Good afternoon,

My name is Lewis Ashdown and I am one of the directors for Great Yarmouth Arts Festival CIC.

Something we are interested in looking into is the possibility of seeing if there is any grants out there that we can use to pay a freelancer to help with our marketing, since I joined the festival in 2022 I oversaw the marketing all free of charge - But I now have several other roles within the organisation and simply don't have the time to do a marketing role onside my other duties, so something we discussed in our committee meeting was looking for grants which we could use to part time employ someone to help us with marketing, we've tried looking for volunteers but the issue is we need volunteers who are local to us, as sometimes the role includes in person working, not just remote - and no-one seems to be interested in helping us as a volunteer - a lot of local companies have also found the same issue with volunteers.

If anyone is aware of any grants which we could look into, we'd be much grateful if you could let us know any details about them :)

Best wishes,
Lewis Ashdown