Mission Motorsport Jaguar F-Type SVR @ William Medcalf Vintage Bentley "Drive Out"

Certainly an unusually decorated car at the Drive Out event at William Medcalf Vintage Bentley... the Mission Motorsport Jaguar F-Type SVR with distinctive poppy wrap...

UKMT's Graham Benge spoke to Ben Norfolk about how Mission Motorsport (the Forces' Motorsport Charity) uses motorsport to provide opportunities for those affected by military operations.

For more information:

http://vintagebentley.com/

http://www.missionmotorsport.org/

HELP for HEROES 4x4 EUROPEAN RALLY 2012

Fundraising has never looked so interesting!

2000 miles 4x4 driving across Europe... Starting with some of the roads and byways of Salisbury Plain, an overnight ferry crossing lands you deep in the history of the D-Day invasion and the liberation of Europe in 1944-5... Pegasus Bridge (and its excellent museum)... St-Marie du Pont.... Utah Beach.... St. Mere Eglise....

The route, taking in many significant locations of great historical interest including the 'Western Front' of WWI, takes the HELP for HEROES 4x4 EUROPEAN RALLY all the way to Adolf Hitler’s Alpine retreat at Berchtesgaden in the German Bavarian Alps.

Since it was first run in 2010, the award winning HELP for HEROES 4x4 EUROPEAN RALLY has raised well over £330,000 for the charity.

The third running of the rally will start on 16th June 2012 from Littlecote House Hotel, North Wiltshire. This 2000 mile family friendly non-speed touring assembly is a meander through 6 European countries over 12 days. With a maximum of 45 teams, it is a part military history tour (including War Graves cemeteries, historic sites, museums etc) and will include some fun challenges, off-road driving (on public roads as well as private land) and social elements. It is open to road-legal 4x4 vehicles. Serving and ex-military entries are welcome, as are civilians and families.

For information and further details please visit www.h4hrally.co.uk or contact the organisers via email info@h4hrally.co.ukor call them on (Tim) 07917 097374 / (Keith) 07766 712851.

HELP for HEROES 4x4 EUROPEAN RALLY thanks their partners; Jaguar Land Rover, o2, The AA, Brittany Ferries, DFDS Seaways, Skytag, Cambrian Fuel Card Services, The GGR Group, CWGC, DTS Terberg UK, Marshall Military Sales, Domino’s Pizza, Warner Leisure Hotels.

Automobilia at Bonhams "December Sale"

Useful Links:

Bonhams Auctioneers	www.Bonhams.com
Wings For Life UK	www.WingsForLife.com
Mercedes Benz World	www2.mercedes-benz.co.uk
Brooklands Museum	www.BrooklandsMuseum.com

Breaking up is hard to do..? Not with this charity.

We've recently become Twitter friends with an innovative charity called Giveacar and they asked us if we'd mind passing on some information about what they do.

Only too glad we said.

So, over to Hardeep Grewal from Giveacar to tell you how you can offload your beloved/knackered pride&joy/rusty heap gratis and know that you're helping others into the bargain..

It may be the car you have faithfully driven for a decade at a particular speed to conserve petrol - a tool to get from A to B.

You don’t speed up before red lights.

Maybe it is the type of car you walk back to after a stop at the supermarket to find a young couple taking turns to pose with it.

It might be the car Lewis Hamilton drove to success at F1.

One day it will become a scrap car, sad but true. That is where Giveacar come in to make the difficult (sniff) process easier to handle. They have a positive spin for you...donate your scrap car to charity and have 85% of the weight of the car recycled.

How? Just call Giveacar who will arrange the scrapping of your car at an Authorised Treatment Facility, provide you with a Certificate of Destruction, donate the scrap or auction value to a charity of your choice and that will cost you...nothing.

And, it’s completely free.

The scheme is innovative and regulated by the Fundraising Standards Board. If you search ‘Giveacar’ in Google you will get a long list of recommendations from newspapers, councils, radios and charities.

This is a firm with two goals: dispose of cars correctly and donate the proceeds. Car donation is already a million dollar industry in the US and it is heading that way in the UK. Giveacar have processed over 1000 cars and last month alone raised over £30,000 for charity.

They pick up any car anywhere in the UK.

Don’t let your car be cherry-picked for parts or become a problem for the environment. It is classed ‘hazardous waste’ for a reason.

Donate your car today or bear the scheme in mind for when you, or a friend, need to scrap a car.

Take a look at our website at http://www.giveacar.co.uk/ or call us on 0200 011 1664.

Hardeep Grewal - Marketing Executive, Giveacar Ltd