Festival Needs Donations

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LEIGH Folk Festival is making an urgent bid for donations, to ensure it remains a free community occasion.

The popular annual event has been providing entertainment for local residents and the wider folk community for over 30 years, is the largest free festival of its kind in the country.

Organised by Leigh Folk Arts, a Leigh-based charity focused on furthering folk arts, the team of around 30 local residents makes up the core organisation, with around 100 others involved in event-specific volunteer roles.

The festival sees Leigh awash with music, dance, spoken word and other events across the town for four days, which this year will take place between June 22 and 25.

The festival costs in excess of £50,000 each year to run, and this year the organisers are facing an increasing shortfall.

A spokesperson said: “Like many charities, we are facing challenges in fundraising and sharply increasing costs. We need to raise most of the funds each year and we are currently facing a significant shortfall, which we need to plug before June.

“We want to continue to provide a wide range of free music, dance, and spoken word for all ages, including activities aimed at families.

“The main event entertains more than 15,000 people over the last weekend in June, proudly providing a platform for new and developing artists, where everyone is paid to perform.”

The spokesperson added: “As you would expect we are exploring all avenues to contain costs and raise additional funds, but anything that you can give now would help us to continue to put on the festival for you and to keep it free.”

To donate, visit: https://donorbox.org/help-keep-leigh-folk-festival-free?mc_cid=82e0b23ac8&mc_eid=c54bc32157

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LEIGH Folk Festival is making an urgent bid for donations, to ensure it remains a free community occasion.

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