Well, I hate not being paid (I'll get that out of the way straight away!). Doesn't need to be money, but free beer and me taxi home is great. We caved in and played at a local care home last Christmas Eve. It was lovely but there was no pay, and it was a couple of hours away from the folks on Christmas Eve. Thing is, the home gets five or six hundred quid a week for each resident and they pay their staff a bloody pittance for clearing up sick and piss and wiping old people's bums. Someone there simply has to be doing quite well out of it, and it ain't the staff, some of whom have to work nights, and it wasn't us. Still, Christmas spirit and all that and we came away feeling good about it. Thing about us folkies is that we're used to doing weddings and parties and going home, after having abandoned the family for hours on a Saturday afternoon and evening, with thirty or forty quid each if we're lucky, then we see the DJ with his rubbish sound system and free downloads getting six hundred. Regard this as a scattergun and unfocussed post, which it is, but do have a little think before you ask people to play for nowt, "if you think we're good". And, true, I don't know your situation, but good luck anyway.