CAKEFAERIE RULES

'The Cake Faerie' consists of delivering biscuits/cakes to our other members as a means of meeting them, as well as of offering such to other people around us both for general kindness and for Alternative Welcome's further recruitment. [In the sense of: would you like further people leaving you biscuits? If so, email AltWelcome!]

This activity is obviously 100 percent harmless and 1000 percent friendly. We have a few Rules to smoothly ensure this, that you must read in order to participate... If in doubt, ask the Great CakeFaeries In The Sky (persons appointed to oversee this). For now, we have two: one In The South and one In The North.

What we do is as follows.

0 You can join in too by emailing the Great Cake Faeries (Altwelcome-general *at* srcf.net) your

Name:

Address:

Where in college your pigeonhole is:

Notes: mention Allergies here, or whether you are a Vegetarian or Vegan. To a certain extent, comments like "No Custard Creams" or "I Haaaate Raisins!" will be considered.

There is no deadline for joining :)

1 The Great CakeFaeries In The Sky will sometimes SUGGEST you CakeFaerie specific others. Your doing so is ENTIRELY VOLUNTARY :) Though, if you do carry out the suggested delivery, you should very briefly notify the Great CakeFaeries so that they don't need to summon further CakeFaeries to that particular address at that particular point in time.

2 You deliver to the person's hand, to their door as per below, or to their pigeonhole with a "from The CakeFaerie" note (we now send our participants printable CakeFaerie Notes for you to write on the reverse of!)

3 If you do carry out some of the Suggestions, you are known as an Active CakeFaerie. You may then be awarded your own Wand to carry during missions! And Active CakeFaeries sometimes go round CakeFaerie-ing in 2's or 3's. Moreover, we note that as a society we are strong on passive participants' rights to get a good deal out of activities. So. You are very welcome to be part of us, regardless of whether you are an Active CakeFaerie :)

4 By what term it is, whichever of the following!

Easter "Relieving Exam Stress" option

Michaelmas "Freshers and Socs" option

Lent "CakeFaerie Siblings" option

Important Conduct Rules (This Page's New Stuff Starts Here)

I. To be involved with the CakeFaeries is to Consent to be briefly Met. But not a card to intrude beyond welcome. It is a Promise to be Friendly toward any fellow CakeFaeries encounter'd CakeFaerie-ing :) And toward whoever else whilst one is out CakeFaerie-ing.

II. (Packets of) biscuits left in pigeonholes or outside rooms MUST entirely look like packets of biscuits. Notes left with them MUST be entirely polite and unalarming.

III. Churchill College do not permit biscuit deliveries to their pigeonholes other than those which come in commercially sealed off wrappers, like entire packets or individual Penguin bars. If you become aware of any other such issues, tell us!

IV. You MUST pay proper attention to the Notes that come with the Suggestion of whom to Biscuit, for these cover any Allergies, Vegetarianness etc.

If you're an Assistant CakeFaerie that helps the Great CakeFaeries run this, you MUST remember to give out these Notes alongside the names and Addresses. Our default biscuits bought for large-scale distribution are as a default checked prior to buying for the Vegetarian Symbol.

V. This activity is purely for welcoming, welfare and a bit of of truly harmless fun. It has zero concept of competitivity, and nosuch will be tolerated to take root here.

VI. Whilst CakeFaerie-ing, use common sense at all times. Each CakeFaerie is entirely responsible for their own behaviour. We do not condone any course of action that inconveniences other people, especially Porters and the general public. If challenged as to your presence, say the truth: "I am here to see/give biscuits to a friend" and entirely accept it if the challengers ask you to leave. CakeFaerie-ing is not to involve any actions that are unsafe or that may cause alarm to members of the public. CakeFaeries don't come in through the window or act in any other ways that are at all confusible with thieves or stalkers. Additionally, out of respect for others and due to having magical wings and tiny little feet, we go about CakeFaerie-ing *quietly* and *discreetly* :)

VII. Due to the potentially serious issues or consequences, you are not allowed to lie to the Great CakeFaeries or to anybody they call upon to assist them with any serious difficulties.

VIII. You may CakeFaerie people other than to their room/pigeonhole e.g. on chance encounter or outside a shared lecture or society. However, you may not do so during university teaching, in faculty buildings, in or outside examination halls, in libraries, hospitals, sports/music/acting facilities/activities, places of worship, places of proper employment. Nor in shops that might in any way sell biscuits, so as to stay clear of any possible confusion with shoplifting.

IX. You may not CakeFaerie during society meetings that might in any way be disruptible by quietly handing someone a packet of biscuits or a slice of cake. The Societies you can momentarily CakeFaerie in are all informal lighter-hearted societies, rather than obviously inappropriate ones like speaker meetings, piano recitals or the karate club's sparring session... Additionally you are to use your common sense in not disrupting the parts of lighter-hearted SocMeets that shouldn't be, such as people auditioning for the Light Entertainment Society or a person who is juggling with fire. The ideas is that you wait for an appropriate moment, like when they are socializing between bouts of fire-juggling. Sometimes, if you are an Active CakeFaerie or even more so if you are helping out as an Assistant CakeFaerie Organizer, you will be provided with enough cake-n-biscuits to offer Cake to the entire lighter-hearted Soc rather than just to those CakeFaeries present.

X. Unsociable Hours. Between 9 pm and 10 am there is No CakeFaerie-ing unless specifically invited there at such a time by the recipient. That is to avoid any disturbing of sleep, and much of the risking of: looking wierd late at night and being challenged by Bedders in the morning. One can still deliver to pigeonholes within these hours if one happens to be able to access them in an entirely civilized manner. CakeFaerie-ing around Society Meetings in compliance with Rule IX is also allowed over more extended hours, since those are those socs' *normal hours* and those present are clearly choosing Socs over Sleep at that point!

XI. You cannot CakeFaerie by proxy. Because it is not a personal touch and to avoid Proxy Pixies who've not read the rules. If someone wants to help deliver, get them to join up by writing to the Great CakeFaeries in the Sky - there's no deadline for joining. You cannot lie about your name to authority figures (Porters, Staff...) during CakeFaerie-ing. We strongly recommend you only CakeFaerie outside of your College whilst carrying your uni card.

XII. SafeOut and CallOut. in the very unlikely event of a problem arising during a CakeFaerie-ing mission, say "SafeOut" to alert all CakeFaeries present that there is a problem, so that all stop what they are doing and immediately pay attention to the nature of the problem. "CallOut" is the version of "SafeOut" that is used by Alternative Welcome's Safer Space Custodians and Trainee Safer Space Custodians (such as, but not limited to, Great CakeFaeries) to specifically mean that the problem is being caused by one or more of our own members.

Disclaimer (applies more widely to the Safer Spaces we run rather than just to the CakeFaerie activity, for which, aye, some of it may be a bit much, but better safe than sorry).

* The CakeFaeries are a Safer Space activity: zero personal abuse tolerated during this activity or over its running. If anyone is upset, proper apologies are expected, as are non-repeats of what caused it. Being a Safer Space is much of the Why of the Serious Conduct Rules and Disclaimer, though some parts of this are to Avoid "Incoveniencing the Authorities/Getting into Trouble".

* By signing up to the CakeFaeries, you agree that you are responsible for your own actions, and any consequences thereof. Not reading these rules is no defense against breaking them. Nor will the Great CakeFaeries be bound to the existing form of these rules if any new difficulties were to arise. Individual CakeFaeries may not speak for the CakeFaeries as a whole, nor for Alternative Welcome as a whole and as such can not use our activity or our rules as an excuse for their behaviour.

* Bans: in the - for CakeFaeries! - very unlikely event of someone seriously breaching these Important Conduct Rules of friendliness/safety/no trouble^*, they may be banned from it and may find that this ban extends to the rest of the Safer Spaces run by our Society-Group. Official complaints about a person's behaviour will almost certainly result in banning. Involvement of the (real) police will definitely cause you to be banned. Certainly none of this has ever happened to somebody over CakeFaerie-ing, so this is a pretty cautious disclaimer... The Great CakeFaeries' (or other senior Alternative Welcome peoples') rulings are final, and there is no right of appeal against a banning. If our Safer Spaces are messed around with, we may use of measures from our peoples' other disclaimers or from our peoples' ways outside of what we declare on public spaces. Basically, whilst it is not all we are, we are foremost places of respite for vulnerable people, and so we will take any attacks on our safer space activities or their custodians around as seriously as attacks on counselling services, JCR reps or college tutors.

^* This includes risking trouble by 1) deliberately supplying false addresses or elsewise lying to the Great CakeFaeries, especially in connection with any serious rules breaches, or 2) deliberately ignoring a SafeOut or a CallOut.