Terms and Conditions

The majority of events in Frome Festival‘s annual programme are independently organised by venues, groups and individuals from across our community and beyond. The Festival has a proud tradition of providing a platform for the local community, with particular emphasis on highlighting activity taking place in Frome throughout the year. This is supplemented by a core programme of activities organised by the Festival team.

Frome Festival aims to be balanced in its promotion of both core and independent events – for example, the brochure makes no distinction between who promotes an event in the programme, and the Festival team will highlight all events in print and e-marketing in the lead up to the programme. Frome Festival provides a platform for both professional and amateur activities.

Frome Festival’s key criteria for accepting events in its programme are:

Date

Events must take place during the Festival programme – the next Festival will take place from Friday 4th – Sunday 13th July 2025.

Location

Events must take place in the town of Frome, or in surrounding towns and villages within 5 miles of the centre of Frome, in a venue approved by the Festival.

Arts & Culture

Events must have an artistic or cultural focus at the heart of their activity – this can take a wide variety of forms.

Organisation & Finances

Unless agreed otherwise with the Festival, event organisers are expected to fully organise and fund their events, including and not limited to booking artists, workshop leaders, venues and all equipment required for the event. They are also expected to pay the appropriate event submission fee to Frome Festival for inclusion in the programme.

These criteria are deliberately broad to encourage a wide range of events to be submitted to the Festival programme.

It is expected that event organisers have completed these preparations before submitting their events to the Festival programme – the deadline for submission each year is generally late February, before the July festival.

Whilst Frome Festival is a non-political and non-religious organisation, the Festival is proud to support a wide range of voices and opinions from across society. Events may reference topics that some audiences find unsuitable, controversial or offensive. All listings in the Festival’s print and e-marketing aim to fully communicate the event’s programme and participation is at the audience’s discretion. If you have any queries about the content of any Festival event, please get in touch with the Festival team who will be happy to provide further information – office@fromefestival.co.uk / 01373 453889

The Festival team works hard to ensure all information is accurate at the point of promoting Festival events, however all details (including programme and pricing) are subject to change at the discretion of the event organiser. Please go to the Frome Festival website for the most up-to-date Festival information.

Occasionally, the Festival team will reject independently submitted events if they believe the event does not comply with the core ethos of Frome Festival as a community-led celebration of arts and culture. The Festival team reserves the right to do this at their discretion.

The Festival team further reserves the right to reject independent event submissions to the Festival programme if:

• The Festival team has reason to believe the submitted event will not be delivered safely or legally.
• The Festival team has reason to believe the submitted event will not be delivered in the spirit of the advertised event.
• The event has not been approved by the Frome Festival team before it has been submitted.
• The event organiser does not pay the correct event submission fee required for inclusion in the programme, or the event organiser has a history of not paying event submission fees in previous Festivals.
• The event organiser does not respond to queries from the Frome Festival team in a timely manner.

The small, committed team that organise Frome Festival work across the year to plan and deliver this programme. Please contact them if you have any queries about the Festival and its events: office@fromefestival.co.uk / 01373 453889