The Team

Here are the people who work long and hard to ensure that West Country Carnivals stays fresh and updated:

	Nath Fernandes - Site Owner, Designer and Filming I have always been passionate about carnival even from a young age. Every winter, I used to get excited about the prospect of carnival coming to town only to find out that it was going to rain on that day! My ambition was to try and get involved in these spectacles, however due to the nature of my disability, I knew that this wasn't going to be easy. In 2005, I released my first website named 'RCOOL' and it was from then on that I realised that this provided a gateway for me to achieve my ambition. Since then I have travelled the West attending many carnivals and had the opportunity to meet new people. Also, aside from carnival, I have founded 'VEU Design' providing websites and multimedia services (Filming and Photography) for people with the help of our team, some of which you can view below!
	James Doran - Photographer, Filming, Design Assistant and Presenter Carnivals; what do they do? Bring together a community? I have enjoyed the carnivals that have passed in time, with the massive carts and the individuals that parade alongside them shows the diversity of a carnival, and its ability to allow anyone to walk or dance in the parade and have fun. Nath and I have been friends since year one or two, and have known each other for over ten years, which, believe me, is a long time! From the start of this website and the one before, and the one before that, as well as others that he has done, I have been kindly invited to add my input! The RCool websites, QuickClick and VEU Design, as well as getting more involved in Ultimate Thrills! Throughout my time in the team I have enjoyed myself and hope that the happy times will continue! I also welcome Conor and Lotti to the team and wish them the best of luck coping with Nath, Me and Becky. It will be fun, I will tell you that now! This is James reporting for WCC!
	Becky Clark - Filming and Presenter I met Nath in Year 7 at school and we have been friends ever since. Once we got to know each other well, Nath asked me to join the team and come to one of the carnivals to take pictures of the carts for our website. This then became regular, every few carnivals I would take pictures of the carts for the website!. I didn’t mind doing this as it was fun watching the carts go by with Nath and his team. In 2007, he asked me to try filming the carnival for a change. He then realised that I was quite good at filming, so asked me to film more carnivals.
	Conor Shutler - Photographer Since 2005 I have been interested in carnival and wanting to be involved with it.  The way a cart is built and effects that carts can give off with the different themes and what can be achieved on an engineering level.  A relative’s friend kindly takes me out to see Marketeers C.C cart throughout the year to see the cart being built and the enormous amount of work that goes into building a cart every year is staggering. Every year I go to watch various carnivals around the Somerset circuit and would like to thank my mother and father for putting up with my carnival DVD’s and for taking me to watch these spectacular parades as you have to be there in person to really experience the thrill of carnival. In 2008, I was kindly welcomed onto the team of WCC by Nath Fernandes and will be supplying photos from various carnivals for everyone to enjoy.
	Lotti Napier - Photographer, Filming and Presenter I always loved watching Yeovil carnival from an early age, now that it has stopped I feel that going to watch all of the surrounding areas carnivals is great for me! I have known Nath for 2 years and we get on great. He asked me to join the team and I'm really looking forward to watching all of the carnivals and getting wet in the process! I will be helping Nath with the filming, photography, and podcasts of most of the carnivals.
	Rio Fox - Filming and Photographer To me, carnivals are the communities Christmas. People get together and a celebration of things to come, things that have passed. It brings people that don’t talk to each other, for not trying, together, laughing, basking in the bliss of a carnivals spirit. I’m happy to have been asked to join the team by Nath, it gives me great joy to get the chance to see my theory in person.
A special thanks to Nick, Bev, Paul and Alison for driving us to and from carnivals!