Past Gatherings
Look at our archive of camps from 2022!
- Summer Gathering 2025 (Oxfordshire)
In 2025, we held our summer camp on a permissive site for the first time, in Oxfordshire from the 22nd-29th June. The timetable: The camp at sunset: A novel method of transporting tents is carefully tested: So-called ‘shit commune’ hard at work disposing of waste: A different angle of the… Read more: Summer Gathering 2025 (Oxfordshire) - Summer Gathering 2024 (Manchester)
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… Read more: Summer Gathering 2024 (Manchester) - Summer Gathering 2023 (Coventry)
Our second summer camp, and first official gathering under the name AYC, was held in Coventry in June 2023. Logistcally, it was a big step up from our first camp. We increased its length to a week, and this time we were camping full time in the park, rather than… Read more: Summer Gathering 2023 (Coventry) - Summer Gathering 2022 (Sheffield)
Our first gathering was held under the name Sheffield Student Summer Camp, in 2022. The context at the time was that there had been a massive student rent strike wave in 2020/2021 due to the mistreatment of students by covid policies. Lots of young people had been politicised by this… Read more: Summer Gathering 2022 (Sheffield)