Thank-you for considering becoming a Friend of Bungay Folk Festival. Please read on..

The Bungay Folk Festival (BFF) Friends scheme: A donation of at least £50 will make you a Friend of BFF for a year – running to the end of the next festival after you join. This means you will be a friend until the end of BFF2026. If you are able to do this to help us, then many, many thanks. We can accept bank transfers or cheques. If you are in a position to do an ongoing standing order then that would be most generous, and you’ll be a festival friend for as long as that continues.

In return for becoming a friend, you’ll get the satisfaction of knowing that you have helped the festival happen again. In addition, you’ll be entered in our Easter raffle and have early notification of tickets for next year’s festival and other events we are putting on during the year.

Prizes from the raffle will include tickets for some of the ticketed events at the next festival. We will keep your contact details on file so that we can tell you if you have won a raffle prize, or if there is other important news relating to the festival that we need to communicate.

Becoming a Friend

It’s very easy, there are three options:

Option 1: Send a bank payment

Send your payment to the details below. Minimum £50 to be a BFF Friend please.

Then please email friendofBFF@gmail.com with your details. We will confirm receipt and advise your BFF Friend unique number for all future correspondence and donations.

Sort code: 51 70 02

Account Number: 76200620

Account Name: Bungay Folk Festival

Reference: BFFF <your surname>

Option 2: Set up a standing order either annually or monthly.

Please email friendofBFF@gmail.com first so that we can send you your BFF Friend unique number, so this can be used as your reference when setting up your standing order

Please note to be a BFF Friend, your standing order needs to be a minimum of £50 annually or £5 monthly

Option 3: Write us a cheque

If you are writing a cheque, please write your full name & address, and email address on the back. Minimum £50 to be a BFF Friend please.

During the festival you can hand in a cheque at the festival desk at the Fisher Theatre.

Alternatively, please email friendofBFF@gmail.com and we will send you details of where to send your cheque.

See FAQs or contact us at friendofBFF@gmail.com if you have any questions about the friends scheme.

FAQs

  • To attend most other festivals you have to buy a ticket to get into the festival site. We are different because most of our events are free. The money we take from ticket sales does not cover the cost of the festival – which is why we rely on grants, sponsorships and donations to make up the shortfall. The festival friends scheme is a way of trying to organise donations from those of you generous enough to make them into a quantifiable regular income.

  • Yes, we are, but it is a different scheme to the festival friends. Festival Friends is for individuals who have donated money to support the festival. If you know a business who might like to sponsor the festival please get in touch.

  • First off to pay the performers. These are professional musicians and performers who need to be paid for their work. Also, we have to pay to hire venues around the town, hire PA and pay the technicians to operate it. We also have to pay for PRS licenses, first aiders, printing etc

  • The festival is not run for profit, and the organising team are not paid. All donations will go directly towards putting on the festival. Typically 60% of our income goes to hiring bands, 20% to hire venues, 15% to hire PA equipment and technicians, pay PRS and 5% on the rest such as printing costs.

  • Sadly no, the festival is not a charity, so this is not possible

  • A donation of £50 will make you a festival friend for a year – running to the end of the festival when you made the donation. Make sure you sign up as a friend before Easter – otherwise you’ll miss being entered in the year’s raffle. If you would like to donate more than £50 then we’d be very grateful, and this will set you up as a festival friend for as many years to come. If you’d like to do a standing order for an annual £50 then that’d really help us in future years.

  • You might consider whether you could volunteer some time to help as a festival volunteer. Get in touch bungayfolk@gmail.com if you’d like to help at the festival.

  • Understood. We’ll have collection buckets at the festival, many thanks for anything you can afford to give us.

  • If this happens, then we’ll be in touch to advise as soon as we know. This is one of the reasons we need to have your contact details on file. If you have given us money to be a friend to support a festival that will not go ahead, then we will return your donation. You’ll need to cancel any bank standing orders you may have set up. Any donations made to cover future years of friends membership will be refunded.