In light of the recent death of WGW co-organiser and best friend of founder Jo Hampshire, WGW HQ will be on somewhat of a ‘go slow’ over the next few weeks (yes even slower than normal!)

Tickets for our Halloween 08 event are available online through this site or by calling Whitby Tourist info on 01947 602124.

For general queries, why not ask on our Forum?

For any urgent queries please call 07970 800776

If you require info and booking forms for stall spaces, please email traders@topmum.co.uk marking your email - REQUEST FOR TRADER INFO

We appreciate your understanding at this sad time

Jo, Sam & Miss Kitty
Whitby Goth Weekend

Many of you out there may know, or had the pleasure to meet, Mel (Lucy*Fur), who amongst other things is an integral part of the Whitby Goth Weekend Festival. Over the past 7 years she has organised and promoted Creamy at the Metropole on a Thursday, as well as being the DJ-coordinator & resident DJ for the Spa, Metropole, & every official WGW event. More recently she has taken on the responsibility of running all Metropole events, plus doing the odd shift of Duty Manager the Spa!

She has also been a key component in raising many funds for Charity in much of her work as a promoter in general.

Mel was diagnosed with Cancer in 1996 and underwent treatment and the Cancer was in remission.
Sadly, things have taken a turn for the worst and Mel recently received the news that not only has the Cancer returned, but that it is now incurable and she has been given just a year to live.

Mel is determined to fight this thing, but unfortunately (like many of us) does not have the funds to subsidise this.

Consequently, a fund has been set up in order to help Mel with funding travel and treatment abroad, (which will cost many thousands), and to make what time she has left more comfortable for both her and her family.

One of the things Mel would like to do is to hug a Tiger in Thailand or America, and it is hoped that enough funds can be raised not only to help her explore possible treatment overseas, but to facilitate this dream.

More details with regards to this, and how you can help by making a donation (no amount too big or small) can be found on Mel’s MySpace profile http://www.myspace.com/_lucyfur_

If there’s anything you feel you can to help, please contact Mel and check out her MySpace Blog as I’m sure she’d appreciate any help that you may be able to provide.

Thank You

The WGW Team

Due to recent postal disruptions the following emergency procedure has been put in place regarding event tickets missing in the post

If you have not received your tickets by the time you leave for the event:

The person who ordered the tickets should print out a copy of their shopping cart order and bring it to the Info Stall at the Spa along with

a) A utility bill or formal letter that shows the same name and address as the shopping cart order
and one of the following
a) passport
or
b) driving license with photocard
or
c) work or student photo i.d

We realise that it is stressful and worrying to travel to the event without tickets but if you can fulfill the above criteria please do not email or telephone us as in the days leading up to a ‘normal’ wgw we can field up to 200 emails and phone calls per day.

However if you should have any other queries or cannot fulfil the identification criteria, you can call us on 07970 704702

We now have 50 WGW April 2008 Earlybird Tickets available on the online Store.

Please note any tickets, including the Overspill event, are only available to pay for by Paypal for the moment. This is due to Payment gateway problems.

Info regarding WGW’s Battle of the bands can be found here

We are currently having a few problems with our hosting. I have checked and our hosting company are having some server issues, so some people may not be able to connect to the site.

I will update as soon as this is fixed.

Regards,

Axy_666
WGW Web Admin

It seems that we are having problems with sending to btinternet.com addresses. I am addressing this now.

I have checked and it seems that the topmum.co.uk is on a spam list. This will most probably not our fault due to other people using the same ip range to send e-mails.

If you can please use a different e-mail address for the moment until this is sorted.

Regards,

Axy_666
WGW Web Admin

::Edit ::

This Just in from our hosting:

UCEPROTECT (The Spam Blocking Service) - Axy_666 attempts to extort 50 Euros per blocked IP or 150 Euros per /24, and refuses to provide evidence on specifically what spam is causing the blocks. We suspect them to be blocking us for mail that our MX machines have relayed for mail forwards, which is not easily remedied because we do not force mandatory spam screening on incoming mail (and instead leave that to customer preference - as many people do not want to
even risk losing legitimate email to spam screens) - however we can’tconfirm this since they will not provide evidence. It’s a bit difficult to pinpoint the source of offending spam for over 400,000 domains without
such evidence, as you can imagine.

While paying money in general is not an issue, UCEPROTECT’s practices are questionable and we are pretty certain the IPs will just be blocked again. UCEPROTECT’s blocks lapse automatically after 7 days, and we’ve noticed our IPs cycling in and out regularly for the last few weeks. At this point we are working on some plans to upgrade our spam flagging for
forwarded mail such that this won’t be an issue permanently, but in the meantime I recommend having your recipients whitelist you (or perhaps use UCEPROTECT as an advisory/flag, rather than an end-all be-all blacklist).

We have a new forum!

Unfortunately, I don’t have access to the current forum database so no posts or users will be transferred over to the new forum. Therefore you will need to re-register. I am hosting this off my own hosting until I can get it transferred across to here.

The old forum will still remain active but only for reference purposes. I.E. Retrieval of old posts etc. Please could you update your links & bookmarks to reflect this.

Regards,

Axy_666
WGW Web Admin

There will be a few Spa tickets available for Sale from the WGW info desk on Friday. So if you haven’t bought your tickets yet you can still get them.

Also, for those that have not received their tickets and have bought them last minute via the online store if you could print out your e-mail receipt and we will match it up and exchange it for your wristband.

We will be contacting everyone with a compensation reciept by letter. These letters will be sent out first class on Monday 27th 2006.

If you have a reciept and haven’t heard from us by Friday 2nd December please contact us on info@topmum.co.uk.

Thanks,

The WGW team