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Tribewanted: Live are weekend events which include a little bit of sustainable education, some adventurous action and a general tribe-like festival.
The aim of Tribewanted: Live is to bring a bit of the Vorovoro experience closer to you. This is less about Fijian culture and island life and more about community experience adventurous travel and sustainable living.
Depending on the location Tribewanted: Live will mix some kind of educational workshop focusing on sustainability, some adventurous activities and a tribe living experience with good local food and drink.
Tribewanted: Live events are for groups of up to 30 in size and tribe members will organise shared travel and tents online pre-event and their stories and ideas post-event.
Tribewanted will provide crew to co-ordinate each event and experts to lead workshops and activities but members will be expected to muck in with the cooking, projects as on Vorovoro.
Tribewanted: LIVE Frequently Asked Questions
What is Tribewanted: LIVE?
Tribewanted: LIVE are mini mobile Tribewanted events closer to you. The aim is have a fun weekend away from work, to learn something new about sustainable living that you can apply at home, and get outdoors.
How many places are there at Tribewanted: LIVE events?
It depends on the location and activities involved, but we expect it to be typically up to 30 people.
Who is Tribewanted: LIVE for?
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Anyone. You don't have to be Tribewanted: Vorovoro member to come along. Places sold on first come first served.
Will Tribewanted: LIVE events just be in the UK?
No. We will start with a couple of events here and see how they go.
What happens when I book my Tribewanted: LIVE place?
You will receive a receipt for payment and an email confirming your place on the event.
Do I have to bring a tent?
Yes, you do or your be sleeping under the stars. The alternative is to team up with other tribe members on the Tribewanted: LIVE forum to discuss travel and sleeping arrangments.
I've got more questions!
Join us in the Tribewanted Forums!
The Lazy Ecobreak
Tribewanted: LIVE review by Catherine Baker
Going out in your wellies in the rain and digging someone else's hedges is so last yeartheespecially if you've been doing environmentalist stuff for a while and are a bit wary of paying for the privilege of working all weekend. So about an environmental weekend where you get to hang out with big happy brown pigs and work without PAYING for it, courtesy of Tribewanted?
Is the choice really just wellies, tea, and digestives with Nigel, the slightly odd bloke from accounts, or endless hours getting a bit bored actually in the Jacuzzi of a 5 star hotel "somewhere in the Norfolk Broads"?
There is a new breed of mini break available, which combines environmental idealism, inspirational ethos sharing, and sexy young things. All this, without having to actually PAY to WORK, a concept that I, like many ex volunteers, have already learned the hard way.
Tribewanted.com as seen in the BBC series "Paradise or Bust" is based in Fiji, but is running new mini breaks nearer to home. I headed down to a camping based weekend in Cornwall to investigate, (and not work, and drink cider).
Tribal Gathering
On Friday afternoon in glorious sunshine, people start to arrive at the campsite in ones, twos and threes. Some are members of the larger Tribewanted project, but many are just here for the weekend. There is an assortment of doctors and nurses, two personal assistants from London, a landscape gardener from Bognor and people ranging in age from their twenties to their sixties.
A real community spirit soon starts to develop, and everyone helps each other out with putting up the tents. That night we all swap stories round a cosy camp fire and get to know each other. I get chatting to Clemmy, who has just finished her Master's in recycling technology.
Later I turn in for an early night with the chatter from the fire drifting across in the background. Of course camping does have its downsides. It's freezing, and somehow the balmy sunshine has been replaced by torrential rain!
Don't tell the Pigs
On Saturday I wake up feeling like the Michelin man, due to the fact that I am now wearing every single layer of clothing I have brought with me. After a steaming shower aided by a full campfire breakfast I defrost. Then it's off to our first stop of the day, New House Farm (from the BBC's "It's Not Easy Being Green": http://www.itsnoteasybeinggreen.org/series).
After a workshop on green living, we tour the farm to see a whole range of green technology in action. The farm sports a water wheel, which powers the buildings lighting. It also boasts a wind turbine, a small scale plant for biodiesel made from local waste, and a compost toilet. The garden is producing almost all the fruit and vegetables used on the farm. They also have a delightful array of oinking, quacking, scratching free-range animals, contentedly roaming around. These include rescued battery hens, ducks, geese, and two very lovely big brown pigs. The pigs are known only as 'the girls'. A sensible decision has been made on the farm not to name anything that will eventually be eaten. Sad for the girls, but no one seems to have told them the reason for their anonymity, as right now they are two very visibly happy pigs indeed.
Onwards to Eden
After lunch we depart for the giant gleaming biodomes of the Eden Project. It's like Disneyland, but for plants. Eden has recently given birth to the Biodegradable foam filled surf board, and surfers being the right-on dudes that they are I'm sure they'll embrace this. I'm told it's not water soluble.
As we finish our tour I am starting to feel all educated out. It's a good job we have a very basic pastime planned for the evening, the pub. We are minibused to the local watering hole and an intercountry pool championship ensues. We have possibly the most raucous game of the "Who wants to be a millionaire" pub video game ever. Shrieks of "we've won! We've won!" greet our 1pound sweepstake. Eventually we are all driven back to the camp site and gradually fall into our tents.
The next day Clemmy, her mum Elaine, and I walk across the beautiful cliff tops past wheat fields, wild grass and flowers. The sun changes its mind and we wander happily while we swap names and recipes for wild plants.
But, alas, it is time to go and I jump back on the train to the Big Smoke. The countryside flashes past and my mind speeds just as quickly, full of inspiration and ideas. Green ideals are not just for old hippies, and more and more people are using their leisure time as an opportunity to incorporate these ideals into their lives.
About Tribewanted:
Tribewanted is a unique community tourism project based on Vorovoro Island, Fiji. Tribe members join online before spending upwards of one week on Vorovoro living as part of a Fijian and global community. You can do as much as you like on Vorovoro from collecting firewood to spearfishing to learning the local dance. "If there's one thing you do in life, make sure its Tribewanted" Lisa Niari
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