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2024 Impact Report

 You can now read our full Impact Report on our 2024 Festival! A summary and review of the years activities and impact. Thank you to everyone that fed back to us, and everyone that participated and made this year happen. READ HERE

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Announcement: 2025 Plans

For 21 years, SouthWestFest has been a celebration of creativity, culture, and community spirit. Participation has been at the heart of our success, from local venues hosting activities to local organisation organising events; to countless people volunteering and thousands of residents attending the broad festival programme. In order to continue providing these vibrant, inclusive, and […]

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Volunteers Needed!

Take Part in our Festival by volunteering at our large outdoor events! We’re looking for Live Event Assistants to support the set-up, smooth running and take-down of our events. Are you available on the 6th, 20th or 21st July and want to support a fun event and give back to the community? Sign up here!

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Marketing Volunteer Recruitment

We are looking for a creative and enthusiastic individual who is either an experience digital marketer looking to give back and get involved in a community arts charity or someone who is at the beginning of their training or career in marketing and wants to gain more experience through this voluntary role to support future […]

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Trustee Recruitment

We are looking to expand our Board of Trustees This is an exciting time to join the charity, as we become a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO)! We are specifically looking for trustees to provide expertise in the following areas: Fundraising, experience of corporate sponsorship and income generation Business Strategy Legal Processes Marketing (PR, B2C, social […]

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Welcome to our new Festival Coordinator!

We’re so excited to welcome Kaya to the team, she will be leading on the Open Access Programme, Stalls and Volunteers amongst other areas. Kaya is a freelance project manager, producer, events and production manager. Her experience spans from being a musician on stage to stage managing shows to producing and project managing public programmes […]

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Recruiting: Festival Coordiantor

WE’RE RECRUITING: FESTIVAL COORDINATOR Join SouthWestFest and help organise and shape our 2024 Festival! Part-time, 52 days across the year. Job Responsibilities Leading on Open-Access Programme; events registration and encouraging community partnerships Leading on design, print & distribution of printed & online materials Leading on copywriting and proofing of Festival Brochure & programme on website […]

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SouthWestFest 2023 Theme & Open Meeting

SouthWestFest 2023: Celebrating Our Twentieth Festival & Open Meeting Details!   We’re incredibly excited to share news of this year’s festival theme, which is SouthWestFest at 20! Celebrating our 20th festival, we wanted to take the opportunity to reflect over the past 20 years, the history of the area and our local heritage, as well […]

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New Festival Coordinator Joins the Team

We are really excited to announce that George Bailey has joined the SouthWestFest Team as our new Festival Coordinator! ‘George is a producer, playwright and access facilitator originally from Bordon, Hampshire.  He is the co-founder of the multi-award-winning multi-arts production company ChewBoy Productions and has 8 years of experience in curating projects with community, arts […]

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