The 2024 Big Burns Supper in Dumfries has been postponed until 2025 due to a shortage of hotel rooms, causing the event to fall short of visitor tourism targets. The festival, which has been running since 2011, features headline artists and contemporary music acts.
Organisers of the 2024 Big Burns Supper were told they fell short of the target in visitor tourism , which is what EventScotland looks for in when scoring bids.
“The Big Burns Supper model is incredibly fragile, relying on strong performing ticket and bar sales on top of local volunteering to make the event possible. Ordinarily, only 10% of our revenue is through public funding as our Festival Hub model is pretty self-sustaining, which is why it is so vital at this time.
The organisation, which is a grassroots community group in Dumfries, also runs programmes for children and young people in schools in the six months leading up the to the annual event. This follows a notification last October when the event was told the Winter Festival funding had been withdrawn and advised to bid in the National Events programme.
Big Burns Supper was hit hard by the pandemic as its model relies on ticket sales rather than public subsidy, and in January 2022 it had to cancel 330 shows as the second wave of coronavirus swept across Scotland.We know there are thousands of National readers who want to debate, argue and go back and forth in the comments section of our stories. We’ve got the most informed readers in Scotland, asking each other the big questions about the future of our country.
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