I tried to get funding for my club to put on performers to educate the community and hopefully to convert non folkies.

I spent a lot of time building up the info, checking and agreeing fees with performers if I got the grant.

All was going well until I was advised to run my proposals through the local council art/music department.

They said that I needed to support other areas such as putting on a couple of concerts for local schools. (I had already included workshops etc for schools). However this was to get involved with a couple of projects working with the people that were running those projects.

Being at that time the jack of all trades becuase I was the only person running the club in its entirety (without a committee, but classed as an organiser), I just buckled.

I was only just coping with running the folk club, so taking on other committments was just not on, so I had to regretfully shelve it.

The awards council before that were very enthusiastic about it and couldn't see much wrong with my original ideas.