What Kind of Fish?

Nemo, from Finding Nemo, is surrounded by strange fish.

As the song goes, I’ve seen a horse fly, I’ve seen a house fly and I’ve even seen a dragon fly. I’ve heard the story of a fish with a wish but I’ve never yet heard of a fish on a mission.

So what is MissionFish?

MissionFish is eBay’s preferred partner for certifying the charitable status of organisations before allowing them to sell (as charities) on eBay.

We are in the process of registering the trust with eBay to allow us to sell the festival tee shirts and polo shirts, and perhaps some of the other merchandise and promotional items (branded glassware, etc.) that our suppliers send us. With the amount of information that MissionFish want you’d think we were applying to install the phone system at MI-5 or polish the propeller on a Trident submarine.

If all goes well we should have a handful of the 2011 staff polo shirts for sale any time soon. That is as long as we aren’t called in to have our fingerprints checked or to take a polygraph test.

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The Biggest Event of 2012?

Two 2011 beer bashers jump with joy at the announcement of the 2012 festival datesThe dates are out for the biggest event of 2012. Get your diaries ready …

Thursday 26 January, 2012
Friday 27 January, 2012
Saturday 28 January, 2012

For sure, some people believe that the Olympics will be the biggest event to take place in the UK in 2012; but hardened beer bashers know that this simply isn’t true.

There is every chance that the 2012 beer festival will have an Olympic feel to it, just so that Seb Coe and Boris Johnson don’t feel too upstaged.

We’ll have some details about the sponsorship packages available for 2012 real soon.  Unlike the Olympics there will be no dubious process for how to order them, no ballat, no secret handshakes and definitely no cloak-and-dagger for whether the whole process is fair or not.  We see it working such that you order them, we confirm it and that’s it.  No online ballats.  No not-knowing what you may or may not have bought.  No re-counts.  No secret stash suddenly found for resale in another country.  We’ll advertise them for sale, and then just like the beers … when they’re gone, they’re gone.

Don’t forget those dates …

Thursday 26 January, 2012 -> Saturday 28 January, 2012

A group of bent and bongs beer bashers having a great time at the 2011 festival

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