08/10/2026
📣We are looking for volunteers to join our archival and oral history working group for a one year project centred around the history of the DF movement and more broadly the activities and organisations of young people in the UK.
We are interested in building a regular working group centred around cataloguing, digital archiving and the collection of oral histories. This will be a space where young people can get involved in digitising and making the history of the District Fellows more visible to those within the Woodcraft Folk as well as the broader public 🙌.
Throughout the project, you will learn basic skills of cataloguing and turning evidence of the rich history of autonomous youth organising into pixels using overhead and flat-bed scanners, copiers, and your phones📂! We will also provide training in the collection and storage of oral histories before connecting you with ex-members of the DF movement young and old to collect their stories - and their gossip 👀!
Over the year, we will be working together to produce an archive collection that speaks to the breadth of activity that DFs have engaged with in their 50 year history 🎉. From camps and parties to protests and squats; international solidarity to peer mental health support.
Partial subsistence and travel to regular volunteers will be covered by the grant from the National Heritage Lottery Fund in the framework for the "50 years of the DF Archive" project.
📲Find out more and apply here > https://forms.gle/MNgkBzmRWQSePKiu7
⏰The deadline for filing the form is 29th November 2026 at 11:59pm. We aim to inform you about the outcome of the application process by the beginning of December.
