| folk21 | aims & objectives |
Our Aims:
| - | To help sustain and support a vibrant "guest booking" folk scene in the UK |
| - | To Encourage collaboration between folk clubs and small venues on a regional basis |
| - | To provide advice and support to folk organisers, venues and artists |
| - | To maintain current audiences and develop new audiences to attend folk clubs and small folk venues |
Our Objectives:
| 1 | Developing a "Successful Approaches to Running a Folk Club/Venue"
a guidance document for folk club organisers |
| 2 | Developing a "Successful Approaches to Getting Gigs" a guidance document for artists - providing practical help and advice where appropriate |
| 3 | Developing a thriving on-line folk community for the sharing of ideas, good practice and discussion |
| 4 | Helping to facilitate the development of regional groups to provide a local focus to enhance co operation, communication, conflict diaries and to bring in new blood (both organisers and artists) into the folk scene |
| 5 | Organising regional discussion days and showcase evenings |
| 6 | Developing initiatives that will market and promote existing smaller folk venues/clubs to a much wider audience, while simultaneously encouraging the creation of new venues/clubs |
| 7 | Working with club/venue organisers to ensure positive audience experience |
| 8 | Working with other parts of the folk movement (sessions, non-booking clubs, festivals, larger concert organisers etc…) to identify and put into place co operative and inclusive initiatives that support both their and "FOLK21"'s objectives |
| 9 | Putting in place a series of fundraising initiatives to raise funds to underpin the stated objectives of the organisation |
| 10 | Producing and maintaining both a regional directory of UK guest booking
folk clubs/venues as well as a national directory |