The Committee Team for the Occult Conference are:

Trevor Jones & Liz Williams, with Laura Anstey and Sef Salem

Trevor Jones is a co-founder of the Occult Conference and runs www.witchcraftshop.co.uk, which continues online after more than a decade at the very successful Cat and Cauldron esoteric shop in Glastonbury.

Liz Williams Ph.D. is a co-founder of the Occult Conference. She is a well-known writer of science fiction and fantasy and has also published a well-received history of British paganism, Miracles of Our Own Making (Reaktion books) and Modern Handfasting (Llewellyn Worldwide). Liz is currently working on compiling the Encyclopedia of the Occult for Thames and Hudson.

Laura Anstey is a Gardnerian Priestess of the Whitecroft Tradition, and lives in Glastonbury. She worked for many years as a make-up artist, and is working with Paul Summers Young on an edition of a 16th-century Italian work on alchemy and cosmetics.

Sef Salem is a course leader of Star Club which offers magical training throughout Britain, and a director of The Visible College, a not-for-profit organisation which facilitates and hosts events on behalf of the pagan and occult community in South Gloucestershire and beyond. He has been an initiate of O.T.O. for 15 years and participates in Thelemic events across the UK. Sef stewarded the Occult Conference from 2014-2018 and came back on to the Committee in 2024.

The Occult Conference is working towards creating a warm, welcoming, and inclusive space for all. We have a zero-tolerance policy on behaviour which makes any participant feel unwelcome or marginalised, and would ask that incident(s) be reported, in first place, to the organisers, who will treat every report sympathetically and confidentially. By attending the Conference it is assumed that you support these aims and agree with the terms and conditions

The Town Hall is accessible to people with mobility issues, there is a ramp to the main entrance and a small flight of steps inside. The rear of the building has step-free access to the main hall, and is on the same level as the internal lift.

The George and Pilgrim Hotel is fully accessible.

The Avalon Club, unfortunately, does not have step-free access. There is a flight of stairs to the venue.

Please contact us if you have any assistance needs, we’ll do our best to meet them.

Your ticket purchase assumes that you have read and agreed to these conditions.

In the event of the Occult Conference being cancelled due to a lockdown or any other reason relating to public health, we will fully refund all ticket sales.

Attendees must be aged 16 years or older.

Cancellation and Refund Policy:

If you are unable to attend the Conference and have purchased any one of the following tickets: Full weekend, One Day, Half Day, your ticket is transferable, however, you MUST inform the organisers of the name change, otherwise entry/ticket transfer will be refused.

Only the original ticket holder/purchaser can make these changes.

All other tickets can be refunded (minus fees) up to 30 days before the Conference begins, after that no refunds will be made.

Our decision on refunds is binding and final.