** HEADS UP - WE MAY HAVE A PROBLEM **
Hi all
This week I received an email from our contact at the museum. As some of you may have known, last year they received a large grant enabling them to do a much needed shuffle round, refit and upgrade of many of the display items and add some new ones over the winter closed period. It now becomes apparent that the original plan we were basing our space on last year has somewhat changed between then and now, and the big space made for us where they were going to wheel that plane outside for the day is now no longer available. At the moment he is not quite sure where we are going to go, certainly a space as big as 50ft x 50ft as we had originally discussed just isn't there. Great for the museum of course but a bit of a nightmare for us, and nobody in the exhibition team thought to mention it to the events team in the meantime (as presumably they were unaware of our booking).
They reopen at the end of the month for the new season, so I'll be heading over at my first convenient opportunity (work pattern permitting) to have a look at the "new arrangement" and see whether it's still practical for our meet. If it's a complete no-hoper then we have no choice but to cancel, if it's a smaller space but practical then I'll take some images and put it to the vote as to what we do, options may include a new venue (although at this late stage it may be difficult), squeezing into the space we have by reducing some of the modules where people are bringing multiples, and abandoning the May date completely with looking towards rescheduling something later in the year.
Knowing that some of you are travelling quite the distance to be with us, I wanted to alert you now just in case you were about to book accommodation, vans, flights and whatever.
I'll keep you updated as soon as I have more information.
'Nut