This August’s bank holiday weekend saw 10 OULC members travel down to Reading to volunteer with the Worker’s Beer Company. The Worker’s Beer Co. (with its great left-y slogan, “thirst among equals”) employs people volunteering for campaigns associated with the labour movement and donates the wages towards their organisations. If you were intending to go to Reading anyway, this was a great way to avoid paying the £160+, and get that feel-good factor (perhaps induced by the free booze that comes with the job…). We got our own special campsite and free meals, and finished our shift in time to see the headlining act nearly every night. A free holiday combined with raising some much needed funds for OULC resulted in a pretty good deal. After much deliberation, I thought the best way to summarise the weekend’s statistics was, unoriginally, in mastercard fashion:

10 OULC volunteers

4 nights

8 tents

3x 6 hour shifts

4 broken cider machines

1 day of being impressed with the port-a-loos

5 torrential downpours

4 days of cold showers

3 packets of wet wipes

1 karaoke night

6 free drinks & meals

1 night of unlimited alcohol

£1,200 raised for OULC

Ben Lyons’ dancing: Priceless