Hear, hear!! I was so surprised at the cost - thought it would be 3 times as much. I don't think I'll afford to get to the US anytime soon & we've got Beth Lavinder coming over to teach Hoop Path based classes! And our own Sharna Rose! And lots of other great people I need to check the website again for! ; ))

www.ukhoopgathering.com/#/work...2049903

It's going to be amazing...... I want to meet all the hoopers I only ever speak to on here!!

I don't think it is very fair to imply that people that cannot afford to go to this event are unsupportive of the hooping community. If you can't afford to pay your household bill, you re not being unsupportive in not going, you are being realistic. Borrowing money to go to an event when you can't foresee a time when you will ever be able to pay it back is foolish and to encourage people to do so by making them feel guilty & implying they are letting their community down is just plain mean. I think that's a fairly unsupportive act on your part for the people within the hooping community that really just have no funds what so ever.

I'm all for it. I think it's great that it's happening. I'm just gutted that I'm already engaged in something quite immovable that weekend.

If, closer to the date, day tickets go on sale, I'll be there for the Saturday and perhaps even most of the Friday.

'm really looking forward to coming along - I haven't had had anyone locally that are out and about in the hooping world so it will be nice for me to finally meet people that know what the buzz is about. I think the cost is fine given that it is a) a couple of days worth of workshops from ace hoopers, b) includes lots of goodies like food!! yum yum c) accomodation options d) a chance to get away for a mini break from my world of boring admin!

While I would automatically say 'I can't afford it' in actual fact for me, i can't afford not to. I've seen all the ads for hoop jams and hoop clubs in London but they are just not an option on a weekly basis from where I live so this is something special so I don't feel I miss out on everything! When will this opportunity happen again! Some people will have to stop and think whether they really can afford it - especially with finances as they are these days and make their decision based on that.

I'm driving 200 miles to get there and probably picking up another hooper on the way - hope we don't get lost!

Look forward to meeting everyone there. I'm no where near as good as lots of you so hopefully there will be some workshops accessible to a slow yet enthusiastic hooper = me :) xx

PS - I've never even been camping so I'm very excited about that too! Crumbs - a learning experience all round.

All this hoop camp talk has created a real buzz! Im quite jealous i dont have a ticket yet.
Im waiting for my last student loan to come through in 4weeks so hoop gathering might be an option then, if tickets are still available. If not i will start stashing the pennies away for next year!
his summer is definatly a brillaint time for hooping in the UK with hoopgirl and body hoops trainings, hoop jams and hoop gathering there is lots going on so hopfully our little UK hooping community will grow closer and larger.
It sounds like alot of hoopers are aready attending, be sure to capture lotsof photos and vdeos for those that cant be there.
Sue- Thats a really good point about day tickets, I could definatly make a day if a whole weekend was finanically out of the question!

Yey im coming hoop gathering!
Camping and L.E.D hooping it is going to be brilliant!
Fingers crossed for some beautiful sunny english weather now!

The workshopa already on the website look great, and there are more to be anounced. Get saving those pennies, raid you copper jars UK hoopers and come have some hooping fun in July!

I've been putting off buying a ticket as I wasn't sure if I was going to be in the country or not, now I'm thinking I'll probably be here and don't want to miss out!
Thing is, I don't actually know any other hoopers (apart from you virtual lot of course)- do you think it's acceptable to rock up on your own?

Heyyyy hoopers!

Gems here of UK Hoop Gathering.... :-)

Wow.....!!! I just came across all of these posts! I am amazed - I had no idea there was such discussion about the event! As you can tell by looking at my horribly empty profile, i'm not on Tribe very much at all - so completely missed all of this.

Well, I'd like to say thank you to you all for your support!! It really does mean a lot to me - it's a big undertaking putting on a retreat, so your love and kind words mean loads. THANK YOU!!

I can't wait to hoop with you guys in summer - it's going to be excellent!! :-) Yippeeee!!
If you've got any questions about the gathering...please ask away!

Gems xxxxx

Yippee!! I've managed to swing it. I can go to 2/3rds of Hoop Camp.

Ticket is paid for, so no getting out of it now.

I'm not going to talk about it on Facebook as other theatre people might see my posts there and this is very strictly off the record as I'm missing a late stage rehearsal on the Friday night to be able to come. The director has sanctioned it, but asked me to keep it quiet. His words were "Sue phoned and won't be here with us this evening, but should be better for Sunday"!

I still have to leave Sunday morning to get to the dress rehearsal, but heck, that's all the best bits.