Wye Valley River Festival gains funding boost

- Posted Tuesday 5 February 2013 by Nikki

The Wye Valley River Festival 2014 gained a financial boost with a grant award from the Sustainable Development Fund (SDF). The Festival will be taking place from Hay on Wye down to Chepstow in April and May 2014 and is being developed by the Wye Valley AONB Unit in partnership with the River Wye Preservation Trust.  Committees are being organised up and down the river where local communities can input their local themes for the heritage and arts themes which will flow down the river throughout the festival

The Sustainable Development Fund provides grant aid for innovative, sustainable projects involving local communities in Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty.  It aims through partnership, to develop and test ways of achieving a more sustainable way of living in a countryside of great natural beauty and diversity.The SDF seeks to conserve and enhance the local characteristics of wildlife, landscape, land use and community. Sustaining the social well-being and economic viability of communities are also important aims. For more information about the grant visit the SDF pages

For more information about how you or your organisation can become involved visit the River Festival pages

- Nikki