DorkCamp09 campsite search
From DorkbotLondon
We need to find a new venue for DorkCamp09, as our last one has started asking for CRB checks for all adults on site (it was a scout camp, so understandable). Please put any leads or ideas below.
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Possible venues
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Etherley Farm
http://www.etherleyfarm.co.uk/Campsite.htm
- basic campsite
- nice location, near leith hill
- no kitchen and probably no indoor space
- £5pp per night (maybe we can negotiate)
- ockley train station is 2.8 miles away, no trains on sunday though
- Bus #21 from dorking train station goes fairly close local bus map
Larkshall
http://www.cerberusspeleo.org.uk/hut.htm
- cavers site
- somerset
- 30 people in bunks, plus camping?
- traverse climbing wall!
David donald field studies centre
- lovely area
- near swanage
- great looking facilities
- small for us - 30 places
- more expensive than what we're used to
Rickmansworth campsite
- Kitchen and indoor room
- 7 acres
- inside the M25!
- All of the phone numbers are dead, seems like this no longer exists. :(
Useful websites
- http://www.groupaccommodation.com/index.asp
- http://www.independenthostelguide.co.uk/accommodation-in-southern-england-map.php
- http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/articles/view.asp?id=4
- web search ideas:
venue constraints
required:
- space for at least 50 people
- showers + toilets
- good sized indoor hall/lounge type space for doing stuff in wet weather
- good sized outdoor space with camp fire
- camping
highly desired:
- space for 60-70 people
- cheap
- kitchen
- flush toilets
- indoor crashspace
- rules that allow amplified music
- beautiful surroundings
- nearish london
desired:
- indoor bunks
- rules that allow amplified music late
- by the seaside
- west or north of london (others, e.g. dorkbotbristol might join in)
