UK South East Annual Brighton Meet 29th May 2016

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Old 06-06-2016, 10:41 AM
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If you have been considering using your PVD valeting & detailing voucher you may be interested in their magazine - please see here: www.pro-valets.co.uk/magazine

If you do decide to grab a copy please make sure you mention JaguarForums.com as if you do grab a copy or two, PVD will guarantee us a quarter page advert for our next event in 2017.

Additionally some good news - Holiday Inn Express Crawley, and ScratchShield have both already said they would like to be involved in next years event :-)


 
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Old 06-06-2016, 11:14 AM
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Please make good use of the discounts that our event sponsors have been kind enough to give us - that way you keep your Jaguar costs down, and we encourage our sponsors to stay with us for next years event - just have a look further up the thread - all the details you need are there.
 
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Just to let you know... One of our event sponsors, Rimmer Bros has a 'Genuine Jaguar Collection Clothing and Regalia Sale' on (surprising what we can set off with our event :-)) so please have a look at Jaguar Collection Blowout Sale and see if there is anything there you might like.. everything imaginable is there..
 
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Does anyone have experience of producing advertising artwork, as we have been offered a 1/4 page advertising slot for free but need to produce the artwork for it by the end of the month in order to take advantage of it.

Could anyone who could help please drop me a line?
 
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Old 06-07-2016, 06:51 AM
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I have just done some basic maths here (trust me it has to be basic lol) and here are the vital stats from our 2016 event:

We achieved......

Our Fifth Ever JaguarForums.com Brighton Convoy & Meet Event
100 Jaguars attended
62 years of Jaguar production were covered
Approximately £500 of Prizes were won, donated by Seven Contributing Sponsors
Our first ever JaguarForums.com Best Turned Out Jaguar award was awarded
Our Forum threads amassed over 98,000 views
Our event Twitter feed 167 followers inc some huge industry names
Our Facebook event page was launched and gained 39 friends

We created, and got to enjoy, our biggest Brighton event to-date. An event that broke all our previous records for this event :-) Huge and massive thanks to all of us - the sponsors to the supporters, the attendees to our advertisers.. thankyou everyone.
 
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Steve from CarSnapped took some superb shots of our event.. here are a few that I especially like:
Please have a look at all Steve's photo's of the day at www.facebook.com/carsnapped :-)
 
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Old 06-08-2016, 04:36 AM
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Prestige Car Care Shop has also come forward saying they would be happy to sponsor next years event... which is great news for us.

I will be looking into alternate venues for next years event, and already have a couple of possible leads for us which may result in a less spread out event, which is always an issue with Madiera Drive, and no parking costs for us. The date is currently set as 29th May 2017.

You will likely get a text from me over the next few days just touching base, checking up on how you feel this years event went for you, and enquiring if you might be interested in next years event - please let me know regarding both :-)

I will update everyone as I go with things, as always via the forums, and our twitter and facebook accounts.. :-)

In the meanwhile please don't forget we have the following discount codes for you to help you keep your Jaguar costs down:

Our event sponsor Furniture Clinic specialise in leather care - something all Jaguar owners can make good use of! They are offering event attendees a great 15% discount on their entire product range. Just use the checkout code 'JagMeet15' to claim your discount.

Wax On Wax Off is offering event attendees a huge 20% off their entire product range! Just log on to Wo Wo online, have a browse through their great range and use the checkout code of 'JAG20' for any purchases.

Prestige Car Care is offering all attendees a 10% discount on their entire product range which includes some superb car cleaning products - to take advantage of this great offer go to Featured Products - Prestige Car Care Shop and use the checkout code 'jags' to get your event attendee discount!

And Scratchshield.co.uk can help you keep your car scratch free for our event with a huge 25% discount using the checkout code ' JAGBRI16'
 
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Old 06-08-2016, 07:49 AM
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OK Guys,

I have been getting text responses, and emails from both sponsors and attendees of this years event all looking forward to next years event so it looks like I have the start of an event again lol

However I am currently mulling over our options - we need to make next years event bigger, and most importantly better for everyone. Where I believe as a whole our past five events have been well received and a good experience for attendees there are things I have been unable to get perfect for everyone, and I would love to try to nail those issues with our sixth event. Namely our issues have been parking, parking costs, and the issue with the cars stretching over too long a section of road for the event to be cohesive..

I am very open to venues and would appreciate any pointers to locations or organisations that may be able to assist us - bearing in mind that not only is this event free to attend, but we have no financial support. The only option for potential sponsors is advertising - which we have done this year, quite extensively, for our sponsors via Twitter, Facebook & the forum threads.

I am also looking at whilst the event needs to remain free to ensure anyone and everyone can attend, it may be worth making a small charge for prize draw tickets on the day, and then using that money to generate cash prizes for attendees on top of the the very kind and generous donations from our event sponsors making the prize draw (which everyone loves) even bigger and better..

Anyone with any thoughts or ideas is welcome to drop me a line via one of the forums, facebook, or even twitter - I am very, very open to suggestions and will follow up on anything that we can possibly integrate into our event to make it even better.
 
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Old 06-17-2016, 05:09 AM
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Just a very quick update - in view of the issues with our Brighton venue I will be moving this event to a new (to be announced in September) venue for next year.

We currently have a number of quite select venues that have said they would be very happy to host our event - spaces may (depending on the venue) be limited so advance booking may be needed to guarantee a slot on what promises to be an even better event than this years!!

So, if you would like to guarantee yourself a slot on our next event please drop me an email, pm, tweet, or facebook msg sooner rather than later, as requests for slots on this more prestigeous event than ever are already coming in! Not only this, but we already have sponsors asking to be involved!! It is set to be a premium Jaguar event, free to sign up for, free to attend, and even free parking for your Jaguar this time!!

Please get in touch if you would like to attend, or get involved with our next event :-)
 
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Hello Steve We both enjoyed this years event and to meet up with so many like minded people so count us in for next year for both Pease pottage and cruise to Brighton,There will be two of us.
Can you send me the link to upload photo's of this years meet
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Hi Steve,
Please count me in for next year (2017).
 
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Hi Roger..

It would be great to be able to add a few more photos to our collection for 2016!

If you or anyone has any photos from our 2016 event they would like to be made available from our event facebook page ( which is at https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...5321488&type=3 ) please email them across to me at JaguarForumsUK@solidlinux.co.uk and I will pop them up there.

This year we have a fantastic collection of photos from our event, including some really great shots, of pretty much everyones car by our official event photographer, CarSnapped.. which reminds me on a tangent lol, I need to see if I can get the video that RevsUK took online there too.
 

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OK everyone.. I will be actively updating this thread until the end of the week, when I should be signed off on everything for this year. At that point I will summarise everything to do with our 2016 event and take a brief look back at what we achieved this year!

We have achieved a lot, for an event that has been running for just three and a half years, and has no financial funding :-)

Just to give you an inkling of things to come - I have been accepting advance bookings from people wanting to attend next years event, and have had a number of locations, and sponsors actively chasing me to work with them.

There are a number of possibilities that I am working my way through, but whichever way it works we will definitely be going up market next year, with a brand new regular venue for our event. This I am hoping will give us a little more swing not just with our current sponsors, but hopefully some new additional sponsors too.

My family, on whom I have depended for a huge amount of support, and a lot of help with things over the past three and a half years, have all agreed that these new potential locations are a huge change and improvement, and will be coming along this time to meet everyone!!

I cannot confirm any specific details 100% at this point, but I know our new look event in 2017 is going to blow the doors off this years event :-) We will have a superb backdrop for photo shoots, coupled with more time onsite, free parking, shopping, location tours and so much more I cannot list yet. All in addition to the usual event features everyone loves so much with the range of Jaguars, socialising, photo shoots, and prize draw!!

Anyone wanting to guarantee their slot in advance, please just drop me a pm, email, or a facebook message, or a good old fashioned tweet.

Please keep an eye on this thread for any latest info between now and the end of the week, and then at the end of the week keep an eye open for the summary for this years event.

Some point shortly after there will be a new thread appearing with all the details of our fantastic Jaguar event for 2017 :-)
 
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Please note Richard Morgan has very kindly passed me his photos from the day, & they are now available on our Facebook event page, and our OneDrive account if you would like to check them out.
 
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Here are Roger Grotes' pictures from our day for you :-) Many thanks to him for some great images
 
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Roger Grote has been kind enough to share some of his photos from the day - please find them below.

Please note that all Rogers images, as well as all the images we have to-date can also be found on our Facebook page, and our OneDrive account if you would like to have a browse.
 
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OK guys, it is official as of now.. hot off the press (or the keyboard) our event has a new venue for next year..

We will be retaining everything from our previous events, but making it a day event rather than it's current half day event format, and scaling things up (again).

We are booked as an official event at Denbies Wine Estate Denbies Wine Estate | A Great Day out in Dorking Surrey for Sunday 28th May 2017. We now have capacity for up to 400 Jaguars in open parking.

As soon as I have more info I will update everyone.
 

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I will be summarising our 2016 event at the end of this week, looking back over our achievements and kicking off the thread for our 2017 event.

Currently we have a brand new, highly recommended, venue in Denbies Wine Estate.. with a capacity for up to 400 vehicles - who would also be very happy to become our long term venue should we wish.

We have 37 people who have made advance bookings for our 2017 event.

We have retained a number of our sponsors, and I am following them up currently, some having already responded positively.

Harwoods Jaguar are currently looking into who we can deal with as a Jaguar representative at the new venue.

So, our Jaguar event is still very much on the move to bigger and better year on year..

Please keep an eye on this thread, and the forthcoming thread for 2017 for all the latest
 
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A quick update for you..

So far we have Autoglym, Scratchshield, Lancaster Insurance, & Rimmer Bros all confirmed as sponsors for our next bigger, and better Jaguar event. Steve from CarSnapped is also hoping to be available for us on the day. I am just waiting on further responses from our other sponsors and current sponsors..

Additionally I am looking into sorting an award plaque or cup (rather than just prizes) for the 'JaguarForums.com Best Turned Out Jaguar' award - which would mean the previous years winner will get to pass the award on to the new winner each year.

You will also get to display it at home for the year as the winner!! Proof to your friends and family that you truly have the best turned out Jaguar :-)
 
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Steve, you really have surpassed yourself with this new venue, and still kept most of the sponsors!


All this within a few weeks of this years event!


Can't wait to see what other rabbits you can pull out the hat in the coming months!
 
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