Midlands AGM Event

This year there is keen interest from members looking to join the committee. Therefore, this will be the perfect opportunity if you would like to stand to be elected on the day or see who is to be elected and champion the region going forwards.

On the day we have Herd Group attending who have kindly sponsored the event and will provide a talk on their fleet management solutions. Learn how to run a more efficient, cost-effective fleet with smart fleet management strategies. They will cover fleet procurement, maintenance, and lifecycle management to help you reduce downtime and maximise profitability.

The museum will be sharing insight into their sustainability journey, providing a talk on what they have implemented so far.

There will also be plenty of time to network on the day, finishing with a guided tour of the British Motor Museum which holds the world’s largest collection of historic British Cars.

Schedule on the day    

11:30am Arrival, room: South Wing 4

11:45am AGM

12:15pm Herd Sponsor Talk, Making Your Fleet Work for You with Danielle Davison, Group Commercial Director

1:00pm Sandwich lunch

1:20pm Biodiversity Talk & Sustainability at the Museum with Zoe Anderson 

1:40pm Biodiversity talk, Jamie Langlands RHS Gold winning Lead Designer, Oxford Garden Design

2:00pm Museum Tour

3:00pm Finish

Herd

The Herd Group offer the most comprehensive range of commercial vehicles and fleet solutions available on the market. Founded in 2014, the group have expanded rapidly to include several brands – Herd Business, Herd Connect and Herd Approved.

Offering a ‘cradle to grave’ fleet mobility solution with services such as flexible vehicle rental, service and maintenance, vehicle tracking, accident, and management, alongside end of vehicle life services to maximise resale values of owned vehicles.

They have built the business with three clear principles in mind. One to offer the most comprehensive range of commercial vehicle and fleet solutions available. Two, to keep things admirably simple and straightforward for everyone involved. And three, our commitment to providing exceptional customer care and a can-do attitude to everything we do – nothing is ever too much.

Oxford Garden Design

Oxford Garden Design, design and build gardens for people to love! They are a Garden Design, Garden Landscaping and Garden Maintenance company, based in Witney, Oxfordshire. Their garden designers have the ideas and inspiration to create a garden that will delight.

They listen to your issues, to your likes and to your dreams and will combine this with their expertise and knowledge to deliver a garden that you will enjoy for many years. Their professional landscaping team can dig beds, build walls, prepare and lay lawns, put up fences, install water features and garden lighting schemes, lay patios, paths and install decking to create major features in your perfect garden. Their experienced horticulturalists and grounds staff look after and maintain all sorts of shapes and sizes of gardens from lawns and borders to tree care, ensuring that you can enjoy your garden all year round. They are passionate about creating the very best gardens for our clients, whether they are working with a large country garden, an urban space or a completely new space.

British Motor Museum

The British Motor Museum is home to the world’s largest collection of historic British cars; it boasts over 400 cars in its collection which span the classic, vintage and veteran eras. The Museum opened in 1993 as the amalgamation of the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust’s preserved car collection.
The Trust decided that the car collection and artefacts were outgrowing its then two locations, Studley in Warwickshire and a museum in Syon Park in London. A dedicated purpose-built residence was needed to give the collection pride of place and open for public viewing.

It was the Trust’s mission to keep the memory of the British motor industry alive and to tell its story to all, starting from the beginning of the 20th Century to present day. So a building was designed that not only housed the cars and its extensive motoring archive, but also had educational and conference facilities thus ensuring its sustainability. The Heritage Motor Centre, as it was first known, opened in May 1993.

With the British Motor Industry Heritage Trusts car collection nearing 300 vehicles and display space within the Museum at a premium, its reserve collection was largely kept unseen, in storage.

It had long been the Trusts plan to build a storage facility that would allow public access to all of its collection, and in 2013 a Heritage Lottery grant, and funding from Jaguar Land Rover, The Garfield Weston Foundation as well as British Motor Industry Heritage Trust and the Jaguar Heritage Trust, made the dream a reality.
The Collections Centre opened in November 2015 as a store for the reserve car collections of both the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust and the Jaguar Heritage Trust.

In the winter of 2015, the Museum underwent a further £1.1million refurbishment, dramatically changing the layout of the exhibitions with fresh and interactive interpretation. With its recent Designated Status and new look Museum, the Trust took the opportunity to change the Museums name from the Heritage Motor Centre to something that more accurately portrays the visitor experience as well as its position and status and so, the British Motor Museum was born.