Kickstart 8 is this Sunday (1st February 2026) and is completely sold out. However, all is not lost, as we are excited to announce the details for K9 – our annual summer BBQ meet and the hottest Amiga event of the year!
The annual barbecue is a Kickstart tradition. We’ve moved this meet to a Saturday to make it easier for people to stay over for the night, have a drink etc. and we have some top-notch food lined up for the grill.
It’s official, we are a full house on Sunday for Kickstart 8 – the last non-table ticket went earlier today. Thank you to everyone that is coming, we look forward to welcoming you on Sunday.
Don’t forget, tickets for Kickstart 9: The Summer BBQ will be on sale from 1st February. It’s the hottest Amiga event of the year so make sure you don’t miss out!
We are just a couple of weeks out from Kickstart 8, taking place on Sunday 1st February 2026.
Table ticket are all sold out, but we are keeping non-table places on sale for one more week, before we have to close things off and finalise numbers for catering etc.
Attendees have all received an email with all the key info they need for this event.
Parking Update
For this meet, there is a one-off change to our usual arrangements. Due to major roadworks in the area, the Murray Road Car Park directly opposite the hall will be closed on 1st February. We only found out about this over the past weekend. However, as it is a Sunday, parking restrictions are not in force, so street parking in Brox Road, Shaw Close and other roads off Brox Road is perfectly fine. We recommend parking outside the hall to unload, then relocating your car further down or in a side street to allow others to do the same. We expect to have the car park back in operation in time for our next meet.
What to Bring
If you have a table ticket (which most of you do), there will be a table and a chair waiting for you – all you need to do is bring your Amiga and its associated bits! This list will help ensure you don’t forget the essentials:
Your Amiga
A Monitor
Mouse, Mouse Mat and Joystick
Power Cables and Power Supplies for your Amiga, Monitor and other peripherals
Any games or software you need
Speakers (if not built into your monitor)
Mains extension lead (the more sockets the better). We provide Black surge protected extension leads that are plugged into the wall sockets, please plug into these and not straight into the wall sockets – thanks.
A screwdriver (just in case you need to open up your machine)
Any Questions?
Please get in touch if you have any questions. Thanks
A huge thank you to everyone who attended Sunday’s Kickstart meet. I hope everyone had a fantastic day. Please do post any pics you have from the meet over in our Facebook group.
Congrats to our three trophy winners and thanks to David Pleasance for attending and for sharing his insights about the new Commodore buisness.
A few pics at the end of this post are from the awards and cake cutting.
We are on final approach to Kickstart this Sunday. All attendees have just received their seating positions as well as everything they need to know for the day.
All tables are long gone, but we have three non-table spaces left, which will be taken off sale on Thursday 25th September so we can finalise numbers for catering etc.
But that’s not it, as we have confirmed dates for both our Christmas meal and our first meet of 2026! See below!
Kickstart Christmas 2025
When: Saturday, 6th December 2025
Where: Miller and Carter Ottershaw (the pub and restaurant opposite the hall), Guildford Road, Ottershaw, Surrey, KT16 0PQ
We are continuing another Kickstart tradition, the Christmas dinner. There will be a £5 deposit to secure your place, which will come off your final bill on the evening. There’s plenty of free parking at the Miller and Carter too!
Tickets: Tickets go on sale on Sunday 28th September
Kickstart 8 takes place on the first Sunday of February in 2026. Doors open at 9am, and close at 9pm (or sooner if everyone decides to wind down a bit early and go to the pub, as can happen). We are looking forward to yet another brilliant day of Amiga fun. We will be kicking off the 41st year of the Amiga in style!
It’s just three weeks until we all return (and some join us for the first time) to Ottershaw Village Hall in leafy Ottershaw, Surrey for another Kickstart Amiga Group meet. Kickstart 7 is, as the number suggests, our seventh all day meet since we restarted in-person meetings in 2023 – concludes our celebration of 40 years of the Amiga in 2025. Everything is in place for a fantastic day of good fun, good friends and a whole day of Amiga fun.
We are sold out for the Kickstart 6 meet and BBQ on June 21st. Thank you everyone for your support and making this our biggest meet yet since we restarted in-person events.
If you were unable to get a ticket, we are pleased to announce that we have confirmed the date for our next meet:
We are a little over a week away from Kickstart 6 – the Royal Amiga BBQ – taking place on Saturday 21st June 2025 at our regular venue of Ottershaw Village Hall in Ottershaw, Surrey.
We sold out of table places at the beginning of the year, but have a couple of non-table places still available if you would like to join us. Details on our tickets page.
Doors open at 9am. We have the hall until 9pm, which means we will start breaking down at 8pm at the very latest (but often this happens a bit earlier as many people people decide to wrap up and pop to the Miller and Carter pub and restaurant across the road).
What’s Happening?
This will be an all-day user group meet up. It’s a chance for us to do all things Amiga – fix them, play games, show how to use different pieces of software and hardware, use them, show them off, talk about them – whatever you want to do.
As we are getting ready for Kickstart 6, our summer BBQ, it’s about time we did a little recap of our last meet, which took place back during a surprisingly nice sunday in early February 2025. You may have already read the great article in Amiga Addict covering this meet, but here’s an extra look at what went on. A big thank you to Mark White, who’s excellent photography is being used here. You can see all of Mark’s photos from the meet over on our Facebook group.
As always, our home venue of Ottershaw Village Hall was absolutely banged out for our first meet of the year.
