Yes it is exciting, even from here, and that bit is just beginning
and i'm sure that things we learn will be useful for what you're trying to do
and of course you should feel free to post about it in that spirit
and i feel sure the attention we get will be useful for us all
Perhaps I don't quite see why we need another campaign when people like CoOperatives UK, Camra. Plunkett Fdn., already have the material: but there's more campaigning to be done than those small organisations can muster, I'm pretty sure, so maybe I have just answered myself... Local is very much the thing, and as long as you're empowering and emphasising that [and that seems to be your general drift] we're heading to the same place.
...and I'm sure our experience will be helpful. happy to chat, very happy for you to repost or talk about what we're doing, use elsewhere, whatever works. And it will work!
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I have worked for the pub in a freelance capacity, and at the Hat & Feather too, since the early 1990s.
I also work freelance for Bath Fringe and for some other festivals. I'm a musician and a writer.