THE CHROME COLLECTIVE IN 2020

Footman James’s Chrome Collective is an exclusive community which provides members with access to highly sought-after events and experiences. Private Clients of Footman James automatically gain access to the club and in 2020, Footman James had a jam-packed calendar of events planned. As with the vast majority of events this year, unfortunately these carefully laid plans had to be cancelled in order to protect attendees from the coronavirus pandemic. However, the FJ team weren’t going to let the pandemic completely rescind the Chrome Collective for 2020. With face-to-face meetups at the time completely off limits, Footman James looked to technology to provide a solution. On Thursday 6th August, Footman James invited their Private Clients to join them for a virtual wine tasting evening followed by a Q&A session. After receiving a selection of wines in the post accompanied by a Chrome Collective car sticker, the virtual tasting was hosted on Zoom by Private Cellar Director, Amanda Skinner who guided the attendees through the selection of delicious white and red wines. The evening was a fantastic success with we’re sure many attendees appreciating the fact that they didn’t have to worry about the drive home! “Thank you for the evening and all your arrangements to make it one to remember. The selected wine was most enjoyable and with such wellinformed background information. The final Q & A thirty minutes also was appreciated, when a number of us were able to ask questions that had not occurred to us before. In addition, it was also a pleasure to on screen meet up with a group of likeminded car enthusiasts, at “half time” we found that some of us may meet up again at the London Concours” – Alan Hames. “Excellent evening, extremely informative and thank you to Amanda. Great added value of placing my insurance through Footman James.” - Paul Handy. Following this, Footman James then invited their clients to the first classic event to be hosted since lockdown began – the London Concours. Clients were invited to bring a guest with them to the show where they enjoyed the stunning array of classic and supercars – albeit in awfully wet weather! Each client and their guest also enjoyed lunch and free-flowing champagne courtesy of Footman James. FJ are working hard to plan more events for 2020 and are hopeful that normal service will resume for the Chrome Collective in 2021. If you’d like to find out more about Footman James’ Private Client policies, visit footmanjames.co.uk/private- clientsinsurance.