(02 Sep 2021, 10:04 am)Train8261 wrote The fact is certain rallys get a change and it makes the rally smaller

Whitley Bay moved onto the links and the amount of buses turned up were cut in half. Your lucky to get more than 10

Then is that not a good enough reason to pull the plug on that rally? Would it not be better to reassign whatever resources required to organise this event over to Seaburn, which I believe is the next one in the calendar?

(02 Sep 2021, 10:04 am)Train8261 wrote Aycliffe Shildon Rally is really small but they don't advertise it much

Again, never been to this one so I'll have to take your word on size and attendance, but isn't this one held a week after the Bishop Auckland rally? Wouldn't it be better for NEBPT to collaborate with the Aycliffe and District Bus Preservation Society and Locomotion to pool resources and to share the burden of organisation? I mean, there may be some weird politics involved between the two groups preventing this, but it seems like a no brainer to me.

(02 Sep 2021, 10:04 am)Train8261 wrote 500 group is only massively because a lot more people know about it and the 500 group advertise it more than the nebpt do (in my opinion)

Does that not suggest that the 500 Group is doing something right? Kuyoyo has provided a little bit of insight into the planning of its, mostly annual (barring pandemics), Teesside Running Day so isn't that something a preservation group should aspire towards?