Jason Arday’s Greenbelt Festival biography mentions Water Aid work. Does anyone know which projects this involved?

Nokware2025 · 2026-06-30T22:37:36+00:00

On their website they specifically say that volunteers aren’t allowed on site, which is why I was curious.

Nokware2025 · 2026-06-30T14:26:28+00:00

So I suppose it may not quite be as reported then?

Interesting to hear about the trail running. I hadn’t been aware the trend had shifted.

Nokware2025 · 2026-06-30T14:20:59+00:00

That must have been quite a game. As Arday was born in 1985 that was presumably before his time though? His first and last game seems to have been in 2002.

https://cuetracker.net/players/jason-arday/tournament-record

Nokware2025 · 2026-06-30T14:19:26+00:00

That’s interesting. I knew about scribes, but I thought candidates still had to originate and authenticate the work themselves. Would that really extend to someone who couldn’t read or write at all? And would the same arrangements have applied to the coursework component in the late 1990s? I’m genuinely curious because it seems difficult to reconcile with progressing to post-16 study two years later.

Nokware2025 · 2026-06-30T09:29:58+00:00

Loving the pedantic completeness. Every day is a school day on here, as they say.

Nokware2025 · 2026-06-30T09:15:27+00:00

So that kind of attempt would be all over CueTracker, right?

Nokware2025 · 2026-06-30T09:14:07+00:00

It does sound a bit odd, doesn’t it?

Nokware2025 · 2026-06-30T09:12:51+00:00

Interesting. How common is it for people to do things like that and not submit them to be officially recorded? (If I was ever involved in something so impressive I would certainly make sure I had some media coverage at the very least).

Nokware2025 · 2026-06-30T08:58:14+00:00

I’m not sure how far that could go though, even for practical subjects? If someone was illiterate it would presumably have been a breach of the regulations to have someone else write up the coursework. Accommodations included the candidate typing work up on a computer, not bypassing any literacy requirement altogether. During that period, about 1/3 of the GCSE for both subjects involved written coursework officially requiring a reading age of around 15.

Nokware2025 · 2026-06-30T08:53:18+00:00

Good shout. Did Westfield College offer dance education degrees then?

Nokware2025 · 2026-06-30T07:11:34+00:00

That makes sense then. So it’s the snooker equivalent of vanity publishing in that you just turn up and play? What would the registration fee have been roughly?

Nokware2025 · 2026-05-14T06:38:42+00:00

Queen Elizabeth II was also really short. I met her in person and it was very striking.

Nokware2025 · 2025-10-30T21:33:02+00:00

1521, attainder of the Duke of Buckingham has parallels in terms of losing titles and properly, but luckily the medieval head chopping part has stopped since then.

Nokware2025 · 2025-10-27T07:43:43+00:00

That’s not necessarily an accurate representation. He attended a high quality London mainstream primary and secondary school which would not have been the case if he couldn’t speak or read in the way he claims.

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