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@Psmith
Not sure about this. I'm all up for encouraging the craft of framebuilding, but this isn't some sort of cooperative. It looks like a commercial endeavour to me. Its being run through a limited company. Presumably, they charge the exhibitors as well as visitors, pay their costs and hope to make a turn. By getting volunteers to run the day they are just increasing their profits (or reducing their losses). Also, as @Skülly says it must be pretty dire if they are looking for volunteers at this stage, which is bad news for the framebuilders. Also, its illegal to get people to work for free