Only 12 Weeks Until the Folk Festival!

Tickets went on sale this morning for the 2008 Cambridge Folk Festival. The Co-operative Group has sponsored the Creche for the last few years, and had a large presence from our membership team to try to raise awareness of Co-operative values and principles amongst the festival goers (although a large proportion are already very aware of what we stand for). This year promises to be more Co-operative than ever, with a couple of food retail units providing hungry and thirsty campers with ethical Co-op fare.

Each year we have a theme to our membership activity. Last year we were raising awareness of what we can do - both as individuals and as Co-operators - to help prevent catastrophic climate change with our Show Some Love campaign. This year we will be focusing on our BUAV approved cosmetic and houshold product ranges, and encouraging festival-goers to bear animal welfare in mind when purchasing these sorts of items.

Although I'm not going to be part of the Co-op team at the festival, I will be a paying customer instead due to a lengthy bit of queuing this morning. If you haven't got your tickets yet, your only hope is the phone lines, as the online and in-person tickets are sold out.

As ever, I'm looking forward greatly to the festival - it's a fantastic celebration of great music, good beer and nice people. If you want to say hello, mine will be the tent with "Just Married" written on it - Kate and I will be in the middle of our honeymoon at the time.

Picture above is of the 2006 Folk Festival during the balmy weather that we were treated to. I'm the one with the accordion....