Dear Wakefield MAG Member,
Wishing you a Merry Christmas and Welcome to the Wakefield MAG e-newsletter. If you can't attend our Tuesday meetings regularly, it's the next best thing to keep you up to date with what we are up to.
CONTENTS
1) Quiz Nite Report
2) Remembrance Sunday Report
3) Christmas Present Ideas
4) Wakefield MAG Christmas Do
5) Post Christmas Auction
6) Wakefield MAG Annual General Meeting
7) Kidzaware Christmas Toy Collection
8) Christmas Meetings
9) Christmas Raffle
10) Forthcoming Events (for December and beyond)
Check out the event report Here
Check out the event report Here
Stuck for a Christmas present idea for the biker in your life this year? Be stuck no more, as we have two great suggestions:
MAG Membership
A MAG Membership makes an ideal Christmas present ... and as it will last for at least a whole year, it's the present that just keeps on giving !!!!
You can join MAG at any of our weekly meetings, by phone (0800 988 3193 during office hours), on the Internet (www.mag-uk.org/motorcycle-action-group-membership/), or by post (MAG UK, Unit C13, Holly Farm Business Park, Honiley, CV8 1NP).
Membership fees are £27 (Individual) or £40.50 (Joint). Family Membership is £5.00 per child on either a single or joint adult membership. New members between the ages of 16 and 25 years old receive a £5 discount on first year of MAG membership. If you are feeling particularly generous with your Christmas gift this year, Life Memberships of MAG are available for £405 for an individual or £594 for a Joint.
Yorkshire MAG Mugs
Look at these mighty fine beverage vessels, which would make jolly nice stocking fillers .... a snip at £5. Available from any Wakefield MAG meeting.
Our Christmas Do is being held on Saturday 11th December at our HQ, the Thatched House. We are meeting from 12:00 onwards, eating from the above Christmas Menu at 13:00, then (if we still have room), following on with several goblets of foaming ale. You can come for the meal, or meet us afterwards for drinks in the Thatched House, or do both ... the choice is yours. Wakefield MAG Christmas Do's are always highly memorable .... Check out the event report(s) if you don't believe me !!!
Christmas hats and reindeer antlers strictly optional. Hope to see you there.
If you do intend to come for the meal, please let us know in advance and let us know your menu choices, as we need to pre-book with the pub.
Our 17th Post Christmas Auction will be held on Tuesday 25th January 2022. Our Post Christmas Auction's are the stuff of legends. The idea is you donate all your unwanted Christmas presents, together with other stuff you no longer want, or have the room for, to the Branch and we auction them off to the highest bidder .... with the proceeds split 2/3 to MAG and 1/3 to charitable causes. Thanks to the huge generosity of JP Roberts (ex-Doncaster MAG Rep), we have a huge amount of items that have already been donated, which includes masses of riding gear, books, DVD's, camping equipment, tools, bike accessories, service items, garage equipment (incl. a Wolf Electric Air Compressor with spray gun, electric parts washing chest, paddock stands). Check out the For Sale page for what items have already been donated and will be in the 2022 auction (and more has been donated since this list was last updated). The auctions are always hugely entertaining and there are always some real quality items donated, and hence, some real bargains to be had.
I hope to see you there. Be there early, with viewing from 07:00 onwards, and the auction starting at 08:00 prompt (and don't forget to bring your unwanted Christmas pressies !!!).
6) Wakefield MAG Annual General Meeting
The Wakefield & District Motorcycle Action Group Branch AGM will be held in the Thatched House, on Tuesday 11th January 2022, starting at 8:00pm (prompt). All members are invited to attend this special meeting, so please try to attend if you can. At this meeting there will be a review of the year, elections for the branch committee and the prize giving for our branch heroes. As this meeting is effectively a MAG political meeting, it carries with it a whopping 75 branch points for everyone who attends (a normal branch meeting only carries 5 points). As all the points are tallied at year end and go towards the branch heroes presentation, points really do mean prizes !!!! What better boost to your branch heroes tally for the new year !!!
In order to save costs (given the huge hike in postal charges), the Annual Wakefield MAG mailshot will be emailed to all eligible Members, i.e. current or recently expired MAG members with a WF postcode, to formally place notice for the meeting. Those members for whom we don't have valid email addresses, will be posted the letter. The meeting is also advertised in the events section on the main MAG website (www.mag-uk.org), on our own website, and in the latest edition of The Road magazine. If anyone has a preference for a mailed copy of the AGM mailshot, instead of an email, please let me know.
Previous years AGM minutes are available on the Wakefield MAG website (AGM's)
N.B. Motions for the AGM should be submitted at least the week before the AGM (Tuesday 4th January 2022).
7) Kidzaware Christmas Toy Collection
We are hosting another Christmas Toy Collection for Kidzaware, for Christmas 2021. We are collecting toys and presents (age range: A few months to early twenties) which we will deliver to this very worthwhile local charity in early December.
Please bring along any toys / presents (unwrapped at this stage) to any Tuesday Wakefield MAG meeting, up to and including Tuesday 14th December. If you can't make a meeting but would still like to donate some toys / presents, please let us know, and we'll arrange to collect them from you. Thank you in advance for supporting this most worthwhile Wakefield based charity.
Please note there will be no branch meetings over the Christmas period i.e. Tuesday 28th December. Meetings as normal this year up to and including Tuesday 21st December. Meetings in the new year will commence on Tuesday 4th January 2022, then every Tuesday thereafter, as normal.
9) Wakefield MAG Christmas Raffle
Following the undoubted success of our Christmas raffle in 2019, we are hosting another Christmas Hamper Raffle for 2021 with the chance to win a luxury hamper plus many other prizes. The tickets are available to buy NOW !!! Tickets are £1 each (although Chas prefers to sell a book at a time for £5 ;-) and will be drawn at the Wakefield MAG meeting on Tuesday 14th December at 20:00. All proceeds to the MAG Fighting Fund for the on-going protection of your freedom to ride your motorcycle. Please buy some and let's boost the MAG coffers.
10) Forthcoming Events (for December and beyond)
Wednesday 8th December - Leeds MAG Christmas Toy Run to Lineham Farm, Eccup, Leeds
Assemble from 6pm at The Leisure Complex Car Park, Cardigan Fields Road (behind McDonalds). Depart 6.30pm prompt to arrive at Lineham Farm Children's Centre, Swan Lane, Eccup LS16 8AZ at 7pm. Please bring wrapped toys (approx value £7 each - to keep it fair) labelled boy / girl / either. The children will be aged 8 - 11 yrs and will be in attendance to receive the presents on the night.
All trikes & 2 wheelers welcome (& cars if the weather is poor). Lineham Farm have a request for extra presents this year. They have a special group of children in attendance nearer Christmas who are under safeguarding and would love to give these children gifts too. If anyone or their friends/ family would like to donate an extra present they will be very gratefully received. If you cannot attend but would still like to donate you can do so via PayPal leeds-rep@mag-uk.org and we will buy presents on your behalf.
Saturday 11th December - Wakefield MAG Christmas Do
See Above. Meeting from 12:00 onwards, Christmas Meal at 13:00, and followed by several goblets of foaming ale, at the Thatched House.
Tuesday 14th December - Christmas Hamper Draw
See Above
Tuesday 14th December - Deadline for Kidzaware Christmas Toy Collection Donations
See Above
Tuesday 11th January 2022 - Wakefield Branch 20th AGM - The branch will be 20 years old !!!!
See Above
Tuesday 25th January 2022 - Post Christmas Auction
See Above
Got lots of unwanted Christmas presents ? Got items that are of use/value but you don't have the space for them any more ? Prepared to donate them for a good cause ? Bring them along to the Wakefield MAG 'Post Christmas Auction' where they will be raffled off to the highest bidder, with all the proceeds being donated to MAG and other worthy causes. 20:00 in the Thatched House.
See the events page for further details and more !!!
That's all for this month, have a great Christmas, hope Santa brings you lots of biking goodies, and I hope to see you all soon.
Ride Safe .. Ride Free
Steve Travis
Chairman
Wakefield MAG
0772 078 4734
Wakefield MAG meet at the Thatched House, Stanley, Wakefield at 8:00pm every Tuesday. New (and Old) faces are always welcome.