Early last year, some performers and food vendors complained that they were owed tens of thousands of pounds from the 2023 festival.
A November 2024 report from the Association of Independent Festivals (AIF) found that 72 UK festivals had been cancelled or postponed that year, doubling figures from the previous year.
John Rostron, AIF CEO, called 2024 a “devastating period” for festival organisers in the UK. “The festival sector generates significant revenue in and around local economies as well as to the Treasury every year,” he explained. “We have campaigned tirelessly for targeted, temporary government intervention which, evidence shows, would have saved most of the independent events that have fallen in 2024.
“It is sad…