Community Festivals Questionnaire: Group Workshop Focus The Worcester Community Festivals Development Programme includes direct investment into the festivals’ programmes, individual support such as mentoring, and will include a group workshop series in 2021 focusing on areas where the festivals indicated they would like more support. The main areas suggested so far include: Governance, Operations, Fundraising, Marketing and Communications, and Audience Development. We’re hoping we can run the workshops either for a half day or full day with specialists in these fields. They would give you the chance to learn useful information, hear about best practice and ask specific questions relevant to your festival/event. We’re hoping to run these once a month during May, June, July, September and October. It would also give you the opportunity to engage and network with the leads for the other community festivals in the Programme. However, we want to make sure these workshops will really suit your event’s specific needs, so if you could answer a few questions to help us get the focus right, we’d be really grateful. For now we’re certainly expecting the earlier workshops to be online, but we’ll revisit the potential for face-to-face workshops as Government restrictions change. Please complete this questionnaire by noon on Friday 12th March 2021 Name* First Last Organisation/festival* Email* Question 1.We’d like to find out what order you’d like to cover the topics in. It may be appropriate to tackle some areas earlier and some later on given the planning cycle of your event.Please rank these topics in terms of the order you’d like to cover them in (1 is first, 5 is last) Governance*Operations*Fundraising*Marketing and Communications*Audience Development*Are there other things you think we should cover that wouldn’t come under these topics?*Please add any other comments:Question 2.How long should the workshops be?* Half a day (perhaps 3.5 hours) One whole day (perhaps 2 x 3.5 hour sessions) Please add any other comments:Question 3.When should the workshops take place?* Weekdays Weekends Evenings (in which case they’d perhaps need to be shorter and each topic split over two evenings) Please add any other comments:Question 4.Who will attend from your committee or organising group? An important part of the Programme is to build skills with your festival’s organising group. Please indicate how many people you think would attend each workshop:Governance* 1 - 2 3 - 5 Over 5 Operations* 1 - 2 3 - 5 Over 5 Fundraising* 1 - 2 3 - 5 Over 5 Marketing and Communications* 1 - 2 3 - 5 Over 5 Audience Development* 1 - 2 3 - 5 Over 5 Any other comments:Question 5.What would be the most useful focus for the Governance topic? Please tick those which are most important for your event:* Select All Exploring different not for profit models and the pros and cons of each What’s involved in the process of establishing a chosen model Focus on Unincorporated Association Focus on Community Interest Company (CIC) Focus on Company Limited by Guarantee Focus on Community Interest Organisation (CIO) Are there any other things you’d like to explore in Governance?Question 6.What would be the most useful focus for the Operations topic? Please tick those which are most important for your event:* Select All Event Planning Working with a Safety Advisory Group (SAG) Health and Safety Preparing Risk Assessments COVID-safe event planning Are there any other things you’d like to explore in Operations?Question 7.What would be the most useful focus for the Fundraising topic? Please tick those which are most important for your event: Select All Trusts and foundations Arts Council and other larger funders Income generation for instance through ticket sales and merchandising Sponsorship Donations Are there any other things you’d like to explore in Fundraising?Question 8.What would be the most useful focus for the Marketing and Communications topic? Please tick those which are most important for your event:* Select All How to write a Marketing Strategy and Plan Using social media Writing press releases Developing websites Branding and design Are there are other things you’d like to explore in Marketing and Communications?Question 9.What would be the most useful focus for the Audience Development topic? Please tick those which are most important for your event:* Select All How to write an Audience Development Plan Understanding audiences Collecting audience data Community engagement and participation Community consultation and community decision-making in projects and activities Are there any other things you’d like to explore in Audience Development?Thank you for completing this questionnaire.Your privacyPlease note that this is not an anonymous questionnaire. The information you enter into this form will be collected and stored by Severn Arts. 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