I personally will do my best to encourage anyone to have a go or partake in any venture that promotes any form of creative wood use, and turning being one that can result in a quicker road to gratification than having to develop the skills of fine cabinet making, it surely lends itself to providing maximum encouragement.
I wish the organisers all the best with their efforts and hope the background work, costs and complications involved do not prove too onerous for the venture to succeed.
Having very naively tried to set in motion a
yearly UKW get together with my limited facilities way back in 2007, which was in the first few subsequent years encouragingly taken on board by a few other enthusiastic members who had better suited facilities, it died as a non event for me personally when I started getting challenging communications relating to whether I or other members hosting the events had personal liability insurance, pat certified equipment etc.
On the home front, when one local family that had been pressurising to have their two children 'have a go at turning' arrived and during the briefing about not standing in line with the chucks etc. said they were OK with the risks as long as I was insured the desire to accommodate their children's enthusiasm wilted somewhat.
As an amateur turner the desire to enter the realms of formal instruction or expose myself to the modern enthusiastic compensation culture leaves me with a rather jaundiced view.
Hence my initial comments about the background costs and challenges in the first paragraph.
