How much money? Solidarity pricing!

How much mon­ey?

This gath­er­ing is as DIY as it gets, and doing it our­selves also means fund­ing it our­selves. No one prof­its off of these gath­er­ings. No one gets paid.

Gath­er­ings always run on a dona­tion basis, and no one is turned away for lack of funds. At the wel­come desk you will be able to donate what­ev­er feels right, based on ‘sol­i­dar­i­ty pric­ing’:

Sol­i­dar­i­ty pric­ing: Have more, pay more. Have less, pay less.

Here’s a lit­tle guide to help you judge how much you can afford com­pared to oth­ers, it’s not just about income, oth­er fac­tors are impor­tant. Class, wealth and expe­ri­ences of sys­temic oppres­sion all play a part. Remem­ber, it’s just a guide, an imper­fect way to cre­ate a more eco­nom­i­cal­ly lib­er­at­ing mod­el while we work to smash cap­i­tal­ism and cre­ate dif­fer­ent eco­nom­ic sys­tems.

• Some fac­tors that can allow you to afford more:

- Hav­ing above aver­age income

- Own­ing land or prop­er­ty

- Being like­ly to inher­it prop­er­ty or wealth

- Hav­ing sig­nif­i­cant wealth, sav­ings or invest­ments

- Being eas­i­ly able to meet basic needs and can afford lux­u­ries (hol­i­days, take­away)

- Hav­ing recog­nised edu­ca­tion­al back­ground and qual­i­fi­ca­tions (good schools, degrees, post­grad etc.) 

- Being eas­i­ly able to get well paid work

- Hav­ing a safe­ty net or strong social sup­port net­works (eg a par­ents house to retreat to, friends with mon­ey etc.)

• Some fac­tors that can reduce how much you can afford:

- Earn­ing less than aver­age income

- Sup­port­ing depen­dents or hav­ing care respon­si­bil­i­ties (chil­dren, rel­a­tives, part­ners etc.)

- Hav­ing dis­abil­i­ties or long term ill-health

- Reg­u­lar­ly being in con­tact with state/institutional vio­lence

- Pre­car­i­ous migra­tion sta­tus (eg being a Refugee, asy­lum seek­er or per­son with­out papers)

- Being unable to legal­ly work

- Expe­ri­enc­ing finan­cial dis­tress (eg. unex­pect­ed court fees, los­ing a job, sud­den rent increas­es)

- Expe­ri­enc­ing sys­temic oppres­sion due to things such as race, class, gen­der, neu­ro­di­ver­si­ty, sex­u­al­i­ty

No one is turned away for lack of funds, please don’t let cost put you off attend­ing!

We all have dif­fer­ent rela­tion­ships to mon­ey and we encour­age every­one to be hon­est with them­selves. The emo­tions that come up when we talk about what we can afford can often cloud our judge­ment. Cap­i­tal­ism breeds a cul­ture of scarci­ty — for some this feels like emo­tion­al insta­bil­i­ty and uncer­tain­ty, and for oth­ers this looks like mate­r­i­al pover­ty and a lack of resources. It is impos­si­ble to talk about things like class, mon­ey, wealth or income with­out think­ing about sys­temic oppres­sions like racism or ableism.

 There are lots of hid­den costs involved with gath­er­ings like this. Some stuff can’t be found in bins or bor­rowed, and while we try to keep costs down, there is equip­ment we would like to pur­chase to make sum­mer camps like this more acces­si­ble in the future, (eg track mat­ting, a minibus, light­ing, solar pan­els, hear­ing induc­tion loop,.) By donat­ing more gen­er­ous­ly you are help­ing achieve this!