Le Bosquet de Freya

Example 1: CHM de Montalivet, France

• Fin du bail récurrent de 9 ans of land comprising Centre-Helio-Marin de Montalivet. Quasi-legal terminology in revolving contract has potential to encourage corruption privée et corruption publique, denies rights of homeowners and inhibits full realisation of CHM’s potential to benefit humanity and the planet.

• Vendays-Montalivet town hall might be failing in civic duty toward hundreds of persons living permanently (but unofficially) within Centre-Helio-Marin. A private-equity entity subleases land to captive tenants, at prices determined by whim of corporate profit. Owners of wooden bungalows in Forest of Freya appear now invoiced for overlapping municipal services by two entities: one public and one private. Poor transparency and accountability is evident, enabling (perhaps) several million euros per annum to enter pockets of private equity investors who care not about naturist philosophy. This may represent a lost opportunity to use several millions euros (per year) for promotion of naturism worldwide.

• Unwritten evidence confirms that many owners of wooden bungalows in Forest of Freya are wealthy individuals. Some may not pay attention to minutiae of annual invoices, for a mere few-thousand euros. Personal conversations confirm that some wealthy owners of second or third homes give no shit about economic inequality. Vendays-Montalivet town hall must acknowledge its failure to hold SOCNAT to account and decline renewal for lease of land. Instead, it must lease or sell the land to a non-profit entity (whether French or foreign) dedicated to a mission of naturism. The term “non-profit” is confusing and often misunderstood: non-profit entities can usually generate unlimited income (by multiple methods), but destination of surplus income (euros remaining after money spent is subtracted from money received) must align with a public-interest purpose. SOCNAT was established (in 1950s) with a specific public interest purpose, but evidence suggests that tens of millions of euros in surplus income might not have been used to further that public interest purpose.

• Owners of bungalows as second homes, who do not reside permanently in CHM, could be required to make supplementary annual donations (according to a specified minimum multiplier of an ordinary lease and/or proportional to personal wealth) to the non-profit mission of promoting practice and philosophy of naturism (instead of into private pockets of fuckwits). Financial penalties could apply when bungalows are kept unoccupied without reason. For example, any of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, Bernard Arnault, Larry Page, Bill Gates, Sergey Brin, Steve Ballmer or Warren Buffett leases any plot of land within CHM, he should be annually required to donate several billion euros to the mission of promoting philosophy and practice of naturism; and, if his property is kept empty without reason, this mandatory minimum donation could be doubled (or more, in relation to personal wealth).

• Current 9-year-recurring-lease expires March 31, 2027; it should not be renewed! Instead, Vendays-Montalivet town hall should donate, sell or lease the land to a dedicated FRUP (a public-benefit, non-profit foundation), with skills and competence to manage the land in accordance with the established naturist philosophy and practice.