as many of you know i help out at a local littles event (part run it)

and as of December it is closing for good...

here is a quick post from the organiser (beth)
This is hard for me, the kind of hard thats like taking your pet to the vet one last time. It hurts me deeply to have to admit but Arcadia will be stopping. Novemer and December will be our very last events. No we are not moving or someone else taking over as I step back.

So why is this happening? Well a few reasions, some more pressing than others, but I always said i'd do somthing until it was not fun any more.
Arcadia is the joy the kink comunity gave me, it was my way of giving back. When people sat in the pub at munches saying there was no events and there should be, i steped up to that need.
I had time, a little spare cash and the balls to jump in at the deep end. As with most things i do it was with all my heart and then some.

Over the years i have met many wonderful people, watched people grow and best of all. The happy faces. That smile at the end of a event on all your faces was my reward. Arcadia never made money and was never intened to, most of the time we struggled to cover the room. But when people told me to give up on it, i smiled at them sweetly and shook my head No. I could see the good, the need, each of you had for a safe place to be. So i just kept arcadia alive.

When my health began getting in the way, i just took meds and fell apart for days later where people could not see. However some did see, and i'm lucky they offered to help. I screamed, threw tantrems and sulked for days. Shear stubboness and pride at making people happy.

Then numbers began to drop, it was a slow decline. People had lives and their need for arcadia was no longer there. Even now we still get at least a cupple of new people a month. (I feel like i'm letting those down.) Last month we only just made it. This month is worse and i'm not expecting December to be huge.
As the contract is renewed for the new year then, i will not be. Its a shame but as i said its got to happen.

One of the biggest reasions i am stepping back is personal.
For the last year i have been fighting harder and harder, the lovely ceilyn has been having to scoop me up in a bucket more and more after a event. He looks after me for days afterwards when i cant move, he puts up with my garbled brain and indures my pain caused tantrems. Just one event eats a week of my time now, very few knew and they suported me. Marvled even.
So yer, my health has won, i'm just not able to carry on for the very few that i have been. I cant keep doing this and even as it breaks my heart, I have got to stop.

I'd like us to go out on a high note, so expect me to pull out all the stops in December, because its not over until i run out of glitter.

Many hugs mad aunty beth

and if anyone is around basingstoke for december i urge you to come along to the last ever arcadia

huggles to all.... fudge