Our next SWAG meet of 2026 will be our annual Workbench event! This takes place at Dodington Parish Hall, Finch Road, Chipping Sodbury, Bristol, BS37 6JZ. Tickets go on sale towards the end of September.
The most anticipated event is here with a full line up of speakers and suppliers coming to Chipping Sodbury. We also will be having a Tournament throughout the day we’ll be running a Battle Squadron 'High Score Tournament'.
This tournament will be a little bit special as the Amiga Belfast group are holding their event on the same day as Workbench 2026, so you’ll be competing against your fellow SWAG attendees and those at the Amiga Belfast event! As with all SWAG gaming tournaments, you can expect prizes for those ranked in the top three.
We also have regular suppliers, re-capping and Talks. Zeb and Scott will be on hand to re-new your caps which can be purchased from either Digital Retro Bay, Amiga Spirit or Retro Passion who all will be attending.
We have three ticket types available at all SWAG events - a table ticket, where you book a table to set your kit up on, a bring your own ticket which covers you bringing a table of your own to set up on and a standard visitor ticket where you simply wish to attend but are not planning to set up equipment.
At all SWAG events we want to encourage youngsters to attend. Under 18s are always free of charge if accompanied by a fee paying adult.
Your ticket covers a contribution towards the venue hire, tea/coffee/soft drinks and snacks such as biscuits and crisps.
AA Magazine will be with us with Phil South former Future Publishing editor, Ian Griffiths a regular to us at SWAG will have a wide spread of magazines to buy.
A talk with Beth, she was the lead engineer of the Commodore CD1200, the CD add-on for the Amiga 1200.
GOTEK goes to the next level, with Wireless based control system? Learn more at the Event.
Stuart Chiplin of Retro Games Limited will be with us to showcase the Brand New THEA1200 project
Demo Scene coder and DJ, he returns to us to talk about how he got involved with the Cecconoid game.
There so much going on in the FPGA scene, Sean is going to help us understand it all.
Tickets to our Workbench event on Saturday 7th November go on sale towards the end of September. Once live, you can order them by clicking on the button below.
