Leicestershire and Warwickshire Volkswagen owners club, the long-established club for all enthusiasts of VW vehicles in Leicestershire, Warwickshire and surrounding areas.
Whether you own a daily driver or a show-winning concours VW, we welcome you all.
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.
Our Story
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.
Both clubs flourished initially as the Beetle and the other air-cooled VWs 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 who had made a similar choice. You have to remember that VW at the time, only made three different basic models, the Beetle (Type 1), 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.
Warwickshire club ran an early national meeting in the sixties, held at Stanford Hall, which,h having read the article in Safer Motoring, attracted a massive turnout. 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.
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.
Club highlights
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.
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.
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