UKAG’s first official meet takes place on Sunday, 21st June 2026. Doors open at 9am, and close at 8pm (or sooner if everyone decides to wind down a bit early and go to the pub, as can happen).

Key Information

• When: Sunday 21st June 2026
• Where: Ottershaw Village Hall, Brox Road,
  Ottershaw, Surrey, KT16 0HG
• Time: 9am-8pm
• Cost: £20 per person
  (price includes tea, coffee and snacks throughout the day)
• Ticket Link: Buy Here

Getting To The Venue

Driving: Ottershaw Village Hall is located roughly a five minute drive from Junction 11 of the M25, making it easy to reach from most motorways heading towards London.

Parking: There is a large, free car park directly opposite the hall, called the Murray Road Car Park (see map below). We strongly encourage you to park there.

Ottershaw Village Hall is located OUTSIDE the expanded London ULEZ zone, so if your car is not ULEZ compliant, and you are already outside of the London boundary, you won’t have to pay the ULEZ charge to come to UKAG by car. The M25 is also outside the ULEZ zone, so it’s safe to use to go around the edge of London and avoid the charge.

It is a Sunday so there are minimal parking restrictions, so you can pull up in Brox Road right next to the hall to unload and load up (please do not park there all day, please move your car to the car park after you are done). If the car park is full, you can street park on Brox Road (a little further down from the hall, past the shops), or on Shaw Close (first turning off Brox Road opposite the hall’s side door). Please do not park in the car park of the Miller and Carter Pub and Steakhouse, as they use ANPR cameras and operate a car reg check-in system inside the restaurant. If you park there without being a customer (and without logging your car reg on the tablet) you will get a fine. Also, even as a patron they only give you a few hours parking, not enough for our all-day event.

If (as unlikely as it is) the car park fills up, be assured there is lots of street parking on Brox Road and Shaw Close for everyone. The yellow lines end just past the convenience store and the rest of the street is fair game.

Public Transport: The nearest train station is Chertsey. It is 2.3 miles from the venue and an inexpensive taxi ride to Ottershaw Village Hall. An Uber from the station is usualy around £5-7, depending on traffic or surge pricing.

What to Bring

If you have a table ticket, there will be a table and a chair for you – all you need to do is bring your computer/s and its associated bits! This list will help ensure you don’t forget the essentials:

• Your Computer
• A Monitor
• Joystick
• Power Cables and Power Supplies for your computer, monitor and other peripherals
• Any games tapes, disks or cartridges, or software you need
• Speakers (if not built into your monitor)
• Mains extension lead (the more sockets the better). We provide black surge protected extension leads that are plugged into the wall sockets, please plug into these and not straight into the wall sockets – thanks.
• A screwdriver (just in case you need to open up your machine)

What’s Happening on the Day?

This will be an all-day user group meet-up. It’s a chance for us to do all things Amstrad – fix them, play games, show how to use different pieces of software and hardware, use them, show them off, talk about them – whatever you want to do.

Gaming Contest: Exact game to be decided, but we will have a gaming competition, either as a high score challenge or a knock-out, with a trophy for the winner.

Machine of the Meet: We’ll award a trophy to the most interesting, unusual, creative or otherwise ‘different’ Amstrad at the meet. Whether it’s an example of your modification skills, a trash to treasure story or thing else, we want to know about your Amstrad and why it matters to you.

Guest Speakers: Roland Perry, our honary president and one of the people responsible for the Amstrad CPC, PCW and many other Amstrad computers, will be joinign us for the day and will be giving a talk in our talks room.

Food and Drink, Dietary Requirements

We will be providing tea, coffee and snacks on the day. Depending on turnout, we hope to be able to find lunch as well.

Can I Sell Stuff at a UKAG Meet?

The good news is yes – you absolutely can!

As an attendee, you are also welcome to bring along any bits you would like to sell to other attendees. We will be providing three red “Bring ‘n’ Buy” tables which will be directly in front of the stage.

Please note, UKAG takes no responsibility for any attendee sales that take place. It’s down to you and the buyer to work it out. We provide the tables as a courtesy. That’s the limit of our involvement.

Q&A

Q: is there a final table plan?

A: The final table plan will be sent to attendees 48 hours before the event.

Q: What is the venue like?

A: The venue is great, and a nice size.

The venue blueprint is below and we have the entire venue for the day. The table plan is in the main Brook Hall and the stage. We will be using the Runnymede Room as the staging point for talks, plus it will be a nice space to use to have a screen break. There will be seating in the room as well.

We have a fully equipped kitchen with hot water urn, so there will be tea and coffee available on-demand all day. You will also see there are plenty of toilets and storage space to put boxes, bags etc. during the day.

Q: Do I need to bring extension leads?

A: Yes – please bring lots of extension leads. There are lots of wall sockets and we will have extensions leads to expand those wall sockets, but you still need to bring your own extension leads to plug onto ours.

Q: Will there be name badges?

A: Yes, there will be name badges. Please wear them.

Q: Will everything be ready at 9am?

A: Doors open at the venue at 9am. Expect the first 15-20 mins to be a little bit chaotic as we get the tables and chairs out. Any help with that would be greatly appreciated. Similarly, we need to be out by 8pm sharp, so the last hour the day will involve gradually putting the chairs and tables away again and cleaning up, if we don’t wrap up a bit sooner.

Q: Somebody mentioned the pub?

A: Yes, its not uncommon for activities to wrap up a little early and for some of us to head across the road to Miller and Carter for a celebratory ale and a bite to eat. This meet is a casual day, and it’s your day. We try to let it be as ad-hoc and relaxed as possible.