ABOUT US
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Current Committee (left to right):
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Secretary: Robert Golder
Treasurer: Mike Wright
Chairman: Ashley Turner
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Club Constitution
This document contains the Club Constitution and Rules for the October Wargames Association for the benefit of its members.
Last Revision: October 2022
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Newsletters
View the latest edition of 'Roll Call', our quarterly Newsletter.
In addition to this, we have “Bugle Call”, to run alongside. This is a 1–2-page newsletter whereby we can issue information quickly to inform members of something that they either need to know or is happening without extensive delay. We do hope you find these useful.
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'Roll Call'
Issue #8.1 January 2024
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'Bugle Call'
Issue #4.1 April 2024 Re: EGM
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A Brief History of the October Wargames Association
The October Wargames Association was founded in October 1976 as a result of a restructure within the Birmingham Wargames Society, and the name October was a result of this rather than a commemoration of the October Revolution as some people believe.
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Founder members of the club included John Westwood, Karl Farrell, Gregg Higgs and David Constable. After meeting at various venues in the first few months, the club's first long term meeting venue was at the Matador Pub within the Bullring complex of Birmingham, where they stayed until the early 1990's. During this period the membership of the club was restricted to 20 due to the lack of space at the venue and this resulted in membership of the club by election.
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The club meeting night was Monday and it was therefore generally known as the Monday club and at that time it was almost exclusively a club playing Ancients. Eventually the club decided to start competing in various competitions which culminated in winning three Worlds Ancient Team titles and leading club and leading team at the British 15mm competitions held at Roll Call and also making large contributions to the successful West Midlands Regional team at the Nationals (now called Britcon).
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Individual members of the club have won many trophies from that period right up to the present day, although entry is now on an individual basis rather than as an official club entry. With the development of the Bullring imminent with the consequential loss of the Matador, the club moved firstly to the Post Office Club and the to the Bull Ring Tavern, where we were resident for the next 12 years. a period when the club diversified from the traditional figure gaming and started to have more board and role playing games on it's weekly agenda.
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Following a change of landlord at the Bullring Tavern the club decided to once again move, eventually ending up at Ladywood Social Club, which saw our membership expand from around 15 members weekly to up to 100+.
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Following the closure of the Ladywood Social Club in late 2018, we moved to Bournbrook and Selly Oak Social Club, until May 2023 when we decided to move and now find ourselves at our current location.
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