The Vee Dub Christmas Cruz 2024 – Sunday Edition takes place on the 15th December and is dedicated to the memory of Derek ‘Delboy’ Tarrant, a core member of our team who was especially passionate about our festive fundraising, who sadly passed away earlier this year.
Our lead sponsor for this years Sunday Cruz is GP Campers – they have covered the costs for the Cruz packs and stickers so a massive thank you to them as this means that more of the money raised from the Cruz will be going directly to The Grand Appeal.
Our ethos is simple – bring 150 festive VW’s out on the roads of Weston Super Mare to raise money for The Grand Appeal, the official charity of the Bristol Children’s Hospital and spread the festive cheer! Taking part is simple – just decorate your VW with tinsel, lights, baubles, Christmas trees, Santa Claus, elves, stickers, anything festive! Your imagination (and the laws of physics!) are the only limitations! We have a Just Giving page set up again this year, feel free to share this around when out and about – https://www.justgiving.com/page/xmasdubs2024. As always all VW’s are welcome to join us – vans, cars, air cooled or water cooled, as long as they have a VW badge! Please note that participation in our Cruz events is ticket only and you must register and purchase your ticket in advance – each Cruz has a limited amount of places available.
Our Sunday Cruz will be following a similar route as the last two years with a change to the end location – we are moving to The Range car park so we are on hard standing, a bit more sheltered and more importantly plenty of adjacent parking. We will be leaving from the Queensway Retail Car Park and heading out around Worle, along to the Boulevard and up to the sea front before we head down past the pier. From here we will be coming along Oxford Street, on to Station Road, over the Hildesheim Bridge on to Winterstoke Road then along Marchfields Way into The Range car park where we will park up for people to come along and walk around the vehicles, chat to their owners and throw some money in our buckets.
Our team will be at the Queensway Retail Park from 4:15pm onwards and the Cruz will be heading out at 5:30pm. Vehicles must be checked in at the start area by 5pm to allow us to ‘migrate’ to the Sainsburys car park but please remember there is a two hour limit on the car park with a no return clause too. Hooke Highways are back doing the traffic management for us at both the start and finish points and have generously donated their time and resources again. We will be aiming to arrive at The Range at just before 6:30pm. If you are coming along to see us at the end please do not park in The Range car park – either use the car park on the opposite side of the road and cross safely at the pelican crossing or park outside B&M / Halfords. If spectators take up the space in The Range we won’t be able to stop or get everyone in.
Following the positive feedback from last year we will be posting out your event pack sponsored by GP Campers before the event. Each pack will contain your sticker, event information and the route map in advance. We will still be publishing the map and video on the Facebook event in due course. As with last year we will also be doing some great Christmas Cruz merch – hoodies, tees, mugs, travel mugs and more, all printed with the Cruz logo of your choice and posted out in advance – just check out our Vee Dub Christmas section in the shop. A big thank you to LlamaPrint for making the merch possible!
If you lose the vehicle in front of you please refer to your printed map from your event pack, we will also be broadcasting a live tracker which you will be able to follow – this will be posted on the event page. We are delighted to have the motorcycle escort team from Midlands Bike Marshals accompany us again to help keep everyone as safe as possible – their time and services have been sponsored by Emma and her team from Nailsea Physio so a massive thank you to them! As with all events please understand that we will only go ahead if we have approval from the councils, Highways and the Police. In the event that we are not able to run, your Cruz ticket fee will be translated into tickets for a Christmas prize draw and the money will still be donated to The Grand Appeal.
Our Christmas Cruz’s would be much harder to run and less money would be donated to the charity without our sponsors – GP Campers, Howden’s Insurance, Nailsea Physio, Prolectric, Luccombe Garage, Avon Tuning, Simply Surf Bus, Bristol Detailing Supplies and LlamaPrint. A massive thank you to them for supporting us – please support them by liking and following their social media feeds where you will find links to their websites.
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50 people are attending Vee Dub Christmas Cruz 2024 – Sunday
50 people are attending Vee Dub Christmas Cruz 2024 – Sunday