The History of All Morgans' Day
During the Morgan Motor Companies Centenary Year 2009, Roadster 100 Register Founder David Harris ran a Centenary Event held at Waddesdon Manor, the Rothchild / National Trust French Chateau styled estate. This was held on behalf of the SpotMog MSCC Centre.
Later that year David Purchased R100 No. 001 and contacted me, by then owner of No. 015, to ask him to help set up the register and by the end of the year we had achieved about 10 members.
With R100 production and Sales running well into late 2010 our membership began to grow and it was then that David suggested running a similar event at Waddesdon in 2011.
We decided to call it All Morgans' Day because we wanted it to appeal to All Morgan Owners, particularly those owners not Morgan Sports Car Club Members. And to include Morgan Three Wheeler owners as well. It also had to be run for zero cost which we have managed to maintain.
Originally we hoped to stay at Waddesdon Manor as it provided a fabulous backdrop for photographs, a principle that we have also tried to maintain.
Interestingly, MMC also launched the new M3W Three Wheeler in 2011 and they brought along a non running prototype to put on show next to their stand.
We managed to attract 22 Roadster 100's and a total of 220 Morgans attended. The Event team back then was David, Myself, and owners Philip Loring and Peter Jackson who together managed the parking.
We also decided to fund raise for Help for Heroes through a £5 booking donation and bucket rattling on the day using Army Cadets but sadly the cadets failed to turn up so we only made £1276 from bookings and one bucket. Being slightly embarrassed at this low figure, In 2012 I decided to make a few street collections featuring the car and then decided to drive the Coast of Britain to raise another £3k.
Having previously decided to only hold AMD's every two years, David was inspired to hold a second event at Waddesdon to welcome me back. We exceeded the number of cars attending and raised another £7079 for H4H.
The next Waddesdon Event was held in 2014 where we found that the popularity was in danger of exceeding the space available to us and we were forced to restrict bookings to 220 cars. With the help of a troop of Air Cadets raised the donations to £4011.
David & I began planning our 2016 event but were politely told that Waddesdon Manor would be holding no future car events.
We approached Blenheim Palace as one of the few locations that could allow us to increase numbers and maintain a Stunning Palace back drop for photos.
They welcomed us with open arms at no cost and bookings climbed to just short of 400 cars. Interesting because, being a private estate everyone had to also pay a discounted entry fee, We had also decided that year to switch our fundraising for Combat Stress.
Terry and Chris Attwood joined the team to help with parking and Terry ran a very successful Raffle producing £4k into the total of 10k raised.
At the end of that year David Harris, who sold his R100 back in 2011, decided to retire from his leadership role and pass the baton to Terry Seymour.
The 2018 event was our most successful attracting 600 Morgans and produced Donations of £16k achieving the charity's 'Extra Mile Award'
MOG Magazine have reported on each event in 2012, 2016 & 2018.
" All Morgans' Day - 1st July 2018"
Our last All Morgans' Day was held again at Blenheim Palace.
" All Morgans' Day - 3rd July 2016"
With your contributions now passed on to COMBAT STRESS, we are very pleased to announce that a grand total of £9,284.62 was raised by so many people in the Morgan Community.
Our grateful thanks for your generosity in making this such a worthwhile task and a magnificent “All Morgans’ Day”.
July 3rd proved to be our biggest event to date, raising a record charitable contribution to Combat Stress.
As a team, the Roadster 100 Register were delighted to have been supported by 400 Exhibiting Morgans, many Trade Stands plus all that Blenheim Palace has to offer – making it a highlight of the 2016 MSCC Calendar.
Thank you everyone for helping Combat Stress - one of the great British military charities.
From the Roadster 100 Register.
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With your contributions now passed on to COMBAT STRESS, we are very pleased to announce that a grand total of £9,284.62 was raised by so many people in the Morgan Community.
Our grateful thanks for your generosity in making this such a worthwhile task and a magnificent “All Morgans’ Day”.
July 3rd proved to be our biggest event to date, raising a record charitable contribution to Combat Stress.
As a team, the Roadster 100 Register were delighted to have been supported by 400 Exhibiting Morgans, many Trade Stands plus all that Blenheim Palace has to offer – making it a highlight of the 2016 MSCC Calendar.
Thank you everyone for helping Combat Stress - one of the great British military charities.
From the Roadster 100 Register.
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The Splendid All Morgans' Day Blenheim Palace Car Badges.
The Car Badges, created especially for the event are still available from:
http://www.morgancarbadges.com
The ' Combat Stress ' charity will of course receive a good share of the profits from the badge sales.
See Also on our Links Pages ...
00000. All Morgans' Day Car Badge Sales - Link to the 'Morgan Car Badges' Sales Page.
http://www.morgancarbadges.com/#!blenheim-palace-badge/c1cz0
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All Morgans' Day Event on 3rd July 2016
Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire
This was our 4th Event, fundraising for Combat Stress, The Veterans Mental Health Charity
400 Morgan Cars were on display there.
The event this year included a Grand Raffle whose prizes were drawn by Steve Morris, Managing Director of The Morgan Motor Company.
£9080.55 was collected from Bookings and the Raffle to be included in our total donations made to Combat Stress of £9398.37
Photo Gallery
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PHOTO GALLERY
All Morgans' Day Event on 24th June 2014
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
This was our Third Event, fundraising for Help for Heroes
220 Morgan Cars were on display there.
The event was supported by The Morgan Motor Company and The Morgan Sports Car Club
A Plaque was presented to MMC Managing Director Steve Morris, commemorating The 100 years of Morgan Production at their Pickersleigh Road, Malvern Link Factory.
PHOTO GALLERY
All Morgans' Day Event on 24th June 2014
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
This was our Third Event, fundraising for Help for Heroes
220 Morgan Cars were on display there.
The event was supported by The Morgan Motor Company and The Morgan Sports Car Club
A Plaque was presented to MMC Managing Director Steve Morris, commemorating The 100 years of Morgan Production at their Pickersleigh Road, Malvern Link Factory.