I can confirm the Reading trade show will be 10th December.
Finney7 received the following:
We discovered only on Friday of last week that Rivermead Leisure Complex Management had Saturday 10th December 2016 in their diary for our Reading Trade Show, not Saturday 3rd December.
We have not yet got to the bottom of this grave misunderstanding. Our show is booked on a forward rolling 3-year basis, always for the first Saturday in December at the time of the previous show. This year, it transpires that they allocated our date in January 2016 to another big event which, they tell us, cannot be changed. And at no time during the year were we contacted by them to confirm this date.
So now, our primary objective is to rescue as much as we can from this debacle and have accepted their offer of Saturday 10th December, though we realise that some traders and visitors may be somewhat compromised.
For this, we are deeply regretful and greatly embarrassed. We apologise profusely for this turn of events."
An A5 flyer has been inserted in the November G0G Gazette to this effect.
The event ‘manager’ at Reading was unsympathetic to the fact that GOGG now have to contact nearly 100 traders, some of whom have booked accommodation for the earlier date and may not now be able to alter that booking easily or have other commitments.
Members of the organising committee will be trying to contact each of you by telephone to confirm this and to apologise for the inconvenience it will inevitably cause.
While I don't publish private emails, I think this is important to get out ASAP.
Richard