The Mid-Anglia Centre would be pleased to welcome you to any of the rallies listed in this rally programme book. Our rallies are simply a gathering of Caravan Club members, for a weekend or a holiday, to promote friendship and common interests and have some fun along the way.

The Rally Marshals are ordinary members who organise a rally, including arranging a site and services, signing the approach to the site, and putting on a programme of events for your entertainment and enjoyment. This may include a social evening, a dance, sporting activities, or a trip. The rally may also coincide with a local event like a garden fete, carnival, steam, or agricultural shows.

To attend one of these rallies you simply fill in one of the rally booking slips enclosed with this book, putting names where indicated, and send it to the Marshal who is collecting them, before the closing date stipulated. You will find details of names and addresses under each entry in this book. Please note your slip will not normally be acknowledged unless the rally is full.

When you go to you’re booked rally, follow the directions as given, and when you are near the site look out for Mid-Anglia Centre signs. These are Day-Glo yellow with the letters MA and an arrow. As you enter the site you will see the Rally Marshals, normally the first caravan on the field. Please stop and introduce yourself and advise them that this is your first rally. You will be given an envelope containing information of the rally programme, any competitions, tickets for a social or event if arranged, your rally plaque to show you attended and printed on the front of the envelope will be the cost of the rally.

You will then be shown to your pitch, normally marked with a peg, to which you draw the front offside corner of your van. The normal practice is to park the car on the offside of the caravan thus enabling easy access to all caravans. You will be advised of where the drinking water and elsan disposal points are. Normally you will be asked to take your dry waste home, unless the Marshals have been able to make arrangements for its disposal.

During the weekend the Chairman of the rally will call on you to welcome you to the Centre and your first rally. They will tell you about the flagpole meeting that usually takes place on the Sunday morning, where first ralliers and visitors are introduced, birthday and anniversary plaques are presented, and we formally thank the Rally Marshals. Future events and competition results are announced and any raffles drawn.

Honest it’s not that daunting! Come on and give it a try. We would be only too happy to meet you and as the old saying goes….

‘Strangers are only friends you haven’t yet met’.