In 2024 our gathering was held in a park near Manchester, from 26th July-3rd September. It was the most logistically independent camp we’d ever done, as this time we had compost toilets and a full site kitchen. All our key necessities for independence were at the camp, which marked a really cool progression from our roots in 2022.
We had our fairly standard number of around 70-80 people; we normally get this many, even though there’s always a good turnover of new faces each year. Our programme was very large, with three streams running simulatanously.
There were some logistical issues at the start, as just a couple weeks beforehand the police’s Operation Infusion had just repressed the planned 2024 Reclaim the Power camp near Drax Power Station, pre-empitively arresting dozens of people and seizing a large quantity of the site equipment which we were relying on for our camp. We had to do lots of scrambling to secure replacements, but we were just about able to, and the gathering went much better than poor RTP’s one!
The timetable looked like this:
Setting up the camp:
The brave loo crew (colloquially known as ‘shit commune’) at work:
The very popular radical mycology workshop:
A beautiful marquee 🙂
