"However, if they are making money on me, as a commercial venture". I think GDSF has to be seen as a commercial venture due the sheer size of it. I once heard that the field owners get £1m, well if that's the case, you need to charge a decent price to cover that.
Add to that there's 700 toilets which are there probably 14+ days, the cost of water, electricity, hiring of the stables, tents, security and god know what else.
I think comparing a 'normal' rally to GDSF is like comparing a carboot seller to poundland. They will have a couple of full time staff, but they don't have shareholders, so the income is being used to make the show better.
Saying that, I did hear 18 gennies were nicked from the public camping and a blacksmith had his anvil of 30 years taken. Plus kids of a certain group of people were knocking on caravan doors and if no answer was breaking in, so perhaps they need to invest in better camp security. Up by the fair there was a lot of security, but outside of the fair is was pretty scarce.
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30th August 2017, 08:56 AM
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