GUFF is the Get Up and Over (or Going Under) Fan Fund which transports SF fans from Oceania (Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia) to Europe (and vice versa).
Nominations in the race to send an fan Northbound to Worldcon in Glasgow, Scotland (8-12 August, 2024) (glasgow2024.org) are open to anyone who was active in fandom prior to January 2022. The winner could also travel to other parts of the UK and elsewhere in Europe to visit fans, as time permits.
The winner will be expected to take over the administration of the fund for the next northbound and southbound races, and will ideally publish a report of their trip.
If you wish to stand, please contact us at the email addresses below. You will need three nominators from the southern hemisphere and two from Europe (who will each need to confirm their nominations), a platform of no more than 100 words to appear on the ballot, and a bond of AU$25/NZ$25 to guarantee attendance at the 2024 Worldcon in Glasgow if you win.
If you wish to stand and are unsure about how to go about getting any of these things, what the fund pays for or the duties of a GUFF delegate and administrator, then feel free to contact us in confidence.
Nominations are open from now until 23 March 2024. Candidates will be announced soon after, and voting will then run until 23:59 on 23 April 2024 (British Time – GMT + 1) with the winner announced online as soon as possible after voting has closed. Nominations should be sent via email to NZ administrator Simon Litten at guff2020@ozfanfunds.com and UK administrator Alison Scott at guffeurope@gmail.com. The bond should be sent by PayPal to littenz@gmail.com.
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Simon Litten and Alison Scott