Our Club, with the assistance of the Institute Of Advanced Motorists, will launch a National Scheme with Free assessment drives, at the E 30 celebration day, on 6th March, at Rockingham.Requests from members for advice and training for public road use, can now be offered at various Regional events in all regions during the year, and an  opportunity for Free assessment drives will be available.Members who take the advanced Test at a later date and pass, will be able to SAVE on Insurance costs.Heritage Insurance will offer an Extra 10% discount on their Classic Policies, and other Insurers are showing Interest.

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John

A big public THANKYOU on this one from me.

The amount of work you have done so far is amazing.

And I know you still have a lot left to do.

Fellow Members

The cost of joining the IAM, at present is £85.

That INCLUDES the test fee, and all observed runs (tuition) you need to get you through the test.

  Derek, YES!!.

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Derek

The area chap for Northern Ireland is:

Michael Nelson, phone 028 9146 6711, fax 028 9146 5491.

There are local groups listed as: Ballymena, Belfast, East Antrim, Mid Ulster, North Down, & North West Ulster.

All contact names and phone numbers for the area reps can be found at http://www.iam.org.uk - www.iam.org.uk , or give Michael a ring.

Derek - more specifically try http://www.iam.org.uk/IAMGroups/region8.php - www.iam.org.uk/IAMGroups/region8.php

Also look @ http://www.advancedmotorists-ni.co.uk - www.advancedmotorists-ni.co.uk

I also know that Hibernian insurance have a rip-off scheme for younger drivers which runs in conjunction with the IAM. Surely there is a few trainers / testers in the Dublin area.
http://www.hiberniandirect.ie/ignition.asp - www.hiberniandirect.ie/ignition.asp  is the page for it but there is no real info about the IAM

Just looking @ the 2nd link above ( http://www.advancedmotorists-ni.co.uk/faq/ - www.advancedmotorists-ni.co.uk/faq/  - 4th faq) it mentions that the test must be done in NI. Maybe this haas changed since the Hibernian Scheme!?!

I have been thinking about doing something like theis for a while but never got the finger out. It has been moving up the priority list recently since a friend got the RoSPA Gold Star on his motorbike. ( http://www.rospa.com/drivertraining/roada/groups/ni.htm - just found a link for RoSPA NI ).

let me know how you get on in your search
K.

 HOT off the press !!!!  IAM office Killkenny.00353 56777 1778 , Our Contact is Bridgita Brannigan, http://www.irishadvancedmotorists.ie - www.irishadvancedmotorists.ie assessments AND tests are local areas for you.This is a new organisation, so Give them all your support please.

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Gentlemen

We have our first member to sign up, that I know of anyway.

Its James, known as sohlman on here.

He has allowed me to post this fact.

Although he will probably have a wait now, to be allocated an observer ( I had to wait 5 months ! ), I wish him all the best, and hope he will post on here as he goes through the course.

James,  Best value Cheque you ever wrote, it could save your life.

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Def' giving this some serious thought Nigel.

Need to double check through the Scottish Register who my local observer might be.. I'm based near Falkirk and we've had a couple of chats thus far.

Jon