District Fellows is the 16-20 year old age group within the Woodcraft Folk, a UK-based educational movement for children and young people. It operates both on a local group level and as a semi-autonomous movement within the Woodcraft Folk. Woodcraft Folk is very strongly in favour of youth Empowerment - to this end the 16 - 20 year old age group is largely run by the young people. District Fellows are often referred to with the abbreviated term DFs.
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Organisation
Individual DF groups are usually based in a town or city, or in some cases a region. DF group meetings usually consist of a group of like minded individuals meeting up at a regular time and place (someone's house, or a pub for instance, or even a community hall if the group is large enough) and taking part in usual woodcraft activities. These activities range through co-operative games, orgainising events, workshops and discussions, and general socialising! The District Fellows movement also meets up on a national basis frequently, to hold both social, educational and business events allowing everyone to be involved in the running of DF's.
District Fellows Althing
Althing is the annual DF decision making event, usually held in October. Any DF member is entitled to go to Althing, to vote on and/or propose motions and to elect members to the DF committee. It is named after the ancient Icelandic Parliament( Althing ), where anyone could speak.
District Fellows Committee
District Fellows Committee is responsible for overseeing the running of the District Fellows movement. It consists of thirteen committee members. Six of these are elected at Althing, a further six "committee member" people are elected here, and their roles are decided at 'Old/New' - the committee changeover event. The final member is the Regional Development Worker Rep, who is elected from the Regional Development Workers sub-committee. Each region or nation (London, South East, South West, East, Midlands, Wales, North East, North West, Scotland) has their own development worker, who is also elected at Althing. Of the six elected at Althing, the roles are:
Communications Rep
Affiliations Rep
Projects Rep
Campaigns Rep
Fundraiser
Treasurer (this is a 3 year role, the first year of which the person is called "Shadow Treasurer")
The other roles to be filled, either by "committee member"s or the already elected reps:
Chair
Vice Chair/Enforcer
Secretary
International Oppertunities
Integrations Officer
Training
Events
All positions (except treasurer) are normally 2 year roles
DF News
DF News is a seasonal magazine sharing news from within the Woodcraft Folk, mainly from the District Fellow age range. It is written mainly by members of the DFs and edited and made pretty by a team of dedicated DFs. It also features stories that come from around the world that DFs feel centre around the issues the Woodcraft Folk is concerned with. DF News Archives can be found on the Span That World website.
