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The Suffolk Committee has had to make some very hard decisions having received updated information from the Club on Covid-Secure Guidance. The whole nature of a rally will be altered and there will be many aspects that can not go ahead such as social gatherings – even flagpole. The wellbeing and safety of all our members is our first consideration. A rally is a sociable event, we are sociable people, and so we have taken the hard decision to cancel all Suffolk rallies for July and August 2020. A full statement from the committee, with a summary of the guidance can be read here...

To those of you who may have seen the update on the Club website and the many comments in social media groups, nothing has changed from the post on here of 8th June, below. No actual date has been given by Government for caravan parks/sites etc. as yet. As a Centre, we will have to wait for specific information/guidelines and look at each rally still in the programme, to make sure it is viable and all requirements can be followed. All our venues are different. All we do know is that we will be asked to follow social distancing and social gathering restrictions. Some Centres have already cancelled their programmes for July, some August and some possibly further ahead. As soon as we know more, so will you. We have received some brief information from the Club to Centres to update the current position. The Club is working towards a possible re-open date of 4 July in line with the Governments...

We are sad to report that we have received information that of our past ralliers - Frank Colbear  passed away on 31st May. Frank and Connie rallied for many years with the Centre and was also a marshal on many of the rallies. Our thoughts are with his family and friends....

We are sorry to have to inform members that the Whiskey Galore rally 10th to 12th July has now been cancelled. The marshals will be contacting everyone booked on the rally and are sorry not to be able to run it this year....

We are sad to report that we have received information on two of our past ralliers - Len and Dorothy Theadom. We understand that Dorothy passed away on 28th April at 90 years old, followed by her husband Len in hospital on 10th April at 92 years old. Len and Dorothy rallied for many years with the Centre, records show over 300 rallies, and our thoughts are with their family and friends. We have been advised that if any of our members wish to leave a message of condolences, they can do that on the funeral directors website, which is www.gwinnell.co.uk You can also go direct to their condolence page by clicking here     ...

We are sorry to have to inform members that the Nowton Park rally due 24 to 26 July has now been cancelled. There were various factors we had to consider.  The marshals will be contacting everyone booked on the rally and are sorry not to be able to run it this year....

We have been informed that the Debenham Music Festival for 2020 has been cancelled. Therefore the Centre rally running alongside this event has also been cancelled and we understand the marshals will be making contact shortly with all those booked on the event/rally....

No doubt we are all wondering what will happen next following the announcements this past weekend. As yet nothing "official" has come through to the Centre but there is updated information on the Clubs own website. I am sure once the Club has digested the new guidance and what it means for us as a whole we will be told, and information will be passed onto members as soon as we hear. Janet Dobson Secretary...

We are sorry to have to inform members that the Crowfield rally due 3 to 5 July (Independence Day) has now been cancelled. There were various factors we had to consider, plus the committee at the Village Hall have now told us that all such bookings have been cancelled for the rest of the year. The marshals will be contacting everyone booked on the rally and are sorry not to be able to run it this year....

Whilst we don't know when we will be allowed to rally again, the marshal's for the Anglo-Saxon rally 3rd-5th July, had an agreement with the site to confirm numbers by a certain date, which they are unable to do. Therefore they have had to make the difficult decision to cancel this rally....