Centre Rallies Booklet Feb Magazine

Searching for the rallies on here as suggested is an absolute nightmare.

You need to search by date and destination not which centre is running it.

This function used to be really good on the old website but has been completely ruined and is useless now unless you have 2 hours to read through everything.

Also, does anyone actually proof read the rallies added as the dates are totally out on some.

Hi All

To search for centre rallies click here and then click on the Centre Rallies & Events tab. You don't need to put a location or date range in, just click the Find Events box and it should display a total of 2076 (as of now) but it will show some from earlier in the year. To avoid it displaying past events/rallies put the date range from 1st March to 31st December and it will display 1883.

Hope this helps some more.

Best Wishes

Tracy

All the rallies are painstakingly added by an unpaid volunteer of the particular Centres.  I think the closing date was 25th November 2016.  The data base entry system is up to the normal and standard IT level of the C&MHC and is cumbersome and long winded and without an edit facility.  So if the data is added wrongly or any details change you have to get in touch with the C&MHC for them to update or amend assuming it was before 25th November.

That's all well and good if you know when you wan to go, but if you have a place you want to go and a date you want to go it takes forever to find it.

Tracy, I think what we are all missing is a search by county location. If I want to find  a rally in a particular county I have to trawl through all the other events listed by date input all over the UK. It's nice to think there are over 2000 rallies but it was easier to search by county and date previously. This would bring up different centres doing rallies in the same area.

Not quite what we are asking for, if for instance we want to visit, say, Broadway the we could be searching several Centres before either, finding a suitably located rally or, nothing at all.  The search process offered last year was much more efficient, we identify where we wanted to go then approach the Centre concerned.

For me I've given up looking to the detriment to both me and the Centre running an appropriately located rally.  More likely to attend a C&CC rally as they are easier to find.

If you know where you want to go and which county it is in, or which centre you want to go with then you are better off looking at that particular centres website, if there are any changes they are more likely to be on there too (or even if the rally is full already).

Incidentally, many centres also have a list in their rally books of 'Other Centres Rallying in their Area' too, so if they are not doing anything on the dates you want - maybe someone else is, and you can then look up their website too.

Alison

Nice to see in the latest magazine that the club has published an apology for missing some centres rallies from the booklet. Let's hope they fix the systems to prevent the same happening next year. In the meantime if you are interested in a North Yorkshire rally please look on the centre website. www.northyorkshirecentre.co.uk

I think that the club only send printed lists out to registered centre members.  This year they were probably far too involved in re-branding to worry about things like including all Centre's rallies in the list.  As Centres form only a small percentage of the Club membership, perhaps this also has something to do with it.