Venturer Camp Review - 6th November

[Venturer Camp]

Hi everyone,

 

A couple of months have passed since Venturer Camp. Hopefully you all enjoyed it as much as I did.

But now it is time to start planning for the next Venturer Camp.

 

We are holding a one day event on Saturday the 6^th of November. The venue will be at De Monfort University, in Leicester. We will start at around 11 and we will be finished by 5,00. Please be at 10,45 in front of the Queen’s Building.

 

We will be asking for feedback. We really do want to hear all your opinions, whether they are good or bad, small or big, they are all important. All this feedback will be taken into account for CoCamp, so it is very important you come and express your opinions.

Even more importantly, we will also be choosing the theme for Venturer Camp 2013. So if you want to get involved, you can do it now.

Some of the things we will be talking about are the centres, the programme, the wide game, the carbon game, vennies, venue, etc.

 

As an extra, Leicester celebrates bon fire night on the 6^th, so you can always stay the night and enjoy your weekend in the midlands!

 

If you would like to come, please let us know at vc...@woodcraft.org.uk. We would LOVE you to be there J

 

Many thanks,

Magico Martinez

[Eilish Ferry-Kennington]

Hi,

I have sent this round our venturers and will try to encourage some people to come down. That said, this is really short notice (less than a week!) and doesn't seem like a very good or fair way of getting people involved in feedback or planning the next one. Not a very inclusive way of going on and very unlikely to get many people involved that aren't already.

Thanks,

Eilish Ferry-Kennington
Tyne Venturers

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[Lloyd Russell-Moyle]

Just to make it clear. The meeting will be evaluating this year, thinking what went well and what could be better and feeding in to the theme. The theme will be finally set nearer the time by Ventures and their newly elected committee in 2012/13. Blue Skies Lloyd Lloyd Russell-Moyle Chair of General Council Woodcraft Folk www.russell-moyle.co.uk +44.1274 792 228 +44.7899 785 265 Skype: lloyd_rm IFM-SEI, Rue du Trône, 98, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium ll...@woodcraft.org.uk Woodcraft Folk Head Office www.woodcraft.org.uk Folk House 9/10, 83 Crampton Street, LONDON, SE17 3BF Registered charity in England and Wales (1073665) and in Scotland (SC039791) Part of the International Falcon Movement - Socialist Education International - www.ifm-sei.org --- On Mon, 1/11/10, Venturer Camp <vc...@woodcraft.org.uk> wrote:

From: Venturer Camp <vc...@woodcraft.org.uk> Subject: Venturer Camp Review - 6th November

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[evanstribe]

Did we miss an earlier notice about this?
I agree with Eilish - rather short notice to expect Venturers (and
leaders) to be able to make arrangements to travel across country -
and disappointing as if we'd known this was coming it would have been
a good opportunity to encourage some of our less involved Venturers to
voice their opinions.... always good for future camps!
Anyway I guess we'll have to assume that those "in the know" are
really "in the know" and can therefore represent the views of the
rest....!
Just a thought - if people can't go but want to give feedback
presumably an email to Magico or Lloyd will still allow their views to
be heard?
Blue skies
Su Evans
Bristol Venturers


On Nov 2, 3:11 pm, Lloyd Russell-Moyle <lloyd_...@btinternet.com>
wrote:

> Just to make it clear. The meeting will be evaluating this year, thinking what went well and what could be better and feeding in to the theme. The theme will be finally set nearer the time by Ventures and their newly elected committee in 2012/13.
>
> Blue Skies
>
> Lloyd
>

[Ralph Sleigh]

Also agree this is far too short notice, not nearly enough time to see if any of our venturers want to come or gather feedback from them.

I probably won't make it, was going to try and bring our vent for this + the committee meeting afterwards but he can only make the Sunday.

-Ralph

[Bill Bremner]

As with preceding e-mails it is far too short notice for us also -I have asked our leaders that attended to feedback via the google groups and am having a feedback session with Venturers tonight -will consolidate and send back before the weekend -however as this may not be possible for other groups to do in time could I suggest some kind if feedback form or area is added to the V camp website (unless there is already one and I have missed it?) if this is done perhaps link can be e-mailed out to e-groups with a reasonable deadline? (eg before next V camp planning)
anyway camp was great (what I saw of it) well done to all that organised and ran.

Bill

Newham Venturers

[Lloyd Russell-Moyle]

Dear all, FINANCES The Tuesday 16th November, 9am is the final deadline for payment by Venturer Camp to anyone. If you still have an expense form to complete please download one here: http://venturercamp.org.uk/book/forms/ All forms and receipts should be received at Folk house by the 16th November and all outstanding payment will be made by the end of November. If you wish to discus any matter regarding the finances of Venturer Camp please contact me on vc...@woodcraft.org.uk. If you have put in a claim and not yet received payment please contact me directly by phone or email (details below). DE-BRIEFING If you are planning to attend Venturer Camp de-briefing or want to know about the agenda, times or other feedback please send it to magico....@woodcraft.org.uk. Magico is writing the final report of the camp and hosting the event with De Montfort University VENTURER COMMITTEE If you want to know further logistical details about the Venturer Committee or the wider weekend event please contact jack....@woodcraft.org.uk. Venturer Committee was elected at Venturer Camp to start the process of building a nation wide Venturer movement and more regular events. They will be meeting on the Friday and Sunday of the weekend.

[Kevin Lowe]

Oh, and last bit of feedback. We definitely agree that there were way too many DFs there. The ones that are there need to be role models, not behave like they are on DF camp. I’m sure most were great, but again, just a few ‘bad’ ones change the perceptions of them all dramatically, and that’s a real shame. There is so much good that should come from peer education, but so much harm that can be done as well.

 

Kevin

[Maritza Tschepp]

hi all

I agree with Kevin 

I did my best to limit the number ( & quality ) of DFs that we took with us but was undermined somewhat by the organisers in 1 particular case

the alcohol/drug discussion might possibly change if all DFs were only there as positive role models & were all working most of the time, not just there because they wanted to party

however despite that problem this was by far the best Venturer Camp ever

there was plenty of things to get involved in for everyone

our venturers had an amazing time & still talk about it

Fab :
Vcamp team
venturers
most DFs & kinsfolk
programme
vennies
v time
the centres - especially the tea-room ( not enough cakes ! )
wide game ( including the opportunity for leaders workshops )
site
village D ( xxx )
walks
food
solar showers

not nice:
loos
loos
loos






Blue Skies
Maritza

I'm fundraising for SNOW CAMP www.justgiving.com/SNOWCAMP-Maritza

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From: kev_...@hotmail.com
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Subject: RE: Venturer Camp Expenses Final Reminder
Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 09:11:54 +0000

Oh, and last bit of feedback. We definitely agree that there were way too many DFs there. The ones that are there need to be role models, not behave like they are on DF camp. I’m sure most were great, but again, just a few ‘bad’ ones change the perceptions of them all dramatically, and that’s a real shame. There is so much good that should come from peer education, but so much harm that can be done as well.

 

Kevin