As yet no choir has come forward to host the festival in 2011 so we thought we’d give you a bit of encouragement. This year’s festival was great fun to organise and we honestly enjoyed all of the process. There is a healthy bank balance to hand over to get you started and we’d be delighted to come and meet any potential hosts and pass on what we’ve learned. If you’re worried about time and having enough people to do it, we followed the advice of Val Turner from Otley Singers who told us that you don’t need a lot of people until the weekend itself. She was right. We had 5 people in the core organising group and then we brought in volunteers to do specific tasks. We started planning in January (although we booked the venue about now) and we had lots of support from the Whitby team. We are a young choir and this was the biggest thing we had ever done, but it was also the most rewarding and it has given our choir a huge confidence boost. You can still use the festival email address to contact us or use the outaloud website www.outaloud.org.uk . So go on….give it some thought….this is a really important time to take our message to the streets and it could be you that makes it happen.