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 Friday March 16, 2012 16:12 by The Good Ancestor
The RtF Gathering went very well against the odds, against the will of the authority, in the wonderful sunshine of spring and beautiful surroundings of the forest. A full feed back will follow. The gathering is still open for another lunar cycle, we will be conducting workshops every day from now on with a variety of skills on offer, all of the usual old school stuff and some more for the mix. Open days for the public on saturdays with lots of fun, tea, workshops and family friendly atmosphere in the sun. Protect The Wilderness is not a protest site, it is not a squat, we have reopened a community resource and running it on limited resources, come to help work on this project. At The Wilderness centre we are under eviction, we will defended the space and have put in an appeal to get a stay of the baillifs. We invite people to come help with the resistance, any time you can spare, a day here or there is great, bring some bedding (sleeping bags and roll mats), you can stay and have the choice to be in any confrontation as there are safe secure sleeping sites for tents close by. We have extensive defence network on site with all roads blocked, numerous tree houses joined by rope bridges, we have a tunnel network dug around site, all houses are barricaded with all entry points defended and secure, houses have the capacity to support up to 6 people inside for a number of days.
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Jump To Comment: 2 1The staff that ran the wilderness education centre while it was still open made a proposal at the time it was being shut down to run the centre with volunteers, essentially for no cost. The council shut it down anyway. They are selling this public asset for cash because a few of their senior execs are retiring soon and they need big golden handshakes. Disgraceful.
Under the Localism Act, community groups can ask councils to let them bid to run a service themselves. So a community group could approach the council in this case and say 'we want to run the Wilderness Centre ourselves'; the council have to respond and are not allowed to simply say no. I guess if the centre is closing for lack of funds, it would be a question of working out some deal with the council around the finances, but it would definitely be worth looking into.