Dear Wakefield MAG member,
Welcome to the Wakefield MAG e-newsletter. If you can't attend our Wednesday meetings regularly, it's the next best thing to keep you up to date with what we are up to.
CONTENTS
1) Dales Circular Rideout Report
2) Leeds MAG '40 Years of Action' Celebration Run Report
3) Our Biker Buddies
4) Rally Tickets for Sale
5) MAG Resignation - Statement to Members
6) Wakefield MAG Bike Show Report
7) Ferg Patches
8) News from our Buddie Branch - Barnsley MAG
9) The Next Generation Raffle
10) Forthcoming Events (for June and beyond)
1) Dales Circular Rideout Report
Check out the rideout report Here.
2) Leeds MAG '40 Years of Action' Celebration Run Report
Check out the event report Here.
We have a mention in the Summer Leeds, Wakefield and District RSPCA Branch Newsletter, in an article aptly titled 'Our Biker Buddies' ......
In March we were very happy to welcome the Wakefield Motorcycle Action Group Bikers back to our brach as they did their 'local charity rescue run'.
This is the third year they have visited us! They brought food and treats for the animals, plus a wonderful donation.
We gave them a tour around our centre and to say thank you for their generosity, we asked them if they wanted to name our new GSD girl, they did and our new girl is now called Maggie.
Thank you Bikers!
Check out our own event report for our March Pet Food Run Here. And we are also pleased to report that Maggie has since been adopted and now has a new home !!!
Last call for anyone who wants Edinburgh MAG Ag Ol Anns An Achadh Rally tickets .... we still have tickets for sale (at £14) but as the rally is rapidly approaching (Friday 14th - Sunday 16th June) let me know soon. Further details on the Edinburgh MAG web site: edinburgh.mag-uk.org
Whilst on the subject of rallies, tickets for the Farmyard Party and the Yorkshire Pudding rally are still for sale at the weekly branch meetings ... but not for much longer:
These events collectively provide the vast majority of the vital funds MAG needs to fight the political fight. These events help keep Big Brother out of Biking or as we like to call it, Partying with a Purpose.
5) MAG Resignation - Statement to Members
On the 28th May, the resignation of Nich Brown - MAG's General Secretary - was received by MAG Central Office. The Board has accepted the resignation.
The office continues to function as normal with the sterling efforts of Julie Sperling and Carol Ferrari, who continue to work as usual and enjoy a cordial relationship with the Board who are consulting with them; and also with MAG's National Committee, as to how best MAG's Central Office can be configured to undertake the work MAG requires.
The Board particularly wishes to place on record its appreciation for the efforts of Julie and Carol during what has been a difficult time, and for the forbearance of MAG's Members.
The Board is now working to re-staff the organisation appropriately and make MAG Central Office fit for purpose. It will advertise the post in The Road magazine and in other media.
Again, we thank you, MAG's Members, for your forbearance during this difficult time, for your heart-warming support, your unremitting work and most of all your unstinting generosity, which makes all of MAG's work possible.
John Mitchell
National Chairman
6) Wakefield MAG Bike Show Report
Check out the event report Here.
We sold out of our allocation of Fergus O'Connell memorial patches a good while ago. However, we have been donated (Thanks Dave) a few more of these limited edition patches, so have a few more for immediate sale. All proceeds go to MAG so a minimum donation of £4 is suggested (but feel very free to donate much much more !!!).
Let me know if you want one, as once they are gone, they are gone !!!
As the late great Ferg always said 'Never in the field of human transport have so many been represented by so few'.
Buy your patch and wear it with pride. RIP Fergus O'Connell 1962-2012.
8) News from our Buddie Branch - Barnsley MAG
Our Buddie Branch, Barnsley MAG has a new Rep - Welcome into the chair, Stuart Hatfield !!! A huge thanks also to outgoing Rep, Barnsley Bob, who was the chair for the last four years. Barnsley MAG have also changed their meeting venue and now meet at the Keel at Stairfoot, S70 3NT, every Tuesday at 20:00.
MAG launched it's Next Generation Raffle at Yorkshire MAG's Into the Valley Rally, on the first weekend of May. Tickets are a pound and the prize is a brand new learner legal AJP 125cc Supermoto bike, together with everything needed to get you on the road. Tickets available at all the major Yorkshire MAG events, so be sure to get one (or several) .... and Good Luck in the draw !!!
10) Forthcoming Events (for June and beyond)
Sunday 9th June - Wakefield MAG Rideout (Destination: Bike Safe Show, Doncaster Racecourse)
Meet 8:30am (leaving at 09:00am) at Redbeck Cafe, 339 Doncaster Road, Crofton, Wakefield, WF4 1RT. More details at: www.bikesafeshow.co.uk
Friday 14th - Sunday 16th June - Edinburgh MAG Ag Ol Anns An Achadh Rally
Stair Arms Hotel, Pathhead, Midlothian EH37 5TX. More details at: edinburgh.mag-uk.org. Tickets still available at the weekly branch meetings. See Above.
Friday 21st - Sunday 23rd June - Farmyard Party Rally 2013
Duncombe Estate, Helmsley, North Yorkshire. Tickets still available at the weekly branch meetings. See Above.
Tuesday 9th July - Wakefield MAG Evening Rideout (Destination: Hollingsworth Lake)
Rearranged from Tuesday 14th May. Meet 18:30 (leaving at 19:00) at Redbeck Cafe, 339 Doncaster Road, Crofton, Wakefield, WF4 1RT
Sunday 28th July - Wakefield MAG at the VJMC Show
Lotherton Hall. We will be hosting the Yorkshire MAG Stand as we have done for many years now, at this popular all Japanese Motorcycle Show. We will be asking for volunteer marshals shortly, so watch this space !!
Friday 2nd - Sunday 4th August - Yorkshire Pudding Rally 2013
New Site (Escrick Estate off the A19 just above Selby). Tickets still available at the weekly branch meetings. See Above.
We still need to announce the date for our annual Treasure Hunt, so keep watching this space for updates !!!! Also, we are in the early stages of organising another Real Ale Train Pub Crawl, this time to Chapeltown, Sheffield ... now the YPR has moved site and is no longer to be held in Chapeltown, we need an excuse to visit the Commercial (and their outstanding range of Real Ales !!!) .... Again, watch this space for updates !!!
That's all for this month, 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 Grey Horse, Kirkgate, Wakefield at 8:30pm every Wednesday. New (and Old) faces are always welcome.