Annual Dinner 2022 – a huge success

The SMTA held its black-tie dinner on Thursday 27th October at the Hilton Glasgow, we played host to an audience of 330 guests from all sectors of the Scottish motor trade, the event was also attended by fellow trade associations from the rest of the UK, Southern Ireland and Brussels.

A huge thank you to our headline sponsor Central Car Auctions and all our other supporting sponsors:

Adesa, Automotive Compliance, Arnold Clark, Car Care Plan, EMR Metal Recycling, Marsh, Moto Novo Finance, Supagard, Tyres Life and Viking Wholesale Tyres – many thanks indeed!

We were delighted to award a number of our members with our C.A.R Star Awards – (Community Activity Recognition) Awards recognising these members that have given up their time or funds and in doing so contributed to their local community-based projects and charities. It is always humbling to highlight these efforts and we feel that these actions deserved to be rewarded.  This process just serves to display that all of our members businesses form part of the community within which they trade and sometimes it is nice to let everyone know that they are not just somewhere to buy a car or get your car repaired!

Sandy Burgess commenting on the Award winners said

“On behalf of SMTA, we are delighted to be able to broadcast some of the wonderful contributions made to local charities and their respective communities by our membership, day in and day out, these awards are so diverse and well deserved it really can be quite humbling handing them out!”