Further £10,000 presented to Lincolnshire & Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance



Committee Chairman Rick Hall with Lincolnshire &
Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance Fundraiser Barry Daff

Members of the organising committee of the hugely successful BRM Day, held last October, gathered on Wednesday evening to present a cheque for £10,000 to Barry Daff, local volunteer fund raiser, on behalf of the Lincolnshire & Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance. Chairman of the BRM Day Committee, Rick Hall, said, “With this further presentation we have so far been able to donate a total of £50,000 to the two charities benefitting from the event, the Air Ambulance and Bourne Outdoor Pool. The commemorative DVD of the day, which is available through the BRM Day website continues to bring in further funds which in due course will provide further donations to both charities. It is somehow appropriate that we make this donation today for only in the last fortnight the Air Ambulance landed in Bourne twice to bring vital assistance to sick and injured persons. I could also say, that with the current hot spell, the Outdoor Pool has also brought relief to many people!”

Barry, in accepting the cheque on behalf of the Air Ambulance said, “The Air Ambulance is totally funded by voluntary donations and we are really overwhelmed by the donation of £25,000 from BRM Day. It is to the credit of, not only the organising committee, but also the whole town of Bourne, who so wholeheartedly embraced the event and helped make this magnificent donation possible. For a town of its size, the people of Bourne must be amongst the most generous in Lincolnshire in their support of our cause”.

Further £10,000 Donation made to the Bourne Outdoor Pool

Under a beautiful clear blue sky, reminiscent of BRM Day itself, the committee were delighted to attend the official opening of Bourne Outdoor Pool on Saturday 25^th May and to be able to present a further donation of £10,000 to the Pool Committee. BRM Day Chairman, Rick Hall, said “With today’s donation we have been able to donate £25,000 to the Pool which together with a generous donation of £15,000 from The Len Pick Trust has paid for urgently needed repairs to the structure of the pool and will ensure the continued existence of this wonderful facility for the town for many years. When we started to plan BRM Day we decided that our event would not only celebrate the BRM & Graham Hill’s victory in 1962 but also had to provide a significant community benefit. Today is part of the delivery of that benefit. We are so lucky to have the Pool in Bourne and we are delighted that the event has helped to ensure that it will continue to be part of the fabric of our town for many years to come. We are also delighted that we will be shortly presenting a further cheque for a similar amount to the Lincs & Notts Air Ambulance. To raise a total of £50,000 for our two nominated charities from the event has really exceeded our wildest hopes”. 

Mandy Delaine-Smith, Chair of the Pool Committee said, “I just don’t know what to say, at the end of last season we knew we had a big problem with the floor of the Pool, we knew what needed to be done but it was just beyond our resources and then thanks to BRM Day and the Len Pick Trust, here we are without sounding corny – firing on all cylinders! It’s just unbelievable and we are so grateful”

Pictured are Rick Hall, BRM Day Committee Chairman, Ranna Patel Chair of the Len Pick Trust and Mandy Delaine-Smith Chair of Bourne Outdoor Pool Trust in front of a BRM P261 car at the presentation.

 

BRM Day DVD Now Available

The BRM Day Committee are delighted to announce that the official commemorative DVD of the event is now available for purchase.

You can buy the DVD online on our website, at www.brdmay.co.uk, or at one of the following places in Bourne:

• Baldock's Mill
• Double & Megson
• Gordon's Photographic
• Quentin Marks
• Rutland Sports
• Stephen Knipe & Co

The DVD is available at a cost of £10 (plus £2 P&P for online orders), with all proceeds being donated to the two event charities. 

DVD LAUNCH - SATURDAY, 23rd MARCH 2013

The BRM Day Committee are pleased to announce that the BRM Day DVD will be available from Saturday, 23rd March 2013

The organisers of the hugely successful Bourne BRM Day, held last October which attracted a crowd over of 25,000 to the town, are delighted to announce that production of a commemorative DVD of the day has now been completed and will be available for sale from Saturday 23^rd March.

Rick Hall, Chairman of the event’s organising committee said, “The DVD has been compiled by the committee utilising footage taken on the day by enthusiasts who have freely donated to the project and is interspersed with interviews of some of the personalities so important to the story of BRM. We not only wanted to produce a permanent reminder of the event but also capture something of the fantastic community spirit which the event engendered and I think that we have achieved this”. The DVD lasts for 56 minutes and also includes an additional bonus feature comprising a large collection of magnificent atmospheric still photos showing some of the ‘behind the scenes’ shots of the day as well as photos of the action.

The sale of the DVD will commence at the offices of Stephen Knipe & Co at 1a Abbey Road at 9.00 am on Saturday 23^rd March with a promotional launch and thereafter will be available for purchase on the BRM Day website (www.brmday.co.uk) at a cost of £12.00 including postage and packaging as well as being available from a number of shops in the town for direct purchase at a cost of £10.00. The entire proceeds from the sale of the DVD will be shared between the two main charities that have already benefited from the event. The Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance and Bourne Outdoor Swimming Pool have each received interim donations of £15,000 and it is expected that these amounts will be increased substantially upon completion of the project.

50 Years on, another win for a Bourne-Based team at the same Circuit!

It must be Christmas…

You can’t believe it! After a year of pure nostalgia celebrating the BRM 1962 world championship victory, former BRM designer and Bourne based Mike Pilbeam, presented a magical Christmas present to the Committee and the town of Bourne when his Pilbeam MP98-Cosworth won the 2012 Border 100 mile event at east London South Africa on the 16^th December, the very race and venue that Graham Hill sealed the 1962 championship victory – almost 50 years on to the day (with Graham Hill winning on 29th December 1962), you couldn’t write a better script!

Many people will remember that the car was kindly demonstrated by Mike to the crowd through the streets of Bourne on BRM Day and we send all our heartiest congratulations to him on his victory. 

Pilbeam Racing, a team based in Bourne, told the town this great news by publishing this Press Release:

'It is fitting that, on the 50th anniversary of BRM's only World Championship victory in 1962, that another Bourne marque should scoop the honours in the blue-riband event at the East London Grand Prix Era Revival meeting in South Africa on 16 December 2012.

On the same track that Graham Hill took his BRM to victory 50 years ago, co-driven by Eddie Keizan and Greg Mills, a Pilbeam MP98-Cosworth won the Border 100 endurance race on debut by more than 40 secs from the second-place Porsche GT3. Veteran Keizan, who drove a privately-entered Tyrrell and Lotus 72 in three GPs in the 1970s, and who returned to the track this year after a 35-year break, said of the brand new Pilbeam ‘It was the first time I have raced a state-of-the-art modern race-car and what a thrilling experience it was. With cantilever suspension, sequential gearbox, slippery aerodynamics, proper down-force and modern race tyres, this is undoubtedly one of the best cars I have ever driven.’ Co-driver Mills, who is spearheading an African effort with Pilbeam for Le Mans in 2014, and who took the first stint, says ‘the MP98 is a car without any vices. But not only is it easy to drive, it has obvious speed, especially through the infamous flat-in-sixth Potter’s Pass corner where we could pull away from the bigger-engined cars.’

The first Border 100 mile event in December 1934 was also labelled the first SA Grand Prix. The ninth SA GP was held in December 1962, the first such one, however, that enjoyed world championship status.

Mike Pilbeam made the trip to South Africa with PRD fabricator Justin Cole. He summed up the weekend: ‘The Border 100 gave us a great opportunity to develop the MP98 and the new South African team towards the huge challenge with a new car for Le Mans in 2014. A most enjoyable weekend.’

Completing the historic circle, the Pilbeam pit crew included Bruce Johnstone on his first visit to the East London GP circuit since 1962 when he finished ninth in the GP as the third BRM works driver. He described the little Pilbeam’s performance as ‘memorable’ on ‘a jewel of a race track’.

Issued by Pilbeam Racing Designs, Bourne, 18 December 2012'

The BRM Day Committee would like to congratulate Mike and his team on this fantastic win, and wish them good luck for the 2013 season.

Students enjoy Special BRM Treat

The house photograph taken with a BRM Racing car.

Students from Mays house at local school Bourne Academy enjoyed a special visit on Wednesday, 12th December, to thank them for their hard work packing programme bags in the run up to BRM Day in October.

House members packing bags in October

In the week before the event, the students worked hard to put 15,000 programmes into bags, got them put into boxes, and then helped to load them into a bus provided by committee member Anthony Delaine-Smith to be sold on the day, and the organising committee decided that something had to be done to thank them for all their hard work.

Local racing car restorers Hall & Hall brought a BRM racing car down to the school, so that some Mays house students could be photographed in and around the car.

Hall & Hall Mechanics then started the car, so that the students could see and hear the car in action.

The house takes its name from Raymond Mays, founder of the Bourne-based racing team, and so a photo of house members in front of a BRM is something the house will be able to treasure.

BRM Day Charity Cheque Presentations

The Lincs & Notts Air Ambulance Cheque Presentation

Members of the BRM Day Committee were delighted to be able to present the proceeds of BRM Day to the event's two main charities, the Lincolnshire & Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance Charitable Trust, and the Bourne Outdoor Pool Trust, on Saturday, 8th December 2012.

£15,000 was presented to each charity as a result of the event, which could not have happened without the support of the event sponsors and the public who helped raise money by purchasing event programmes, and by making donations on the day.

The committee began the day by gathering at the Bourne Outdoor Pool, where Committee Chairman Rick Hall presented members of the Bourne Outdoor Pool Trust with their donation from the event. Percy the Penguin Bin, who was found by event committee members after he was stolen from the pool earlier this year, was also in on the action.

The Bourne Outdoor Pool Cheque Presentation

The committee then travelled to RAF Waddington, the base of the Lincolnshire & Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance, where the helicopter hovered over the Yardley BRM to be photographed for the press. The donation will go towards the upkeep of the helicopter, which helps to save lives in the region.

BRM Day Committee Member Richard Bostock said: "Today's cheque presentation's made all the hard work organising the event worthwhile. It is really great to see that the money raised from the event is going to good causes. Hopefully, with the Official DVD expected to be available around Easter, we will be able to continue to raise money for these two great charities"