Notice is given that the Annual General Meeting of Home Education Festivals will be held on Saturday 31st October at 2pm. The meeting will be conducted via a Zoom call. Connection details will be posted here and sent by email in advance of the meeting. The meeting is expected to last no more than one hour. Anyone who held a ticket for Heff 2019, Winterheff 2020, or Heff 2020 may attend and vote

AGENDA

1. Motion to recieve the report of the directors
2. Motion to recieve the accounts for the period ending 30th September 2019
3. Motion to extend the terms of the current directors by one year due to the Covid situation
4. Motion to appoint Mark Grief to the board of directoras for an initial term to run to 30th September 2021
5 Any other business as allowed by the chairman of the meeting ... See more

If you haven't filled out the refund request form yet you have until tomorrow (Tuesday 30th June) to make your choice or your tickets will default to rolling over until next year.

For more details on the full situation please visit the website at https://hefestivals.co.uk/coronavirus ... See more

Thank you to everyone who has already filled out the HEFF 2020 refund form. If you requested a refund we are currently up to date on issuing them so the money should reach your accounts soon.

Those of you who haven't filled out the form please note that you have until Tuesday 30th June to make your choice else your tickets will default to rolling over until next year.

As mentioned before, refunds involve quite a lot of manual work for our volunteers. We are processing refunds as they come in but it can take up to two weeks to receive it to your account.

For more details on the full situation please visit the website at https://hefestivals.co.uk/coronavirus/

Regards,

The HEFF Team ... See more

Announcement:
We are now starting to process refunds. An email has gone out today to all ticket holders with details of your options and what you need to do. You can choose to forward your payment to secure tickets for HEFF2021 or you can choose to request a refund.

For all the Covid-19 updates and more information please visit the website page - https://hefestivals.co.uk/coronavirus/ ... See more

Hi All,

It is with great regret that we have to announce that HEFF 2020 is postponed until August 2021 with the exact date and venue to be confirmed. We really appreciate everyone's patience as we’ve worked to get the best outcome. It is now clear that even if we were permitted to hold an event this year we could not ensure the social distancing needed to keep everyone safe.

We're now expecting to be able to give you the choice of a 100% refund or to carry tickets forward to 2021. We will contact ticket holders in the next few weeks for them to make their choice.

Please continue reading below for more details.

What has changed since the last update?

We always wanted to give everybody who chose it a 100% refund, but until very recently we did not think this was going to be possible. We simply didn’t have money in the bank to do so.

Government assistance for Small Businesses has been introduced in a very piecemeal way. As we are all volunteers and there are no salaries the furlough scheme did not help us. All companies which had premises liable for business rates got £10,000 grants, but again this did not apply to us.

Finally about 2 weeks ago the Government announced the Bounce Back Loan Scheme which will allow us to take out a loan of about £12,500 to cover the cost of making refunds and paying up-front costs for next year. Ticket prices will have to rise a little to make the loss back over future years. The terms of the loan are very generous and we should be in a position to pay back the majority of the loan within the interest free 12 month period. Beyond this there is a low 2.5% interest rate (roughly £30 a month if not paid off early). We hope that the entirety of the loan should be paid off within the next 2-3 years. Unlike most business loans no personal guarantees are required, so no individual becomes liable if there are difficulties repaying.

Our current bank is in the process of being approved to provide these loans. Once they are able to offer them we will make the application or if they are unable to be approved for any reason we will be able to apply from another provider. Unfortunately this does mean that we do not currently have a timeframe for this but will update the community as soon as we do.

If you wish to support the festival and can afford to do so please choose to roll your ticket over to next year. Remember if you get a refund and then buy a ticket for 2021 later it will cost more. We have added the caveat that the exact date and venue are to be confirmed to maximize our options. It is still our preference to hold the event starting 3rd August 2021 at Newark Showground and hope we may be able to negotiate a good deal for this.
For those of you who require refunds we will be working to get these to you as quickly as possible. We will contact everyone who made an order to ask your preference as soon as we’re able to. This will be by email and refunds will be done to the original payment card.

The HEFestivals Board

The statement can also be read in full on the HEFF website here - https://hefestivals.co.uk/coronavirus/ ... See more