AQW 7122/22-27 Written question to the Minister for Communities
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the grants for community festivals in the last three years.
Asked by Peter McReynolds MLA on 21 February 2024
- Answered
- Written
- Tabled
- 21 February 2024
- Answer due by
- 7 March 2024
- Answered
- 5 March 202413 days after tabling
- Department
- Department for Communities
- Priority question
- No
Answer
My Department’s funding to the Community Festivals Fund in the last three years is as follows:
| 2020/21* | 2021/22 | 2022/23 |
| - | £369k | £369k |
*No funding was allocated in this financial year due to the pandemic.
Further DfC funding has been provided directly by the Belfast Regeneration Directorate to the following festivals in the last three years:
| Name of Event | Date of Event | Amount |
| Orangefest | 1/4/20 – 31/3/21 | £40,763 |
| Orangefest | 1/4/21 – 31/3/22 | £40,700 |
| Orangefest | 1/4/22 – 31/3/23 | £40,700 |
| NI Science Festival | 18/2/21 – 28/2/21 | £9,000 |
| Young at Art’s Belfast Childrens Festival | 5/3/21 – 14/3/21 | £10,000 |