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Originally Posted by Sally
These are just my comments/observations from an outsider to the club, hope to make it as constructive as I can!
Trade stands - the one my car was on (Kudos) had a fair amount of sales, think Andy was happy anyway, I reckon it was the IQ pulling in the punters but thats just me bigging myself up haha! Could have done with a few more I suppose, maybe Saj at JPP might want a stand next year if he hasnt got any other prior arrangements? I heard that some traders didnt bother coming I dont know if thats true or not, but in future you could charge them say for example £20 non refundable pitch fee, so if they dont turn up you still have the money. If they really didnt make any money then you could always refund this at your discretion
The cafe was ok, they do an amazing choc cake! but bit disappointed they didnt have burgers, and it was a 20 mins wait for chips so didnt get any hot food. Although I know there were complaints about the burger van last year so not sure what else you guys coulda done! Maybe you could have had an ice cream man come along?
As for the show, I think its great value for money seeing as its a fiver to get entry and that includes the actual Bentley Museum and Grounds, I did speak to a couple of people that said they just walked straight through though, dont know if they slipped through the net?
Overall I enjoyed the day, the weather was great and great company too!
Some ideas for next time, maybe some sort of raffle, you get a ticket when you pay at the gate and the traders could donate something towards this, maybe also invite a magazine along to cover the event, were there awards at this one? Maybe have a peoples choice award for the car that the public most liked, ballots with the reg number in a box sort of thing just to get the public more involved?
Just my 2p but looking forward to next years, I love it that its 5 mins from my house! Keep up the good work all involved!
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Thanks for the input Sally, some of those points are good ones and things to consider.
If I can just reply to a few, as some have been raised by others too :
The burger supplier was a concern last year, so this was raised with Barry (Bentley Events coordinator) at our pre-event meeting. We raised that the quality was deemed poor for the price and he said he would see what he could do. The on-site catering is organised by someone else and the front field that we use is franchised. Therefore we could not bring in our own caterers. Anyway as mentioned Barry tried to arrange something. We are not sure what happened, maybe the franchise did not like our feedback, so at the last minute we were informed that no Burger Van would be provided.
Jap Performance parts were originally going to attend but with Trax being on the Sunday they had committed to that, which obviously would not only bring them more sales but they were displaying/campaigning the drift car. It was nice of them to stop by on the way to show off the car.
Pitch fee for traders is a difficult one. It's hard enough to get them to come when it's free and also embarassing when they sell nowt.
If they don't turn up who gets the money, all the money taken on the day goes to Bentley. SES get nowt and if we did then you can end up on the slippery slope of requiring a commitee, AGM, public liabilty insurance and an accountant.
We did think of asking the traders to donate a prize, but again if their sales are poor they are unlikley to hand over any freebies.
Peoples choice is a good one, but forum/club attendees are likley to vote amongst themselves.
Total Impreza were invited. I expect our Press office will string something together as a submission (although I havn't renewed and am unlikley to renew my subscription). maybe send it to Redline or Jap Performance Mag instead.