Folleterre 2025: A Community Year

The Vision:

In 2025 we celebrate 20 years of our Faerie Home Folleterre and we would LOVE you to get involved! We’re dedicating the whole 2025 season to showering our beloved sanctuary with community love and care.

With projects big and small, gatherings, art, sculpture, exhibitions, rituals, reunions, repairs, renovations, construction, decorating, no talent shows, heart circles, cuddles, a community year filled with magic and celebration and where we give thanks and give back.

We’ll honour the history, the love, and the energy that has gone into creating the sanctuary we know and adore. Remembering 20 years of heartfelt moments, all the triumphs and catastrophes, the gossip andthe drama, the love and the heartache, the joy and the sadness, years filled with pleasure and transformation, from boredom to euphoria!

We’ll honour where we are today as a community. The magic, the heart, the creativity, the courage, the vulnerability, the spirit of our growing, evolving, diverse community. Celebrating all the faeries past and present who make Folleterre the place we call home.

And we’ll channel our Faerie Love and Spirit back into the community, the house, and the land of Folleterre, to build a sanctuary that will last another 20 years, for all the future faeries who are still to find their way home!

What Could Community Year 2025 Look Like?

April // Spring Community Week – Toilet Block, Water Pump Installation, Opening House, Spring Landscaping / Garden Jobs

End of April // Beltane!

May / June // Werk! Space for bigger house projects, fire safety layer under circus room floor, new circus room floor, widening door and enlarging window in breakfast barn, levelling floor of breakfast barn and breezeway, possibly new kitchen in breakfast barn.

Solstice Gathering!

July / August // 20th Anniversary Celebrations and gatherings for Community Year focusing on smaller projects around the land and house.

September / October // Finishing off any renovations and bigger projects, space for gatherings, and also work on bathing area, decking / Nordic bath, upgrading hot water system.

Lumbers!

How Can You Get Involved in Community Year? So many ways!

  • Gathering Facilitators – if you are already planning a gathering, or interested in facilitating a gathering to celebrate Community Year – Please submit Gathering Propsals by 20th January 2025 to gather@folleterre.org
  • Support Community Work by Facilitating – These projects especially in May and June will require a lot of work and organisation, but they will still feel like a gathering, with all of the fun and revelry and rituals and traditions. If you have experience of facilitating at Folleterre and want to be involved and support these work periods and bring the magic and the community spirit please contact gather@folleterre.org
  • Practical Faeries! Faeries with construction, renovation, decorating experience who want to be involved in the bigger house projects. Over the winter months we hope to put together a core team of skilled faeries who can help realise these bigger projects. Get in touch with Flow (florian.artus@gmail.com) and join the Land and House Sub Group on Loomio : https://www.loomio.com/folleterre-stewards-circle-subgroup-land-house/
  • Practical-Curious Faeries! You are very much invited to get involved. Community Year is also designed to inspire and empower all faeries to participate and learn together. Sharing practical skills and knowledge so that we feel more confident in the repair and renovation tasks at the sanctuary. So if you have the enthusiasm and energy for the work projects and are curious to learn more practical skills – get in touch with Flow (florian.artus@gmail.com) and join the Land and House Sub Group on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/folleterre-stewards-circle-subgroup-land-house/
  • 20th Anniversary Faeries! If you have any ideas or suggestions for how to honour and celebrate 20 years of Folleterre we would love to hear from you! Designing posters and art for the anniversary, creating an exhibition of the history of Folleterre. Songs, poems, performances! Contact Sugar Puppy (tombarber@me.com)

What are we dreaming of for Community Year?

  • Installing new toilet block system for long term successful poop solution! (Great Circle Approved)
  • Circus Room Floor and Breakfast Barn Ceiling – installing fire safe layer in bet ween and replacing Circus Room Floor, treating wood worm (Needs Great Circle Approval)
  • Levelling Floors of Ground Floor rooms for better access, insulation, damp proof. (Breakfast Barn / Breezeway) (Needs Great Circle Approval)
  • Widening door and bigger window for breakfast barn for better access and to allow in more light (Great Circle Approved)
  • New kitchen in Breakfast barn for safer food preparation and hygiene. (Needs Great Circle Approval)
  • Construction of small geodesic dome as workshop space or possibly new Love Temple Structure (Great Circle Approved)
  • Installing Nordic Bath and renovating shower bathing area. Wooden decking, upgrading shower system. (Great Circle Approved)

Smaller Projects:

These can be absolutely anything! Chiffon was a beautiful gathering this year where a group of Faeries decided to give the Drag Room some love and dedicated a whole gathering to redesigning and organising this space, it was practical and magical with rituals and a beautiful end result!

If there is an area of the land or house you would like to devote some time and energy to then get in touch! It could be redesigning the dish dance area, building new dining tables, building benches, creating faerie art and sculpture around this house and land, building a shrine in the forest, creating an exhibition to celebrate 20 years of Folleterre, making the love lounge in the house into the pretties cosiest sexiest nest! The possibilities are endless, let your imagination run wild and get in touch!