Dear Off Gridders, Diggers, Dreamers, Believers and Hippies,
It is with sincere regret we must tell you that we need to cancel Off Grid Festival 2019.
This is due to the many recent drop outs from our core team and a general lack of energy and finances. Considering the small size of the event, an awful lot of work goes into it. Over the past few months we have been recruiting, fund-raising, marketing, considering other organisational bodies, putting our lives on hold again, all in order to build a strong team to take our festival forward, but without the annual burn-out epidemic. Unfortunately, despite countless shout-outs, volunteers have been dropping as fast as we have been recruiting them, and doing all the work ourselves just isn’t a realistic option.
We understand that this may be a great disappointment to some of you, especially if you have already invested your time and money into it, made plans and rejected other offers. We sincerely thank you for all your support and hard work until this point, and hope you can make other arrangements. If there ever is a time to revive the event in the future and we would be honoured to welcome you back again.
If you have purchased tickets they will be refunded in due course. You will receive a message from Bookitbee to confirm this. Please get in contact with us if you have any issues with this.
Wishing you the very best,
The Off Grid Team
So sorry for all of you that organise this fun event. I guess the Green movement has taken a lot of the wind from your sails.
I have never attented off grid festival before but was planning on going this year, I am so sorry to hear about all the problems that have arisen and hope that the core idea gets revived in some way in the future.could you possibly let me know If there are any alternative events where ppl can exchange ideas as I am looking to connect with ppl doing off grid work. Xxx once again saddened to hear is hasn’t worked out this year, best of luck for the future.
Hey! We are so sorry to hear that, it is sad to know that not so many people would be willing to volunteer for such a great cause.
Your decision is perfectly understandable and believe us when we tell you we are overwhelmed for what this actually means to the festival and to the whole idea/concept behind it.
Hopefully you will recharge your energy and be back with the same spirit and stronger. Please let us know if we can be of any help in the future!
Best of lucks! Mirtha and James from More Than Tacos!
Could there be an off grid area at the Green Gathering or at Seed Festival or similar? Or hosted by Hawkwood or Embercombe or similar? In other words use infrastructure that’s already there and focus on matters that are specifically about matters closest to Off Grid’s heart? my friends who run festivals have got tired and gradually let go as the workload is massive. And they certainly never made a living out of it. Take care and enjoy a well earned rest x
Hello,I’m Feeling a tinge of regret an active volunteer suggested me volunteering because I showed an interest but I never followed it up.
Thankyou. Paul.