£2,000 donated to Ludlow Festival fighting fund
A fighting fund to save Shropshire's best-loved arts festival has been given £2,000 in just three days, organisers revealed today.
And the group behind the plans to save Ludlow Festival say they have also been offered professional services worth thousands of pounds.
A public meeting is planned at Ludlow Brewery on November 22 .
If a festival goes ahead next year, however, it will be on a much smaller scale. And it will depend entirely on whether a new committee can generate enough money.
Anita Bigsby, who organised a fringe festival in Ludlow as part of the 2012 arts festival, said: "It needs to be inclusive and open to all and there must be plenty of free events."
Diane Lyle, from the Friends of Ludlow Festival, said: "We very much hope that we'll stage an event next year and it will depend on a number of factors, not least whether the trustees of Ludlow Castle will permit a smaller scale event."
Ludlow Festival folded this week because organisers had suffered huge losses, which they blamed on poor weather. It attracted up to 15,000 people per year.
