Welcome to the Leicestershire and Warwickshire Volkswagen owners club, the long established club for all enthusiasts of VW vehicles in the Leicestershire, Warwickshire and surrounding areas.
Whether you own a daily driver, or a show winning concours VW, you will be assured of a friendly welcome.
We hold regular meetings, organise the annual Stanford Hall show and can usually advise on technical problems, spare parts and general help in keeping VWs on the road. We also organise local social events and convoys to Volkswagen shows and other motoring events.
After a record breaking 2019 Stanford Hall show we hope to see you at the next show – the 43rd Stanford Hall VW Event. The event will take place on Sunday 3rd May in 2020.
Hope to see you soon
Upcoming Events
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Beaumanor Hall Pie Night
October 18 @ 7:00 pm - 10:30 pm
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Announcment : Club tour of Stanford Hall and Afternoon Tea
Stanford Hall is the spiritual home of the club but we rarely, if ever, get the chance to admire the grandeur of the house itself during the weekend we’re on site setting up, running, and breaking down the show.So to remedy this, and at the invitation of the owner, Nick Fothergill, we are hoping to […]
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Hinckley Classic Car Show 2016
Club display at the annual classic car display in the Leicestershire town of Hinckley
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Lavenham 2016
Club trip to Lavenham Classic VW Show, Suffolk.
About the Club
The Club celebrated it’s 50th Anniversary in 2014
The Leicestershire and Warwickshire VW owners club was founded as two separate Clubs back in the Mid Sixties. Warwickshire Club was founded in the Biggin Hall Hotel on Binley Road in Coventry in 1964 and the Leicestershire Club started life as the Loughborough and District Volkswagen club in 1965.
Early History
Both clubs flourished initially as the Beetle and the other Aircooled VW’s were still a bit of a novelty in the UK at the time, with their unconventional engineering and unusual styling. It is certain that a lot of early members joined to share their radical vehicle choices with others that had made a similar choice. You have to remember that VW at the time, only made three different basic models, The Beetle (Type1) the Split screen Van (Type 2) and the 1500 range Notchback, Fastback, and Variant (Type 3). VW was a pretty small organisation in the UK and the coming together of owners in clubs must have seemed a good idea.
Early meetings
Warwickshire club ran an early national meeting in the sixties held at Stanford Hall, which having read the article in Safer Motoring, attracted a massive turn out. This has since been surpassed with the annual Stanford Hall meeting held on the Sunday of the May Day bank holiday since 1976 organised by the club. This event is seen by many now as the country’s premier Classic Meet, catering for all models within the VW family. The next show will be the 41st, making it the longest running VW show in the UK.
Club trips
Highlights for the club, other than our Stanford Hall event, are our regular European trips which started in 1983. Since then we have visited Germany and various VW plants on a total of eight occasions. This forthcoming year sees two further trips planned.
Clubs amalgamate
Anyway back to the club’s history. Following various joint meetings at the end of the 1970’s both club committees felt that the way forward for both clubs was to amalgamate and go forward together as a stronger group. This occurred in early 1980 at an EGM held at the Prince of Wales public house in Hinckley. A committee was duly organised and as they say the rest is history.
Strong future
The club has many other social events and trips associated with our hobby throughout the year, many of which we are able to subsidise due to the financial success of Stanford Hall.