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Insite magazine

George, Conor and I attended the official opening of the new Blacks Camping Store in Liverpool on 2nd September, where we listened to a fascinating talk by Sir Chris Bonington, as well as picking up some great bargains on sale in store at the time. There was a raffle just before the evening ended, and as luck would have it, lucky George won first prize, a fantastic all weather jacket which is being made to measure for him right now. Conor was also lucky in the raffle, winning a Berghaus stainless steel flask. Below are some photos of George and Conor being presented with their prizes by Sir Chris, more will follow shortly ...............

We have some exciting plans in the pipeline for 2011, such as a Grand National Meet not a million miles from Aintree Racecourse, and big celebrations for our DA's 90th birthday. Read about them here

We are receiving complaints from land owners that campers are leaving large amounts of rubbish behind on rallies. Can we please remind members that unless specified, you cannot use site garbage facilities and MUST take all your rubbish home with you, including picking up any small items of rubbish left behind when you move your unit. Thank you.

2010 Blackpool illuminations meet - Westby Hall, Lytham 22nd-24th October 2010. We are hiring a coach on Saturday evening to take us through the illuminations with a stop-off on our way home. The cost is £5 per person per seat, including children. Seats are limited and we expect them to be filled fairly quickly. All enquiries/bookings, payments etc to Nicky on 01695 728933.

Could all stewards please make sure they send me details of numbers etc from each meet as soon as possible as in your steward packs. They can be sent via our normal email address lswlda@aol.com

Not a lot of you may know this, but our Les and Tracey starred on the One Show on BBC1 recently. Below are some photos taken by Les whilst recording was taking place.

I'm sure we'd all like to congratulate our Rachel (Bennett) for being presented with the Doug Taylor Trophy at the recent North West Regional Meet for getting the highest number of points on passing her CCY test earlier on this year. WELL DONE RACHEL!!! We're all so proud of you.

Captions wanted for the picture below taken at Steve's 60th birthday party at Ruthin recently. Can you tell us what Steve is saying to Julie and what Roy Hall behind them is thinking?????

I'm hoping to have Insite finished by next week, printer problems again which will hopefully be sorted asap.

Laylands Farm Meet - 30th July-1st August - We regret to inform our members that this meet has now been cancelled.

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Hi All

Many thanks to all of you who filled in the questionnaire at Ruthin and later meets. I will publish the results in the next couple of weeks. We have had some very useful comments.

Thanks

Mary (Public Relations Officer)

We are currently compiling a list of items owned by the DA. If you are minding any items for us, eg football posts, footballs, trophies, gazebos, etc etc or know of anyone who is, could you please contact me on our usual website email address lswlda@aol.co.uk so I can complete and publish our 2010 list. Many thanks. George

Free camping - if you fancy a 'free' break why not consider stewarding one of our meets? Our DA will pay your camping fees as a thank you for your time. It's not difficult, full information can be found here on what you have to do

3rd-5th September   - Meadow House Farm, Wrexham
1st-3rd October         - Hordley Village Hall
22nd-24th October    - Westby Hall

CCY News and information to date.

Fund raising activities are often seen at our weekend meets. The CCY have their own 'account' and have their own fund raising
events. Most money from their raffles and events go to their general funds which pays for games, crafts activities, medals, prizes, etc etc.

You may soon see that some events will be for a 'Helsinki fund'. This is an exciting time for us as we are considering attending the FICC (Federation of International Camping and Caravan Clubs) rally in Helsinki during Easter 2011. This is for ALL International Youth and their Leaders.

The Youth have to fund themselves for these events and travel costs can be expensive.

The DA supports this rally and you will see that most DAs will give a contribution for coach/air fares, so this is what they are collecting for in plenty of time for next year.

Young Jamie Barnes left his brand new Premier League football behind in the football cage on site. It was blue white and orange, and was a present only days before. If anyone has found this can they please please please make one sad little boy very happy again and pass it to him or any of our Committee Members at any of our meets. Thanks.

In order to keep you as up to date as possible and notify everyone of any last minute changes to meets etc we are compiling a list of members email addresses so you can all be notified immediately.

Therefore, could all members who wish to be contacted in this way please send in your current email address? If you know of anyone who does not have internet access could you please pass on to them any information sent to you? No-one else's email address will be shown in the emails sent to you. Please send them to our usual email address lswlda@aol.com Thanks.

As some of our members have been unaware that we have a guestbook on our website here's a direct link for them to use........

Occasionally not all the details submitted by us are included in Out and About magazine. Please check our website or Insite magazine for full correct information and directions to all our meets.