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Corridor of Life ☀️❄️Solstice Charity Donation 2024❄️☀️

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❄️Season’s Greetings to All ~
To mark the Winter Solstice, Wyrd Harvest Press & Folk Horror Revival are again making a charity donation of our book sales profits to a Wildlife Trusts’ environmental and conservation project –
This year we have donated £500 to Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust’s ‘Corridor of Life’ project.

From ancient woodlands teeming with life and history, to buzzing hedgerows and towering oaks, trees play an essential role in our landscapes and lives.

They provide homes for a diverse range of species, act as natural flood management systems, purify our air and provide sanctuaries of solace. Yet our trees are under threat like never before.

Over-development and climate change have left the UK with some of the lowest amounts of tree cover in Europe…
This hugely ambitious project aims to create, enhance and protect hedgerows, orchards, wood pasture and more to establish a 60-mile corridor of tree cover. Linking two of the UK’s biggest ancient woodlands, the Forest of Dean and the Wyre Forest, this corridor of life will give vulnerable species secure habitats that are critical to their expansion and future survival.

For more information and to donate directly to this project click here – https://www.gloucestershirewildlifetrust.co.uk/tree-appeal

To learn about The Wildlife Trust’s other projects and to donate to any of them click here – https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/appeals

To purchase Folk Horror Revival /Wyrd Harvest Press books (profits are donated to Wildlife Trusts projects) please click here – https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/andypaciorek

We wish you all a very peaceful and pleasant Yuletide and 2025.
Special Thanks to everybody who has supported both nature and varied artists and writers by buying our books. ❄️

Charity Donation: Winter Solstice 2020

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❄🌞Winter Solstice Greetings 🌞❄

To mark the occasion Folk Horror Revival / Wyrd Harvest Press / Urban Wyrd Project have again charitably donated sales profits from our books to a Wildlife Trusts project voted for by some members of this group.This time around we are happy to grant The Scottish Wildlife Trusts £800 to help with their Beaver reintroduction project. Thank you to all who voted and especially Thank You to those who have bought our books. Not only have you purchased works by and featuring some of the greatest contributors to folk horror, urban wyrd and other associated fields, you have helped to benefit wildlife conservation work.
Very Best Wishes.

To buy our books – https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/andypaciorek

To donate directly to the Wildlife Trusts

https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/donate-appeal

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Charity Donation ~ Winter Solstice 2019

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Thank You to everybody who voted in the poll and especially to everyone who bought Folk Horror Revival / Wyrd Harvest Press books. At intervals we donate the sales profits from our books to different environmental projects run by The Wildlife Trusts.
This time the winner and recipient of £750 is The Scottish Wildlife Trust’s Red Squirrel Appeal. 🐿
To buy our books ~
http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/andypaciorek
To donate directly to The Wildlife Trusts’ local appeals –
https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/support/donate-appeal

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Run Krampus Run!!

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Once again Krampus will appear in Whitby for Whitby Krampus Run III.
Taking place on 2nd December the costumed parade led by St Nicholas
will wend it’s way down Church Street collecting for Whitby Wildlife Sanctuary.
Our own particular interpretation and take on the age old European tradition weaves in local folklore,
history and wintry figures alongside our Krampus, Perchten and St. Nicholas.
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This is a celebration of an alternative Yule bringing the wonder and excitement of the season
back to the ideal setting of Whitby’s quaint and cobbled streets turning the East side into Krampus Town.
The parade finishes with a finale letting you decide who will be crowned ‘ The Thing of The North ‘.
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This year Whitby Krampus Run is now a public event with approval of the necessary authorities and support from Tourism.
We’ve got a street collection licence for Whitby Wildlife Sanctuary as this event is a fundraiser for one of our favourite local charities.
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There’s evening entertainment with the usual activities such as raffles associated with fundraisers.
Sponsored visits can be arranged. 
There’s t shirts, flags art and merchandise to help fund the event and a Yule art show from 9th December at Stuart Ducketts shop on Skinner Street.
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The Krampus tradition originates from Austria and other parts of Europe when on the eve of the Feast of St Nicholas
December 5th the Saint visits homes and gives gifts to good children.
He is accompanied by his dark counterpart the Krampus who teases and punishes naughty children.
Krampus festivals or runs are popular across Europe and now in the United States
but until recently have not been held in the UK, with the very first Whitby Krampus Run being held in 2015
which was very well received ( even by naughty children ).
People from a variety of backgrounds have taken part in previous years including family groups and their children.
The interpretation of the event has been planned taking into account a UK audience unfamiliar with the story.
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Although potentially a scary figure children do encounter him comfortably with support of parents.
Never forget St. Nicholas is always in charge of the Wild Things.
Similar themes run through fairytales, legends and stories loved by families.
Parental discretion is advised for attendance at the event which will be taking place
from 3.30pm until 6.00pm although costumed characters may be in the area before and after the parade.
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