Mayflower
Camps UK

Privacy and Respect for Boundaries

 
Mayflower Camps can be very easy going and laid back. Yet we hold for more than offering a friendly camp site. So we don't want to invite or encourage casual or careless relationship with our camps.

    Please do not assume or tell others that its OK to just turn up. Book your place using our booking form or a copy of it. At the very least ring us to check before coming - as places are limited.

    Our community process is supported and protected by being a private event. Anyone can book a place, but do not visit or invite visitors to the Field while the camp is on - including setting up and taking down periods.

    Please arrange to meet friends or relatives offsite if you plan to meet them during the course of the whole camp.

    We also ask for the Camp’s set up and final take down time to be respected by campers. This means:

Please do not arrive before
Noon on the opening day.

    Equally: please do leave on the closing day. Those of us who hold the Camp need time for our own process to close.

    Our last day of a camp is for closure. After breakfast, we clear and take down the camp together in the spirit that we have shared the rest of the camp. We have a closing meeting at about 1pm. And then we leave. This is a good way to ground ourselves and embrace change.

 
    If you depend on a lift to or from the Camp please communicate to the person giving the lift that the Camp is an intimate and private event, so that they come and go respecting this.

    Please ensure that lifts are not arranged before 3pm on the closing day of the Camp. (Or if so, that you meet near the gate).

    Weekend places are a concession to those who cant make the whole camp. We ask weekend campers to leave on Monday (for May Camp) or Sunday (for October Camp). We will use that day’s meeting to mark closure and transition in the camp. It is not OK to stay ‘a bit longer’, or for weekend campers to return later in the Camp.

    It is important for the nature of our camps to see each one as a unique community journey. We want to all begin together, so if at all possible, arrive at least in time for the first meeting on Saturday morning. (About 10.30am), or tell us if you will be late. Likewise we ask to complete together by closing at the last meeting. (about 1pm).

    We ask campers to keep radio or recorded music private, by use of earphones. This is partly to have a break from some aspects of the world outside the camp, but also towards encouraging our own live music as a growing and valued resource.

    Other boundaries which come with the Field are; that we do not allow dogs to the camps, and that there are specific private areas adjoining the Field that we are not to use. (Details of this are clearly communicated on the Field).

Related links for further Information: Booking Details: Spring, Summer, Autumn. The Meeting. The Field. Communion and Community. Things you might Bring. And of course various articles and links around the site from the top navigation menu.

Copyright Brian Steere 2004

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