Having failed to secure any funding through any of the traditional means I am now launching the "Get Tractor Girl to Durham investment opportunity"
Now this is not a scheme where you invest with the hope of getting huge financial dividends back, although you should get something non-financial back through the feel good factor. I'm also not only looking for financial investments.
The four categories I am seeking support in are as follows:
1. Financial support - even an investment £1 would take me a step closer to finding the fees
2. Prayer support - this is just as important as the financial stuff and I am quite happy to except prayer without finance
3. Fundraising ideas - creativity is a gift. If you want to use it to help me I would be greatful
4. Passing on any ideas you have for anywhere else I can approach for funding
In terms of how to get in contact with me. Well, I'm kind of taking it that most people who read this blog (and anybody who would like to contribute) would actually have an awareness of who I am in real life anyway and so could probably get in touch somehow.
If you don't come into this category (and aren't on the ship or GCN either, which would give you the facility to pm me) let me know and I will see if I can work out some way to contact you without either of us having to plaster personal contact details over the net.
Yesterday's mail yielded my Tate magazine and with it a small but gorgeous booklet celebrating 50 years of Tate Members . It is a celebration of Tate's finest works. - My personal favourites: Concert for Anarchy by Rebecca Horn, (the piano they had hanging from the ceiling) and Towards the Corner by Juan Munoz (the old blokes on the bench).
I also purchased the Big Issue ,a festival edition, and was dismayed to find out they were listing Greenbelt as being in July rather than August. I hope somebody from the Greenbelt office has been in touch and is getting them to print a correction.
Also on a festival related note tickets for Cambridge Folk Festival go on sale today and it looks like one not to be missed, (Billy Bragg, Levellers, Imagined Village and K D Lang on the bill amongst others).