Festival 2018 - Feedback
On behalf of the Committee, I would like to offer my thanks to everybody who was involved in Festival 2018; the local walking groups and other organisations who provided the walk leaders/back markers, our sponsors who helped ensure the financial success of the Festival weekend - and of course the walkers who took part.
By any measure it was our most successful Festival ever:
- 398 people booked to take part in a total of 27 walks. 83 people attended the Saturday evening Quiz and Buffet at which a raffle raised £228 for Wiltshire Air Ambulance.
- Sales were brisk with 65% of tickets sold in the first 2 weeks – the first walk sold out in 3 days!
- The distribution of sales was similar to previous years with just over 50% of bookings being made by Corsham residents with another 30% coming from local towns. The Festival continues to be successful in attracting walkers from outside the local area with visitors this year from Coventry, Hampshire, Hereford and London.
- Feedback from the survey was owerwhelmingly positive with 100% of respondents rating the walks and evening event as either Excellent or Very Good.
The Festival was opened by the Chair of Corsham Town Council and the weekend passed without any significant mishaps. For reasons we don’t entirely understand, approx 22% of people who had booked on walks did not turn up – a significantly higher level than for previous Festivals. Financially it did not affect us as the tickets had been paid for, but it was a shame that several sold out walks ended up with unfilled places. On this occasion it can't have been the weather that was to blame - there was wall to wall sunshine for the whole weekend!
No major issues were identified via the survey, however as usual a number of more minor suggestions will be taken forward in the planning for Festival 2019.
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