The Barwick-in-Elmet and Scholes Community Fund Committee are a small but dedicated group of
volunteers who work in partnership with Festival Republic on two activities:
![]() Festival Republic is the UK’s leading Festival and Event promoter. They are the team behind the greatest
rock shows on the planet, including the Leeds Festival which takes place in Bramham Park every year.
A brief history, written by Festival Republic:
"Formed in 1982, we largely created the modern music festival market in the UK. Under the name of Mean Fiddler, we took shared ownership of the Reading Festival in 1989 and took sole ownership in 1993. Since then we have built Reading into the most famous rock show on the planet and in 1999 created a parallel event in Leeds. From 2002 to 2012 we took over operational management of Glastonbury Festival and in 2007 increased the capacity of the festival to 177,500. In 2006 we launched Latitude, our fledgling music and arts festival, held on the beautiful Sunrise Coast in Suffolk. Latitude is doing phenomenally well; in its second year it almost doubled capacity to 20,000 visitors and has since increased to 35,000. Until 2008, we also produced the annual London festivals for the GLA; Rise and St Patrick’s Day. In 2009, we added Electric Picnic in Ireland and Hove Festival in Norway to our festival portfolio. In September 2009, we took majority ownership of The Big Chill Festival, which took place in the grounds of Eastnor Castle in Herefordshire, and in 2010 we promoted Orlando Calling in Florida." The Barwick-in-Elmet and Scholes Community Fund Committee is made up as below:
Melvyn Benn (Managing Director of Festival Republic) - Chair
Raymond Budd - Vice Chair Judith Birdsall - Treasurer Jillian Baker Sally Daly Richard Harrison Liz Hayton
Cllr Matt Baker Cllr Neil Beaumont |