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Illawarra Folk Festival Community Partnerships
& Festival Pass Selling Scheme
Community beneficiaries - Illawarra Folk Festival, Jamberoo 2002
The Illawarra Folk Festival is a community based event organised by volunteer musicians, dancers, poets, storytellers and culturally minded folk!
The event has grown tremendously from its humble beginnings in 1985 to become a major stage in the Australian Folk Calendar and has been visited by thousands of patrons and performers over its history.
It’s future is dependent heavily on the goodwill and ongoing support of volunteers, artists, other organisations, local, state and federal government and the business community.
The festival has over the years provided financial benefit to a number of charities and non-profit organisations including Leukaemia Foundation, Oxfam, Camp Quality, Bulli Uniting Church East Timor Fund, St John’s Ambulance, Greenacres, Scout groups, SES Branches, schools, Canteen, Salvation Army, Bulli Uniting Church, Bulli Show Society, Rural Fire Service, Surf Life Saving and South Coast School for Children with Autism.
This benefit totals more than $70,000 and began with the major sponsorship of the festival by Diageo (Guinness) in 2001. It was a requirement of their sponsorship that surpluses were to be shared with other community partners. Over the past 4 years, through its Charity Bush Dances and Festival Opening Concerts, we have provided over $4000 in cash to the recipient charities.
How to be involved
So we are still eeking further partnerships with community and charity organisations as well to bolster our volunteer ranks. There are financial and social benefits for these organisations to be involved. So, if you are interested in helping us keep this great festival alive then please contact us!
In order to increase attendances to the Festival and to assist local community groups, schools, charities and non-profit organisations the Illawarra Folk Club is offering a Festival Pass selling incentive scheme for its forthcoming Illawarra Folk Festival.
Organisations, that are approved as an Illawarra Folk Festival Community Partner, can obtain a commision of $20 per Festival Season Pass from sales generated by their promotional effort.
This is done by obtaining a Promo Code from the Festival to purchase passes from the Festival online buying system. The buyer still purchases Festival Season Passes at the normal rate but the benefit goes to the organisation.
What the organisation needs to do
The organisation's role is to promote the scheme and the festival to its members, patrons and supporters and ask them to purchase online with the Promo Code by the 10 January 2012.
The Festival will then do a reconciliation with the sales to 10 January 2012 and provide a cheque to be presented to the organisation at the Thursday night (12 January 2012) Opening Concert at the Bulli Showground.
How to apply
To be considered as a Illawarra Folk Festival Community Partner and to be able to benefit from this scheme, email the following information to info@illawarrafolkfestival.com.au
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Organisation requesting to be an Illawarra Folk Festival Community Partner |
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Name of entity for cheque |
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Contact person |
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Contact details – telephone / email |
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