Iron Age to Contemporary Age

A Blacksmiths Tale

18th - 20th August 2023

The Venue:
Butser Ancient Farm, Chalton Lane, Hampshire, PO8 0BG

Please use the link below to book your tickets, T-Shirts and Food Options

Registration Form

Bring your tent!!

Free Camping on site for booked delegates.

Basic toilet facilities, showers at Clanfield Leisure.

The venue is Butser Ancient Farm in Hampshire. A beautifully laid out experimental research site telling the story of over 10,000 years of human history in Britain. The farm is a world-renowned hub for archaeological research, carrying out pioneering experiments to understand how the people of ancient Britain lived, exploring traditional skills, archaeology and Britain’s prehistory. This is where our skills as blacksmiths can become part of this pioneering experiment taking the ancient skills used by the smiths from the Iron Age, Roman & Saxon eras right up to now, the Contemporary Age. Open to the public we will be covering over three thousand years of metalwork showcasing the variety of forged metalwork created through the ages and as artist blacksmiths our response in a contemporary way with creative design and modern tooling to the making of these historical items. This is a wonderful opportunity to showcase the craft of the blacksmith directly to the public as we recreate metalwork from the past and create new shapes and forms for the future. The sound of hammers ringing on the anvil will bring Butser Ancient Farm to life over the weekend. Click here for more info on Butser Ancient Farm. Delegate's have free access to Butser Ancient Farm throughout the weekend.

The first aim is to forge accurate recreations of items of the period from the Iron Age, Roman and Saxon eras. There will be information boards for each historical time period for smiths to work from that will hold details and photos of historical finds for replication. The items will be left with the Farm to aid them in their educational work with the public and school children who visit the farm each year as part of their educational journey.

The second aim is to forge contemporary responses to these period items, to look at what was forged hundreds of years ago and create a “modern version” if you like. As we all know, while there has been some advancement in equipment, iron and the way it reacts to the blow of a hammer or shape of a tool, remains unchanged and is still at the heart of everything we make.

BABA AGM

The BABA AGM will be in person, on the Saturday morning 19th August 9am - 11am. This is your chance to hear about what the council have been doing over the past year and the plans being made for the future. You will also have the opportunity to vote for the existing and new council members who will take the association forward through 2023 into 2024. If you would like to get more involved with BABA and help shape what the association does, why not put yourself forward for the BABA council please contact Shona Johnson chairwoman@baba.org.uk

Demonstrations and speakers

For the conference delegates we have an exciting line up of demonstrators and speakers over the three days who will be moving up & down the Butser Ancient Farm timeline weaving the story of the blacksmith from the Iron Age through the centuries to the modern day contemporary artist blacksmith.

Owen Bush of Bushfire Forge will be running an Iron smelt over the weekend. The furnace will be built on the Friday and the iron smelted on the Saturday with the excitement of the bloom being broken out as the sun goes down on the Saturday evening. Owen, a well known blacksmithing figure on many television documentaries will also give a talk “Making History” on the making of pattern welded steel for his historically inspired Saxon pattern welded swords, Viking axes and kitchen knives that he creates, demonstrating how he achieves the patterns in the steel with his, not to be missed, hands on approach using coloured plasticine.

David Tucker FWCB Master blacksmith, working from his forge in Derbyshire has established a reputation for forge work of the highest calibre and innovative design, will give a talk and slide presentation on his work. David has over several decades produced an impressive body of work, with a strong focus on forging, both by hand and with the power hammer and has a particular skill when it comes to developed specialised tooling to push his forging processes in interesting directions. He has received the TonyPandy Cup awarded by the WCB and is also a holder of both Bronze and silver medals from the Worshipful Company of Blacksmiths.

Hector Cole FWCB MBE and Melissa Cole FWCB, Two generations of smiths, father and daughter will talk about the aspects of their individual approach to the craft and the art of metalsmithing, crossing the boundaries from art to craft and discussing making the most of resources available to blacksmiths then and now.
Hector has a worldwide reputation for the forging of high quality historic arrowheads and specialises in detailed analysis and accurate reconstruction of archaeological artefacts using wherever possible the same materials and techniques of ancient smiths. Melissa was trained in traditional blacksmithing by Hector following her art degree. She shares his love of making with metal but embraces contemporary design and all methods of making appropriate to the design. Melissa is focusing more on the sculptural pieces she has produced alongside commissioned works for public and private spaces.

Catering

Catering will be provided in the Main event marquee in the camping area, from Friday lunchtime onwards at an additional cost with most dietary requirements catered for.  See the registration form for catering details and costs.

The deadline for booking meals is 4th August 2023

Camping

Camping is free!! The camping facilities are basic with portaloos in the camping field & flushing loos in the Butser Ancient Farm site. Free Showers are available to delegates at Clanfield Lesure Centre during their day time hours, only a 4 minute drive from the camping area.
A google search will bring up various inns, Airbnb’s, local campsites and different styles of hotels locally for those who prefer not to camp on site.

Registration

Delegates will be able to arrive on site, pitch tents and register from Thursday afternoon, with the event starting at 10am on the Friday morning. Registration will run Thursday 3pm - 7pm & Friday 8am - 12 noon.

Round House Talks

There will also be short talks given each day in the Iron Age Round House by blacksmiths to both members of the public and conference delegates. If you would like to give a short 20 minute talk to the public about an area of blacksmithing that you enjoy or are interested in, please do get in touch. chairwoman@baba.org.uk

Round House Bar

Butser Ancient Farm will run a small bar from the atmospheric Iron Age Round House on both the Friday and Saturday evening. This will add to the excitement of breaking out the iron smelt furnace at dusk on the Saturday evening. The bar will accept both cash and card and will be selling local beers, ciders and mead as well as wine and soft drinks. They are however unable to provide spirits and mixers. Bring those along if that is your preferred tipple.

Show & Tell

We would like to have an informal slot where we can share images of the wide variety of work that is created by those attending, it is always inspirational seeing what other creative makers or doing and hearing the thoughts behind a design or a particular way of forging. If you would like to take part, please send a maximum of 5 images to Pete Hill at babaslides@gmail.com Pete will compile all the images into a presentation to be shown at the event on Friday evening in the Round House Bar. If you wish to talk about your work then you would be very welcome to but it is not compulsory!!

 T-Shirt

No BABA AGM event would be complete without the keepsake T-Shirt. This is has been designed this year by the talented Owen Philips of Gate Foot Forge. These will be available to purchase at the conference event and on the BABA website when you book your conference ticket. To avoid disappointment order your T-Shirt now and collect at the conference.

Conference T-Shirt printed on Mouse Grey available in several sizes

100% ringspun semi-combed cotton, ribbed color, taped neck, tubular body, twin needle stitching

S, M, L & XL – £12.75
2XL & 3XL – £13.40
4XL – £14.20

If you wish to participate in any forging, historical or modern, please bring your hand tools and your own PPE, especially safety glasses and stout working boots.

Any questions contact BABA Chairwoman - Shona Johnson chairwoman@baba.org.uk

TICKET COSTS

BABA MEMBER £100.00

NON BABA MEMBER £125.00

SPOUSE/PARTNER £50.00

STUDENT/APPRENTICE £50.00

STUDENT STEWARDS £25.00.

Please use the link to book your tickets, T-Shirts and Food Options

Registration Form

Bring your tent!!

Free Camping on site for booked delegates.

Basic  toilet facilities, showers at Clanfield Leisure.

Please use the link to book your

tickets,

T-Shirts and Food Options

Registration Form

Bring your tent!!

Free Camping on site for booked delegates.

Basic Shower and toilet facilities.

As we return to relative normality, the BABA council are excited with the challenge of organising an event that will hopefully draw you out of your homes, forges and workshops and entice you to make the journey to Holme Lacy Campus, Hereford.

Come join us for an exciting weekend of creative blacksmithing, forging and the rekindling of friendships from Friday 23rd to Sunday 25th September 2022.

We have a full programme to keep you enthralled and inspired over the three day event. Lots going on throughout the day followed by evening entertainment in the village hall.  Slide presentations from the invited demonstrators, an evening meal (which you need to book), a cash bar and possibly an impromptu singalong BABA style!  Please bring your musical instruments and singing voice with you.

For the first time in three years the BABA AGM will be in person, on the Saturday morning 24th July.  This is your chance to hear from your chairman Luke McCullagh about what the council have been doing over the past year and the plans for the future.  You will also have the opportunity to vote for the new council members who will take the association forward through 2022 into 2023.  If you would like to put yourself forward for the BABA council please contact Shona Johnson vicechairwoman@baba.org.uk

Headlining in the main forge, there will be demonstrations by three talented smiths, all practising here in the UK.

Jim Whitson from Scotland.  Jim won the coveted TonyPandy Cup in 2021, which is presented annually by the Worshipful Company of Blacksmiths.

Junko Moiri from Wales.  Junko Mori, a Japanese artist and metalworker born in Yokohama, Japan, works in both mild steel and pure silver. Junko’s work is exhibited in galleries and museums around the world from Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums in Scotland to The Art Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide, to Honolulu Museum Art in Hawaii to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

Sam Pearce from England. Sam was awarded 1st prize at the World Forging Championships held at Stia, Italy in 2015 and again in 2017.

These will be three very varied forging demonstrations and each talented smith will also be giving a slide presentation of their work for you to enjoy.

In the fun forging area there will be around 30 forges lit as well as a gas furnace and possibly an induction heater.  Sponsored by Westons Cider and Special Steel Sections, you can participate in the themed forging competition to create a bottle opener, be it stylish, funky, traditional or whatever you wish but it must crack open the bottle of cider!  Special Steel Sections are generously sponsoring the use of Pure Iron for you to use to create your bottle opener. Mild steel will also be available to use.

The Future Fuels Group will have several forges set up using different fuels, giving you the opportunity to trial and feedback on the use of a variety of fuels as you create your bottle opener.

Fuels available to use will include coal from the Forest of Dean - Yorkley seam & High Delf Seam. There will also be  Anvil coke and composite fuel Starsite from CPL, Hargreaves coke and charcoal. In addition, there will be an induction heater on demonstration from Nigel Barnett, hopefully a Ceramic Chip forge and a forging press demonstration from John Nicholson.

“Show Me How” is a new addition to the BABA conference.  This will be in the demo forge area with one hour slots where the “Show Me How” team will demonstrate different skills and techniques as requested by you.

A little advance warning would be appreciated so if there is something that you would like to see demonstrated drop an email to showmehowbaba@gmail.com  

There will be exhibitions!

A fantastic opportunity to view the global smithing viral sensation The #150mmchallenge exhibition directly on its return from a hugely successful USA tour. The book to accompany the exhibition will be on sale £20.00 cash.

The NHIG (National Heritage Ironwork Group) will have a display on boards of the work currently being carried out alongside examples of traditional heritage ironwork.

If you have a recent piece of work you are proud of, bring it along and we will create an impromptu BABA exhibition for the weekend.

On view each day will be a selection of Zoom videos from the Hereford College of Arts archive starring international smiths talking about their practise and demonstrating their work will be on view each day. These talks were setup for the students during the Covid lockdown and Delyth Done has kindly agreed to share some of the talks with BABA throughout the weekend of the conference.

If you wish to participate in the fun forging, please bring your own PPE, especially safety glasses and stout working boots.

To ensure the safety of all delegates and staff, please take a Covid test before attending and please do not attend if positive or you feel unwell.

TICKET COSTS

BABA MEMBER             £100.00

NON BABA MEMBER        £125.00

SPOUSE/PARTNER          £50.00

STUDENT/APPRENTICE     £50.00

 STUDENT STEWARDS       £25.00.

Please enter code issued by Adam Greenwell

CHILDREN (UNDER 16)      FREE

Children will need to book meals if they are required.

CONFERENCE T-SHIRT

There will be T-shirts available with the wonderful design, as seen at the top of the page, created by the talented Jim Cooper, featuring the three invited demonstrators.  These will be available to purchase at the conference event and on the BABA website when you book your conference ticket.  To avoid disappointment order your T-Shirt now and collect at the conference.

Conference T-Shirt printed on French Navy available in several sizes

100% ringspun semi-combed cotton, ribbed color, taped neck, tubular body, twin needle stitching

S, M, L & XL - £12.75

2XL & 3XL - £13.40

4XL - £14.20

CATERING   PLEASE DO BOOK IN ADVANCE 

Pre booked meals only will be available

Cut off date for booking meals is 9th September 2022

Please choose how many of each meal you require to add to your cart for each person that you are purchasing a ticket for. We are aware that not every delegate will require every meal. The total cost, if you plan to purchase every meal over the full event would be £68.00.

We are able to cater for a vegetarian or vegan meals and will endevour to cater for other dietary requirements as long as we know in advance and you have stated your dietary requirement.

Meals required for children are the same cost.

Please use the link to book your

tickets,

T-Shirts and Food Options

Registration Form

Bring your tent!!

Free Camping on site for booked delegates.

Basic Shower and toilet facilities.

Here are a few suggestions of places to stay locally with distance noted from Hereford & Ludlow College, Holme Lacy, HR2 6LL

0.6 miles, 13 minute walk, 3 minutes by car

Holme Lacy House Hotel       3-star hotel

Bridge Rd, Holme Lacy, Hereford HR2 6LP    Tel: 0330 135 9573

1.4 miles 3 minutes by car

Lucksall Caravan & Camping Park

Fiddler's Green, Hereford HR1 4LP     Tel: 01432 870213

1.9 miles 4 minutes by car

The Moon Inn      Bar & restaurant with campsite

Mordiford, Hereford, HR1 4LW         Tel: 01432 873067

2.7 miles 6 minutes by car

The Green Man    County Inn with rooms

Fownhope, Hereford HR1 4PE   Tel: 01432 860243

3.6 miles, 8 minutes by car

The Plough Inn     B&B with camping facilities

Main Road, Little Dewchurch, HR2 6PW Tel: 01432 840542  Mobile: 07868 391170

4.4 miles 9 minutes by car

Caplor Glamping & Lodges  Pods & Lodges

Caplor Farm, Fownhope, Hereford, HR1 4PT   Tel: 01432 860 644

4.8 miles 9 minutes by car

Travel Lodge, Grafton    2 star hotel

Grafton, Ross Road,Hereford, HR2 8ED Tel: 08719 846422

8.4 miles 12 minutes by car

Pilgrim Hotel 3 star hotel

Much Birch, Hereford, HR2 8HJ  Tel: 01981 540742

There are also properties and rooms in the area advertised on the Airbnb website.

Please click here to view the online BABA AGM 2020

We are Excited to welcome Douglas Pryor, renowned sculpting, raising and repoussé Artist, to the UK this October, who will be teaching a masterclass at 9 venues across the UK. (Exeter to be conformed.)

“Douglas Pryor is a raising and chasing artist using chisels to sculpt metal. With a particular focus in exploring and pushing the natural boundaries of what a single unbroken piece of material can create. Using recognizably traditional human powered techniques to revitalize the relationship homo-sapien has with raw materials. Traditions are only as healthy as the people who keep them alive, and that is the journey I want to share. I want to share the collective effort of breathing new life into these human metalworking techniques. “ 

Masterclass tickets are

• £75/day for BABA Members

• £100/day for Non-Members

• Seminar Tickets are £35/day

Prices do not include food or accommodation

These workshops will have the tooling and materials provided but you are welcome to bring a few of your own things if you have that favourite hammer that you will not be parted from. Be prepared to do a little drawing and sculpting, please bring ear protection and suitable clothing.

http://douglaspryor.com

For all booking inquiries please email: chairman@baba.org.uk

Forge-In 30th March 2019

Bringsty Forge's almost annual Forge-in!

Our forge-in 'fun' competition this year will be announced on the day as necessity is the mother of invention.

The idea is to make a piece of forge work that is inspired by the title in a few hours with everyone else getting in the way and using just the piece of kit that you need --- No problem!

We will have at least 6 fires going during the day with extra anvils so plenty of opportunity to have a go and also loads of time to catch up with old friends and make new ones. Just bring some of your favorite hand tools.

If you are new to Blacksmithing and you've never been to a forge-in its a great chance to get involved and to meet up with and have a go with those of us who've been getting it wrong for a bit longer!!

Playtime starts around 9am and finishes when everyone has gone home to bed.

Bring some food to share for lunch and something to put on the BBQ in the evening. Henry will be available as your chef for the evening - he cooks a mean sausage!

Don't forget to bring the liquid refreshment of your choice.

We will supply tea coffee all day plus buns and salad for the BBQ.

PS If you want to stay overnight over the weekend Adrian has space for camping and plenty of floor space available for sleeping bags and will be cooking breakfast on Sunday. How can you refuse!

Address

Bringsty Forge Blacksmiths

Bringsty

Hereford

WR6 5TA

Contact Details

It would be helpful to know how many are coming so please email or ring to let us know.

01885 482572

07921 083231

adrian.legge@yahoo.com

We are looking forward to seeing you.

Regards

Adrian, Henry and Tony

Bookings for this landmark event are now open and can be made via www.ypres2016.com. The delegate fee for participating blacksmiths is just £75, $110 or €95. Incredible value for what promises to be the forging event of the decade! To help the organisers PLEASE register as soon as possible: http://www.ypres2016.com/delegate-registration/.

The organisers are keen to make this spectacular event as inclusive and accessible to as many blacksmiths as possible, hence the single flat fee for the event to keep costs for everyone to a minimum.  You’ll pay the same delegate fee if you attend for 1 day or all 6 days, so it makes sense to attend the whole event and make the most of a great opportunity to meet, chat and work with fellow smiths from across the world.

Participants will be able to work alongside one of thirteen international masters or one of twelve international open design competition winners in the production of twenty five railing panels. The star-studded global cast of panel designers includes Francisco Gazitua (Chile), Ambrose Burne (UK), Philip Vercammen (Belgium), Achim Kuhn (Germany), Alexander Sushnikov (Russia), Benjamin Kjellman-Chapin (Norway), Egor Bavykin (Russia), Paolo Bettoni (Italy), James Makely (USA), Jeffrey Funk (USA), Ondrej Gela (Czech Republic), Patrick Pelgroms (Belgium), Paul Mikula (South Africa), Peter de Beus (Belgium), Roberto Giordani (Italy), Sandra Dunn (Canada), Shona Johnson (Scotland), Steven Laurijs (Netherlands), Takayoshi Komine (Japan), Vladimir Sokhonovich (Russia), Will Maguire (Australia), Ivan Kadochnikov (Russia), Kheir Aker (Palestine), Jacob Haggerty (UK) and Ming Dong Feng (China).

Details of their designs are at http://www.ypres2016.com/design/masters-panel-designs/ The finished panels will surround a 7m Poppy Cenotaph to be installed at the German cemetery at Langemark-Poelkapelle near Ypres, for which site preparations are already well underway.

The event will also include children’s forging activities, as part of which some of the 2016 poppies that will cover the base of the Cenotaph will be forged. Others will be sold to the public.

Transitions Exhibition

Ypres2016 will also include a major international exhibition of contemporary forged ironwork, the theme of which is ‘Transition’, giving exhibitors the opportunity to explore the huge range of artistic possibilities suggested by the multiple transitions that the First World War brought about.  The Transition exhibitors include Achim Kuhn (Germany), Fritz Kuhn (Germany), Agnieszka Mazur (Poland), Alan Dawson (UK), Ambrose Burne (UK), Arran Lang (UK), Benjamin Kjellman-Chapin (Norway), Brian Russell (UK) Charles Normandale (UK), Christian Vaughan-Jones (Wales), Daniel Moss (UK), Daniel Randall (USA), Dick Quinnell (UK), Dimitrii Volkov (Russia), Egor Bavykin (Russia), Erik Gjenden (Norway), Fred Truus (Norway), Gabriel Chaille (USA), Ivan Snauwaert (Belgium), Jeffrey Funk (USA), Joshua A. Goss (USA), Lesek Sikon (Poland), Lucille Scott (UK), Mathieu Pelletier (France), Naoto Uda (Japan), Nils Hint (Estonia), Patrick J. Quinn (UK), Peat Oberon (UK), Peter Smith (UK), Philip Vercammen (Belgium), Roberto Giordani (Italy), Ryszard Mazur (Poland), Sandra Dunn (Canada), Steffen Lempp (Germany), Steve Phillips (Australia), Takayoshi Komine (Japan), Tim Mackereth (UK), Tony Ingarfield (UK), Vladimir Sokhonovich (Russia) and Will Maguire (Australia). For more information, go to http://www.ypres2016.com/exhibition/.

Register

To help the organisers PLEASE register as soon as possible. Registered delegates will be contacted in due course and provided with a detailed programme of the forging sessions. Please note that here is no guarantee that registering as a delegate will secure the opportunity to work with a specific master or on a specific forging team. Individuals will be selected by ballot and will then be contacted by the Forgemaster with more details.

Unlike many similar forging events, there is no delegate fee for non-blacksmiths and their families. However, any donations in lieu of this, the purchase of a forged poppy or other commemorative items, will be very welcome. All donations will go towards funding the project and can be made via the ‘donate & buy’ button at www.ypres2016.com.

The delegate fee does not cover food and accommodation, but the event website has plenty of information on the different options available.

For further information on the event, please go to: www.ypres2016.com

ROOT 1066 International Festival

Blacksmiths on the Beach

The Stade Open Space, Hastings, East Sussex

Please visit
https://www.babamembers.org.uk/baba-agm-and-conference-2016/
for tickets and more details of the timetable of events.

ROOT 1066 is a major contemporary, multi-form art festival that will mark the 950th anniversary of one of the most famous dates in English history, that of the Battle of Hastings, when the path of English and European history was irrevocably changed. Organised by Hastings Borough Council with the support of Arts Council England, the festival will feature new commissions and collaborative projects involving national and international artists that will offer new perspectives on the legacy of 1066.

The BABA Events Team, working in collaboration with Hastings-based metal artist Leigh Dyer, recently succeeded in securing funding that will enable the Association to organise a weekend-long forging event as part of this high-profile festival. The forging activity will focus on the production of a large scale artwork designed by Leigh Dyer and Tim Puddephatt. Leigh already has several well-known public sculptures in the town. 

 The event will offer us great public exposure as it is taking place at The Stade Open Space (‘Stade’ being an old Saxon word for ‘landing place’), located at the edge of the beach in the heart of the Old Town and right next door to the Jerwood Gallery.

BABA Children's Forging will be a key attraction at the event, and children will be able to have a go at blacksmithing in a child-friendly forging environment, with the guidance of experienced Children's Forging teachers Robert and Carol Smith.

 For more details and to buy tickets, please go to:
https://www.babamembers.org.uk/baba-agm-and-conference-2016/

For further details contact the BABA Events Team:

Tim Puddephatt
tel: 07816 615762
e-mail: the_foot_of_iron@hotmail.co.uk

The pen and ink illustration of the net-drying huts at Hastings is used by kind permission of Claire Fletcher www.clairefletcherart.com

BABA  Annual Conference - ‘Festival of Sculpture’ - Friday 7 to Sunday 9 August 2015, at Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, Wakefield, WF4 4JX. BABA AGM at 1.30pm on Sunday 9th August at the same venue.

Online ticket shop now open

Registration for booked delegates will open at 12 noon on Friday 7 August at Longside Gallery; when you register you will be able to sign up to take part in the ‘collaborative pairs’ project that we have organised specially for this year’s event

Dr. Helen Pheby, Senior Curator at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, will be giving a talk on the new Anthony Caro exhibition at 4pm on Friday at Longside Gallery (not one to miss - see Yorkshire Sculpture Park's website for details of this and other upcoming events: www.ysp.co.uk)

We will be running a series of 8 lectures during the event which will include a talk from the team organising the 2016 event at Ypres, a drawing lecture by Peter Parkinson, and a drawing workshop by Kate Maddison.

These will be free to delegates, but charged to any attending public.

There will also be a Drawing Contest, see below for details.

Forging and other craft demonstrations will run throughout the weekend, the main focus being on blacksmith delegates working in pairs with craftspeople in other materials to produce sculptures on the theme of ‘Collaboration’.

Other craftspeople will be demonstrating what they do in a contemporary setting, and joining us all for a BBQ and beer on the Saturday night.

This will be a perfect opportunity to network and socialise with other contemporary craftspeople, make friends and contacts; and share skills and ideas.

The BABA Annual General Meeting itself will take place after lunch on Sunday 9 August at 1.30pm, and of course will be accessible without charge to all BABA  members, whether attending the Conference or not.

We are running this as a break-even event and so please find your own accommodation - the following is available nearby:

Camping is available on an adjacent field at £10 per pitch per night (vans allowed). You can book camping when you book your tickets.

www.travelodge.co.uk – search for Travelodge Wakefield Woolley Edge M1, they have a northbound and southbound site within 2 miles of the site.

Tel: 08719846179

Nearby towns: Wakefield, Huddersfield, Barnsley, Leeds and Sheffield are within 40 - 60 minutes by car.

The No.96 bus goes direct to YSP from Barnsley and Wakefield – www.wymetro.com for times.

The nearest railway station is Darton, about 3 miles away.  Main line stations at Barnsley, Wakefield and Dewsbury.

YSP's “Find us” page provides more information: www.ysp.co.uk/page/find-us/tc

Parking will be available free of charge for delegates at Bretton Country Park, and the YSP shuttle bus will run between the main YSP site and the BABA Conference site at Longside Gallery every half an hour via Bretton Country Park, between 10am and 5 pm.

Ticket prices:

Member price: £90

Spouses and children over 12: £20

Children (under 12): free

Student Member Price: £70

Non-Members: £125

Ticket includes:

Ticket price includes all activities over the weekend (Demo's, Lectures, etc.) and BBQ on Saturday evening.

Full catering is an additional ‘optional extra’ charge of £54 for the weekend, providing the following meals: Friday evening, Saturday breakfast and lunch, Sunday breakfast and lunch.

If you have any queries, please contact the conference organisers at agm@baba.org.uk