Why not sort out a meet put it on here and see who responds, im in Bucks and I know there's another near me then there's a few further North. Keep your eyes on the Midland Italia group posts. Don't worry none of us bite. But as I said the best way to get a meet close to you is organise it. All you need is somewhere to meet and have a chat (supermarket?), somewhere to eat (pub with decent parking) and possibly somewhere to get some photos &/ or a nice country drive, how hard is that?
On the meet I organised we even did a bit of impromptu geocaching thanks to dombooth.