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* Most existing facilities (especially electricity). Providing them ourselves is frequently easier than trying to deal with existing services, so they're not a major consideration.
* Most existing facilities (especially electricity). Providing them ourselves is frequently easier than trying to deal with existing services, so they're not a major consideration.


=Candidate Sites=
=Site Suggestions=


Some of this is copied from our [http://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/view/Project:UK_Hack_Camp/Candidate_sites previous search]
If you have a suggestion for a site, drop us an email on contact@emfcamp.org, [http://twitter.com/emfcamp tweet at us], or just leave it here.
{|class="wikitable sortable"
! Site Name
! Contact
! Details
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| Colerne Airfield, Wiltshire (nr Bath)
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| Owned by a company of a friend of London Hackspace
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| [http://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/wicket/bookmarkable/uk.co.profounddecisions.website.pages.pdpages.event.tournamentstud.DirectionsTournamentStud?4 Profound Decisions location], Banbury
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| Quite a lot of existing facilities here which we may be able to use. These guys provided our tents in 2012 and seem pretty keen.
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| [http://eventcentre.co.uk/organisers Yorkshire Event Centre, Harrogate]
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| Site of the Great Yorkshire Show which has massive farm equipment so access is probably fine. Has event spaces, big outside areas, loads of parking. Sainsburys effectively on site. From memory, drainage is OK.
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| Turnpost Farm, Leicestershire
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| Location of Glastonbudget.  About 4 miles from Loughborough.  Not sure of parking and amenities, but Glastonbudget has about 12,000 people so likely to be plenty of space if we can use some of that as car park
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| [http://www.peterborougharena.com/ Peterborough Arena and Showground]
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| Seems very accessible by all sorts of vehicles and good public transport links.  Arena has internet, so should be easy to roll out to the showgrounds.  Close to Peterborough for shops and things.
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| [http://www.newarkshowground.com/ Newark Showground]
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| Similar to Peterborough I guess.  Perhaps a tad large. 84 acres, fenced, good drainage, a range of indoor spaces (max 4000 capacity), 2 miles from train station (2h15 from kings x), lots of parking, in house catering available
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| [http://www.doncaster-racecourse.co.uk/events/outdoorevents/ Doncaster Racecourse]
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| Facilities look strong, including [http://www.digitalregion.co.uk/ digital region] connection via a very friendly local ISP. Maybe too small, and races on all the time?
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| [http://www.pickeringshowground.co.uk/ Pickering Showground]
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| Looks like a nice spot, hosts a music festival.
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| [https://plus.google.com/109412933278853270069/about?hl=en Baldersby Park, Thirsk]
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| Location for deershed festival. Finding out more details..
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| [http://www.threecounties.co.uk/venuehire/ Three Counties Showground]
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| Has a camping area which is 7 acres and available to hire separately.  It has power, toilets and showers already on site, and plenty of other space to hire alongside it.
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| [http://www.tolmers.org.uk/about-tolmers Tolmers Camp Site], EN6 4JS
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| Too much of a scout camp?
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| [http://www.rwas.co.uk/society Royal Welsh Show Ground]
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| In Builth Wells, decent sized site with camping and inside space, Difficult to get to by train (4 trains a day, via Swansea or Shewsbury)
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| Merton Farm
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| Site of [http://loungeonthefarm.co.uk Lounge on the Farm] festival and [http://www.kentbeerfestival.com/ Kent Beer Festival]. Multiple fields, so can scale a bit (season dependant). Barn available for large lectures/performances. Other "stages" would need to be outdoors. HS1 rail link to Canterbury West from STP (approx 1 hour) standard from VIC to Canterbury East (approx 1 hour 45 minutes), shuttle bus would be required.
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| [http://www.norfolkshowground.co.uk/ Norfolk Showground], NR5 0TT
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| [http://www.landforevents.co.uk/whitchurch.html Whitcurch], RG28 7LZ
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| [http://www.fireservicecollege.ac.uk/events.aspx Moreton-in-Marsh Fire College]
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| Old airfield, now used for fire training. They have a conference centre with accommodation, canteen and two bars. Station nearby.
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| [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Marston_Airfield Long Marston Airfield]
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| [http://www.landforevents.co.uk/newburywest.html Newbury West], RG20 0HA
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| Definitely a farm, poor access, next to A34.
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| [http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=upper+heyford Upper Heyford]
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| Old airfield, now used for offices.
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| [http://www.newburyshowground.co.uk/ Newbury Showground], RG18 9QC
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| [http://www.eastnorcastle.com/ Eastnor castle], HR8 1RL
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| [http://www.bentwatersparks.com/ Bent Waters Parks], IP12 2TW
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| [http://www.southwatereventgroup.com/the-international-centre Telford International Centre]
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| New site of Multiplay.
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| Greenham? RG19 6HN
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| Good area to look for sites (but no camping on the common).
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| [http://www.matterleyestate.com/ Matterley Bowl], SO21 1HW
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| They have plenty of space and good facilities, concerns were raised about the venue's limited number of licenses per year, however Peveril Bruce the owner is happy to talk about hosting us.
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| [http://www.redbridge.gov.uk/cms/leisure_and_libraries/leisure/parks_and_open_spaces/list_of_parks_and_open_spaces/hainault_forest_country_park.aspx  Hainault Forest Country Park], IG7 4QN
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| Offset festival is held here (although that setup isn't possible any more). [[Media:Hainault_site_plan_2012.pdf|Site plan]], [http://goo.gl/fkwy0 Streetview]
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| [http://www.debdenhouse.com/ Debden House]
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| They have a very large campsite with power hookup for tents (relaxed rules), an in door conference centre, easy to drive to, but just outside of London with good public transport links.
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| [http://www.newbury-racecourse.co.uk/Conferences---Events/Venue-Map-Capacity Newbury racecourse]
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| Multiplay have used them in the past, had camping, lots of interior space, and fast internets.
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| [http://www.donington-park.co.uk/ Donington]
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| [http://www.midlandrailway-butterley.co.uk/home/ Midland Railway]
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| Site of indietracks festival
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| [http://www.welbeck.co.uk/ Welbeck Estate]
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| Site of No Direction Home
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| [http://www.westdean.org.uk/Garden/Home.aspx West Dean]
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| Has held (small) festivals before
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| ADD MORE! :)
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|}


=Candidate Sites=


==Rejected Sites==
We're now managing candidate sites in Trello. Please contact [[User:Russ|Russ]] ([[User talk:Russ|talk]]) if you want to help out with this process!
{|class="wikitable sortable"
! Site Name
! Details
! Reason
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| Overstone Scout Campsite, Northampton
| Got water, showers and toilets. Not the flattest. May be too small.
| Too small (30k sq m)
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| [http://www.theparkstrust.com/whats-on/organising-your-own-event Milton Keynes Parks Trust], MK
| Site of EMF2012
| Access to site under low bridge
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| [http://www.the-observatory.org/ The Observatory Science Centre]
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| Only one event per year
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| [http://www.bovingdonairfield.co.uk/ Bovingdon Airfield]
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| Contact not interested in our event. Cable in surrounding area
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| Essex University
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| Don't want large public festivals
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| [http://www.essexoutdoors.org/mersea.php Mersea Youth Camp]
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| Too small, and they're not keen.
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| [http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/ Bletchley Park]
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| Too small
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| [http://www.dorsetadventure.co.uk/ Poole & Dorset Adventure Centre]
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| limited to about 20 people indoors and 30 in tents
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| [http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/ Jodrell Bank]
| Radio free zone
| Would be difficult to organise under those conditions
|}

Revision as of 13:45, 6 July 2013

The biggest issue for EMF is to find a good site.

Organisation of this has moved to trello, if you'd like to help ask in the IRC channel and we'll get you access. At the moment we're emailing sites, getting quotes and arranging site-visits.

Note this list is not being actively maintained; the canonical list is maintained on trello, please refer to that

Requirements

  1. Site
    1. At least 50,000 sq m (this should fit at least 1500 people but this isn't indicative of our planned capacity)
    2. Available for around 11 days (including a weekend) between mid-July and mid-September 2014
    3. Pleasant enough you actually want to spend time there
    4. Previous event history at site
  2. Access and Location
    1. Good access for setup vehicles (no low bridges, for example)
    2. Good transport links (proximity to public transport)
    3. Located centrally to the UK
    4. Near largish shops (e.g. large Tesco)
  3. Facilities
    1. Ability to get a good internet connection (1 gigabit+) (but please let us know of any potential sites - NOC team can work this out)
    2. Some kind of water supply/sewage connection
    3. Well drained
    4. Space for parking

We don't care about:

  • Most existing facilities (especially electricity). Providing them ourselves is frequently easier than trying to deal with existing services, so they're not a major consideration.

Site Suggestions

If you have a suggestion for a site, drop us an email on contact@emfcamp.org, tweet at us, or just leave it here.

Candidate Sites

We're now managing candidate sites in Trello. Please contact Russ (talk) if you want to help out with this process!

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