Convoy for Heroes - Easter w/e 7/8 April 2012

A date for your diary. The Help for Heroes 4x4 European Rally will be attending the Convoy for Heroes over the Easter weekend 2012. The 'result' of the 2011 World Record attempt is still awaited. Fuller details on 2012 in due course but some information has been provided to us, as follows;

The Convoy for Heroes 2012 will be taking place over the Easter weekend, Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th of April 2012, at Prestwold Hall in Leicestershire. (LE12 5SQ or 52.47.33N 01.08.30W)

Prestwold was chosen because it has the space for Convoy to grow as it should and because it has a dirty great runway in its back yard around which we can create a 6.1 kilometre track to run the Convoy.

Now that the venue has been sorted out we can get on with the serious business of creating an event to be proud of. And that is where you come in. A few things are in the pipeline already, such as a decent auto-jumble thanks to the generosity of Mark Woodward who organises the Newbury and Skipton auto-jumbles. And there looks like the possibility of an on-site off-road course for those that want to get down and dirty.

And that is only the start, next year we need to get the clubs in, so start nagging your club or forum Events Secretary to get something going. We raised over £14,000 in 2011 and see no reason why we shouldn’t raise £50,000 in 2012. But, we need you to get stuck in for that to happen.

And in case you were wondering, whether we get the Guinness World Record in 2011 or not, we will be having another go in 2012. Only this time, the target is 1,000 Land Rovers.

For this year's event I contacted the organisers about a non Landrover club attending, i.e. L200 Owners Club.
I had loads of interest from the L200 boys because they're good lads and wanted to support a H4H fundraising event.
But, no response from the organisers, so we had to assume, in the end, that they didn't want us there.

Assuming nothing else on over Easter we'll be there, in an H4H Rally L200

Thanks on that Nick - I think as the focus is LR that the organisers want to keep it as such. However there was (and still is) no objection to other marques attending the event but of course not the Convoy itself. We were the largest 'club' to attend the Convoy - and as you know we had non-LRs with us - who were sort of made welcome Ha

We are in regualr contact with the Convoy organisers - and happy to ask your Q Nick

As long as i can get time off work will be there

Hope to have new job by then

evo4x4 wrote:

Thanks on that Nick - I think as the focus is LR that the organisers want to keep it as such. However there was (and still is) no objection to other marques attending the event but of course not the Convoy itself. We were the largest 'club' to attend the Convoy - and as you know we had non-LRs with us - who were sort of made welcome Ha

We are in regualr contact with the Convoy organisers - and happy to ask your Q Nick

Got no problem with attending to support and not take part in the convoy. But an email back out of courtesy would have been nice, even if it was no - no non-LRs.

Anyway, the L200 Club will offer H4H support again next year, if a non LR club is allowed to attend.