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.