KAMES?

[Miss Emma_RS]

Is it happening this year?
Obviously I've been off the Meet night radar for a bit due to ill health so not in the 'know' so to speak. Just wondered if there was a date for Kames or is it not happening this year.

cheeRS

[andy-mac]

not happening this year Emma there was not enough interest from members to help out

last year , think the idea is to give it a miss for a year and see what happen's next year

unless someone want to run show this year

[Mel D]

As Andy says the decision was taken not to run the show this year for a variety of reasons, it was discussed at the AGM I think I put it in the notes from then.

We'll see how the other shows go this year, there is a classic car show at Kames later in the year which will be on the Events list

[Miss Emma_RS]

Ok cheers guys. I wondered as nothing had been put up.
Will defo be interested in the Classic Car show there tho. Will keep my eyes peeled!

[focrs]

Bad news that I always enjoyed the show. I know I am not a member as I cannot attend the meet nights but have been to a few but was years back.
Why don't you move the meet nights to catch a wider audience then it might get more help or more people involved.

[Mel D]

[focrs]

Across the west of Scotland and Glasgow area. It's the largest city in scotland and the website is dead maybe advertise the meet nights better so people will come along and join the group.

I appreciate the work that goes into running the kames but did not know you were struggling for help. Why not use the site to promote the issues and get this information over.

[Mel D]

Unfortunately the entire car club scene, including the RS groups, has seen a downturn in membership due to a variety of reasons but for us and the RSOC generally the issues are the increasing cost of buying the RS cars, increase in facebook "groups" which are forums but not actual clubs. The problem is a lot of folk just don't want to actually meet up, as we do, once a month.
Our group has a variety of RS and non-RS cars as well as a lot of track cars, the reason the group survives and we still have a decent core membership and regular meet is because we do not limit membership to RS only. This does not sit well with some others who won't actually be part of the club because we allow other cars in, at the end of the day we all have an interest in the RS marque.

The group is well known in the RS scene and within the track scene at Knockhill etc. We do get new members from time to time but different people want different things from clubs and it's very difficult to please everyone.

As for Kames the show has been successful for years but it takes a lot of organising and this year there is not enough support available. Many members are doing other things this year including racing so it was agreed we would take a year out from having a show. It was discussed at the AGM and other meetnights.

There will be a change of meetnight location from next month, details will be up soon.