2024 Year-End Review

Written By The Fellowship

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Hello everyone! Each year, the board of directors of the Fellowship of Northern of Traditions have what we call our Year-End Review. This is a much more extensive meeting than those we typically hold twice a month. During the year-end-review, we plan for the year ahead, review our by-laws, conduct a thorough review of our finances from the past year, bring new members onto the board, and more. This blog post is to update the community on all that was discussed, including updates for the year ahead! We are looking forward to sharing a magical year with you.

Some of the Leadership met for dinner prior to our long Year-End Review meeting

Finances

At the end of our 2024 Fiscal Year, the Fellowship held $28,775.81.

Our GoFundMe, launched in 2022, has raised $26,095 to date, before removing fees collected by the GoFundMe platform.

The total amount raised via our book sales, merchandise sales, and via our Discord online community subscriptions was $4,059.79.

Gathering expenses were $18,910.62 and gathering income was $20,019.00.

We stated in the year-end-review blog post last year that our financial goals for this year were to find cheaper gathering locations and to break even on gatherings. We are happy to report that we met both of these goals!

From the Spear Dance at the Kentucky Yule Gathering 2025

Gatherings for 2025

Here is a list of expected events with FoNT this next year. Please note that many of these are subject to change, and there may be additional gatherings and meet-ups planned as the year progresses.

Spring

  • Ohio Ostara (Full)

  • Pennsylvania Beltane/Late Spring Gathering

  • Jord Day Clean-up events (Various locations)

  • Texas Camping Event

Summer

  • Midsummer in Ohio

  • Midsummer in Hot Springs North Carolina

  • Midsummer in the Midwest

  • Texas Camping Event

Autumn

  • Loki Retreat (3rd Edition)

  • Men’s Retreat in Appalachia

  • Fall Gathering in Kentucky

  • Fall Gathering in Texas

  • Harvest Gathering in North Carolina

  • Wardruna Meet-ups

  • Fall Gathering in the Great Lakes region

Winter

  • Yule in the Southern US

  • Yule in Pennsylvania

  • Yule in Texas

  • Yule in Kentucky

  • Yule in the Great Lakes region

Leadership

2024 concludes the initial three-year terms of our founding board members and also concludes the terms for the Officer positions. This has lead to many changes within the leadership structure. Additionally, we are bringing on several new Fellowship Trainees to potentially join the board after a year of training, and several new Fellowship Stewards to assist with events.

Officer Positions

Lawspeaker (Head of the Board of Directors): After three years of official leadership and two years prior to FoNTs formation, Jacob has decided not to run for re-election for Lawspeaker. The Board of the Fellowship of Northern Traditions has decided to elect Jacob’s long serving Vice-Lawspeaker, Logan, as the new Lawspeaker for the 2025-2028 term.

Vice-Lawspeaker: The new Vice-Lawspeaker is Lauren from North Carolina.

Bookkeeper (Secretary): The new Bookkeeper is Jessikah from Texas, taking over from original Bookkeeper Raigen.

Fellowship Leaders

Re-elected Leaders:

  • Jacob (Ohio)

  • Logan (Kentucky)

  • Mary (Kentucky)

  • Kat (Pennsylvania)

  • Heath (North Carolina)

  • Lauren (North Carolina)

New Trainees

  • Kyle (North Carolina)

  • Will (Pennsylvania)

  • Christian (Texas)

  • Kevin (Kentucky)

  • Steph (Wisconsin)

Fellowship Stewards

Fellowship leaders Caleb, Raigen, and Darius decided to conclude their terms as leaders and are now welcomed as new Stewards. Thank you Caleb, Raigen, and Darius for all your hard work!

Levi, John, Kay, Will P,  Austin, Johnathan, Mak, and Nils join us as new Stewards!

Interested in becoming a Fellowship Steward? Click here!

The Hall

As always, the Hall looms on the horizon as our ultimate goal. With our current amount of funds, buying a property outright is not yet feasible. However, we hope everything communicated above shows that we are making steady progress towards our biggest dream, and that we are serious about increasing the pace towards the Hall! You can still donate to the GoFundMe via this link and we hope to raise even more funds this year outside of direct donations. We plan on investigating other avenues for purchasing land this year.

Other notes:

  • We are immensely proud of our community members who stepped up to volunteer and provide disaster relief after Hurricane Helene rocked the Appalachian region in 2024. In February, Fellowship Leader Heath organized a gathering in Hot Springs, North Carolina, with all proceeds of over $1000 going to help the town rebuild!

  • We started our new community magazine this year: Bifrost, with the first edition, "Glimpses at the Gods" published in December.

  • A reminder that we launched our new online community this year! Learn more and sign up via this link!

  • Thank you to everyone who joined us around the fire this year! We are looking forward to more magical moments in the year ahead!

With Gratitude,

The Fellowship

The Fellowship
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