MaryAnne, Sue and I have been discussing the way forward for UKS. We are all concerned that there is a lack of community with people not really engaging with any scrappy chatter, and there is too much focus on challenges and uploads for points. We would like to see if we can bring the community feel back to UKS and so have decided to try the following for July before we think further ahead about where UKS will go moving forward.

It is a lot of work and expense to keep UKS going and the three of us are committed to it IF it is a community, but every member of that community needs to play their part in this if it is to continue.


These are the changes for July.


• A halt on the collecting of points for the month of July (we hope people will still engage with the challenges that are still available)
• A new photography challenge – for fun only not for points
• Regular scrappy related chat threads in General scrapping. Although we will start some of them we would like to see members of the community also start threads and engage with the threads other have started. It will be about the hobby we all love and the reason why we are all here.
• A real focus on all members of the community sharing their pages in the gallery just because it is fun to share in a community not for points and a real focus on members of our community commenting on gallery uploads.


We hope that all of you who want UKS to continue will see why we are doing this and how everyone has a part to play in regenerating the community feel of the scrappy ‘home’ we have all loved for so long.