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“EA in the Lakes - Reflections” by Kestrel🔸


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This is a set of personal reflections from running EA in the Lakes, a lower-cost retreat in the northern UK. (we've also got some great photos of reflections in water sources, if that's more your thing.)

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The organising team: I was the organising team. To be fair, my housemate (who works in mental health) was going to come along and do participant welfare / shuttle driving but then had to be at counselling supervision, and my backup event cook friend got a paid cooking job that weekend as well. The perils of volunteer organising! Never mind, I can organise, cook, welfare, first aid, and drive if I have to (don't plan to do this). I appointed a couple of helpers on free tickets from our EAs for content-based query handling and extra super-boring logistics work like bin emptying.

To anyone in EA thinking of solo organising, my advice [...]

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First published:

September 3rd, 2025

Source:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/YzH8QzxYJDkR7Gm7X/ea-in-the-lakes-reflections

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