Festival Review 2024
Each year, Liverpool Irish Festival reviews its work of the previous year to keep ourselves up to date, relevant and accountable. Tracked along with our Business Plan, it helps us to understand what we have achieved, who we’ve missed and how we can do better.
Analysing audience feedback and sharing details about funding, visitor figures and programme delivery, the Festival Review is a significant piece of work that gives us direction and reward, pride and targets.
This year shows we encouraged over 50,000 visits and earned over £120k. We had 230 exhibition days and 49 events. Not bad for a 1.2FTE organisation with a voluntary Board!
We have compressed this PDF, but at 76-pages and over 25,000 words it is still 3.4MB. Please bear this in mind when you are downloading it. Click the image or this link to begin.
Festival Review 2023
2023’s anniversary year was pretty incredible, given we had over 45,000 visitors over 57 events and exhibitions.
A compressed copy is available, but at over 3MB it’s still big, so be careful what you are downloading it on or to.
Festival Review 2022
2022 was a stellar year for the Festival, coming out of COVID-recovery measures and attracting over 40,000 visitors to 69 events and exhibitions.
You can download your (compressed PDF) copy of the Review here. Be warned though, it is still 3MB!
Festival Review 2021
If you would prefer to download an A4 PDF version you can do so here.
Festival Review 2020
Clicking the Issuu link above will allow you to scroll through an online ‘magazine’ version of the Review, however, tables and figures don’t present very well in the onscreen version. If you prefer, you can download a PDF of Festival Review 2020, here.
Previous Festival Reviews (from 2016)
Since 2016, the Liverpool Irish Festival has written an in depth review of the year before (an annual report, if you will). The review focusses on the reach, range and experience its work provides. It has become a critical tool for understanding our workand weak points. Whilst we are extremely proud of our work, we know there is more to learn. This helps us do that.
For instance, in 2019 we connected with over 35,000 people and in 2018, we reached 32 of 40 residential post codes in Liverpool. Which are the eight missing and how can we address this? Why do we attract more women than men and is this bad thing? We managed a press reach of over 20m for two years, which dropped in 2020 – how and why?
If you would like to discuss anything from any of our Festival Reviews, please contact us on [email protected]