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BRUNTINGTHORPE PROVING GROUND NEWSLETTER October BRUNTINGTHORPE PROVING GROUND NEWSLETTER October 2016 Welcome to the seventh Bruntingthorpe Proving Ground Newsletter, a quarterly newsletter intended as a means of keeping local residents abreast of useful information, particularly information that local residents might find of interest regarding the operation of the proving ground. The intention is to provide regular updates on information that might be of general interest with regards to items such as the operation of the site, or for example, items such as forthcoming events. We do apologise for missing the last Newsletter, but we do hope you enjoy the read this time around! CBI Report The Confederation of British Industries (CBI) issues an annual report featuring companies in both Leicestershire and the East Midlands. The report lists the fastest growing companies and the latest report was based upon 2015 company results. C.Walton Ltd (who own and run Bruntingthorpe Proving Ground) were one of only 55 companies who retained a position in list from last year and we were delighted to find that were on the list at the 20th fastest growing company in the whole of the East Midlands and 4th fastest growing in The new Royal Enfield building is taking shape Leicestershire. We were particularly delighted with this result, given the numerous fantastic companies that we have here in Recent Events Leicestershire. As it’s been 6 months since the last Newsletters, there have been a number of events that we can report back on. The ones NEW R&D AND DESIGN CENTRE reported below represent a small selection of The new R&D and Design Centre for the world some of the events we’ve helped to host: famous Royal Enfield motorcycle company is Road Traffic Accidents – Each year progressing well. The building is actually Bruntingthorpe hosts an event for the beginning to look like a building and it won’t Institution of Traffic Accident Investigators. be long before it is water tight. The This event simulates a number of road traffic construction of the second building to support accidents in controlled conditions using both the new engine testing programmes has also static cars and remote controlled vehicles! just started The event attracts both police and civil accident investigators as well as Bruntingthorpe Newsletter October 2016 representatives from the insurance industry and is the only event of its type in the UK. Pick Everard’s event in full flow Planning meeting – the Harborough District The ‘accident scene’ Council had a requirement for a venue that could accommodate up to 400 people. They needed to host a planning meeting to discuss the application for the Magna Park extension Asian Wedding – Hangar ’42 is an ideal venue and were anticipating a large public gathering. for large gatherings such as Asian weddings. As a result, they needed a larger venue and We’ve now assisted with our largest wedding we were more than happy to step in to assist. to date, with 1,300 guests attending the event Hangar ‘42 proved the perfect venue to host to celebrate the wedding and to take part in such a large event. the dinner. It was quite a sight to have so many people gathered together for a wedding. Our proximity to Leicester makes the facility an attractive proposition for Asian weddings and we are hoping that this event will be one of many such celebrations that we hope to host. Anniversary Dinners – We recently hosted two separate anniversary dinners in Hangar ’42. The first, for Fleckney-based Coba Plastics, was to celebrate their 50 years anniversary and they had approaching 500 people Local Residents participate in the meeting attending. The second, for Leicester based Pick Everard, had closer to 650 people attending. For both of these events we helped New Commercial Vehicle Bodyshop with the organisation and production of the event to help put on fantastic events for both We reported back in December 2015 that we customers. had just completed the construction of a new truck paint shop and we are delighted to report that this facility is exceedingly busy now that it is fully up and running. In the main, this facility is being used to refurbish Bruntingthorpe Newsletter October 2016 construction vehicles that have come to the end of their leases and the owners then commission C Walton Ltd to refurbish the vehicles so that they can either be re-leased to other clients or indeed, sold to private buyers. The Whittle Building in use for a car manufacturer Local Residents Open Evenings There were two local resident evenings held on the 8th and 15th June. The first was specifically laid on for the Gilmorton Women’s Institute and the second was a general residents access evening. Both evenings were very well received. Unfortunately we were too busy to put on another in September as planned so we will be offering more evenings Construction Vehicles lined up for the Body Shop in early summer 2017. Please check the Swift Flash for notifications for future events. Whittle Building Tourism Event The new Whittle Building has opened its doors to customers for the first time for track Bruntingthorpe is on the Market Harborough control, events and test support. Regular tourism steering committee which works to readings of this Newsletter will recall that we encourage both public and business tourism have purchased the ex-Peugeot dealership in the area. It is the hope to increase tourism building from Lutterworth and we have re- so that we can attract more business into the built it on our own site. Whilst there are still a general area around Market Harborough. We few finishing points to be made to the will be hosting the next exploreHarborough building, it has already been used for all Tourism networking event on 27th October manner of applications including events for a 2016 and anyone in the industry are invited to number of the leading vehicle manufacturers. come along and meet and network with We’ve even recently had four times world F1 fellow industry colleagues and learn of the champion Sebastian Vettel using the facility plans that are developing to increase tourism with Shell/Ferrari to film a promotional video! across the area. If you want to attend then please pre-register by following the link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/explore-harborough- tourism-event-tickets- 28249560195?utm_term=eventurl_text Bruntingthorpe Newsletter October 2016 Leicester Mercury Business Awards name. There will be an alternative event that will be run that local residents can still attend, C Walton Ltd, who own and operate the however this event is likely to run by the Bruntingthorpe Proving Ground, were Bruntingthorpe Events team from 2017 nominated and short-listed for one of the onwards. We will report back with more prestigious Leicester Mercury Business details in the next Newsletter so watch this Awards in the category of Small Business of space! the Year. The awards dinner took place on Thursday 21st April at the Platinum Suite, Upcoming Events Leicester and we’re delighted to report that we won! ExploreHarbrough Tourism Networking Event – Thursday 27th October 2016 1-3pm in the Whittle Building Movers and Storers Show – Tues 1st to Wed 2nd November 2016 in Hangar ‘42 Seeing is Believing Exhibition – Wed 9th to Thurs 10th November 2016 in Hangar ‘42 Please note that currently there is potentially a large aircraft landing on Friday 28th October, however this is subject to change. The winning team pick up their award. ‘ASDA Day’ Entrance improvements The ASDA ‘on your marks’ event was held Anyone who passes the entrance to the site successfully yet again on Saturday August 6th. may have noticed that we’ve made the As a lot of you will know as frequent visitors, entrance to the site access road a little wider this event is a charity fund raising event that is in order to accommodate any visiting or aimed predominantly for ASDA employees but exiting vehicles a little better. We’ve also ASDA kindly extended the invitation to worked with the farmer who owns the field members of the local community to attend if opposite the entrance to remove the high you wished. The event had the usual array of hedge and replace it with a low fence. This is funfairs, car passenger rides and air displays intended to improve visibility around what to name but a few of the fun filled activities was fast becoming a blind bend and hopefully that were on offer. these improvements will improve safety for anyone driving along this road. Contact details We do hope that you’ve enjoyed this short insight into the site’s operation and that some of the items have proven to be of interest. If there is anything that you would like to see us report back on in future Newsletters, then please do get in touch and let us know: Crowds enjoy the demonstrations Email: [email protected] The event represented the last time that this Tel: 0116 279 9329 event will be run in this form under the ASDA Bruntingthorpe Newsletter October 2016 .
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