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Thread #62808 Message #1016551
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
10-Sep-03 - 07:02 PM
Thread Name: Advance Notice Sheffield City Folk Festi
Subject: RE: Advance Notice Sheffield City Folk Festi
The Network will certainly do its best to help with this; Jim's paper was pretty much the same as our own assessment of the potential, made a few months ago, and not pursued as yet because our volunteer workers are already over-extended. The important thing is to draw in a team of interested parties who will be able to work together effectively, and who are in a position to devote the time to it that will be required. We need to avoid the mistakes that have been made in the past with previous attempts at reviving the Sheffield Festival (it ceased, originally, because the local authority, and BBC Radio Sheffield, were no longer able to provide funding and logistic support); Jim understands that, and, if we are careful, there seems to be a pretty good chance that we can make a go of this. Funding opportunities are potentially better at the moment than they have been for some years.