what brought the team together

The meeting of minds :: Jon and Bill found themselves to be kindred spirits with similar outlooks on life and the desire to make the world a better place. They also found shared interests in cooking, gardening and sea fishing, and striving to feed their families with healthy food. (In fact Alacrify board meetings have become a time of mild competition in which Jon and Bill strive to create delicious and memorable meals from local and home-grown ingredients following the official business of the meeting.)

While attending pottery classes run by Bill, Jon insisted on rounding off the evening in the pub where various ideas were sounded out, the seeds for alacrify were sown.

RAFT :: Jon joined the RAFT artists group, which Bill had helped to set up with other visual artists in south Dorset :: Jon was particularly welcomed because he brought the introduction to the Church Hall at Winterborne Monkton, in which some RAFT members set up the co-operative Monkton Gallery. artyfacts :: Bill and Jon managed the Artyfacts project for RAFT in partnership with the Dorset County Museum during 2004.