Training days – January 2024 at Donington Park

Sunday 14th January 2024

To register for this training day, click on the link below-

https://forms.gle/e7mVmB9FQ4XRytXA8

This day is for Fully Licensed and Trainee Rescue Crew.

If you are interested in becoming a part of the Donington Rescue team then please email Nick Anslow at nick@doningtonesteam.org.uk Your current grade is not important but you do need to have had at least two years Marshalling experience.

Help needed – for this training day we also need two or three willing volunteers to act as injured drivers who need to be extricated from simulated incidents. If you would like to help with this then please email Steve at m.training@marshals.co.uk – but note, given the time of year this can be cold and wet.

Saturday 27th January 2024

To register for this training day, click on the link below –

https://forms.gle/qt5J6HPSkse96UHV6

This day is for the following grades:

1. Track Trainee (including: Just starting and Registered marshal) intending to:

Upgrade to Grade 1 Track Marshal, or for refresher training

2. Off Track Trainee (including Just starting and Registered marshal) intending to:

Upgrade to Grade 1 Off Track Marshal, or for refresher training

3. Upgrade to Grade 2 or Grade conversion

Upgrade to Grade 2 Incident from Grade 1 Track

Upgrade to Grade 2 Flag from Grade 1 Track

or

Conversion from Grade 2 – Incident to Flag or Flag to Incident

Upgrade to Grade 2 Off Track from Grade 1 Off Track

Do Grade 2 refresher (Incident or Flag or Off Track) training

Sunday 28th January 2024

To register for this training day, click on the link below:

https://forms.gle/RAbj71zc4ysKZ7HAA

This day is for the following grades:

1. Track Trainee (including: Just starting and Registered marshal) intending to:

Upgrade to Grade 1 Track Marshal, or for refresher training

2. Off Track Trainee (including Just starting and Registered marshal) intending to:

Upgrade to Grade 1 Off Track Marshal, or for refresher training

3. Grade 2 Incident intending to:

Upgrade to Grade 3 Post Chief or Incident Officer

Do refresher Training

4. Grade 2 Flag intending to:

Upgrade to Grade 3 Post Chief or Incident Officer

Do refresher Training

5. Grade 2 Off Track intending to:

Upgrade to Grade 3 Post Chief or Incident Officer

Do refresher Training

Once you have volunteered you will get an automated response – please take care to enter a correct email address as the response and final information will go to the email address given. Final instructions will be emailed during the week before the event.

Help needed – For the 27th and 28th we also need a small number of Experienced or Grade 2 or grade 3 marshals to assist with the setup and running of the Practical Fire Training sessions – on both 27th and/or 28th. If this is something you’d like to help with then please use the relevant volunteering links (a separate link for each day) selecting ‘Trainer/Organising Team’. However, you can’t help on a day that you are going to attend to receive training. If you have any queries then please contact me at m.training@marshals.co.uk

Thank You

Steve Allison.

Midlands Region Training Coordinator.

https://www.marshals.co.uk/midlands/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2023/08/2023-10-11-BMMC-Midlands-65th-AGM-Notification.pdf

Email sent out this week –

Dear Member,

You are invited to this year’s Midland Regional AGM, which will take place in the Media Suite at Donington Park at 8:00pm on Wednesday 11th October 2023. It will be a face-to-face meeting only. The agenda is attached.

The Media Suite will be open from 7:00pm, and we aim to provide Tea & Coffee and also Cake for all attendees. This is to allow time before the formal meeting for attendees to chat between themselves about matters motorsport or not as they see fit.

All Midlands members are welcome, but if you are planning to attend then please drop me an email at m.secretary@marshals.co.uk so that I know to send you a copy of the 2023 Committee report in advance, and also to make sure that we don’t run short on supplies of cake!

Message from Steve and Julie Hill, our fantastic organisers.

It is our 25th anniversary of the BMMC Sprint at Curborough on May 6th 2023. The event is a round of the Curborough Championship and the Caterham Lotus 7 Club. We run a mixed bag of vehicles from mini’s to Van Diemans and everything in between. With an age range of competitors from seventeen to seventy seven… All profit goes back to Marshals training from the BMMC and we very much appreciate the time given by the volunteers for their event.

Over the years we have been well supported and our thanks go to those who turn out year after year for us but we always make a new face welcome and then hope that they then return. Many individuals are involved with making this event the success it has become and again our thanks and gratitude to those who give there time so freely to support our orange army!

They really are the most important cog in our wheel so why not come along and see grass roots motorsport at its best! All volunteering via the BMMC website or direct to hulljulie@btinternet.com and we look forward to another year with a sea of orange.

For those needing a bit more help knowing where to go on arrival at Donington, a fellow marshal has provided the following Google Map giving you everything you need! Looking forward to seeing you all in 2023.

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1i8LP04bdZ8WgBMMaHBdEpnWSxys8pxHb&ll=52.830914216353%2C-1.3800011001220613&z=15

Click on the correct link below to register for your training day.

Saturday 28^th Jan.

Track / Race Trainee (including: Novice, Just starting, Registered marshal) intending to:

• Upgrade to Track Marshal / Grade 1 Race Marshal, or
• Do refresher training

Specialist / Off Track Trainee (including Novice, Just starting, Registered marshal) intending to:

• Upgrade to Specialist Marshal / Grade 1 Off Track Marshal, or
• Do refresher Training

Flag (including those holding that grade and those wishing to upgrade from Experienced)

• Upgrade / Conversion to Flag
• Flag Grade Maintenance

Incident Officer (including those holding that grade and those wishing to upgrade from Experienced)

• Upgrade / Conversion to IO
• IO Grade Maintenance

Link:

https://forms.gle/BHkSrPPswrTSJYLd8

Sunday 29^th Jan.

Track / Race Trainee (including: Novice, Just starting, Registered marshal) intending to:

• Upgrade to Track Marshal / Grade 1 Race Marshal, or 
• Do refresher training

Track / Race Grade 1 and 2 Race Marshal intending to:

• Grade 1 – Upgrade to Experienced Race Marshal / Grade 2 Track Marshal, or 
• Existing Experienced /  Grade 2 – Grade maintenance

Specialist / Off Track Grade 1 and 2  intending to: 

• Upgrade / Conversion to Experienced Specialist / Off Track Grade 2  or 
• Existing Experienced / Grade 2 – Grade maintenance

Link:

https://forms.gle/9FKRYsAUTfAhgQQVA

A joint party has been organised with the Donington ES Team on Saturday 18th February 2023.

Join us for a non-formal family event – all welcome!

Times are 18:30 to 23:00 ish.

Location is planned for Donington Park Launch Pad (tbc).

There will be a raffle, awards, food, quiz and disco.

Food will be coordinated nearer the time, requesting you all bring an item of food with you.

Spaces are limited, so secure your place early by contacting: –

Mel: admin@doningtonesteam.org.uk

or

Joe & Aimee: m.bmmcevents@hotmail.com.

64th Annual General Meeting

Wednesday 23rd November 2022 7:30 p.m.

This year we are delighted to be reverting to a face-to-face AGM, which will be held at Donington. We considered trying to also provide a virtual link for those of you who are unable to attend in person. However, it is our view that the experience would be very poor and therefore not worth doing.

Please click here for the formal notice / agenda.

If you would like to attend, please register by clicking the button below by Wednesday 16th November 2022. You will then receive details of the venue, a copy of the Agenda, the Committee’s 2022 Report and the minutes of the 2021 AGM a few days before the meeting.

Our first 3 taster days are now confirmed for 2022, dates are as follows:

2nd April

18th June

9th July

If you know of anyone interested in joining us for a taster day, please ask them to visit the BMMC Website and click on Book a Marshal’s Taster Day.

You will also need to register with Motorsport UK who also have some great online Marshals Training.

We look forward to seeing you all out and about in the Midlands!

Marshals for the forthcoming BMMC and Lotus 7s Sprints at Curborough on Saturday August 29^th and Sunday 30^th respectively. Marshals are required for either or both days.

If you haven’t marshalled at a Sprint event before, come along – you’ll be well looked after.

Due to the current circumstances we will not be able to accept marshals on the day, so if you are available and would like to assist, please volunteer to Steve & Julie Hill (hilljulie@btinternet.com) as soon as possible, but no later than Sunday 23^rd August.