PAST EVENTS
In case you’ve wondered what the Stag Owners Club has been getting up to this section gives you an insight to the events that we’ve participated in or held on a National level on a year by year basis – starting with the resumption of shows during 2021.
The 2021 AGM Officer Reports
Committee Chairman’s Report for 2021.
What can we say about 2021? Another awkward year for us all for sure. It started badly with Covid horribly rampant. The middle of the year stuttered into some semblance of normality to a small degree and at least we were eventually allowed out.
The committee continued to do what we needed to do via email and a zoom call when it was required. Thankfully, we didn’t have too many contentious issues to deal with. We had started to make plans to start our regular face to face committee meetings again and guess what, Covid had other ideas. The Omicron variant has reintroduced the level of uncertainty again that we could well do without. Once again, our lives are affected and only time and our fantastic medical scientists will tell what lies ahead. A huge thank you to the committee members for continuing to run the club at a distance. The committee is down on numbers, so if anyone out there fancies helping the Club out by volunteering to join the committee, then just let Pat Lewis know please.
The planning of some of our events has been difficult. Silverstone thankfully went ahead but it was in the balance until quite late. This restricted our plans somewhat as we simply could not bring some of the original planned ideas into reality, bearing in mind that the whole event might not go ahead. Despite this and the weather trying it’s best to dampen our weekend, we managed to put on one heck of a show and thank you all for turning up. From comments we’ve had it certainly was an event of a lifetime and it will stick in the memories for a long time to come, not mine, as I have a head like a sieve, round and full of holes. I’ve already given my thanks to all of the helpers, so I won’t go over that again in detail. However, the Silverstone organising committee members and setup/breakdown helpers worked so hard over the whole weekend. We could not have done it without you.
The NEC show went ahead but again under a real cloud of uncertainty. Thanks to Keith and Lynn Bennett for pulling this together for us. It was a very different show with much smaller attendances. However, we got through it unscathed thankfully.
The new website is evolving and will continue to do so as we move forward. I am encouraged to see quite a few areas setting up their own area websites. For the ones who haven’t taken up the challenge yet, have a go, it’s a lot easier than you might think. Just let me know if you want to dip your toes and I’ll set you with access and remember, help is available from myself and Roger Gray.
Who knows what 2022 will hold? Let’s hope it will be an ever-improving situation on the Covid front.
Stay safe everyone and I hope to see as many of you in person as possible during 2022.
Tony Lapworth (Stag Owners Club National Committee Chairman)