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 (pack up from 7pm)
• 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.

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.

Parking: Due to major roadworks in the area, the Murray Road Car Park directly opposite the hall will be closed on June 21st. We were expecting it to be open, but sadly the works are running significantly behind schedule.

However, as it is a Sunday, parking restrictions are not in force, so street parking in Brox Road, Shaw Close and other surrounding roads is perfectly fine.

We recommend parking outside the hall to unload, then relocating your car further down or in a side street to allow others to do the same.

If there is no street parking available when you arrive, additional car parks are located around 5-10 mins walk away from the venue:

Ottershaw Memorial Fields Car Park
Ottershaw Memorial Fields, Ottershaw, Chertsey KT16 0QB
https://maps.app.goo.gl/so7XzuLBV35m5VqZ7

Foxhills Road Car Park
Foxhills Road, Ottershaw, Chertsey KT16 0QB
https://maps.app.goo.gl/HkJQaT6LmbaFfPCP6

Guildford Road Parking
Guildford Road, Ottershaw, Chertsey KT16 0PB
https://maps.app.goo.gl/vgiNkvZFmMedM3AL7

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.

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 usually around £5-7, depending on traffic or surge pricing.

Ticketing reminder

As a very small group, and especially for our first ever meet, this has been a labour of much love to put together. Therefore we ask that every attendee has their own ticket, no matter their age.

If you have purchased a table ticket, that covers the table and one person. Even though there is room for more than one person, they will need their own ticket for the day.

We would really like the day to be as smooth and hassle free as possible, so please do purchase tickets in advance if you can to avoid any awkward conversations. Thank you!

Cost: £20 per person
(price includes tea, coffee and snacks throughout the day)

Ticket link: Buy Here

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(s)
• 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: We will be doing a high score games tournament around the amazing Amstrad CPC version of Pinball Dreams. There is a unique UKAG trophy for the winner. Novabug will also be running a gaming competition too!

Machine of the meet: We’ll be giving a trophy to the most interesting, eye catching or compelling machine at the meet, judged by Roland Perry. The winner will take home a unique UKAG trophy.

Guest speakers: We are pleased to have Roland Perry, our honorary president, with us at the meet. A key member of the team at Amstrad, Roland was instrumental in the design and development of the Amstrad CPC and the PCW, as well as many other Amstrad PC models. Roland will be sharing some stories and insights with us, as well as taking some of your questions.

UKAG founding member Jo Cook will also be doing a talk, reminiscing about her time writing for Amstrad Action magazine.

Our speakers absolutely welcome questions during the session. On our WhatsApp Community we have setup a questions channel (see here on how to join the channel if this is new to you). During the event you can drop your suggestions there for the moderator to see.

Timetable

9am – Doors open
11am – Pinball dreams high score contest begins
11.30am – Talk with Roland Perry, architect of the CPC, PCW and more
2pm – Talk with Jo Cook and what was it like writing for Amstrad Action
3pm – Games contest winner announcement and trophy
3pm – Machine of the meet winner announced and trophy
4pm – Videos and demos on the big screen
7pm – Pack up (if we haven’t started already)
8pm – Doors close and across the Road to the Pub (if we are not already there)

Roland Perry will kindly sign your Amstrad equipment during the day, for a donation to his chosen charity.

Food and Drink, Dietary Requirements

We will be providing tea, coffee, milk and sugar for hot drinks. There’s a hot water urn in the kitchen for instant boiling water all day.

We will have a variety of snacks available throughout the day. We aren’t offering lunch, so do please bring that with you, or there is a nearby shop you can pick something up. You are welcome to bring your own drinks, food and snacks too.

If you have specific dietary requests, please email hello@ukag.org.uk no later than Wednesday 17th June. Whilst we can’t guarantee any specifics, we will do our best to accommodate your request. Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee a nut-free environment.

Hot drinks and reusable cups: For health and safety reasons (and to protect the computers people have out for use) all hot drinks must have a lid on them. We will supply disposable coffee cups and lids and these must be used for hot drinks, without exception. We strongly encourage you to bring your own travel mug if it has a lid, to cut down on waste. Thanks for helping us all protect our computers and people.

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. These are marked out on the floor plan which will be sent a couple of days before the meet.

There will be a pile of For Sale notes for you to use. Please fill one out and put it on the table along with the item you are selling. That way the potential buyer will know exactly what they are getting, for how much, and who to find to settle up with.

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.

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 (remember cups with lids!). 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: How big are the tables we can buy a ticket to use for the day?

A: Four feet / 123cm long and 2 feet 3 inches / 68.5cm deep.

Q: Will there be name badges?

A: Yes, there will be name badges. Please wear them so that it’s easier to have conversations with everyone.

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 casual day, and it’s your day. We try to let it be as ad-hoc and relaxed as possible.

Q: Will filming and pictures be allowed?

A: Yes, absolutely! We welcome it and will be taking videos and images ourselves for future promotion. Please ask if you want to take a picture/video of someone or something in particular.