CONCEPTION Discontinued

It is with great sadness and regret that we must announce that the CONCEPTION Committee have unanimously decided to call it day.

There will no longer be a CONCEPTION 2017.

We have decided that after 17 years of hosting events at Hoburne Naish that we would rather end it on the virtual miracle that was this years event and retain the wonderful memories of CONCEPTIONs Past.

This choice was not an easy one for us to make. We have invested a considerable amount of time and effort on something that proved extraordinarily hard for us to let go. We emerged from CONCEPTION 2016 with some doubts and concerns about the future but also a renewed vigour for the challenges set by the new management. We were still optimistic that we could weather this re-structuring and re-development at Hoburne Holidays and still reliably host a convention in 2017.

However, recently even more changes have been forced upon us by Hoburne Holidays which severely limit the quantity of accommodation to a point where we cannot with any great certainly be assured that we can host the event in the same manner as we have in the past without badly tarnishing the experience for all our attendees.

So, rather than be forced to accept the uncertainty of dealing with Hoburne Holidays in the future or struggling to hurriedly find and negotiate terms with an alternative economically/ergonomically viable venue we decided to permanently discontinue the event.

We would like to thank all the loyal gamers/volunteers (and their long-suffering families), all the traders for making us poorer in pocket but richer in imagination.

We are humbled by your support and generosity over the past 17 years.

All of the above have assisted us in being able to enable a huge number of extremely varied games and raise a staggering amount for charity, to these ends, we have decided to add the remaining set-up funds for the cancelled 2017 event to the total.

This brings the total raised over the history of CONCEPTION to over £150,000.

CONCEPTION was something to be proud of. We will dearly miss it. We hope to see you all again at other events that carry the torch for this great hobby.

Thank You.