Why support Worcester Music Festival
Worcester Music Festival is a non-profit making event run by an enthusiastic team of volunteers, largely local musicians or people associated with the Worcester music scene.
Not only does the festival provide a showcase for local musical talent of all genres, but it provides education and professional development opportunities through a variety of workshops and clinics.
The festival has also successfully raised significant monies for local charities, which, often, do not attract the level of funding of the larger national organisations. We are proud to support these valuable local charities.
However, Worcester Music Festival is not self-funding and requires considerable financial resources to pay for the infrastructure associated with such a large, multi-venue musical event such as PA hire, professional sound engineering, printing, marketing and promotion, in addition to the costs of providing educational workshops and clinics.
Funding typically comes from four sources – public money obtained through grants, primarily used to support the educational workshops, donations from Trusts and local businesses, revenue from advertising in the festival guide and private donations.
The festival has grown considerably in its first four years, and we plan for the 2012 event to be bigger, better and even more successful than before. To do that, we need more funding and more sponsors in all areas. If you feel you would like to, and are able to, help sponsor the festival (no matter how large or small the donation), please get in touch through the Contact Us page.
With your support, we can continue to publicise the fantastic quality and diversity of our local music scene, and help raise much-needed money for charity.
