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Festivals & Events Monitoring 2006/07

Event Questionnaire

Leicester Comedy Festival

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About this questionnaire

This questionnaire is based upon Part B of the previous questionnaire

sent to you in July 2005 that was used to consult on the Council’s

Festivals and Events Strategy – Consultation Draft ‘Celebrating

Culture & Cultures’.

This questionnaire forms part of the Council’s monitoring of festivals

and events that it currently financially supports and is intended to

give you the opportunity to provide updated information about

your event as well as allowing you to demonstrate how you

continue to meet the Council’s adopted criteria for financially

supporting festivals and events. The completion of this questionnaire

is one of the conditions of the funding of your event by the Council

for 2006/07, as explained in your funding agreement letter dated

21st December 2005. It is important that you provide any new

evidence to support your answers.

Please ensure that you return this questionnaire to the following address by 5pm

on Friday 22nd June 2007.

Please return your completed questionnaire to:

Maggie Shutt

Festivals & Events Manager

Festivals & Events Unit

Leicester City Council

Regeneration & Culture

1st Floor

Wellington House

Wellington Street

Leicester

LE1 6HL

Office use only

Date returned:

Date acknowledgement

sent:



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About you

Please complete your contact details:

Name ……………………………………………………………………..

Position ………………………………………………………………….

Email……………………………………………………………………..

Telephone ………………………………

Organisation

…………………………………………………………………………………

Address …………………………………………………………………………………………

…………………………………………………………………………………………

…………………………………………………………………………………………

Postcode ………………………

Date questionnaire completed ………………………

Are you directly involved in organising festivals and events?

YES/NO (Please delete as applicable. If yes, please list below the

festivals and events concerned)

DATA PROTECTION STATEMENT:

Data contained on this questionnaire will be used as part of the

Council’s monitoring of festivals & events that it currently financially

supports. Your personal data will not be shared with organisations

outside of Leicester City Council’s Regeneration & Culture

Department. By completing the questionnaire, you will be giving

your consent to Leicester City Council to use the information

provided.

This information is available in large-print, audio or as a translation

on request.



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Please feel free to continue of a separate piece of paper if necessary, stating the

question number you are responding to. In addition, when providing evidence in the

form of press cuttings/releases, programmes/flyers, survey results & letters of support

or commitment to funding/sponsorship, please reference each item to the relevant

question(s).

Criteria: Help community cohesion, and empowerment by bringing people together to share

common interests

Q1. Do you offer a culturally diverse programme? Please provide supporting evidence of

past/current programmes.

Q2. What methods do you use to attract a culturally diverse audience? Please provide evidence.

Q3. How successful are you at attracting a culturally diverse audience? Please provide any survey work if available, as evidence.

Q4. Is your festival/event free or do you charge admission? If part of your festival/event is free,

please provide details.

Q5. Can you evidence an education programme as part of your festival/event? If yes, how does

this operate?



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Q6. Would you say that your festival/event attracts people from a single council ward, several

wards or from across the City? What evidence do you have to support this?

Criteria: Demonstrate innovation, quality and creativity to raise the profile of the city and

improve satisfaction among residents

Q7. In your opinion what has been the artistic highpoint of your festival/event and why?

Q8. Does your festival/event have an artistic policy? If yes, please provide a copy.

Q9. Please evidence how the work you do supports your artistic policy.

Q10. To what extent is your festival/event supported by residents of Leicester? Please attach

results of any recent surveys you have carried out (from the last two years).

Q11. To what extent is your festival/event recognised by the media as a major event in the City?

Please attach copies of any media coverage you have enjoyed as evidence.



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Q12. In your opinion what does your festival/event offer that is unique? Has this unique quality

been recognised by the media or other arts funding bodies, and in what way? Please provide

evidence if possible.

Q13. Has the artistic programme of your festival/event been financially supported by any other

agencies? If yes, please give details.

Criteria: Demonstrate economic benefit to the city through job creation and visitor spend

Q14. Does your festival/event actively promote inward tourism? If yes, please provide details.

Q15. Do you have any data or statistical evidence of the tourism generated by your

festival/event? If yes, please provide details. How would you say your festival/event impacts on

tourism?

Q16. Does your organisation attract funding from any other bodies apart from Leicester City

Council? If yes, please supply details.

Q17. Did you secure any sponsorship last time you ran your festival/event? If yes, please supply

details.



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Q18. Do you work with any partners in the delivery of your festival/event? If yes, please provide

details.

Q19. Did you recruit any paid staff to assist in the delivery of your festival/event this year? If yes,

please give details (for example, one administrator for 3 months, or x6 stewards on the day of the

event).

Q20. Did you recruit any volunteers to assist in the delivery of your festival/event this year? If yes,

what part did they play in the delivery of your festival/event? (eg. x6 volunteers for half a day to

conduct festival survey)

Q21. How many people did you attract to your festival/event this year? Have you published any user figures to support this or can you provide details of ticket sales? If yes, please provide details.

Q22. How many artists were employed or benefited from working with your festival/event this

year?

Thank you for completing this questionnaire.

Please return your completed questionnaire within a maximum of 7 weeks

after your event has taken place to the following address.

Maggie Shutt

Festivals & Events Manager

Festivals & Events Unit

Regeneration & Culture

Leicester City Council

1st Floor

Wellington House

Wellington Street

Leicester

LE1 6HL



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