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Chairmans Message
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S.C.C. Chairman

Ian & Christine MacLean |
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Dear Fellow Members
May I firstly thank you for according me the
honour and privilege of being your Chairman.
I will endeavour to maintain the high standard
set by my predecessors and will continue to promote all 7
Centres and The Scottish Caravan Club in our travels throughout
the country.
This year
the East Centre reaches a significant milestone in their history
by celebrating their Diamond Jubilee. Details of their
celebration rally can be found in your rally handbook or on this
website.
The Dumfries
& Galloway Centre will be hosting the 60th Scottish
National Rally at the Agricultural Showground, Parks Farm,
Dumfries, the site is within walking distance of the town centre
and there is a large variety of interesting visitor attractions
in Dumfries and the beautiful surrounding countryside.
I would like
to thank all the Centre’s Committee members & Rally marshals for
giving their time and effort to organize this year’s programme
of rallies and events on your behalf. There is a huge choice of
locations, covering virtually every corner of Scotland, so get
out there and explore Scotland and visit places you have only
heard about.
If you have
not attended a Rally before, why not give it a try in 2010? You
will be sure to receive a warm welcome at all rallies and this
will lead to many long and lasting friendships. You don’t need
to be registered with a centre to attend a rally, as long as you
are a Caravan Club member you can attend any rally.
Christine
and I look forward to meeting members, both old and new during
2010, and on behalf of the Scottish Caravan Club Council extend
to you our very best wishes for the coming year.
Have a save
and happy towing for 2010.
Yours
Sincerely
Ian Maclean
Updated 5th November 2009
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The Scottish Division
of the Caravan Club
Office Bearers and Council Members for 2009 - 2010
The Scottish Caravan
Club
64th
Annual General Meeting
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The 64th Annual General Meeting of The Scottish Division of The
Caravan Club was held on Saturday, October 10th, at The Cochrane Halls in Alva.
Mrs. Fiona Murray Chairman opened the meeting at
2.00pm sharp welcoming all attending.
The Chairman then went on to give a special welcome to Mr.
Grenville Chamberlain, Chairman of The Caravan Club,
who acted as interim Chairman.
And to Mr. Trevor Watson, Director General of The Caravan
Club who was The Caravan Club representative.
The Chairman the continued to welcome everyone else.
The President Mrs. Margaret Devine also welcomed everyone,
reminding all that this was their A.G.M ,where they could ask
Questions.
Mr. Ian MacLean was installed as Chairman
of Scottish Division for 2009 – 2010.
There was no votes this year, and all positions were filled.
The A.G.M. was attended by 130 members.
This years entries for The Alba Shield Photographic Competition
was judged by Mr. Trevor Watson, Director General of The Caravan
Club.
The winner was judged to be the photograph taken by Mr. George
Mackay, a member of The South West Centre.
Check Photo
Gallery for all pictures
A total of 57 units attended a caravan rally, at the Woods
Caravan Site, held in conjunction with the A.G.M.
There was also a good turnout for the Saturday evening social,
with the music from Willie Smith.
The Rally Team, Willie & Jessie Smith, Alex & Gina Davidson, Ian
& Marion Bennett, would like to thank all who
attended, making it a great success.
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Centre Chairman & Partners
2009/10 |
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East Centre

Graham & Jane Cross |
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At our A.G.M I was privileged to be
elected as the East Centre Chairman for the forthcoming year,
and I will, to the best of my ability uphold the traditions of
the Centre, Jane & I will look forward to meeting you all on the
rally field over the next year.
We have
elected a full committee of 15 and we have a Junior Committee of
6.
On 5th
December at the Dalmahoy Church Hall we will be holding our
Children’s Christmas Party. Tickets are available for this event
priced £7.50.
In 2010 we
will be holding our Dinner Dance at the Edinburgh Capital Hotel
on 30th January. Tickets are priced £27 with rooms
available for £70 Bed and Breakfast. We are also running a meet
at Edinburgh Caravan Club Site.
The
inaugural meeting of the East of Scotland Centre was held in
Edinburgh on the 10th December 1949, and its my
pleasure to host our Diamond Jubilee in March 2010, there will
be a rally at Drum Mohr Caravan Park.
If you are
new to Caravanning or have never rallied before why not give it
a try, with lots of different venues and events happening all
over the area it lets you get out and about to places you my
never have seen.
Graham Cross
Chairman
Updated 3rd November 2009 |
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West Centre

Billy & Marion Eames |
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CHAIRMAN'S REPORT
Chairman’s Views
Hi everyone, Summer is
with us and hopefully all the cold weather will stay
away till November are Rally programme for this
year, although very lacking in numbers attending is
half way through the year.
The venue we were at for the first time at East
Fortune Farm went very well and the weather that
weekend was hot and dry.
The Anyone for Golf rally running in conjunction
with the Scottish Open was again well attended by
non Ralliers and Ralliers some not even for the
golf, and everybody has asked for it to be ran again
next year.
We are getting near the time of year when our A.G.M
is due, and as I have said before we are very short
on Committee Members to keep the Centre going
forward and run the Rally's.
West have been asked to run the S.C.C National in
2012 and I have to tell S.C.C whether we can run it
or not soon.
There is a lot of preparation work to do for this
rally before the event happens, and with only 6
nomination slips in at the moment for this year it
is not looking very good we are going to need a full
committee to do this and I do not want to be the one
to have to say we cant do it.
We have certainly had offers of help for line
marshals etc., so come on West Centre Members let me
see you all at the A.G.M and on the field, tell us
what is wrong give us some suggestions to get
everybody back on the rally field, and help us to
help you have a good rally maybe we need some new
ideas, new venues tell us we are always willing to
listen to some suggestions.
Again I hope we can do the National I have been with
West Centre on Committee and as a rallier for the
last 20yrs and I really do not want to have to be
the one along with my committee not to let West have
the Scottish National.
Our next Rally is at Sanquhar over the weekend
20th-23rd Aug a long weekend for the Riding of the
Marches booking slips to Margaret Graham,
the rally after that is Blackford 27th-29th slips to
Sheila Hynd for the Nominations and Bowling, our
A.G.M rally is at Crossford Lanarkshire 10th-12th
Sept
booking slips to myself, so I hope to see you all
there
All the Best from your Chairman
Billy
Eames Chairman
Updated 29th July 2010
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Fife and Tayside
Centre

Gordon & Lesley Leitchman |
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Chairmans Message
I would like to
start by saying thanks to everyone for their support and
encouragement in my first term as Chairman of Fife and
Tayside centre.
Our A.G.M rally at
Wellbank near Dundee, was well attended
with 29
caravans. There was a good turnout at the meeting on the
Saturday afternoon with the majority of our committee
positions being filled.
Our next two event’s
coming up, include the Children’s Christmas Party on the 5th
December and our New Year Rally at the end of the year, both
event's being held at TS Ajax in Methil.
Following on from
then, is our Annual Dinner Dance which is again being held
in the Isle of Skye Hotel, Perth on the 20th
February 2010. Tickets are priced at £26.00 per person and
are available from myself and Ian Shanley.
Fife and Tayside
have a full and varied rally programme for 2010 and I would
like to take this opportunity to highlight our charity rally
at Carnoustie on the 16th ~ 18th
April. We hope to have as many caravans as possible in
attendance, as this is always a fun and varied occasion.
Please feel free to come along and join any of our rallies
in the coming year, where you will be assured of a warm and
friendly welcome.
Gordon Leitchman
Chairman
Updated 5th November 2009
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North Centre

Andrew Baird Junior |
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Dear Fellow Members
A new season is well under
way with new members starting at almost all the rallies so far,
so if you haven’t tried rallying yet, come and experience the
real outdoors with the members of the centre at a rally, meet
new friends or old friends you haven’t seen for a while,
remember the first rally you attend you get your site & rally
fee free, with the special booking form your received with your
Rally books, I’m glad to say that so far after the long winter
we have had, dry weather has been the order of the day.
During the next few months
I would be delighted if you the members of the centre could
please try and help attract more new members of the younger
generation to rally, to keep this centre running into the future
we need new members to help keep the committee going to run
rallies for your benefit, we are also looking at the format of a
rally, and if you have any suggestions, then please let any
member of the committee know your suggestions for us to look at,
in the next few months I am looking for members to hopefully
join the committee at our next AGM, the centre committee is down
on numbers at the moment and if you would like to put your name
forward for a position, your involvement would be much
appreciated.
During the winter the
committee has looked at getting the youth section prepared ready
for the next AGM, the youth of the centre is helping to run a
rally this year, with an experienced marshal to give them
guidance on how a rally is run, this is in preparation for
forming their committee, so your encouragement would be much
appreciated, the youth constitution has been rewritten during
the winter months, where we are hoping the changes made can
encourage more youngsters to come and join in the spirit of
rallying.
The centre rally book is in
the process of getting a revamp, the committee is looking for
you the members to design the front cover of the book, all
entries will be judged by you the members at the AGM meeting in
September, all entries to Mike Parkinson (Editor) please, so
come on get those colouring pencils & cameras out and get your
thinking caps on, this is your chance to design the book.
The centre AGM Meeting
venue has had to be changed due to circumstances beyond our
control, it is still being held in Ballater on September 18th
at 2pm, but is now being held in the Glenaden Hotel, the Square,
Ballater.
Your help on passing on the
news to other members during the year would be much appreciated.
Andrew
Baird (jnr)
For your copy of The North Centre's March 09 Newsletter Please
Click Here
Updated 17th May 2010 |
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South West Centre

Patricia & Ronnie Duff |
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SOUTH WEST CENTRE CHAIRMAN'S REPORT
I am now halfway through my final year
as Chairman of the centre.
Ronnie and I have enjoyed meeting old and making new friends.
The Centre has still too run 8 Rallies.
These include the 800th Rally at St. John’s Town
of Dalry.
Sadly there will be no Clachan Fair this year as the
organisers have gone into liquidation.
This year the Centre is organising a
Charity Rally in aid of the Ayrshire Hospice.
I am sure we have all been involved with someone or we know
of someone who has needed this valuable service.
If you have any ideas on how we can raise funds please
contact me or any committee member.
We are also looking for any unwanted gifts for our raffle (
no bric-a-brac) or bottles for our Bottle Stall.
Please come along and support this worthy cause.
Lunches will be available for a small fee on the Saturday.
Ronnie is taking a Holiday Rally to Gt.
Yarmouth and there are a few spaces still available.
At our A.G.M. in October, Jim Ferguson
will become your next Chairman.
I would ask that the Committee and centre members support
him in anyway they can.
You do not need to wait until the Nomination Rally to put
your name forward for committee.
DO IT NOW and show Jim your support.
Thank you all for helping me carry out
my duties as Chairman and supporting me throughout my term
of office.
Patricia Duff.
Chairman.
Updated 24th May 2010 |
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Highland Centre

Don & Lena Aird |
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Highland Centre Chairman’s
Report
Now in to my second year’s term as Highland
Centre Chairman and enjoying it.
The Centre held it’s Annual General Meeting on12th
September, when a new committee was formed with all positions
filled.
A healthy Youth Committee being formed at their A.G.M.
I was able to report a very successful 2008 – 2009 rally season,
the highlight being the hosting of The Scottish National Rally
on behalf of The Scottish Caravan Club.
This turned out to be a well attended and well run event enjoyed
by all 189 outfits.
A full rally programme is in place for 2010, which includes a
return trip to the Isle of Skye in mid July.
Lena and I attended and thoroughly enjoyed all other Centre
dinner dances over the past year and look forward to doing so
again over the next few months.
The Highland Centre dinner dance is again being held at the
Inverness Thistle Hotel on February 6th where Lena and I hope to
welcome as many of you as possible.
Centre membership continues to grow. However, like all other
Centres, we have difficulty increasing the number who joins us
on the rally field.
Lena joins me in sending greetings and wishing all fellow
members the very best for the coming season.
Don Aird.
Highland Centre Chairman
Updated 8th November 2009
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Dumfries and
Galloway

Carolyn & Ian Murray |
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Chairmans Report
At our
A.G.M in September, a Committee of 14 was elected with all
positions filled.
2010 is
going to be a busy time for Dumfries & Galloway, as we are
hosting the S.C.C Scottish National.
This is being held at Park Farm Agricultural Showground in
Dumfries.
Dumfries is surrounded by some lovely countryside and also has a
very good shopping centre.
The showground in Dumfries is very accessible from either the
north or the south via the A75.
The Centre is also running a Follow-on rally at The Hammerlands
Centre in Moffat, again a lovely area of Dumfries & Galloway.
We held
our Hallowe’en Rally at Abington, where the children came round
the vans for Trick or Treat. The rain did not seem to bother
them!
The
Centre’s next event will be the Christmas Lunch, which will
again be held in The Douglas Arms Hotel, Castle Douglas on 20th
December.
Our
Dinner Dance will be on 13th February at the Queens
Hotel, Lockerbie.
Tickets are £25 each, with rooms at £75 bed & breakfast.
Please book direct with the hotel. (mention Dinner Dance when
booking please)
A full
rally programme has been compiled for 2010.
We are going from Port William in the west to Newcastleton in
the East, with many venues in between.
A Charity rally will take place in June at Kirkbean (this is
also an invite to the Cumbria Centre), a Holiday Rally in Kirby
Lonsale 9th-19th July and the rally at
Balmaclennan will coincide with The Scottish Alternative Games
in New Galloway 29th Jul-2nd Aug.
Everyone will be made welcome at any of our rallies.
Hope
to see you on a rally field sometime over the next year.
Carolyn Murray
Chairman
Updated 5th November 2009 |
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