8th November 2025 Disco Night
20th June 2025 SBMOC Band Night
Tickets quickly sold out (60) for the Willie Austen band night and we were treated to a superb set of music and songs varying from Tommy Steele to Lynard Skynard with some Searchers and Jimmy Hendrix in between – wonderful stuff. Steve, did his usual and supplied us with a very tasty and ample buffet. Dave did the raffle midway though the evening. The great success of the evening could be gauged from the number of people taking to the dance floor. It was mentioned that maybe we could invite the Willie Austen band back again next year and Willies 84 year old bass playing brother remarked that we had better be quick ! Willie himself has just turned 75 so I guess the comment was more about their advancing years rather than their popularity. Thanks go to Geoff, George, Don and Dave for organising the evening. [Report by PeterB]
9th June 2025 Trip to Bovington Tank Museum, Dorset
6.45am 9th SBMOC members and associates boarded a coach bound for the Bovington tank museum Dorset. A swift breakfast stop at Rownhams services M27 then arriving at museum around 10.30am. Amazing 5 hours or so absorbing the exhibits. Tiger tanks panzer tanks, Shermans Churchill Challengers Chieftains just about every tank ever built. [Report and photos from MickP]
7th June 2025 Kamelia Kids Open Day
The club was invited to attend the Kamelia Kids open day on 7th June and about 15 members attended, mostly on bikes. We had a very warm reception from Suzanne and all the other ladies and we spent some time with the kids who were eager to sit on the bikes, and some of the ladies did too. Also in attendance were two police officers and the kids enjoyed some time in their police car. Suzanne explained that our £5000 donation will be specifically used to equip a new room. It was very pleasing to see the kids enjoying the facilities and also to receive heartfelt thanks and appreciation for the financial help we give them.
A total of 36 members and guests enjoyed a great quiz night ably hosted by Geoff Baker. Dave Tickners team won win a score of 84 points with the Chaimans team a close second with 80 points. There were a number of spot prizes up for grabs so long as you could present a complete set of teeth (a comb won that one) or display two left feet ! As usual Dave ran the good quiz with many desirable prizes.
Thanks to Geoff Baker for another great club night out with lots of fun and laughs. The team headed by Mick Jenner won the quiz with a fine score of over 60 points. Dave did his usual raffle with some very nice prizes.
10th February Skittles Night
Sorry, no photos and no event report received.
SBMOC 60-80’s Disco Night 18th November 2023
A fun night was had by all. This year was a bit of an experiment. A disco with our very own DJ ‘Pete the Beat’ with music from an era reflecting maybe our younger days instead of a big band. We had outside catering and our thanks again go to Steve Wilson and his team. There was a raffle, full bar, a quick quiz, stage lighting the whole nine yards. But we are a little surprised and obviously disappointed that again it wasn’t a sell-out event with not all tickets being taken. We also had our annual donation presentation, this year £3,500, to Kamelia Kids of Worthing, which is our local designated children’s charity. This is a nursery specially for children with serious learning and physical disabilities and also they provide some respite for their parents and we heard directly from their team the story of some of the children they have currently. It’s good to know and understand just how our fund-raising efforts help make a meaningful difference in a local community. [Photos and write-up from MickP and KeithM]
Friday 21st July 2023. Trip to Hendon Aviation Museum (which was supposed to be to Hornby Centre and RAF Manston but had to be changed because Hornby was shut on the day)
Wednesday 21st June 2023
On a not so bad solstice evening a magnificent 7 rode out from the Clymping club house to Southsea seafront for a fish supper and then a ride through old Portsmouth to Portsdown Hill for a brew. [Report by MickP]. (Editor: Don’t normally put F&C runs on the website, but the first photo was sooo nice].
SBMOC Band Night 3rd June 2023
A brilliant night and some say the best ever social event held by our club. Unfortunately everyone so enjoyed themselves thinking that someone else would be taking photos, that in the end we had no photos at all. But if anyone has, then please send them in. 
Skittles Night 18th February 2023
A successful evening with around 50 people attending the SBMOC skittles evening. A scrumptious buffet prepared and presented by our own gourmet chef TrevorD of a variety of sandwiches washed down with a lovely lintel, bacon and minted soup. PeteB’s wife Sue made a variety of fairy cakes which also were very popular.
Rock N Roll Night 26th November 2022
The club house rocked! Starting with some fine cuisine once again prepared and served by our very own Steve Wilson’s ‘SW Catering’ team. Band kicked off at 8pm and great sounds from Slim Jim and the Wild Cards had toes tapping feet stomping and even people dancing. A short interval at 9pm for the raffle with great prizes, followed by the all important presentation of the club cheque for £3000 to three lovely ladies Suzanne, Sarah and Denise representing SBMOC’s chosen local children’s charity Kamila Kids in Worthing. The night continued till late with a cracking 2nd set of classics from the band. Overall, a great night had by all. [Report by Mick P.]
SKITTLES NIGHT 9th April 2022
A good turnout on this first social event since the start of the lockdowns. The winners were, team Desperate 7…….even though they were only 6 of them. At the other end of the scoreboard it was the Pagham Pirates but still taking away a booby prize. We think BobW had a really good night although hard to tell from his expression.
