A healthy folk club scene has to feature a guarantee of hearing folk songs at clubs
That is not the case and, from what I have seen and what I havee read here, that is long gone - (even you have confirmed that with your village hall, concerts and festivals suggestion)
How can you possibly describe that as "healthy" ?

Thish forum has been bombarded by descriptions of hostility towards traditional and unaccompanied "finger-in-ear songs in the past - things have not improved in any way and arguments like his only confirm that situation
If you don't recognise there is a problem, that problem can only grow

The heartbeat of our tradition lay in the clubs - now it appears to be on a life-support system
Wahre are the albums of traditional songs now - where are the magazines we once had - where are the many thousands of clubs performing folk songs - where is the genuine and friendly interaction and discussion I and others experienced
We can't nip down to the village hall to get any of this

I am, at present, organising and annotating our collection in order to deposit it in an accessible form, to an Irish University World Music Center -
If I thought there was any point, I would happily put aside a smaller archive of recordings of singers, song texts, articles on traditional song and music, recordings of workshops and seminars, radio programmes, examples of voice and relaxation exercises.... and donate it to any club, or group of clubs to be used as an encouragement to learn and understand our folk-song traditions
Ive made similar offers in the past with no takers
Think about it
Jim