There are four main caving regions and we try to rotate between them, and also go north, south, north, south...
so :
2008 Otley - That's near Leeds, Yorkshire.
2009 Churchill - Mendipshire.
2010 Leek - Staffordshire, on the edge of the Peak District.
2011 Monmouth - That is actually in South Wales...
2012 ?
Well, it obviously ought to be Ooop Norf again, and in an ideal world, somewhere near the Dales. The problem is that there are not enough people living in the dales, so the schools are too small to hold the event, it's not through trying I can assure you. We need a secondary school that has somewhere around 1000 pupils as the smaller schools don't have enough facilities for the event. Unfortunately the Dales schools are far too small, this is the problem. Even Skipton doesn't have enough facilities.
We thought Kirby Lonsdale school would be OK but the Governors won't allow any alcohol on site, still I don't suppose that will cause too many problems... :-\
I have two venues to look at this week, one in Lancashire and one in Yorkshire, as to which, if any, well we have to wait and see. If none of those is OK then I am open to suggestions, but it is quite difficult to return to previous venues when we have pissed off the locals with the parking and the noise, as they seem to have more influence with the governors than we do...