The SCoFF News Service
Southern Counties Folk Federation (SCoFF) covers most of Southern England, ranging, east/west, from East Sussex/ Kent to Somerset and, north/south, from Bucks/Oxon/Berks/Herts to the Channel Islands; including Dorset, Hampshire, Sussex, Surrey and Wiltshire. This news service is for events, controversies and other folk interests and is available to anyone, but the service to members is at a higher, more comprehensive level (see the appropriate web page http://www.scoff.org.uk for more detail of member organisations and services and a regularly updated and appropriately deleted news archive). This news service is moderated, ie all messages are vetted by the administrator. Please do not send pictures or over-long messages. For a postable service country-wide for folk, see the Yahoo efdss-forum Group.

SCoFF is a loose confederation of Folk Clubs, several Arts Centres, a Concert Hall and occasionally an independent Festival, bodies with an interest in promoting Folk and related acoustic music in the Southern Counties of England.

TAPS (Traditional Arts Projects) with its educational and community development aims was a SCoFF Member until disbanded by fiat of the Arts Council. We are now in mutual support status with Folk South-West (recently moved to Dorset).

Unlike the EFDSS (for example), SCoFF is neither more nor less than the sum of its parts. Until recently all Officers were involved with one of the constituent Clubs, but there is now an Individual Member category for people who have no Club, or whose local Club is not in SCoFF.

The Federation is happy to co-operate with and support any Folk projects in its area, either formally through the Committee or informally through the participation of members. The Federation also offers insurance cover to paid up members for Folk events and has a high-quality financially and editorially independent quarterly magazine, Folk on Tap with special advertising rates for members.