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Festivals Toolkit

Welcome to the Festival Toolkit for Derbyshire. These pages provide advice and guidance on how to manage, sustain and develop arts festivals in Derbyshire and Derby City.
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The toolkit covers all stages of festival management from developing the initial concept through to the evaluation.

It's stuffed full of advice and information, tips and guidance. There are lots of resources contained in the Toolkit, including downloads, contacts, grass roots advice and examples of good practice. We talked to a number of festival organisers whilst creating this Toolkit to find out what would be most useful.

So whether you need help with marketing, ticketing, health & safety, or even your constitution, you will find something in the Toolkit  that will be of interest to you.

You can browse the Toolkit's sections using the links on the left.

Featured artists

Diana Mehira

Diana Mehira

RAMART

RAMART

Tez Marsden

Tez Marsden

Featured articles

A load of nonsense!
A load of nonsense!

Celebrate Edward Lear's bicentenary in 2012 by having a go at writing your own nonsense poem or flash fiction story and enter the competition. More info and link to entry forms @ Derbyshire Literature Festival

Courses and Education

There are loads of courses and workshops in Derbyshire, and we’ve trawled around for the best courses to for you to improve your skills or gain new ones — or just feed your soul.  Read on.