I went to the Synergy Project..

[piratetv]

Where are they then? Must be on the Southwark side of the border -- I'm presuming just off Camberwell New Road.

Good questions to them re St Agnes ; to be fair it was Sweetpea claiming Synergy had been at the protest, I don't remember anyone else claiming it.

Synergy have made loads of claims about their "community" spirit.....

I can tell you that there is no way they have offered any help to the many homeless from st agnes place that are now on sofas, sleeping in cars and on the street. They don't give a f**k

If you get involved or support an outfit like that then you need your head tested, they are breadhead, pseudo caring, ego fuelled probable agents of the state. Wouldn't trust them as far as i could spit them. Thanks to them scooping up community funding they left loads of great grassroots projects without.

 

[editor]

Good grief. Read the bollocks they've written about their NYE £20 'gathering' here

It seems that they're now the Synergy 'Community' and they're

...reuniting [their] diverse talents to create a beautiful and thriving community arts centre, through the combined labours of the crew, all donating their work towards this higher vision.

Isn't that a bit misleading seeing as Steve Mr Success' Ingenou is making a fat living out of it?

It also states that "60% of proceeds from ticket prices are going directly towards completing the infrastructure projects within the building". Does that mean you're taking nothing from the night's income for yourself Steve?

 

[han]

Good grief. Read the bollocks they've written about their NYE £20 'gathering' here

Sounds like purgatory......yyyyyuk!

 

[ddraig]

yes! makes me groan
<in a bad way>

suprised no one has brought up the ticket scam thread where steveie baby put the blame on his punters for buying off touts

Unfortunately, this last Friday we became victims of a very organised form
of crime – a ticket forgery scam organised by a gang of touts. Almost
everyone who came last Friday would have been offered a ticket by a solid
line of touts stretching from the station all the way to our door. The
tickets were copied well enough for us not to realize what was going on
until the very end, when it was practically too late.

As it stands this means that we are now down £6000 from our usual takings.
It also means that despite a very successful and well attended event we
are now not able to pay some of our artists, most of our crew and none of
those people who work incredibly hard to make this event happen. We were
also relying on a reasonable surplus from this party to pay this month’s
rent on the Synergy Centre. The financial crisis we now face is
distressing enough, in itself is very upsetting but even more upsetting is
the fact that so many of you didn’t realize - or maybe didn’t care to
realize - that it can not be in our interests for you to buy tickets from
a dodgy character outside the tube station.

giles's thread

any one ever find out if this was an inside job?

This might have been the last synergy event ever.

We are therefore reaching out to you in a desperate attempt to save what
has become such an important institution to so many of us! We are also reaching out to appeal to all of you who thought it was okay to follow
your own personal interests rather than the bigger picture. We don’t want to assume for a minute that you were aware of the total impact of your
actions right there and then but if we really are to strive for a
different kind of society and build a more sustainable future then self
interest alone can’t be our guiding instinct.

We are therefore asking you all to pass this message on far and wide as we
need all the help and support we can get right now to survive.

You can donate money(sadly the most important factor at the moment) by
going to our website www.thesynergyproject.org and pressing the little
paypal button or by sending us a cheque to:

 

[han]

sounds veeery dodgy to me...

this page about the origins of the synergy project is pretty bad too, it smacks of marketing speak and insincerity.

Not much peace 'n' luv going on there, it seems!

Pirate tv - I think you're right - there's lots of talk, but what real action?

 

[editor]

If they were £6,000 down and tickets were £20, that means that the dodgy touts would have had the time to sell 300 tickets to this easily-conned queue without anyone from the venue noticing a thing.

Isn't that a bit, well, odd?

 

[citydreams]

Isn't that a bit, well, odd?

Incompetent.

One would hope that this would be put in the charity, sorry, company accounts.

 

[editor]

this page about the origins of the synergy project is pretty bad too, it smacks of marketing speak and insincerity.

It's a fucking disgrace.

 

[ddraig]

If they were £6,000 down and tickets were £20, that means that the dodgy touts would have had the time to sell 300 tickets to this easily-conned queue without anyone from the venue noticing a thing.

Isn't that a bit, well, odd?

very odd! also meaning that they cream in over £6000 per event
as is their £4000 rent. £4000 a month for a community centre? surely not

shame the directors won't get their xmas bonus

 

[editor]

very odd! also meaning that they cream in over £6000 per event

Well, they supposedly just lost some ticket money, so that presumably means they'd still be raking in even more from stalls/food inside.

 

[sam/phallocrat]

Antiworld got done by a tout scam not long after synergy did so I suspect it's not an inside job (don't let that stop you lot tho)

 

[William of Walworth]

shame the directors won't get their xmas bonus

 

[piratetv]

Well, they supposedly just lost some ticket money, so that presumably means they'd still be raking in even more from stalls/food inside.

AND they have a prominent MAKE A DONATION button on their front page

 

[editor]

Antiworld got done by a tout scam not long after synergy did so I suspect it's not an inside job (don't let that stop you lot tho)

How much did they lose?

 

[ddraig]

AND they have a prominent MAKE A DONATION button on their front page

so does their web designer

you'd think they could at least offer crashing space in their new community centre for peoples of st agnes who are from that community

and all that guff in their 'history of' blurb about needing structures of responsibilty (read command) and people 'having' to pay themselves really winds me up

 

[TeeJay]

Not to mention a complete rewriting of history to suit the ego and delusions of a certain person. The really hilarious part is the griping about egos, autoritarian structures and lack of open accounts.

Where are the Synergy accounts again?