The MGF Register

We look forward to 2021 with some hope. A vaccine is being rolled out which should allow us to return to a semblance of normality, when that may actually be is still conjecture, however. Here at the MGF Register, we are looking forward to 2021 by looking forward to our postponed MGF25 event in July, an increasing raft of summer events, and by welcoming some new regions to the club. Whilst they can’t operate as normal with runs, shows, etc at the moment we hope that you can join them on their social media feeds and help build the Region ready for action later in the year.
So, where are they?
Midlands Borders – Rob Parry has set the group up to cover those areas to the left of Birmingham and bordering Wales, hence the name! Rob says “Our region covers Worcestershire, Shropshire, Herefordshire and Staffordshire. Although being setup during these difficult times we will be in contact with those who have registered your cars with the MGF Register, or are MGF Register members in the region, with regular newsletters and when allowed we will be arranging events where we look forward to meeting current members, and, hopefully attracting new ones.
If you have any specific questions or queries I can be contacted directly via e-mail at: midlands.borders@mgfregister.org.”
Join Rob on Facebook at (2) The MG Car Club MGF Register Midlands Borders Region | Facebook
Scotland – Glenn Nielson has been on the MGF scene for a long time and is associated with the Highlander events and the old Central Scotland MGF region. He has recently taken ownership of an 85th Anniversary TF and is keen to get like-minded owners together. Look out for further details but in the meantime, he can be contacted on Scotland@mgfregister.org
Leicestershire – Steve White currently runs the Heart of England group but is also not far from Leicestershire and is setting up a new region to cover this area shortly. Look out for social media soon but in the meantime, he can be contacted on Leics@mgfregisster.org

We have also a vacancy to take over the Lancashire Region where Neil Rushton has retired from MG life. If you live in the Manchester/Lancashire area and would like to run a Region then please get in touch.
Likewise, if you live in the Merseyside/Cheshire area where our current incumbent, Simon Davies, is looking to step down soon.
If you are interested in these roles or would like to help the club out by running a social group in your area (if it’s not already covered) then please contact Tim Morris at regions@mgfregister.org.

This year, due to Covid, we have held our annual photo competition in a different way. Rather than photos being submitted for judging as normal we put them on an event Facebook page and asked members to “Like” the pictures that they….liked. However we did ask that the photos were taken during the year in the usual way, albeit there were not that many opportunities. Nonetheless some great shots were entered with around 65 photos to be perused.

The overall winner was Marc Pearson with a colour coordinated shot of his monogram TF. The other winners were:- Alan Bradley, Tim Rowe, Leigh Crane, Ian Wright, Kim Tiller, Anne Ogden, Mark Humpage, David Coulthard and Nigel May.

Next year we hope to be able to get out and about some more and can return to our normal style of professionally judged competition.

Thanks to Ian Wright for organising this competition at the last minute!

All the photos have been included in a downloadable calendar which you can print off at home.

Despite the Coronavirus we are beginning to plan for 2021 and three events plus the AGM are now announced and available to be booked.

Sat 6th March – MGF Register AGM – ZOOM. This year we will be holding our AGM via Zoom. It starts at 11am on Saturday 3rd March and you must be an MG Car Club member to attend. Please email Jane Parry at Secretary@mgfregister.org if you wish to be sent the Zoom link closer to the date.

17th-18th April – Chairman’s Weekend. A night away at the Sedgebrook Hall Hotel near Northampton featuring a buffet lunch, afternoon road run, evening dinner, breakfast and optional visit to the Northampton & Lamport Steam Railway on Sunday.

July 24th/25th MGF25 – Postponed from 2020 the show will take place at the Brtish Motor Museum on the Saturday with an evening birthday party at the Museum and an anniversary run to Coombe Abbey on Sunday using some of the original 1995 press route. More info at www.mgf25.org.

20th-22nd August – England’s Rose Camping Weekend. A weekend of fun and games under canvas in the back garden of the England’s Rose pub at Postcombe in the Chilterns. It will be a lovely Summer and you can bask under a balmy night sky nestled in the English Hills.

To enquire about any of these events please email Ian Wright at events@mgfregister.org

The MGF Register has recently opened up a YouTube channel and needs subscribers! Take a look at the channel here:- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBKVuVzaYznHFE_PetcIKYw/

The aim of the channel is to host archive videos of MGF Register events and some original MG Rover material about the MGF. Eventually it is hoped that we can begin to create some original video material to go hand in hand with our quarterly magazine, FasTForward.

The channel hosts video including some Pride of Longbridge Rallies, MGFests and more local runs that were filmed as well.

The latest video to be added is a Brooklands Members production – the pilot episode of Spinning Wheels from 2017 which featured MGF Register president Tim Morris and his 2000MY MGF at Brooklands. Tim is also a member of the BM.tv production team and this video was used to try out locations and styles for future episodes.

We are busy building a new website to make it easy to keep up to date with the content you have enjoyed in previous versions and more……we hope!

This may take some time so please do bear with us as we learn to navigate our way around the site before you can enjoy it.

The links will take you to pages on the old site prior to their migration to this one but the information is still relevant. Gradually they will move over into the new format.