(via Mike Wilson-Jones)

Our intangible heritage is at risk.

That means us and what we stand for as morris dancers and people interested in our customs and heritage.

This is vitally important to the future of culture and tradition in all of the UK.

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/46671

Please sign & spread the word – mightily

If there gets to be 100k signatures, there has to be a UK parliamentary debate.

Many of you will have seen recent news coverage of how the traditional Easter custom of the Bacup Coconut Dancers processing through their local streets was nearly prevented by local authority insistence on paying for policing and training of stewards. Just think how many local customs could disappear from our streets. It could also spread to morris dance displays and mummers plays.

You only have to look at the Unesco site to see how many similar customs in other countries have already been ‘protected’. But there are none in the UK!

It is quite clear that when the folk world gets behind a particular campaign it raises a huge amount of support.