Take Part

We are an open access cultural community festival and we encourage you to get involved.

With the return of our Festival Day we have even more opportunities for you to get involved in the Festival this year, check out the possibilities below…

Produce your own Event

Register your event/workshop/activity as part of our 3 week celebratory cultural community festival programme which is SouthWestFest. Our festival will be running from the 24th June to the 15th July 2022.

The festival is open access and we encourage local community groups, organisations, artists, creatives, businesses and individuals to host their own events and activities as part of this community celebration.

Events registered should be either free or very low cost. The aim of the festival is to get local community members out into the area to try new activities and learn about local groups, services and venues in an accessible manner.

You can register both online and physical/live events.

This year the festival theme is ‘A Breath of Fresh Air’:

💚 This will be a collective reset and refresh post-Covid. It will provide missed and new opportunities for residents of all ages. We will run safe, fresh and meaningful events and spaces for the community to come together.

💚 Sustainability will be at the heart of this year’s festival. We want to consider our position in tackling the climate emergency.

💚 We want to support our community to engage with the urgency and importance of the emergency. We’ll raise awareness and programme exciting, practical and engaging workshops and events.

We encourage you to align your event(s) with this year’s theme.

Deadlines

Friday 29th April 2022 to ensure your event makes it into our printed Festival Brochure and online.

Friday 3rd June 2022 to have you event listed online only.

Have a Stall at our Festival Day

At our Festival Day on Saturday 25th June 2022 we will have 40 stalls available for individuals, community groups, local businesses or services to hire to reach new audiences and share

We ask that all information stalls have an interactive element to them and all stalls are visually interesting to ensure the day as colourful and engaging as possible!

In line with this year’s Festival theme, 25% of our stalls will be earmarked for green projects, climate groups and sustainable products.

Each stall is priced based on the type and size of organisation booking on a sliding scale.

Please read our Info Document below before you apply…

Stalls Information Document

Volunteer Opportunities

Join the team

SouthWestFest is a volunteer-led charity. Without you – our amazing volunteers, there would be no festival. There are plenty of different ways you can volunteer with us;

As a Trustee or a lead volunteer who helps us with the planning and development of the festival.

As work experience, we offer day work placements at our events to gain more practical experience in events and community arts and projects.

Or as an on the day volunteer helping us at our events and with our promotional activities.

Click the link below to fill out our contact form and we will get back to you about ways in which you can volunteer with us this year.

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Partner

Through our festival programme we collaborate with and showcase the work of our 70+ partner organisations and groups.

We are always looking for opportunities to develop innovative and exciting cultural and community projects with other organisations.

If your organisation would like to work with the festival in a more meaningful way, then please get in touch, we’d love to hear from you.

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