We have our biggest Workbench meeting tomorrow and should be something quite amazing, please stay safe and if you cannot travel or have symptoms then please stay away, let me know. Parking, yes we do have ample parking but we do ask if you’re a spectator (seat) ticket then please consider driving behind the Hall, try and keep the front parking slots available for the Table tickets. So far, I have had very few pull outs, so there are no Spare tables at the moment. On entry, come and see me and collect your badge, it will just be a sticker this time and that will help you socialise and help me keep an eye on those sneaking in, please wear it or I will keep asking you who you are.
You will all be entered into the raffle once, some of you have been fantastic and ordered up additional raffle tickets. Please keep doing so, we also have help tomorrow to try and sell some more. These are the prizes offered by the Museum of Computing in Swindon, Keith has an interesting sense of humour, he has some explaining to do !
Donations to the Raffle from the Museum of Computing
One of the most asked questions I get is, what’s’ the postcode for sat-nav. We will see you there.
Dodington Parish Hall Finch Road Chipping Sodbury South Gloucestershire BS37 6JZ
Sponsored by Stephen Jones of Checkmate Digital, the Swindon Museum of Computing, Bitmap Soft and Retro Lemon. Prizes include an A1500 Plus Checkmate Amiga case, a fully boxed A500 Cartoon Classics pack and much more!
Funds raised will be split equally between SWAG and the Swindon Museum of Computing.
Your entry ticket
Each entry ticket purchased, (table, seat or BYOT) will include one entry into the raffle, but we need to raise as much as possible to cover the value of the donations at least, so this is your chance to purchase additional tickets before you arrive at Workbench 2022.
At the Previous Workbench
We managed to raise a fab £700 that we split between ourselves and the Museum which was an amazing acheivement with donations from many sources.
Previous Workbench Prize PoolKeith with his assistants drawng the numbers
How we going to do this?
We are going to be selling the raffle tickets at Workbench 2022 and also on this website, we will then collect all the entries into a bucket and pick them out at Workbench at around 5pm.
How will I get my tickets?
When we receive your payment confirmation, we will write into a raffle book your ticket purchase, you will receive a confirmation email when we have done this to the Paypal registered email account, this email account will be cross checked against your main ticket purchase to verify that you are going. This will not be instant, but this will be done before we go to Workbench.
PayPal Fee’s
As you know Paypal take 2.9% and 30p from every transaction you make unless it is done in a different way, for this we decided to charge the buyer a fee to cover this.
How To Buy
Enter the amount of book strips that you will want to buy priced at £1 a ticket, so one book strip will be charged at £5 + fees.
A Strip of Raffle Tickets
1 Book Strip £5+fee
2 Book Strips £10+fee
3 Book Strips £15+fee
4 Book Strips £20+fee
5 Book Strips £25+fee
6 Book Strips £30+fee
7 Book Strips £35+fee
8 Book Strips £40+fee
9 Book Strips £45+fee
10 Book Strips £50+fee
Raffle Sponsors – Stephen Jones of Checkmate, The Swindon Museum of Computing, Bitmap Soft, Retro Lemon.
Terms and Conditions
Judges Decision will be final (SWAG Commitee)
Only available to those who have purchased an entry ticket.
Anyone who is on a reserved list or a ‘plus one’ will be allowed to buy tickets.
Refunds will only be given if SWAG is cancelled. If you cannot turn up then you will not be refunded.
If you are unable to turn up (e.g. due to illness), then we will hold your winning prize until another meet.
Your order number / details will be marked in the ticket book, you will receive a follow up email of your raffle tickets (manually)
This is open only to attendies of Workbench 2022
Your email address will also be added to our mailing list.
Please be aware that there is a price did increase to £10 per person, CHILDREN ARE FREE but we need to know about them, so please put in the notes their name/age. The cost increases was to cover mostly Covid related supplies and any venue / food and drink prices increases, we will be following current government and council guidelines regarding the use of the venue. The booking system is limited to book a maximum of four people and please put their Full names in the NOTES section.
Please be aware that there is filming that does go on at our meets, we have been part of DVD documentaries, YouTube and Twitch channels which helps increase our exposure. Please let a SWAG team member know if you have a problem with this.
The Workbench event is primarlly focused on Amiga equipment, space is a premium so we wish to focus on the Amiga related activities.
Food is a little different this time, we suggest putting in the notes any food allergies you may have, we are having catering done instead of the usual sandwiches.
After booking, sometimes the emails get caught up with spam filters, we sometimes have to force them thru. Make sure you complete PAYPAL and let it return to the website.
Your ticket purchase will enable you ONE entry into the Raffle, if you put additional names in the NOTES section, they will be added to the Raffle.
