Making a Difference

Our annual festival and year-round projects are delivered by Festival of Making CIC, a not for profit community interest company run by a small, passionate team based in Blackburn.

We are enormously thankful for the support of our funders, sponsors and partners who enable us to ensure we can make the festival the best it can be for our audiences each year, but we face an increasingly challenging financial environment and significantly increasing costs every year. 

Unlike many festivals and events, the National Festival of Making is not a paid, ticketed event. We are proudly free entry and open to all.

Your donation, however small, helps us cover these increasing costs to ensure the festival remains varied, accessible and free for years to come. 

From helping cover the costs of workshop materials, hiring venues, purchasing volunteer t-shirts and hosting training, to providing free printed guides, paying artists to create new exhibitions and tech hire required for talks and digital screenings, by making a donation you are supporting a programme that enriches lives through making and ensures the sustained future of a locally-grown landmark event in the UK’s cultural calendar.

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