RAMBLINGS FROM DARES (this month Phil!) WELCOME TO THE NOVEMBER NEWSLETTER I pleased to say that this is a special edition of out team rag, sorry newsletter. In this edition I am going to concentrate on how we get to Dares. Travelling is an important part of our little community. Afterall it is what starts and finishes each and every visit. Maybe the journey is actually part of the visit, just as much as a walk into the woods or down the lane whilst we are at the site. Active travel is when...
7 months ago • 4 min read
RAMBLINGS FROM DARES (this month Alexia!) WHAT DARES MEANS TO ME: WHERE DO I EVEN START? Let’s rewind to April 2019. I’d just met Piers (who I’ll truly forever be grateful to), and soon after, I visited DARES for the first time. Right away, something about this place felt different - not just another dot on the Edenbridge map, but something truly special. A lot has happened since that first visit: COVID, burnouts, arrests, various jobs, too many useless and evil-to-the-bone Prime Ministers,...
11 months ago • 13 min read
RAMBLINGS FROM DARES (this month Milly) What's Going On Here? When I volunteered to write this, my initial thought was that it would be some kind of brief recollection of memorable moments from living at DARES, painting a picture of all the wholesomeness that happens here: gratitude circles before fire-side communal meals, the ways we witnessed spring burst to life, watching young Molly & Francis step into their badass beings, and maybe I was even gonna chuck in some fun facts I’ve learned...
about 1 year ago • 16 min read
RAMBLINGS FROM DARES (this month Monika!) MY STORY WITH DARES I first came to DARES in the pandemic, in 2020. Being stuck at home in London, isolated from people and nature, I was spontaneously invited to this oasis of peace and beauty. I vividly remember that first visit and falling in love with it. I am not a “tree-loving hippie” (apologies to all my tree-loving hippie friends), but even I was blown away by how being among trees and lovely people, just an hour away from my busy life in...
about 1 year ago • 3 min read
RAMBLINGS FROM DARES (this month Dan!) Heeeyy everybody - welcome to the new monthly scoop, your one stop goss shop that’ll keep you up to date with all the happenings from the sensation that we call DARES. One year ago, DARES (the collective project) was on the brink. It felt as though we were close to flat-lining and as though we needed to rediscover our purpose. Would that even be possible? … DARES has been so many different things to different people. What followed was an incredible act...
over 1 year ago • 9 min read