A way to test the waters to see if we CAN grow!
Burns throughout Europe have been selling out! There is such a huge demand from the ever-growing community for more access to burns (more burns, more tickets, more ways to get involved). We can't cater for it all but at the nest community meeting, the feeling is that we want to grow which would help with this.
One of the biggest issues for Nest to grow is the increase in compliance costs, to do that membership numbers would need to jump to at least 800 (500 tickets sold for this year).
One way we could get a meaningful gauge on if we could actually reach those numbers for next Nest with enough time to actually do something about it well would be to take deposits early and go from there. I am only thinking 10 pounds or something similar, nothing that will break the bank but will get an actual commitment from people!
We could do this by giving people a months notice and if it's possible, voting on when the sale would start.
I think it would also be nice to allow camps to before this date put applications for how many people they want for their camp and possibly an option for a portion of directed sale tickets and I think this is really important! Camps bring a huge amount to a burn and sometimes they really struggle to get the people needed to a burn!
There are many other things to deal with if the decision is to grow, but I figure this would give us some kind of useful information into how feasible it would be.
I would love your feedback and ideas.
I'm also happy working on making this happen!
Vicki Baars Fri 23 Aug 2019 7:54AM
Does anyone have the number of people who were on the wait list last year? I would hazard a guess that it was at least 100 people and the ticket transfer thread had over 300 comments on it. My guess it we already have a significant amount of interest from burners that takes us a hundred or so over the 500 more so we’re actually talking about a smaller % growth of people who are new to the principles and if there are more new people on site we may need to increase education of the principals but that’s doable
Keegan · Tue 20 Aug 2019 1:12PM
I agree that people committing and buying in earlier will lead to bigger growth and a much more engaged community for the event! It gives people a long time to get excited about it and plan crazy and wild ideas!