BYBA Festival of Fun & Music withdrawal for 2008
BYBA has withdrawn the Festival of Fun & Music for 2008. There are several major contributing factors that have led the Festival Committee to take the decision that it has now done.
This initial issue being the sale of Brixham by Pontins, and the subsequent late notification of this to the association. Hemsby initially agreed to host the Festival and things were looking incredibly positive for this transition.
However, there were additional concerns that have caused both parties concern. Hembsby were prepared to underwrite some of the shortfall in numbers, which had been projected at approximately 700 confirmed bookings as long as the Association could achieve a high enough commitment from its members. However no guarantees were able to be provided until one week prior to the Festival taking place to underwrite as was hoped.
This would place a huge risk on BYBA should the numbers not materialise by that time. For this reason, BYBA have decided to withdraw from the Festival for 2008 in favour of concentrating on making the 2009 event the primary focus.
"We can all speculate as to why the initial commitment from everyone has not been as strong at this time of the year as it has been in the past", BYBA Chairman Tony Patrick said. "But it is true to say that the confusing nature of the split term breaks between counties in the UK has been an extremely major contributing factor, with many of our teachers not being available as a result, and with many of you having to consider taking time out of school in order to attend, something that we have not had to contend with to this level in the past."
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