! South Yorkshire Centre Rally Brochure 2017! ! CHAIRLADY’S MESSAGE Welcome to our 2017 rally brochure. This is my first year as Chairlady, Simon and I would like to thank you all for the support and good wishes. We have been rallying for 20 years now and we and our children have enjoyed every year. Rallying is a great social encounter for everyone – young, old and the whole family. If you are new to rallying you will find us friendly and welcoming. South Yorkshire Centre keeps some fine traditions including our Centre Queen and our Carnival Floats of which we are truly proud. The Centre Queen is crowned at our May Day rally and we have three carnival rallies at which we enter a Queen’s float and a South Yorkshire Centre float. You will see in this brochure that we have a wide variety of rallies to offer and I thank all the marshals who work so hard to provide rallies for our enjoyment. I also thank the land owners, site managers and farmers who allow us to use their land and facilities. Please show consideration for their property by noting ‘out of bounds’ areas and follow the centre rally rules with regards to the Red Flag should it be raised. We have a strong and dedicated team of Committee this year and an enthusiastic Youth Committee - all are very keen to help the Centre move forward and continue growing from strength to strength and carry on being ‘simply the best’. Thank you to John Watson, our Rally Secretary, for putting together this brochure. It is difficult finding advertisers in this current climate so please do support them and always mention you have seen their advert in our brochure. Can I ask that you share your photos on our website as we need to keep it looking fresh and informative so that current and new ralliers can see what fun we have. Simply send them to our webmaster – the email address is on the website. May I also urge you to please be mindful of your speed on the rally field. Keep our children safe by keeping your speed to 5mph (walking pace). Finally, Simon and I wish you a safe tow at all times and we look forward to enjoying your company on the rally field soon. Best wishes. Janet Elshaw. 1 THE CARAVAN CLUB – SOUTH YORKSHIRE CENTRE OFFICERS AND COMMITTEE 2016-2017 Chairlady: Mrs Janet Elshaw [email protected] Secretary: Mrs Claire Burgess [email protected] Treasurer & * Mrs Sue Whitby Electrical Equipment: [email protected] Rally Secretary: Mr John Watson [email protected] Vice Chair & Charity * Mr Wayne Langford Co-ordinator: [email protected] Youth Liaison Officer: Mrs Kay Padmore Press Officer & Clothing: [email protected] Carnival Co-ordinator: * Mrs Clare MacDonald [email protected] Carnival Co-ordinator: * Mrs Angela Brierley [email protected] Social Secretary: Mrs Allyson Pearson [email protected] Plaque Co-ordinator Mr Steve Jackson & Sales Equipment [email protected] Quartermaster - Audio, * Mr David Wharin Field & Catering [email protected] Equipment: (* Denotes member of the Charity Sub-Committee) Centre Accounts Auditors: Peach Wilkinson Ltd Website: www.southyorkshirecentre.co.uk Northern Region Council Centre Delegates: Festival of the North Committee Representatives: Mr Janet Elshaw and Mrs Sue Whitby Mrs Janet Elshaw & Mrs Sue Whitby Joint Yorkshire Six Star Representatives: Joint Yorkshire Sports Representatives: Mr Peter Kissack & Mr Peter Barnsley Mr Wayne Langford & Mr David Wharin Previous Chairpersons: 1985 Mr W Emery (deceased) 2000 – 2003 Mr T Webb 1985 – 1988 Mr JA Poppleton 2003 – 2006 Mrs S Moran 1988 – 1990 Mr J Pask (deceased) 2006 – 2009 Mr DE Nortcliffe 1990 – 1993 Mrs EC Betts (deceased) 2009 – 2012 Mrs C Royston 1993 – 1996 Mr C Rennoldson (deceased) 2012 – 2015 Mrs K Williams 1996 – 1997 Mr MD Barrett 2015 – 2016 Mr N Turner 1997 – 2000 Mr M Bateman (deceased) 2 COMMITTEE 2016-2017 Claire Burgess Sue Whitby John Watson Wayne Langford Kay Padmore Clare MacDonald Angela Brierley Allyson Pearson Steve Jackson David Wharin 3 RALLY SECRETARY’S CHARITY CO-ORDINATOR’S MESSAGE MESSAGE Dear Ralliers, Charities 2016 I would like to start by saying a massive thank you to everyone Dear Ralliers who ran or helped to run a rally last year. Your hard work and 2016 was a brilliant year for our three nominated charities commitment gave a great deal of pleasure to a lot of people. and I thank you all for your generosity throughout the year I am also very grateful to those of you who have offered to be helping to raise over £3000. As we go into 2017 we have rally and assistant marshals for 2017. Without your willingness lots of rallies and events planned to help support the three and enthusiasm, we wouldn’t have a rally programme. new charities we will be supporting As you look through this brochure you will see many of your Some of our events are:- favourite rallies and venues are still there but there are also several new ventures. New rally venues always attract a lot of • Charity Race Night rally at Styrrup (end of March) interest so be sure to get your booking slips in as soon as you • Grand Spring Fayre and Raffle at the May Day rally (end can. On the subject of booking slips, I would ask you to help of April) the rally marshals by completing all the sections on the slip – it only takes a few moments to do, but it can save many hours • Duck Race rally at Haxey Quays (mid June) for those doing the planning and organisation. Also, if you • Harvest Festival at Clampit Creek (mid September) have booked onto a rally but find that circumstances change and you can no longer attend the rally, please let the marshals The three charities we are supporting throughout know as soon as possible so that they can offer your place to 2017 are:- members on the waiting list. • Ray Of Hope (Nominated by Joanne Burke) – this is a We will continue to develop the website as a means of sharing Sheffield based charity which is a parent-led support information and advertising events – many thanks to Tim group, supporting families of children with additional Webb for all the fantastic work he has done in this respect. For needs those members who don’t have internet access, you can get • Kimberworth Park Community Partnership (Nominated by details of other centres’ rallies from the Caravan Club rally Sue Whitby) – this Rotherham based charity supports supplement which will be delivered with your Club magazine children with Autism through ‘chat n chill’ groups or you can browse the rally brochures for other centres by letting me know what you would like to look at and I will do • Maltby Hilltop School (nominated by Jackie Greeves) – my best to help. Maltby Hilltop is a special school catering for children with complex and challenging disabilities within Finally, my thanks go to the advertisers who have supported us Rotherham loyally over the years. If you use their services, please let them know you are from South Yorkshire Centre and that we I look forward to another great year and meeting you on appreciate their support. the rally field. Happy rallying! Thank You. John Watson Wayne Langford SPORTS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES. Once again, the energetic members of the South Yorkshire At the Six Star rally, the unstoppable South Yorkshire ‘winning Centre excelled themselves with great performances at machine’ claimed the City of York Trophy for the tenth year numerous events including the May Day rally and the Marton running – a fantastic achievement! Let’s aim to make it eleven Family Fun weekend. in a row in 2017! At the Joint Yorkshire Sports there were some fine individual We still do not have a nominated Sports Officer on the performances and also a tremendous team spirit displayed by committee but we do have many good people who work all those who took part despite there being quite a small together to help our centre to achieve these successes. Our number of ‘vans from South Yorkshire. In 2017, the event will sincere thanks go to all of these people who donate their time, again be held on the weekend after the popular Bakewell energy and enthusiasm to make our rallying experiences more Carnival so we are hoping for a stronger turnout to enable enjoyable. greater success for South Yorkshire members. 4 YOUTH COMMITTEE 2016-2017 Charlotte Wharin Kyle MacDonald Olivia Oxby Emily Drummond (Chairperson) (Vice Chair) (Secretary) (Treasurer) Thomas Atkinson Daniel Langford India Sutherland Charlotte Kensit-Brown (Sports Officer) (Sports Officer) (Committee) (Committee) YOUTH CHAIRPERSON’S MESSAGE Dear Ralliers, My name is Charlotte Wharin and I have been selected to be the new Youth Chair. I have been on the Youth Committee for one year. The 2017 committee has eight members and I would like to introduce them to you: Kyle MacDonald, Emily Drummond, Olivia Oxby, India Sutherland, Daniel Langford, Thomas Atkinson and Charlotte Kensit-Brown. The new Youth Committee will be helping to run two rallies next year, the Youth Rally at Clumber Park in the summer and the AGM rally. I will also be asking rally marshals if it is possible for us to run the tuck shop, bonus ball and sporting activities (weather and space permitting) as well as any other jobs the Youth Committee can help with. I would like the Youth Committee to get more involved with the Kids’ Club as well. There are going to be some great rallies planned for this next year and I hope to see our Members and their families joining us.