Annual Jaguar Brighton Convoy & Meet Event May 29th 2016

[stevesheldon]

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 http://www.rimmerbros.co.uk/content--name-Jaguar-C... and see if there is anything there you might like.. everything imaginable is there..

[stevesheldon]

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?

[stevesheldon]

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.

[stevesheldon]

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'

[stevesheldon]

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.

[stevesheldon]

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 :-)