Caring with cars 2016????

[Stubby Pete]

wessexrfc said:

Hi Rich, good to catch up @ Autosport, seems you had a productive day!!

Looking forward to this and on a smaller scale would be good I feel. Without wanting to tell you guys how to organise this (here we go!!!) could I suggest that you have a couple of people collecting at the gate, this is what I did at a show we organised and we raised lots in this way. We simply asked for donations and were donated from a few quid (which we suggested was the min) to a few hundred pounds per car!!!
Unless there is some silly legal reason why you can't do this, I would be happy to try to help and can be quite persuasive in this area
I feel had you had it at the last event alot more money could've been raised (this is not a criticism as I know how hard these events are to sort) and those with their flasks and sandwiches would atleast squeeze something out of them, which is what these events are all about!!!

Hi Paul,
You're not the first to suggest this, I did too, along with several others. Always a good idea to get the cash on the way in!!!
The reason we didn't previously is due to the speed at which the cars attending had to be kept moving. We had several hundred cars arriving pretty much simultaneously. If we were to bucket rattle, the queues would back up on to the main road and this could get dangerous. The best compromise we came up with at the debrief was to have a few floaters walking the long entrance lane with buckets.

All suggestions welcome as always, keep 'em coming.