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Unlocking the Courses

5/7/2020

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Thank you for being so patient and understanding during this crisis. It's been tough for most and heart breaking for others. Our sympathies and thoughts with all of you that have lost family or friends through this virus. We are still awaiting the green light here in the Borders to be able to proceed and open up the gallery and courtyard workshop area. We've been fortunate to live in a rural area that has not been affected too greatly by cases. We want to keep it that way ! To this end we have decided to begin very tentatively with reduced number courses. We propose to attempt the following as from and inclusive of August 29th 2020.

For those of you that have been unable to attend and still want to come on a course we propose to :
  • reschedule you into new dates in 2020 and 2021 on FRIDAY or SUNDAYS for the one day courses such as stool making, spoon, treen and bird carving, polelathe turning, sitooterie and woodprint making. These will have to take place on a Friday as we have no other days free this year due to the courses being fully booked til Xmas
  • for those booked onto weekend courses such as chair making, shave horse construction and stone lettering we will have set specific dates for these but will have to run into the winter months of Jan and Feb 2021
  • they will be allocated on a first to respond basis with no changes or cancellations being made once you have confirmed a date. You might be disappointed not to get the date you want - but you'll at least attend a course.
  • this might take some time to run through til everyone has been reallocated. Some of you will have accommodation re-booking to do so that's going to be tricky as well.
We have to do it this way. If we shifted everyone across into next year we lose a whole year trading and no time or dates will be available for new attendees. Therefore we will have no income at all in 2020. The workshop and gallery are going through a different set of unlocking issues and may take a lot longer to regroup and recover.

Refunding postponed courses is not possible. Those of you who no longer wish to or won't be able to attend will have their course fees used to pay for all the materials, tooling, external tutor time, rent, insurance, utility costs etc that we have had to pay over past few months. We are sure you will all understand. We will start to reschedule folks in as from 8th August. So watch out for an email from us soon.


Thanks - Eoin Big Tree Person
5 Comments
Alastair Currie
19/7/2020 12:01:32 pm

Hi. Can you advise if an email with available dates has been sent out yet? We were booked on the stool making course on 8th August but haven’t had any contact from you. Thanks

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Alastair
19/7/2020 03:04:16 pm

Hello
We are set to go on the 8th. It’ll be the first one back so will be the beginning of the new order ! I’ll send an email out week before. Looking forward to meeting you.
Eoin

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Jeanne Robinson
25/7/2020 01:58:09 pm

Hi Eoin,

I am sorry, I have read the information and question above and unclear what that means for people on the weekend course 1st-2nd of August. Is this cancelled/going ahead? Best Jeanne

Alison Johnston
25/7/2020 07:05:29 pm

Thank you for all the effort going into rescheduling courses at this difficult time. My sister and I are looking forward to the rustic chair making regardless of the weather.

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Sue Laddle
27/7/2020 11:08:21 am

Hi Eoin, glad you are now able to start rescheduling postponed courses. I have tried to email however they have returned unable to send. Can you please send dates available to attend, we are hoping to stay with Del at Alpnhaus and need to sort availability with them too! Steve was due to attend in late May. Do you have any availability during late January?
Many thanks

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