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Adults behaving like adults? No chance   

The '13 & under' request has worked very well for us over the past 15 years, together with a simple, but effective safeguarding policy. What we hope is that parents understand - and feel comfortable - that the club is a place for families to have fun together and not a baby-sitting service for their kids. Occasionally, youngsters prefer to attend without parents, but that only happens when they are a bit older (14+) and after discussion with the family.

We have twin brothers who attended with their dad from our first season, aged 10 - and the three of them still join us regularly, the boys having been to university and now working full time. Plus their mum has recently started racing at our HO events, making it a full-on family night out. The twins are just two of seven former junior racers now in their 20s who still race with us, either every month or when they are back home.

And our 2013 WHO Junior Champion has said she will bring her two children when they are old enough - the experience of racing at the Barn with her dad was such a memorable part of growing up.