Upton may very well flood, it is the same river as Shrewsbury. The unspecified flood meadow has clearly become a sensitive target for the cruder posters on this forum. If you can't gainsay the message - insult the messenger. By and large festival campsites are on available land and that can often be near rivers - because they can't sensibly build on it - normally - E&OE.

And the season of flooding can no longer be considered winter months, the current prognosis is that 2008 will be safe. Mr Fish says so.

Regardles of what a poster says - make your own mind up - re-interpret, and blame them for saying what you have ascribed to them. That is quite a tradition - one would say folklore almost, but it is normally seen in younger persons. Though you could re-interpret "young" as meaning "immature" and I won't be offended even if it is not what I posted.

And no I wasn't meaning the Southwell Festival. I did happen on a grants list when trying to find the post code of the Kempsey Village Hall and on the same line in the adjacent column was a figure that lept off the page.
How much did Southwell get - was it £15,000? Which year? FWIW Upton FF is a Limited Company - too. It protects the organisers in case of disaster.