{"id":25,"date":"2021-05-24T14:41:37","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T14:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.uk\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2025-10-03T15:43:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T14:43:19","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/?page_id=25","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/South-Hants-900.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/South-Hants-900.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/South-Hants-900-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/South-Hants-900-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Where we meet<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We are the local Branch of the TOMCC serving the Berkshire area. We meet every Thursday night in Burghfield, near Reading, just south of junction 11 of the M4. Details of where we meet can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/?page_id=149\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"149\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How we are run<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We are run by a committee elected by the member Annual General Meeting (AGM) each year.  Details of the current committee can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/?page_id=130\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"130\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Our history<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Branch started in the 1960&#8217;s. You can read more about the history of the Branch <a href=\"http:\/\/britbiker.org\/?p=971\">h<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/?page_id=137\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"137\">ere<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to stay in touch<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We email  regular news updates  to our members.   We also have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/berkshiretomcc\">Facebook <\/a>page  which you can follow. A report on each months activities is published in the monthly national magazine, Nacelle, which all TOMCC members receive.  Past copies of our reports in Nacelle can be found on this website by looking under News\/Nacelle Reports in the menu. The events page on this website has the dates of Branch events that are coming up  and the Gallery pages are regularly updated with photos of recent events. We have a Whatsapp group that you can join if you want to know about rides to go on. And you can come along on any Thursday<a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/?page_id=149\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"149\"> clubnight<\/a> to catch up with other members in person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Borrowing Branch tools<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you do your own maintenance on your Triumph, then you\u2019ll find fellow Branch members are often a source of useful advice and tips. The Branch also owns a number of specialist tools which Branch members can borrow. See&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/?page_id=731\">here<\/a>&nbsp;for more details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to become a member<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to become a member, you need to join the TOMCC and select Berkshire as the Branch when you do. Click here <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/?page_id=3400\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"3400\">for<\/a> information on how to join.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to find out more<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find out more about what we do as a Branch by browsing through the Events or Gallery sections on this website. Or you could watch this video which gives a 90 second introduction to all the things that membership of the Branch offers. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/?p=4750\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"4750\">here<\/a> to see the video. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where we meet We are the local Branch of the TOMCC serving the Berkshire area. We meet every Thursday night in Burghfield, near Reading, just south of junction 11 of the M4. Details of where we meet can be found here. How we are run We are run by a committee elected by the member &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/?page_id=25\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About us&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-25","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4809,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions\/4809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}