Bristol, Bath & Cotswolds area meets and events

[Paul Baker - Bristol Bath and Cotswold AO]

Firstly, a big thanks to @Chris Broster  for all his efforts in recent years, both in our area and beyond for the club. With Chris' time taken up with other things, including an ambitious rebuild of his car, it gives me the chance to become AO for the area. So, three and a half years after building my first Westfield I'm looking forward to taking on the challenge and getting more involved with the club. And thinking about our area, Bristol & Bath is a great city region, but we also have the fabulous Cotswold area on our doorstep and it's my favourite go-to place for run outs, so we're changing things up slightly and combining into a new area - Bristol, Bath & Cotswolds - a slightly bigger patch with a lot more opportunity for adventure. 

 

I'm open to any and all suggestions for activity so please post here or drop me a line with any ideas. I try to be fairly active and I'm usually out in the Westfield for a blat most weekends, although I do hibernate and sorn over winter, emerging at the start of March. I propose to collaborate closely with Kitnet (www.kitnet.uk) who are a national kit car club but with their base in Bristol, and I know quite a few local members are already part of both clubs. Kitnet are a friendly bunch and they already organise evening meets and various activities across the wider south west patch, so I'll be bringing the clubs together and signposting to the Kitnet events too. My thanks to the chiefs at both clubs for readily agreeing to this mutually beneficial approach. 

 

I'm looking forward to being at lots of events throughout the year - but it would be great to get a regular monthly meet going. My initial thought is to organise morning run outs, perhaps something on the first weekend of each month. Let me know if you'd be up for that and I'll look to get the first one organised. I will then complement that with everything else that's happening. I've got a couple of events that I'm already looking at in April and May so will also post about those separately.

 

Roll on spring and some good weather! 

 

Cheers all, Paul.   

[Stuart Davis AO - Devon Cornwall & Somerset]

Nice one Paul, I’m sure you will do a great job 👍👍

 

Would be great to link up with you whenever possible and perhaps for a mega convoy up to Malvern? We have a few northern Somerset members who may well find it easier to join some of your drives so I’ll point them your way if you post up about them 👍

[Paul Baker - Bristol Bath and Cotswold AO]

Thanks Stu, appreciate that, would be great to link up whenever we can.

And you’re on for the Malvern Mega convoy! Enjoyed the chance to join you guys last year.

[Stuart]

@Paul Baker - Bristol Bath and Cotswold AO great idea to combine areas - typically I just moved from the Cotswolds to Hampshire though....... 

[Flying Carrot Steve]

6 hours ago, Paul Baker - Bristol Bath and Cotswold AO said:

Firstly, a big thanks to @Chris Broster  for all his efforts in recent years, both in our area and beyond for the club. With Chris' time taken up with other things, including an ambitious rebuild of his car, it gives me the chance to become AO for the area. So, three and a half years after building my first Westfield I'm looking forward to taking on the challenge and getting more involved with the club. And thinking about our area, Bristol & Bath is a great city region, but we also have the fabulous Cotswold area on our doorstep and it's my favourite go-to place for run outs, so we're changing things up slightly and combining into a new area - Bristol, Bath & Cotswolds - a slightly bigger patch with a lot more opportunity for adventure. 

 

I'm open to any and all suggestions for activity so please post here or drop me a line with any ideas. I try to be fairly active and I'm usually out in the Westfield for a blat most weekends, although I do hibernate and sorn over winter, emerging at the start of March. I propose to collaborate closely with Kitnet (www.kitnet.uk) who are a national kit car club but with their base in Bristol, and I know quite a few local members are already part of both clubs. Kitnet are a friendly bunch and they already organise evening meets and various activities across the wider south west patch, so I'll be bringing the clubs together and signposting to the Kitnet events too. My thanks to the chiefs at both clubs for readily agreeing to this mutually beneficial approach. 

 

I'm looking forward to being at lots of events throughout the year - but it would be great to get a regular monthly meet going. My initial thought is to organise morning run outs, perhaps something on the first weekend of each month. Let me know if you'd be up for that and I'll look to get the first one organised. I will then complement that with everything else that's happening. I've got a couple of events that I'm already looking at in April and May so will also post about those separately.

 

Roll on spring and some good weather! 

 

Cheers all, Paul.   

 

Great job Paul! Catch up soon mate with luck

[RobP]

Nice one, Paul.   Let us know when/where the monthly meetings will be.  See you soon!

[Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative]

Thank you to @Chris Broster  and congratulations to @Paul Baker - Bristol Bath and Cotswold AO. It looks like this area is going to be a great place to own a Westfield and it will be wonderful to watch it evolve.

 

Meeting with other club's is an excellent idea, I combine my WSCC events with meets put on by the local car museum, of which we are members of also.

 

Look out for Paul's car on your WSCC calendar for February (tomorrow), I had a peek earlier today👍

 

We should also very soon have an AO for not only the North East but also Scotland, so there is everything to look forward to as we all emerge from the winter hibernation.

 

Great news.

[SXRORY]

My first suggestion for a meet should be a "fill Rory's car with petrol meet". Everyone chips in a fiver and watches me fill up with v- power then we go for a drive. I think it could work 😋 

 

Morning weekend meets work for me Paul. I think you will be great for the area and I will try and get to as many as i can. And Thanks to Chris for all your efforts. Hope to see the zetec of doom soon!  

[Paul Baker - Bristol Bath and Cotswold AO]

Well I did say I was open to all ideas @SXRORY !

 

I can picture it in my mind now - fill Rory’s car with V-power - I get nervous that it’s going to rain again - you give the standard motivational speech that it’ll be fine - then we go for a drive 😂

[Flying Carrot Steve]

 

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[Paul Baker - Bristol Bath and Cotswold AO]

Thanks for all the replies and messages, on here and elsewhere, it’s great to have the support. Here’s some plans for the year ahead.

Runouts:
Seems like some regular Sunday morning breakfast runouts are the way to go, and I’ve come up with these for 2025:

Sunday 9 March - run to The Classic Motor Hub

Sunday 6 April - run to Five Zeros Supercars

Sunday 4 May - run to Haynes Breakfast Club 

Sunday 25 May - Horton Classic Vehicle Meet and then run to AV8 cafe

Sunday 22 June - run to The Old Prison

Sunday 3 August - run to Baffle Haus

Sunday 14 September - TBC

Sunday 5 October - TBC

I’ll post up the details of each run separately and we can arrange timings and meeting points etc, based on who’s coming.

And as well as the runouts, there’s lots more happening -

 

Track days:

As usual there’s lots of track day activity throughout the year from the group. Castle Combe is our home track and we can often be found there, plus some of us are heading to Llandow, Donington Park and other tracks this year. There is a double-header trip to Anglesey and Oulton Park, and Kitnet also have their annual private charity kit car track day at Castle Combe (jump on to their website for details). I’ll post details of the main events separately.

 

Events:

Malvern of course, joining the convoy as it passes through, and I’m also going to try the new Lincoln show this year. We also have loads of local events and meets, again I’ll post these up separately when we get involved. One local event is the Cotswold Barn car and bike evening meet, which happens monthly, and I’m planning for the first one on Wednesday 2 April.

 

And probably more that I’ve forgotten to mention!

 

[kik1.6se]

Im in South wales. I’ll try and get to some of the Sunday meets if I can.  Which baffle haus are you thinking about? Abergavenny or The one near cowbridge?

[Paul Baker - Bristol Bath and Cotswold AO]

Thanks @kik1.6se, would be great to see you at some of the meets.

 

For the Baffle Haus trip in the summer, happy to go to either one. I've been to the Abergavenny one a few times before but not tried the other one yet.