04/08/2025
🎉BEACH DUBBIN’ 2025 WRITE UP🎉
Well, what a show! What a year!
We are just so relieved we got yesterday done, and that you all turned up in your thousands (yes, really!) and brought those famous Beach Dubbin’ vibes!
This year has been a slog for the team in so many ways - show related, and personal, but, with an amazing team who are stronger and closer than ever, our INCREDIBLE volunteers, sponsors, show support, clubs, traders, caterers, and EVERYONE who turned up to the show - we powered through and did it!
We have been challenged in ways beyond even our comprehension, and we will be honest with you, there was stages this year where we genuinely didn’t think we’d be able to go ahead. Do we take a break and postpone? Does the show go on?
The challenges we faced this year have come thick and fast in the shape of having our space limited by the vital sea defence works, layout changes, traffic management (my goodness aren’t we glad that’s done with!), and more importantly costs.
In the last year alone we have found that our costs have gone up by at least a third.
This has been a combination of all examples of infrastructure cost increases (other event organisers will be nodding furiously), and thanks to this economic situation we are all in this has resulted in companies understandably tightening their purse strings and having less budget to contribute to sponsorship, and or providing discounted services.
Running large scale events like this is very expensive to do, and to be able to do what we do, and donate the amounts we do to charity, we rely heavily on donations, time, services, volunteering, and the generosity of you all turning up - paying pitch fees, and your entry fees.
We know most would be aware of this, but as we found out time and time again this weekend by talking to people that a lot are still unaware that we are a not for profit charity show, we take no money from this show as people, or as organisers.
A minimal chunk of it is reserved for show costs, and ALL the rest is donated to charity.
As those who were on site with us in the morning discovered when the air ambulance landed - you never know when you’re going to need them, and without vital donations such as the ones we make, these flights simply cannot happen, and lives would certainly be lost. Yesterday’s landing was a sobering realisation that’s for sure!
This year was an absolute blast, and we’ve all had the most amazing time with you all!
We’d love to do our thank yous:
- our volunteers - our friends, family, colleagues, friends of volunteers - my goodness. You all turn up from early Saturday morning and then leave Sunday evening. Working your socks off, getting on with it, and you are the best best team we could ever ask for. Thank you will never be enough for you all. You guys ARE the reason the show can go ahead. You ARE Beach Dubbin’
- A special mention goes to Thea, and to Jade, Mike, and Kieran - you all know what you’ve done for us this weekend, and we couldn’t be more grateful.
- PCC events team, Mandrake Events, and Victorious Festival. They are a huge help, either with advice, advocacy for the show, traffic management, and also safety barriers which saves us a huge cost.
- 3rd Hayling Scouts who are our amazing parking team in Show Arena 2 who always turn up, big smiles, and work so hard all day!
To our amazing sponsors:
🏆MAIN SPONSORS🏆
Breeze Volkswagen Van Centres
LKQ Euro Car Parts
Saltrock
Alcomoto LTD
Stag Security Services
Howden Insurance
🥇EVENT SUPPORTERS🥇
Stag Security Services Ltd
Emma Nicol Draws
🫱🏼🫲🏾 WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP🫱🏼🫲🏾
Portsmouth City Council Events Team
PPL PRS LTD Music Licensing
Portsmouth Welcomes Breastfeeding
Sticker John at Surge Designs
R Creates Film Production
DJ Gazman and Eddie Lovebus
Lizard Events LTD
Andrei Burton
Bob Haro
Victorious Festival
Our volunteer photographers
🏅SHOW AND SHINE SPONSORS🏅
Best Beetle - Just Kampers
Best Aircooled Other - Route 67 Ltd
Best Splitscreen - Wolfsburg Bus Crew
Best Bay - Just Kampers
Best Early Watercooled - LKQ Euro Car Parts
Best Late Watercooled - JKM Motor Services
Best Early Transporters - Blue Storm Designs
Best Late Transporters - Breeze Volkswagen Van Centre
Best in Show Caddy - The Cargo Winkel
Best in Show Aircooled- Vintage VW Hires
Best in Show Watercooled - Alcomoto
Best Club Pitch -
We can’t thank you all enough for what you do for our show. Your support means so much. Without the sponsorship, or support, or discounted services we simply couldn’t give what we give for the good of others. You are why we can pay so much forward.
To our amazing clubs - the displays, the variety and standard of vehicles, the empathy and understanding you have shown us this year, and have stuck by us despite some pretty tough changes. You guys are amazing.
Show and shine entrants - for always putting in the most amazing effort into your vehicles - the variety is staggering, and you’re all winners to us. We love that you take part in this section of the show, you are the jewel in our crown.
To our traders and caterers, you have been outstanding this year. We love the variety you bring to the show and the efforts you put into your pitches, and most of all, you live and breathe what we do in making it an affordable day for all. Thank you 🙏🏼
Our charities and fundraisers who turn up to the show, banging the drum for the amazing things they believe in, and we are proud to say you will all get a donation once we have all the numbers in!
To our entertainers and special guests, bringing the absolute vibes and trusting in us enough to put your names to our show. Thank you for making sure everyone has the best time, plenty of music, plenty of wows, and just being awesome!
To you, the public, who come along in your literal thousands and blow us away each year with your attendance!
One last mention, thank you to our families and friends, and more importantly - our kids - big and little. The four of us can get pretty stressed out at times with the show, and you guys often provide the shoulders to cry on and the ears to get a bashing. You keep us all sane, and grounded. We are looking forward to spending the rest of summer being semi normal humans.
We are just waiting on 3 final invoices, our date for next year (yes, we are doing it again!), and we will announce our totals and date!
As always, when we announce we are very transparent and will itemise where everything will go, and how much we will retain.
We will also this week post the show and shine winners, so don’t fret, we are just getting all the photos together!
Thank you all again, and we will see you all next year!
Lots of love, and keep on Dubbin’
Team BD x
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