made to amalgamate the support groups for the Museum which resulted in two of them, the Friends of Brooklands Museum and the Brooklands Club joining to form the Brooklands Trust Members under the auspices of the Brooklands Museum Trust. The Brooklands Society remained independent from the Museum itself. The BTM was officially launched in the Summer of 2008 with its first full season of activity the following year. The first chairman of the new group was Philip Strickland and the vice-chairmen were Robert Hall and Ian Macgregor. The president of the BTM was Sir Stirling Moss and he was welcomed at an inaugural dinner held at Brooklands in December 2009. Ian MacGregor died in December 2010 and Robert Hall retained the vice-chair at the 2011 AGM. Philip Strickland stood down as the founding chairman at the 2014 AGM. Neil Bailey replaced him as chairman and Julian Grimwade joined Robert Hall as joint vice-chairmen, Robert stood down from the role in 2019. Present day By early 2020 the BTM had around 6,400 memberships worldwide, reaching around 19,000 people through those memberships. It publishes a bi-monthly magazine for Members, the Brooklands Bulletin, which went from a monochrome newsletter to full colour A5 magazine production in January 2009. In 2019 the Bulletin was re-organised and a new editorial team put in place along with new publishers, Hine marketing, to produce an A4 full colour quality magazine. There is a monthly e-mail newsletter for members only plus a website. The group also run social network pages on Facebook, Instagram, Flickr and Twitter. It organises a series of well-received evening lectures for members at Brooklands Museum featuring speakers from the motoring and aviation fields. Additional special motorcycle events are hosted by former TT rider and Moto GP commentator Steve Parrish, and Motoring evenings hosted by commentator and journalist Simon Taylor and the editor in chief of Autocar, Steve Cropley. The group also organise motoring and aviation-related trips, holidays and events to benefit Membership. The BM represents Brooklands Museum at numerous events and shows throughout the year which have included the Le Mans Classic and Goodwood Revival through their "Outreach" Team. Tim Morris was the original BTM administrator/Membership Secretary from 2009. The Administration is based in an office at Brooklands Museum itself. Due to increased workload he was joined by a second staff member, Katharine Allen and later Jeni Larwood. In 2019 Sarah Dover took over