Bury Beer Festival is cancelled this year

It has been buried.

Does this mean next years Oldham Beer Festival will go the same way because it is run by the same people????

Peter (Urmston)

It may do; we must wait and see, I s'pose.

-- Pat Ricroft, City of Salford, UK ===============================

In message , Pat Ricroft wrote

Is it volunteer fatigue or just that some festivals are no longer 'fun' with increased elfin safety intervention and more bureaucracy.

I think it's that different people aren't coming forwards to take on the work - not necessarily younger, but different people. Recently retired/redundant people are just as useful in organising as the younger ones, and probably have just as long a shelf life.

As for H&S, if properly managed it needn't take the fun out of the festival. It just seems like an unwarranted intrusion to people who've been successfully organising events for years, and perhaps if that's the case then new, different people would not find it such an intrusion.

Not so much people getting old as people wanting someone else to take over and they can do something else. It doesn't matter how much you enjoy anything, when people get to assuming that it is a specific person that will do something it can become a chore rather than a fun event. So, yes, you're right about the no longer fun but for a different reason. I've done just about every different job at a festival and they are still fun for me because I'm not doing what I used to do.

Health and Safety gets a bad press because of the jobsworths that sometimes get involved. The truth is that it is simply a small set of rules, which you can set people working within and then just get on with things.