“The Community Events Fund is a competitive fund and the Council cannot guarantee funding to any applicant organisation. The Trad Music Trust applied to the Fund for two festival weekends, including one scheduled for September 2021, not only for their July programme.“The council provides funding for seven international quality Signature Events and these were determined for a four year period when we adopted the Major Festivals and Events Strategy 2018-2021 in March 2018.
The Signature Events do not change on a year by year basis. These international events, such as the Wigtown Book Festival and the Tour of Britain, do have substantial empirical evidence and a track record of success in our region to justify their funding.”.
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