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Responsibilities | Workshops | Set up and tat down | Tat | Skills
Collective responsibilities
Organising and running the Gathering is a lot of work and responsibility. As we are a non-hierarchical organisation, that responsibility lies with everybody. So, if you see something that needs doing, then it is your responsibility to do it or ensure it gets done.
That said, we do need to know that certain things will be covered. We have teams of people who will be responsible for each essential area - here is a list of roles involved in the Gathering.
If you think you can help in any of these areas of responsibility that would be really great. Please do get in touch.
Workshops
Workshops at the gathering are put on by anybody and everybody. You don't have to be an expert public speaker to put on a workshop, or even an expert in the subject!
There is a list of workshops that have already been offered available from the What will happen? page.
Fancy teaching us about the evils of Monsanto? Enabling discussions on sharing of techniques for de-arrest? Sharing skills for resisting the destruction of peat? Contact us with any ideas.
We also need facilitators for workshops - or people who would be prepared to learn to be facilitators. Please also let us know.
Set up and tat down
We always need help setting up before the gathering and taking everything down afterwards. So if you can come early to help set up, or stay afterwards to help take it all down, that would be great.
Some of the gathering collective will be on site from Saturday the 12th of August until at least Tuesday the 22nd of August, and possibly a little longer. This year, we are planning to run a small kitchen to feed people during set up and tat down - so now you have no excuse.
Tat
To put a gathering together takes an enormous amount of equipment. If you have any you feel is of use, please do contact us. The list of equipment that would be of use is so large that we have set up a separate page - our wish list - please do check and see if there is anything you can provide.
Skills
Please do let us know if you have any skills that may be of use in the gathering.
Examples of skills include:
- Facilitation
- Mediation
- Healing
- First aid
- Construction (domes, bog building...)
- Translation (spoken languages and BSL)
- Alternative technology
- Care assistant