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HebCelt Festival welcomes ‘game-changing’ Creative Scotland funding

30 Jan 2025

Organisers of the award winning HebCelt Festival have hailed a new three year funding deal announced by Creative Scotland today (Thurs) as “game-changing”.

It has been awarded £270,000 over the next-three years - the first time multi-year funding has been allocated to the festival this way. They will receive allocations of £90k each year, taking them to their 30th anniversary in 2027.

The support will now help to secure jobs for the Western Isles and surrounding areas, and aid the much loved event’s long term planning which can be used to help attract further sponsorship and big name acts to ...

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Blog Takeover - Accessibility

02 Sep 2024

In the run up to HebCelt 2025, we are going to be running a series of Blog take-overs.

For the first blog in this series, you will hear from Michelle who will be talking all about what Accessibility at the festival means to her.

It’s October 2023 and the ticket lines open for Hebcelt 2024, the mad rush for weekend tickets had begun. I, as every year, being a last minute type of person didn’t quite get round to buying mine and soon we were heading towards Christmas. Like many others I spent the festive period with aches and pains from the rushing around, lifting and moving boxes and stretching...

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