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PRESS OFFICER’S REPORT FEBRUARY – MARCH 2026  

The Register’s Press Office has been busy in the last month preparing and issuing the first press releases to the national Classic Car press and the Cornish Press and Media.

1: 2026 National – The “teaser” first press release went out on 4th February. This went to all the national classic car press and all the local press and media that covers Cornwall. This has appeared in various Cornish weekly papers and in various Classic Car publications. The next press release will go out in mid Apriland final pre week one in early May. 

2: Atlantic Garage Blue Plaque – The finished plaque is with me and all we need to do now is sort a suitable date for the unveiling in Weston Super Mare. This is in hand.

3: The Triumph 3000 that was reported on in a feature in Classics Magazine in January 2023. Following the further research I did on this, which is lodged in the Register archives, I have written an article on this for Classics World magazine to follow up on their article, so they can update readers and I sent this in to the editor, Paul Wager on 22 January. He confirmed that this will appear over several pages with photos – not sure when but a real result!

4: Classics World started what is going to be an occasional regular feature in their previous issue to the latest one, about how two people met and changed the course of motoring history. They naturally started with Rolls and Royce meeting in Manchester. I hit upon an idea to follow this up with the founder of Triumph, Siegfried Bettmann meeting ColonelHolbrook at the start of WW1 which subsequently led to Holbrook joining Triumph after the war and the two of them heading a company that produced the first sporting saloon cars, for which Triumph became world famous. Watch this space!

5: NextGen – Classic Car Weekly have started running a series of one page articles called “Next Generation Diaries”where they feature a younger classic car enthusiast’s car. Having seen the first two I got in touch with the editor about NextGen and could they feature one of our members cars. Hehas responded favourably and passed it over to the Features Editor, Chris Hope who runs this page. In the meantime I contacted Keiron who has suggested we use Jake Witor’s car and Jake has given me all the information and pictures so he and I can put together the article to send to Chris Hope.

Chris Hope has been in touch with me and is happy to feature Jake’s car so I have now put together the article with Jake and sent it into Chris. Jake have been in communication with him and was told the article will feature in Classic Car Weekly on 4 February. It did not, nor on 11 February. I understand that it is now being featured on 1 April and have advised Jake.

The Register Needs YOU!

Yes you, not somebody else. Several members of the Register’s Management Team are retiring this year, and in order to keep the club running we need to fill these upcoming vacancies.As your editor mentioned in the December magazine, and as I mentioned in the “Ask the President” discussion following last year’s AGM, we need some new blood to help to manage the club going forward. I’m sad to say that we haven’t had any significant offers of help as a result of those appeals.The Chairman, Deputy Chairman and Advertising Editor will all be retiring at this year’s AGM. Also, as you will have seen elsewhere, the editor is laying down his pen at the end of the year. Many members of the existing Management Team have been helping to run the club for a good few years, and some of them surely deserve a rest after all their hard work.

So come on guys, there are more than 500 UK main members in the Register, and so surely there must be people out there with the motivation and skills required to help run our amazing club?The alternative doesn’t bear thinking about: if there aren’t enough people willing to run the club then it will cease to exist, which would be extremely sad for all of us. For example, I have been a member since 1982, President since 2003 and a member of the Management Team for the vast majority of that time. I have of course witnessed many changes over the years, but one thing has been consistent – the enthusiasm of those running the club and helping it to progress as the years go by. We’re a friendly bunch, and we try to remember that this is an enjoyable hobby, not a business.

We plan to reduce the number of company directors in order to make running the club easier. If you were dissuaded from offering your help because you didn’t fancy being a company director, then that’s good news – most members of the Management Team will no longer need to be on the Board.

If you’re interested in helping to run the club, please get in touch with me, the President, in the first instance. My contact details are inside the front cover of SIXappeal, or you can email me by following this link.

You won’t be dropped in at the deep end – we will ease you in gently! Some posts, such as Advertising Editor, would be suited to a new recruit. But the new Chairman is most likely to be elected from among those who have served the club for a number of years, as they will have the requisite knowledge and experience.

We have recently produced a new set of job descriptions, which summarise the responsibilities of each role in the Management Team and the skill set required in order to undertake it. I will gladly send a copy to anyone who is interested in joining us.

Andy Roberts
President
February 2026

Board Changes

At the AGM on 16th June, most of the Board Members were re-elected and retain their previous roles; there were, however, a few changes. Malcolm Stewart is relinquishing his responsibilities as Treasurer and as an interim arrangement, Maggie Roberts has volunteered to take over as Acting Treasurer until a permanent replacement can be found. Dave Harvey has resigned after 9 years service, but he has kindly agreed to continue as Technical Secretary. Amanda Radford has resigned after 15 years service and until a replacement can be found, Colin Radford, our Chairman, has volunteered to take on her previous role as Advertising Editor. A list of Board Members and other Register Members who contribute to the smooth running of the club can be found under “The Club/Who’s Who”.

The Triumph 2000/2500/2.5 Register Club Insurance

Following a discussion at a recent board meeting, I reviewed our club’s public liability insurance to make sure it still covered what we needed it to. It does, so that is all good.

But, it occurred to me that many of you won’t know what this is for or what it means for you as members, so I thought a small explanation might help.

So, your club carries public liability insurance. We have to because we arrange and organise events. In the unlikely event that at our National, for example, someone gets hurt by something that the club has arranged or is involved with, our insurance is there to protect the club and its membership from any potential claims for damages.

Same thing at the big shows like the NEC, we have to have millions of pounds worth of public liability insurance in case, for example, a member of the public trips over our flag base and hurts themselves, the insurance is there to cover any potential costs rather than the club or the members or the Directors being personally liable.

As members, this cover extends to you as well. But ONLY if you are an official Register event.

As a local group, which many of you are active members of, if you organise and run a stand at a local show, then this is an official Register show and therefore you are covered by our public liability insurance. Local Group Leaders, if you need a copy of our certificate for this, please contact me on shows@triumph2000register.co.uk and I will forward you a PDF copy that you can print out if you need it. This must be by Group Leaders only as they are Club Officials.

However, please note. If you attend a show as a private individual, ie not part of an organised Register stand, then your own car insurance needs to be sufficient to cover this. Normally this isn’t an issue but its worth just checking what you have and if it is sufficient. The Register public liability insurance does not cover private individuals at events.

I hope that makes sense, fi you have any questions about this please get in touch but I hope this explains what we have in place and what you need to do.

Alan

Long Service Awards

We have just started to send out long service stickers (green for 30 years, red for 40 years) to those of you who have been members for a long time. It is very gratifying to know that we have so many long-standing members; if you are one of them (140 in total – wow) then thank you ever so much for your loyalty! Special thanks – or perhaps it should be commiserations – to the 18 members who have been with us for 40 years or more. If you qualify for a sticker, it will be sent out with your membership card when you renew (we don’t send them out separately in order to save on our ever increasing postage costs). You will get mentioned in the “Order of Service” list in the issue of SIXappeal immediately after your membership is renewed. This may mean that you don’t receive your sticker or see your name in print immediately – but please be patient, your turn will come!

Membership Subscription Changes

As you may have seen in SIXappeal, and as those who attended the AGM and heard the President talk about finances will know, the Register Board has had to make some very important and difficult decisions of late. Due to the ever increasing cost of materials, printing and in particular postage, the club was starting to run at a financial loss. That situation is obviously not sustainable, so changes were needed. After many hours of discussion the Board decided that membership subscriptions, the club’s main source of income, would have to be increased.

From 1st September 2023, annual membership subscription rates will be:
    • UK                                £35
    • Europe                       £40
    • Rest of the World  £50
Family membership (another member living at the same address) will still be £3 and the joining fee will remain at £6 (this will still be waived if joining or re-joining at one of the shows supported by the Register). There will also be a £4 discount available for taking out a two-year subscription.

For the very first time we will be offering Digital Membership, where you will receive your copy of SIXappeal electronically instead of getting a hard copy in the post. This will cost just £25, wherever in the world you live.

We still believe that membership of the Register is excellent value for money, with our award-winning magazine SIXappeal published six times a year, access to preferential insurance rates and benefits via our preferred broker Cherished Vehicle Insurance Services, discounts at spares suppliers and the National Week every year that is the envy of many other classic car clubs.

This wasn’t an easy decision for the Board to make, but subscription rates have remained the same for many years; the new subscription rates are one of the many ways in which we are trying to improve our financial footing.