A shout-out for volunteers for the 2025 Swan Barn Wassail from Claire Matthes of COPSE.

The January 2024 Swan Barn Wassail in Haslemere was a huge success thanks to the great volunteers and revellers both – so much so we think we’re going to need lots of hands-on help to prep and deliver another great community event on 17th January 2025. So this is our first call-out!

How can you help? There will be a community cook-up in the day, where we’ll make a couple of hearty stews. The Co Op and Tesco kindly donated the vegetables last time and several volunteers congregated in the Hunters Basecamp kitchen to chop and prep. If you’d rather be a server behind the food stall or bar, then that’s a busy, fun important role keeping the revellers well-watered and fed.

Feeling strong? Then helping set up the outdoor infrastructure might be for you. Or if hi-vi yellow is your thing, then stewarding the torchlit parade for partygoer safety could be your role.

Or are you more of a ‘behind-the-scenes’ type? We’d love you to be on our organising committee and/or help coordinate on the day.

Music is so central to the fun and last year we were very lucky to have some up and coming young musicians entertain us. We’d love to hear from any musician who loves an attentive audience!

Volunteers will be rewarded with a free drink and food on the night, not-to-mention the warm cosy glow that comes from having done something really good for community spirit.

To find out more, get involved or any other enquiry, email clairematthes.copse@gmail.com