- Folklife's constitution.
- Folklife's team of editorial volunteers.
- Admin / online volunteers welcome, followed by a list of possible admin / online roles.
- Our 2025 website costs (only of interest to webmasters etc when discussing our future plans).
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Folklife's constitution
From Folklife West constitution agreed and adopted on 1 March 2004.
Aim
To collect, preserve, and provide information on all aspects of folklife: folk studies and folk culture.
Objectives
1. To stimulate a wider interest in folklife: folk studies and folk culture generally.
2. To update information where appropriate and as resources allow, in different media.
The organisation will be run on a non-profit basis.
The Board of Folklife West must be unpaid volunteers. Chairman: Eric Payne. Secretary: JK ('Sam') Simmons. Treasurer: Eleanor Simmons.
Aim
To collect, preserve, and provide information on all aspects of folklife: folk studies and folk culture.
Objectives
1. To stimulate a wider interest in folklife: folk studies and folk culture generally.
2. To update information where appropriate and as resources allow, in different media.
The organisation will be run on a non-profit basis.
The Board of Folklife West must be unpaid volunteers. Chairman: Eric Payne. Secretary: JK ('Sam') Simmons. Treasurer: Eleanor Simmons.
We thank Folklife's team of editorial volunteers
- FOLKLIFE WEST: Correspondents listed on right (on phones: below)
- FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS JOURNAL: articles contributed last issue
- The Tradition of Cornish Hurling, by Lamorna Spry
- Hymey Hancock - anatomy of a song, by Keith Gregson
- Hussars, by Charles Menteith
- We Shepherds are the Best of Men, by Veronica Lowe
- New songs for old, by Rosie Upton
- Baring-Gould’s People. 1 – James Parsons, by Martin Graebe
- Contributors change each issue, for a complete list please see www.folklife-traditions.uk/index-articles.html
- EDITORS: Eleanor & Sam Simmons.
- ADMIN - SALES, DISTRIBUTION: Sam.
- ADMIN - WEBSITES: currently Sam, but please see below.
- TEXT EDITOR: David Harley (copy & edit news to word limits from members' websites
- ILLUSTRATIONS, LOGOS, HAND-LETTERING: Chris Beaumont, Chris Stewart, John Crane.
- PHOTOGRAPHS: Eden Tanner, Colin Davies.
Our Folklife West Correspondents, plus some local lists
N-E Wales & Cheshire ........................................... Brian Bull
Gwynedd: Travelling Sessions .............................. list: local sessions
ENGLAND, WEST COUNTRY (SW region)
Kernow•Cornwall .................................................... Lamorna Spry
Our Roving Correspondent (Glos-based) .............. Cresby aka Mr Red
ENGLAND, WEST MIDLANDS
S. Birmingham & nearby ......................................... Bob Bignell
Warwickshire with Coventry .................................... Malc Gurnham
Cotswold Folk: S.Warks/N.Cotswolds+listings ....... Paul Bryan
Staffordshire ............................................................. David Barker
ENGLAND, EAST & SOUTH
ENGLAND, S-E: Folk Arts Oxford website ........... list: local folk
ENGLAND, NORTH
ENGLAND, EAST & SOUTH
ENGLAND, S-E: Folk Arts Oxford website ........... list: local folk
ENGLAND, NORTH
ENGLAND, N-W: Cumbria & N.Lancs .................... Steve Harrison
From Sept 2025 issue, ENGLAND, N-E:.................... Eileen Richardson
CANADA: Toronto........................................................ David Price
More Correspondents for other areas welcome, UK - or International !
Admin/online volunteers welcome. Folklife publishes:in print & online Folklife West, and Folklife Traditions Journal (& FT Directory)online-only Folklife Directory, and Updates; and we email Updates.
We're pleased with our print publications, made possible by the splendid team of volunteers listed above.
Our websites suffer from being mostly me (Sam), I'm a print editor, not a web expert.
Ideally there would be a team running the websites; therefore I've listed various individual roles.
I'd like to concentrate on print editing Folklife Traditions Journal and make it 3 not 2 per year, and retire from web roles.
So we'd like a volunteer Website Editor for Folklife West; a volunteer Website Editor for the Journal; and a volunteer Print Editor for Folklife West.
A note on web hosts: we started with Freeway Pro - 26/10/2010 they suddenly closed down!
We started again with Weebly, easy to use ... but bought by Square, and stopped updating; and lately problems with editing.
We now use Bodmin-based WebMate for folklife.uk, easy to use, excellent customer service. We're now moving Folklife Traditions from Weebly.
- Webmate, Weebly, (& others like Wix) are proprietary platforms with custom frameworks; so costs when moving - redoing copied-over pages.
- Sites that are transportable between ISP’s (eg WordPress) may be more flexible, but too complicated for me, and I don't have time to learn.
- If we had a volunteer Website Editor(s) for FW, or for FTJ, then if they wished they could change to eg WordPress.
Below A LIST of possible ADMIN and ONLINE ROLES. Sam, 15 July 2025
| Publications |
Time needed |
Admin & Online Roles § = currently Sam, volunteers welcome. |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 1a | FOLKLIFE WEST, in print |
3/year |
Print Editor: § |
| 1b | FW, copied online |
3/year |
www.folklife.uk Website Editor : § |
| 1c | FW, copied online |
ongoing |
www.folklife.uk Webmaster, initially for Webmate-hosted site : § |
| . | |||
| 2a | FOLKLIFE DIRECTORY online |
ongoing |
www.folklife.uk/directory & other web pages Website Editor § ❖ This was formerly a separate site, www.folklife-directory.uk, now included under www.folklife.uk |
| 2b | FD's venues & performers pages |
1-off ? |
Individual areas - volunteers to contact your local clubs to see who would like free listings: § |
| 2b | FD's Venues: ZOOM webpage |
ongoing |
www.folklife.uk/zoom Page Editor: § ❖ Page could be greatly developed; we've been given an extensive list of zooms, but no time to follow up |
| . | Note on FD generally; and on FD Zoom page |
❖ = above entries simply typed in (originally a list in print, copied over to start) Better as online spreadsheet or database ~ volunteers to set up wanted. |
|
| . | |||
| 3a | 'UPDATES' webpage |
ongoing |
www.folklife.uk/updates Page Editor : § |
| 3b | 'UPDATES' emails |
2-weekly | Emailer: § (currently using MailerLite) |
| . | |||
| 4a | FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS JOURNAL, in print |
2/year |
Print Editor: Sam Simmons If enough other roles were filled, I'd continue FTJ, and could be 3/year... |
| 4b | FTJ, copied online |
2/year |
www.folklife-traditions.uk Website Editor: § Online archive of all issues (each: index of contents, picture of cover, PDF download) |
| 4c | FTJ, copied online |
2/year |
www.folklife-traditions.uk Webmaster, initially for Webmate-hosted site : § Now hosted by Weebly, moving to WebMate unless we have a new Website Editor, and that Editor prefers to move elsewhere. A new site has been started on www.folklife-trad.uk |
| . | ❖ = entries below simply typed in. Better as online spreadsheet or database ~ volunteers to set up wanted. |
||
| 4d | FTJ: Articles webpage | To set up (1-off) or ongoing |
www.folklife-traditions.uk/index-articles.html Web indexer : § ❖ Articles simply listed by author. Better to be able to search by author, title, subject, etc, so replace by ideally a database, but just an online spreadsheet would be a welcome improvement. |
| 4d | FTJ: the FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS DIRECTORY webpages |
To set up (1-off) or ongoing |
www.folklife-traditions.uk/ft-directory.html and 3 more webpages Web indexer : § ❖ Currently simply typed in (originally a list in print, copied over to start). Ideally, replace by a database, but just an online spreadsheet would be a welcome improvement. |
Please ignore below, unless specifically emailed about this
Below only relevant for our discussions with potential webmasters, webhosts, etc: our 2025 website costs
All prices include VAT. Does not include email, computer software, hardware, Ko-Fi, PayPal, & bank payment fees.
WEBMATE annual totals 2025
£ 9.00 Domain: www.folklife.uk (prepaid for 6 years £54) Next due: 12/05/31
£ 8.25 Domain: folklife.co.uk (prepaid for 2 years £16.50) Next due: 4/02/26* to review for 2026
£ 8.25 Domain: folklife.org.uk (prepaid for 2 years £16.50) Next due: 4/02/26 *
£118.80 Web Hosting - WebMate Pro: www.folklife.uk, monthly £9.90 (if annual £99)
£ 12.00 Web Hosting - redirect: folklife.co.uk (redirects to folklife.uk) Next due: 16/07/26*£ 12.00 Web Hosting - redirect: folklife.org.uk (redirects to folklife.uk) Next due 04/02/26*
£ 10.20 Domain: www.folklife-directory.uk (annual £10.20) Next due: 17/02/26
£ 10.20 Domain: www.folklife-trad.uk (annual £10.20, started 1/7/225) Next due: 1/06/26
£ 0 1 year+, free! folklife-staging.webmate.me site for trials for all 3 sites before moving,
just changed to folklife-trad.uk above
£ 49.50 Managed Web Hosting - WebMate Pro: www.folklife-trad.uk,
_______ monthly £9.90 (if paid annually £99/yr) x for 5 months this year; change to annual later
£238.20
FASTHOSTS
£ 14.39 Domain: www.folklife-traditions.uk (2 years £28.78) to 31/10/25; includes forwarding to Weebly (https://folklife-traditions.weebly.com/); to folklife-trad.uk instead when that's finished (August ?).
WEEBLY went from $7 to $13 / month
£ 80.00 Web Hosting - Personal Site: folklife-traditions.uk - 1 month $13 (+ bank charge), exchange-rate varies*
_______ Jan-Aug = 8 months x (say) £10*, this will be discontinued, when folklife-trad.uk is set up on webmate
_______ Jan-Aug = 8 months x (say) £10*, this will be discontinued, when folklife-trad.uk is set up on webmate
£332.59
plus . . . One-off (WebMate) site moving costs
£ 0 folklife.uk for Folklife West was set up by me on WebMate, so no extra costs
£178.80 Feb 2025 Addon (folklife.uk) - JumpStart Pro (move entire folklife-directory.uk site into folklife.uk site)
£178.80 Aug 2025 Addon (folklife.uk) - JumpStart Pro (move part of folklife-traditions.uk to folklife-trad.uk site)
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£690.19 ........... which is why annual £3 donations are welcome from non-members !
£690.19 ........... which is why annual £3 donations are welcome from non-members !
as of: 28 July 2025