The Making of Whooverville

Yeah, but we're quite unique amongst conventions because how it works with Hooverville is that we don't pay for it.

Our venue, Quad, and before them, the Midland Railway, give us a budget.

We have a budget from them every year.

They pay for the event.

We use that budget to pay for our guests and their expenses and their fees and all that sort of thing.

And then Quad sell the tickets.

And so Quad keep the takings.

We make a bit of money from the photo studio and from our store.

We have a

raffle as well.

I love the raffle.

We always win stuff.

Well, we

always get the raffle prizes from our dealers.

We don't charge them very much to come to have a stall at Hooverville.

We charge them a

bit, don't we?

Not very much.

Not

as much as other places.

It's almost like a token.

Yeah, a token amount of money and a raffle prize.

A decent raffle prize.

We always have to stress a decent raffle prize.

Otherwise, you get some Doctor Who annuals.