Festability 2023 cancelled
Festability is organised by three mums who organise the event in a purely voluntary capacity. We are not a large corporate organisation.
The event costs us in excess of £60k to put on (infrastructure of venue, toilets, mobiloo, fence panels, stage, security, insurance, marquees, 1st aid, entertainment etc).
Costs have increased significantly this year and ticket sales are down considerably. Taking those sales into account, along with our projected sales up to the event and on the day (based on previous years), we are looking at a loss of £40k. This is a loss the three of us would have to split and cover, which we can't afford.
We have therefore had to make the heartbreaking decision to cancel Festability in June 2023.
Please know we did not make this decision lightly and if there was any way we could still go ahead, even with a small financial hit, we would do so.
We have booked to hold the event next year on Saturday 8 June, 2024 at Quex Park.
If you have bought a ticket for this year, you should have recevied an email offering you a refund or the opportunity to carry your tickets over to 2024.
Thank you to everyone who has bought tickets or shown your support this year, it really does mean the world to us and we are sorry to have to make this decision.
Debs, Carrie and Vanessa
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Festabilty was created by a group of parents who have family members with disabilities. They saw a video shared on the BBC and thought “we really need to do that here in Kent!”.
That was on a Saturday evening, and they may have been guilty of having one or two glasses of wine. Isn’t that how all good ideas start though?
We were totally overwhelmed by the interest expressed, and the offers of support received, once we mentioned it to a few people and quickly decided we had to get this off the ground because the demand was huge.
The first Festability was in 2018, followed by an even bigger day in 2019, then due to popular demand, it returned with a bang in 2022 after a break due to the pandemic.
