 We couldn’t have asked for better weather to host 25 apprentices for our 2022 Steam Apprentice Club Driving Weekend! Having not been able to hold the event since 2019, due to Covid, everyone was raring to go and the sunshine made it all that more enjoyable. All apprentices, mentors and parents thoroughly enjoyed the two days and what a fantastic way to spend your weekend.....
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We are very excited to announce....we are now offering online ticket sales via our website! Visit BOOK TICKETS and get yours ordered today. (You will still be able to pay on the day. Pre-booked tickets enable you to fast track entrance and priority parking)  We are starting to get a lot of questions about entry forms, to help answer some of those queries please see the following information...
If you received a 2022 entry form from us after the 2021 cancellation, please return your form asap. Only 2022 forms will be accepted. All exhibits from 2020 that rolled over to 2021 should have received a cancellation letter with the 2022 form, if you haven’t been contacted or returned your 2022 form, please get in touch and check with the section that you are booked in for our 2022 show.
Want to stay with us for the Rally and enjoy the full three day show?
Our 12 acre campsite caters for camping and caravaning, having the benefit of being on site for ease of access to the show area, with tractor bus pick up points. We've updated the campsite section here on our website and are now taking camping applications for our 2022 Rally. Please download and use the form on our CAMPSITE section, or if you have any camping queries, please fill in the contact form and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. NEW for this year, Priority Booking - for those willing to arrive early on the Thursday we now have slots available for priority arrival, all other arrivals are still after 2pm, priority will gain access from 11am. Please note if you applied for public camping for 2020/21 - all applications / payments have been returned/destroyed and therefore you will need to apply again. We very much look forward to seeing you all again this year!  We would like to wish everyone a happy New Year, we're well into January now and it's looking like this year (fingers crossed) we'll be able to start to get back to some sort of normality.
We're planning to go ahead with our 2022 Rally and those of you who rolled over your 2021 entry, should already have 2022 entry forms, if you can please get those back to us by the end of the month, if you haven't already - that would be great, as we'll soon be sending out new entry forms and don't want you to miss out! We're hoping to put on another great show for you all and it'll be great to be back after the last two years being cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. We'll be posting more news as the year goes on, please be patient with us in getting forms out to you and answering your questions, we're a small team working part time and volunteering and we do our best to keep you up to date as much as possible.  EATES Chairman Stuart Hines and Weeting Rally Chairman Richard Parrott. We are pleased to announce exciting news.....East Anglia Traction Engine Society (EATES) will be starting their Route 66 Road Run from Weeting Rally site on Monday 18th July 2022, with our Rally being held on Friday 15th through to Sunday 17th July 2022.
With many events having been cancelled for the last two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic we are very excited and hopeful that 2022 will be a year to remember. EATES Route 66 Road Run will be a delayed celebration of their 66th anniversary of being Britain’s first regional traction engine club. Starting at Weeting Rally site on the Monday they hope to run through to Thetford, then on to Bressingham Steam Museum on the first day. The following day will see the road run carry on to Forncett Steam Museum and ending at the Grange Mechanical Music Collection, the final day will head off to the Mid Suffolk Light Railway and the final stop being Woolpit Rally site. Total miles covered will be 75 and we are very happy to be supporting this road run by being the starting venue. EATES will release further details and entry forms soon. Why not become a member? Visit their website to find out more www.eates.org We look forward to being back next year!  Dear All,
Following an emergency committee meeting with Rally Chairman and Trustees, it is with much sadness in our hearts we announce yet another cancellation of the Weeting Steam Engine Rally & Country Show. The 2021 rally will not be going ahead. It has not been an easy decision, but with the current situation due to the Indian variant of Covid and talk of the Government lockdown easing possibly being pushed back later than 21 June, along with spiralling costs due to the pandemic and unclear advice from the local council, cancelling is our only option. We want to be able to put on a good show and these added risks would prevent us from doing so. We have a duty of care and responsibility and the health and safety of our exhibitors, traders, volunteers and the general public is a priority, especially regarding the concerns of a resurgence of the virus, due to the variant strain and unvaccinated persons. We are very aware of the added impact our event would have on local services, the NHS and all emergency services and do not want to further stretch their capabilities, or put extra strain on anyone involved. We very much appreciate and congratulate all key workers and their efforts throughout this pandemic, over the past year or so it has changed the way we live our lives and go about normal routines. Our section leaders are aware of this decision and will shortly be contacting all exhibitors about 2021 entries, with a letter and invitation to exhibit at our 2022 rally. Traders, Craft and Food stands and Camping will be contacted about your 2021 entries. Again, this is not the outcome that any of us involved in organising the Rally had hoped for, and we’re sure you all feel the same. The decision to cancel has been hard, but as many of you are aware this past year has very much been out of the ordinary. We would like to thank you all for being patient with us in making this decision, and going forward for next year we hope to come back stronger and better than ever. We wish you all the very best for the rest of the year and can’t wait to see you all in 2022, our Rally being held on 15th, 16th and 17th July 2022. Yours sincerely Trustees of the Weeting Steam Engine Rally.  Easing of the Covid-19 lockdown steps seem to be going ahead as planned, and with another step due to take place on 17 May, we are keeping ever hopeful that further steps will be carried out as planned.
We are receiving lots of enquiries about entry forms and hope this little update can answer some of your questions.
We are grateful for your support and do hope we are able to put on a great show for you all, but we are still relying on the restrictions being lifted to make that possible. The rally committee will meet again later this month for further discussions and as always we will keep you up to date as soon as we can. Please use the contact us page for enquiries about entry forms for those sections stated above. We hope you’re all keeping safe and well.
Since the announcement of the lockdown roadmap, our telephones and email have become a hotline! We fully understand your anticipation for getting back out and about to rallies, catching up with friends and being able to resume some sort of normal service. We are hoping for our Rally to go ahead this year, the current Government Covid-19 Response paper, outlines the steps out of lockdown. There is potential for all restrictions to be lifted, at the earliest 21 June 2021. Our committee will be keeping an eye on the easing of lockdown, government advice and guidelines and will be considering our options very carefully as to being able to put on a show for you all to attend safely. We will not be sending out 2021 entry forms, the majority of exhibitors and traders from our cancelled 2020 Rally have already been rolled over to this year. If we do go ahead, the numbers will be looked at and decisions made if further entries will be an option. We will keep you up to date on any news, as soon as we can. Best wishes from us all.  We would have been very busy this week getting ready for the weekend, if only things had been different, due to the on-going circumstances and having to cancel our event this year, things are not quite the same. Covid-19 has taken it's toll across all sectors, including steam related events for the year.
All our 2020 Exhibits and Trade entries should have been contacted by now, and we thank you for your support and understanding and if chosen, rolling over your entry to our 2021 rally. If you have a 2020 entry form and would like to send it in as a 2021 entry, please do, as we are accepting 2020 forms for next year. It's going to be a quiet weekend here without the rally, but we look forward to coming back next year and we hope everyone is keeping safe and well.
 Here at Rally HQ we are very excited to be sharing our NEW website with you.
We now have lots more information included about our Rally, plenty of photos and yet more still to come, it's work in progress for us. Along with working on the new website we are busy planning the show for this year, some of which can be seen here on our exhibits page. This latest news section will keep you up to date with all the goings on, updates and more! Please share our NEW website with your friends and help to spread the word about us. www.weetingrally.co.uk |
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