GUFF was created as The Get Up-and-over Fan Fund in 1978, to complete the triangle whose existing sides were TAFF (the TransAtlantic Fan Fund, which sends sf fans between Europe and North America) and DUFF (Down Under Fan Fund, running between North America and Australia). Of necessity, the name changes to Going Under Fan Fund for southbound trips. (See ballot for more.) This page is maintained, irregularly, by David Langford.
GUFF Archive
- All the Past GUFF Races
- Latest Race
- 2009/2010 GUFF Ballot
- Great Balls of GUFF (UK home, 2009)
- GUFF Home (Australia)
- Australian Fan Funds
- Dave Langford on GUFF, 1999
Current Administrators - Europe: Ang Rosin – ang dot rosin at gmail dot com
- Australasia: Sue Ann Barber and Trevor Clark
Some Trip Reports - Stranger in Stranger Lands: John Foyster's 1979 Trip Report (print edition 1996; second edition on line)
- Irwin Hirsh's 1987 Trip Report
- Eric Lindsay's and Jean Weber's 2001 Trip Report
Past GUFF Ballots - 2008 GUFF Ballot
- 2007 GUFF Ballot
- 2005 GUFF Ballot
- 2004 GUFF Ballot
- 2000 GUFF Ballot
- 1999 GUFF Ballot
- 1995 GUFF Ballot
- 1985 GUFF Ballot
- 1984 GUFF Ballot
- 1981 GUFF Ballot
- 1979 GUFF Ballot – the first!
- Candidates and Platforms from other ballots not archived in full
Some Newsletters - The Northern Guffblower 1, August 1978
- The Northern Guffblower 2, November 1978
- The Northern Guffblower 3, March 1979
- The Northern Guffblower 4, May 1979
- The Northern Guffblower 5, August 1979, with Chris Priest on GUFF's founding and its first winner
- The Northern Guffblower 6, June 1980
- The Northern Guffblower 7, July 1980
- The Northern Guffblower 8, February 1981
- The Northern Guffblower 9, August 1981
- The Northern Guffblower 10, June 1982
- The Northern Guffblower 11, January 1984
- The Northern Guffblower 12, May 1985
Announcements
15 August 2010 James Shields's GUFF trip website is now officially launched.
6 April 2010 James Shields wins GUFF.
March 2010 Irwin Hirsh's Australian Fan Funds page lost its original site and has a new home (as just linked) courtesy of Jean Weber. Updates continue.
November 2009 The southbound GUFF race is on, with candidates James Shields and Douglas Spencer. Official UK administrator page here, with links to PDF and online ballots. Here's a copy of the PDF version.
September 2009 New race announced, from Europe to the Australian Worldcon in 2010. Details here.
November 2008 Sue Ann Barber and Trevor Clark announced as winners of the current race.
September 2008 GUFF race announced, from Australasia to the 2009 UK Eastercon.
18 April 2007 Ang Rosin wins the 2007 GUFF race and will travel to the Australian National Convention in Melbourne: Convergence 2, 8-11 June 2007.
30 March 2007 At last, the 2007 GUFF race announcement and PDF ballot. The latter gives the voting deadline as 16 April 2007. Is this the shortest campaigning time ever to be allotted by a major fan fund?
January 2007 Damien Warman writes: "GUFF 2007 will convey a European fan or fans to Convergence 2, the 2007 Australian natcon. A bond of £10 or €15 together with the names of three European and two Australasian nominators is to be sent to either Pat McMurray (pcmcmurray at yahoo co uk) or Damien Warman (dmw at pobox com). Contact Pat or Damien for more information. Ballot to be available mid-February."
May 2005 Damien Warman and Juliette Woods are the 2005 GUFF winners.