to rally, we are taking the positive view that we hope to be able to get away in the summer months, so will be releasing the Holiday Rallies for booking online – Bagwell Farm, Weymouth (28) and Rousdon (37).  Please check out the rallies page in the next couple of days.   We hope this gives you the opportunity to plan your holidays in advance.

However, it has been decided that NO further weekend rallies will be released for online booking until CAMC change their advice.

We must reiterate that when further rallies are released, ONLINE BOOKING will be your ONLY way of booking on any rally between June and December.  NO paper slips will be accepted by the Rally Officers – in line with all our previous communications on this matter.   Any attempt 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.

We still believe this gives everyone the same equal and fairest opportunity to book onto the remaining Rallies in thistime of unprecedented circumstances.

Remember – it was the members who asked for online booking!

The vaccine roll out program is a real positive – but until all ralliers have had the choice & opportunity to receive one – there may still be Covid19 Restrictions and social distancing measures in place on any WH Rally. 

However, the opportunity to get away with friends – even at a distance – is still better than we have now.  

Stay Safe.

Graham & Committee

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

Passing of Ann Williams

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 17^th 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 5^th February 2021 at 11,30 AM.

If anyone wishes to send condolences please  contact  secretary@whampshirecc.co.uk  who can pass on Sandra’s address

Your Committee 

January Focus

Dear All

The focus for January has now been published. Please logon to the site, click on the News menu item and then select Focus.

A list showing previous Focus’s is displayed with a link at the top of the page with the current Focus.

Committee

Committee Announcement

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 (5^th Jan) and CAMC Headquarters subsequently informed Centre Committees (6^th Jan) of the Club’s position as below.

Rally Suspensions

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 (11^th Jan), and with the information received from HQ, we decided we would like to give our members some clarification on our Centres position.

• All rallies and events in January and February are cancelled.
• All rallies in March and April (and possibly beyond) will be reviewed at our February meeting – and we will keep Rally Officers affected by this informed of any decisions that are made, before advising the wider membership.

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.

Rally Officer and Open Forum

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.

Rally Bookings

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.

Vacant Committee positions

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