Does the Council organise the Swindon Festival of Literature?
Swindon Borough Council, and in particularly its Culture Swindon and Library Service, plays a key part in Festival organisation in many ways. It provides venues, partnerships, programming ideas, marketing, and other support in kind. Crucially, it also provides an annual grant to the Festival, as well as financial support to its organiser to create literature development events within the main programme. The Swindon Festival of Literature is a project of the Lower Shaw Farm Association in Shaw, West Swindon, where it was founded in 1994 and has its head office. Its organizer is Matt Holland. He has the direct support of a team of six, representing sponsors and users.
