Tim Hartridge
TEACHING STANDARDS
The Witch Camp group holds the expectation that a standard of practice be established for anyone wanting to teach at the Camps. This is both a competency standard and an ethical standard. It will be the business of the Witch Camps to present teachers properly accredited by the organising group.
Tim Hartridge has been a practicing Witch since his early teens, and became involved in coven-based Witchcraft in 1973. An active Pagan advocate, he has appeared in TV, radio and print media interviews.
For a number of years he ran an Adelaide radio program 'Broomstick Corner' (1981-84) interviewing many alternate spiritual practitioners. Later after moving to Sydney he independently published 'Dark Cycle Magazine' (1986-89), 'Venifica' newsletter (1986-89) and 'OzPagan' newsletter (1992-93). The OzPagan Internet site was also launched in
1992, making it the first Pagan Internet site in Australia.
He was the driving force behind the annual Eostre gathering (1985-1997), the first Pagan festival of its kind to be held in Australia and has been a major contributor to the annual Euphoria gathering (2000-2002) held in Victoria.
He was a founder-member of the Sydney-based Dark Circle Collective (established in 1984) and continues to run it's local coven. He presents regular workshops in Witchcraft and runs the very popular Aussie based WitchesWorkshop eGroup launched in 1999. It is currently the largest Australian Pagan e-group with more than 1600 members. In 2002 he launch the now well known companion website WitchesWorkshop.com.
Tim is a contributing author to an Australian book on Witchcraft (pub.2003 Allen and Unwin) "Practising the Witch's Craft - real magic under a southern sky". He has regularly run the "Casting the Witch's Circle" workshop in Sydney and more recently "Anatomy of a Witches' Coven" and the Witch Camp project.
