The document discusses funding sources for three different festivals: 1) The Three Choirs Festival receives funding from public fundraising efforts like talks, concerts and plant sales as well as grants from local arts councils and businesses. Festival members can contribute directly. 2) A community fun day receives funding from face painting, game sales and donations from local housing organizations and businesses. 3) The London Festival of Stamps gets support from large corporations like Royal Mail and The British Museum. All three festivals receive business sponsorship, but smaller local events rely more on public fundraising while larger ones get significant corporate backing.

1. Creative and Media: Level 2 Higher Diploma Unit 6: Festival
Level 2 Higher Diploma Creative and MediaUnit 1: Scene
6.1.3 Funding
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Find out how the festivals you are investigating are funded.
You could begin by looking for evidence of business sponsorship and/or public funding
(from arts organisations or local authorities) in the promotional materials.
Name of festival Funding from public sources Business sponsorship
The Three Choirs - Fundraising by talks, lunches, Arts Council England, Gloucester
Festival 2010 concerts, plant sales, raffles etc. City Council, , Barclays Bank
plc, Bishop Wood, Financial
- The Festival Society in The Services, Bowden Hall Hotel,
Three Choirs Festival gives the Lincoln Community Fund and
chance for the public to more.
contribute towards the vast cost
of putting the festival on each
year, thus helping to underwrite
the financial viability of the host
festival. For the public’s
subscription they will become
members of the festival and
therefore will be entitled to a
number of benefits.
Community Fun - Fundraising by face painting, Canary Wharf Group PLC,
Day 2010 bouncy castle, selling items for Poplar Harca, Tower Hamlets
example games, toys, Youth Inclusion Programme
(Marner Centre) accessories, sweets etc. (YISP), Apollo Housing and
more.
London 2010 Royal Mail, Silverstone
Festival of Stamps Innovation Centre, City of
London, The British Museum and
more
Compare and contrast the findings for the festivals in terms of funding, programme
content, target audience and artistic policy.
In what ways are they similar? They all have business sponsorship.
How do they differ? The smaller or local festivals have funding from public spaces by
usually fundraising. The larger or international festivals usually have lots of business
sponsorship to fund them and not many ways to fund rom public sources.
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