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The final voice: a view from the chair
This is the last time that I write to you as the Chair of the General Council and the Woodcraft Folk, I leave to focus on my studies and lead the European campaign to save international youth work and the funding that organisations like IFM-SEI receive to operate. Two and a half years have gone ever so quickly, but I think that we have achieved a lot in that time.
This year will be the first in many when we have not made a significant loss and it will also be the first that we have started to really focus on group work and growth for a number of years. This task above all else is what focuses us.
I know that Pat Hunter, who takes over from me on the 3rd January, will do an amazing job and I will remain on the Finance and General Purpose committee to help continue oversee the work that we have achieved in that time.
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Heads-up for Hands In! 2012
Hands In!Many of you will remember your first experience of a national Woodcraft Folk event and the amazing feeling of being part of a movement where anything is possible. This feeling is too important to leave behind when we pack away our tents. Some people are members of Woodcraft for years before finding out what happens beyond their group, and others never do.
National Citizen Service 360
Wednesday, 14 December 2011
Woodcraft Folk are part of a successful consortium which has been contracted by the Cabinet Office to deliver a NCS pilot in the Bradford and Leeds area during July and August 2012. The consortium is being lead by Envision, and includes the Co-operative College and Change Agents UK.
Development Officer Recruitment
The Woodcraft Folk’s TREE programme is looking to appoint a temporary Development Officer to launch its new mentoring project. The mentoring project is an essential element of the TREE programme that seeks to inspire and support the active engagement of young people as leaders across local groups in England. Working directly with volunteers the post-holder will recruit potential mentors, match them with young people seeking to make that first step from participant to group leader.
Deadline for applications: Noon 6th January 2012
Interviews: Tuesday 17th January 2012
Wacky Welly-Sharing at Lockerbrook
Saturday, 19 November 2011
Late at night, on Friday 11th November, in the beautiful countryside of the peak district the Sheffield Porter and Don Pioneers began their weekend stay at Lockerbrook Residential with a challenging climb.
Take your group to Heightgate
Thursday, 15 December 2011
Promotional Offer for Woodcraft Folk groups!As many of you will know, Height Gate is one of the Woodcraft Folk’s residential centres, a 17th century former farmhouse, set in stunning scenery high up in the beautiful South Pennines near Hebden Bridge.
A guide to cycling to events.
The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart. ~Iris Murdoch, The Red and the Green
Venturer Committee Meeting October 2011
One wet and windy October night Venturer Committee made their way up a steep hill and over the moors to Heightgate. Two days, many packets of biscuits and two (very burnt) rounds of flapjack later, we had a plan. Several plans in fact.
The Londoner
Keep up-to-date with the latest news and events from the London region.
IFM Newsletter
IFM-SEI (International Falcon Movement - Socialist Educational International) is the international of the Woodcraft Folk, operating groups, activites and youth clubs around the world. Read the latest news here where they update on their global activities and meetings which Woodcraft Folk have plaied a leading role in many of.
Annual Gathering 2012
Woodcraft Folk's Annual Gathering 2012 will take place on the weekend of 27-29 April 2012 at Scout Park in Bounds Green, North London (just a few minutes walk from Bound Green tube or Bowes Park rail).
More details will be published soon, but get the date in your diary now and expect the usual Woodcraft Folk mix of democracy, skill-sharing, singing and games.
Draft pre-Gathering timetable
(Constitutionally, this timetable remains a draft until formally published in the convening notice, but we're publishing it now to give people as much notice as possible.)
Tuesday 10 January - Convening Notice issued
Tuesday 31 January - Deadline for submission of motions
Tuesday 21 February - Preliminary Agenda published
Tuesday 20 March - Deadline for amemdments to motions
Tuesday 20 March - Deadline for nominations to General Council or Standing Orders Committee
Tuesday 10 April - Final Agenda published
Saturday 28 - Sunday 29 April - Annual Gathering (arrivals from evening of Friday 27 April)
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