National Trust Revolution 10/11 Booklet

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Important Information... to help you and everyone else have a great time!

• Please be considerate of other people and their belongings – volunteers, staff and the public.

• This is a no alcohol & no drugs event.• Please don’t light camp fires or flares.• Smokers - only smoke in the designated smoking areas

and please use the bins provided. Never smoke in tents.• Please recycle all your rubbish.

Use the recycling bins and leave the site clean and tidy.• Live and recorded music will stop at midnight.This is to comply with our event licence. After this time please keep noise to a minimum so others can sleep.

• THE National Trust AND SYVN accept no responsibility for the items that you bring with you.

• Remember to wash your hands after using the loos, doing conservation work and before eating.

• It can get cold at night, so remember to keep warm while camping. Put on all your clothes if necessary!

• This is a closed site – you must get permission from the production office if you need to leave and return for any reason.

Report any accidents, incidents ordamage to your nearest steward, theproduction office or call 07837 316010.


Welcome to Revolution!Welcome to Revolution’s Big Weekend, hosted bythe National Trust at Montacute House and run inpartnership with Somerset Youth VolunteeringNetwork. You’re one of over 500 fantastic youngvolunteers who are in for an action-packedweekend of exciting volunteering challenges,delicious food, brilliant live entertainment andother amazing activities.

The volunteering tasks are happening here atMontacute and at nearby Trust places – Cheddar,Barrington Court and Lytes Cary. You can read abit about them on the following pages…


What’s on this weekend

Bulb-planting, scrub-bashing, drystone-walling,apple-picking, welcoming visitors, media tasksand even working with a shirehorse... there areloads of great volunteering challengeshappening on Saturday.

And when you’re not working hard, we’vegot amazing activities lined up to entertain you.As well as great live music and DJs, you canhave a go at some of this:

Archery – SaturdayCircus skills – Friday & SundayClay pigeon shooting – FridayCroquet – Friday & SaturdayDance – FridayGrassboarding – Friday & SundayTree climbing – Saturday & SundayMartial arts – Friday, Saturday & SundayHawk & owl flying – Sunday

Check the big timetables in the food tent for the timings and the most up-to-date information.


Friday Schedule

Arrivals

16:00 onwards

Food

17:30 - 21:00

music

19:45 - 00:00

Check out the big timetables forup-to-date information about whowill be playing and when.

WELCOME TALK19:30 - 19:45

activities

16:00 - 20:00

Circus skills, martial artsand grassboarding are someof the activities lined up!

a bit about...montacute

The stunning ElizabethanHouse will be the back-drop toyour weekend. It’s set in formalgardens and surrounded byacres of parkland with tree-lined avenues.

a bit about...Cheddar

Britain’s largest gorge, carvedby melt-water from the last IceAge. The gorge has beenforming and changing over thepast two million years.

Courtyard cleared - 01:00


Saturday Schedule

volunteering

08:45 - 16:00

Minibuses leave at 08:45 so beprompt!

You will choose your activities atregistration so make sure you knowwhat you will be doing.

breakfast - 07:30 - 08:30wake up call - 07.00

music & Activities

16:00 - 00:00

These will start wheneveryone is back on site.

The activities will include amartial arts display, sportingactivities and archery, with arange of music on offer. See the big timetables formore details...

fancy dress

19:00 onwards

SHOWERS

06:00-08:00

Courtyard cleared - 01:00

SHOWERS

16:00-19:30hog roast

17:30 - 21:00


activities

10:00 - 15:30Sunday’s activities will includehawk and owl flying, grassboardingand tree climbing.

There is more information aboutthese activities on the timetables inthe food tent.

breakfast - 08:30 - 09:30

site closes - 16:00

wake up call - 08.00

SHOWERS

06:00-08:00

a bit about...barrington court

A Tudor manor house restoredin the 1920’s. Particularlyfamous for its gardens, a seriesof ‘rooms’ designed byGertrude Jekyll.

a bit about... lytes cary

A characterful medieval manorhouse set in a beautiful gardencontaining topiary, statues andflower borders.

Sunday Schedule


The National TrustRevolution Festival is hosted the National Trust. We look after amazing countryside, coast and historic buildings in England, Wales and Northern Ireland with the help of over60,000 volunteers of all ages, in all kinds of roles. Ifyou’ve had a great time this weekend, come and findout about other opportunities from 18:00 on Saturdayand 10:30 on Sunday. Alternatively [email protected] or visitwww.nationaltrust.org.uk/volunteering.

Somerset Youth Volunteering NetworkWe're a youth charity based in the south west, workingmainly with 14 - 25 year olds to encourage theirinvolvement in the community and in voluntary action.We ran the 2009 Revolution Festival and are workingwith the National Trust on Revolution 10/11. We runother diverse and interesting activities so if you likewhat you see and want to get involved, talk to one ofthe stewards or contact us on 01458 836130,[email protected] or somersetyouth.org.uk.

Search ‘Zummerzet Ewe’ and ‘Banned SYVN’.


Other RevolutionsHad a great time? Fancy a bit more volunteeringaction and great entertainment?

We’re running one day mini-Revolutions until May2011. Find and book on to your local event online atwww.revolutionfestival.org.uk or contact SYVN.

Purbeck (Poole) — Saturday 6 November Dyrham Park (Bath) — Sunday 12 December Kingston Lacy(Wimborne Minster) — April 2011Lytes Cary (Somerton) — May 2011

Pictures from Mini-Revolution Killerton


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Stay Connected!

There are loads of ways to keep in touch withwhat’s going on with Revolution 10/11.

facebook.com/revolutionfestival

twitter.com/ntrevolution

flickr.com/revolution_festival

[email protected]

revolutionfestival.org.uk

01458 836130

Supported by

In partnership with

See page 8 for the national trust and syvn’s websites.

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