 Welcome
to The Regis Classic Tour web site. If you are
not familiar with the tour and its founders, read
our history page. The
tour raises money for two charities: Orchid
and Against Breast Cancer,
and in 2008 is sponsored by Frosts.
The first Regis Classic tour was in 1998, coupling
a great weekend away with your classic car and
the chance raise money for cancer charities along
the way. The Tour is organised by the Ladies and
friends of Bognor Regis Motor Club Ltd and each
year they organised a tour of a different part
of the country for a long weekend.
Tour format: arrive Friday, sign-on welcome buffet
dinner, Saturday tour starts approx 9am (after
a good hotel breakfast) morning coffee stop, light
lunch stop, afternoon tea stop (all at interesting
locations). Saturday night Gala black tie dinner
with auction and tombola, live music - late night.
Sunday morning breakfast then re-start morning
coffee and farewell lunch.
We normally visit a motoring venue (hillclimb,
circuit, museum etc), country house, garden, brewery
or vineyard where there is one suitable and a
couple of interesting stops on Sunday. We always
try to include local food and drink specialities
and give people a flavour for the places we are
visiting.
THE 14th REGIS CLASSIC TOUR – “THE MOORS AND SHORES TOUR OF NORTH DEVON AND SOMERSET” – 1ST – 3RD APRIL 2011
OVER TWO THIRDS OF ENTRY ALREADY RESERVED!
This 14th Tour is heading towards THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS for charity in 2011! The first Regis Classic Tour raised just over £8,000 and the current overall total currently stands at over £276,500, before this year’s Gift Aid is added! It will be supporting Against Breast Cancer & Orchid - Fighting Male Cancer again next year. The 13th event this year “The East Anglian Odyssey” raised over £22,300.00 before Gift Aid.
 For 2011 the ladies of Bognor Regis Motor Club Ltd are heading west to North Devon and West Somerset. They have confirmed the host hotel as The Saunton Sands, Nr Barnstable, North Devon. This high quality 4 star hotel is part of the Brend Group, (those who came to Cornwall in 2008 will appreciate their high standards as the Carlyon Bay Hotel at St Austell is also part of the same group of family hotels).
www.brend-hotels.co.uk/TheSauntonSands/Home.cfm
There are already have 47 deposits so please download a flyer for 2011 if you have yet to reserve a place and wish to join us.
Please send this back with your deposit cheque as soon as possible. Due to the size of the party the tour will be using both the hotel bedrooms and, where there are friends travelling together, using some of the Saunton Sands luxury apartments. These are within the hotel complex and equipped to a very high standard, so participants will have the choice of individual bedrooms (many with a £5pppn supplement for sea view rooms overlooking 3 miles of Braunton Dunes World Heritage Site and the sea) or a shared 2, 3 or 4 bedroom apartment with additional private sitting room, kitchen and in many cases a balcony. Only specific requirement from the hotel is that there are a minimum of 4 persons per apartment for the whole duration of their stay. All meals with be taken in the hotel together. The tour will have exclusive use of the public areas subject to 120 persons (we have 111 already reserved now). If you would like to share an apartment with specific friends please speak to them and let us know. You can check these out on their website they are of a very high quality.
 The ladies have also negotiated some very special rates at the hotel for those wishing to make a long weekend of it. Thursday & Sunday nights will be charged at £60.00 per person for Dinner, Bed & Breakfast inclusive of VAT and service (sea view supplements may apply).
The Saunton Sands Hotel has a fantastic Beach Cafe Bistro “The Sands Cafe Bar” situated below the hotel, reached via a cliff path.
Rather than take a trip out on Sunday night next year, the ladies are planning a Paella Party in “The Sands Cafe Bar” for those wishing to get involved.
However, if you prefer a quiet night in - Dinner will be served in the Restaurant. Please let us know if you wish to book additional nights and join the Party, I will add these to the rooming list so you keep the same accommodation all weekend. You will pay the hotel directly for the additional nights.
Now we are starting to have some idea of venue costs we can confirm the entry fee of £620 per crew of 2. This figure will take into account the new VAT increases coming into force in 2011. This will include:
Two nights Bed & English Breakfast at Saunton Sands Hotel /Apartments including Buffet Dinner on Friday and Masked Ball on Saturday sharing a twin/double room.
Morning coffee on Saturday & Sunday, Light lunch on Saturday and two course lunch on Sunday and Devon Cream Tea on Saturday afternoon. Entrance fees into all places of interest, toll roads and parking fees during the event. Easy to use Tulip Road Book. Rally plate. Souvenier Photograph. Finisher’s Gift/Award. The attentive service of the ladies of the club who will ensure your weekend is memorable.
 There is a year’s worth of serious planning in every event and we hope that all our participants will make the effort to “do their bit” to raise as much as possible in sponsorship next year. We all enjoy a terrific weekend thanks to the enthusiasm of everyone involved – Marshals, Participants, Sponsors, Partners, RAC, Equipment, Venues etc. etc. Please let us all make sure that our fun converts to loads of Fun(d) raising for two very worthy causes.
If you would like to sponsor a venue, printing of regulations, roadbooks and/or menu & auction catalogue, tour postage or something else, please let me know. Mark Lilly of Mark Lilly Diesels has kindly agreed to sponsor our new batch of headed paper. Anything we can “knock off the bottom line” means more money for the charities.
William Frosts of Frosts www.frosts4cars.co.uk has agreed to continue his very generous sponsorship of the event for the fourth year, so let us all make a difference to the lives of Cancer sufferers.
We will also require donations of Tombola and Auction prizes, if you have suggestions please let us know. We already have a Norfolkline Ferry Crossing, Hot laps around Goodwood Motor Circuit with five times Le Mans Winner Derek Bell and a weekend Break at Saunton Sands Hotel. Brighton & Hove Motor Club have already donated 3 pairs of tickets to The Brighton Speed Trials in 2011. Please let me know if you have any suggestions for lots and prizes for next year.
Photos are available from: www.edpphoto.com – Official photographers for the Regis Classic Tour for many years. We are very grateful to Nigel & Julie Eddleston for their support.
STOP PRESS:
Don’t miss the 18th Regis Rally on Saturday 9th October being organised by Bognor Regis Motor Club Ltd for cars registered before 31st December 1980. The event is a daylight Regularity rally with special tests on private ground around West Sussex. A round of the Historic Rally Car Register Clubman’s Rally Championship. MSA National B Competition licences are required for both Driver and Navigator. If you don’t wish to compete – marshals are required, no experience necessary as training will be given. www.theregisrally.co.uk or www.bognor-regis-mc.co.uk
Photos of the tour are available from the official Regis Classic Tour photographers: Nigel & Julie Eddleston and Steve Carpenter at www.edpphoto.com
The ladies are already planning the 14th fundraising event for Spring 2011, so if you want to go onto the mailing list contact Ali Green on 01243 542674 or
email: theregisclassictour@btinternet.com
Photography on this site is included by kind
permission of www.photograph-er.co.uk and edpphoto.com |
