Essential support from three new corporate sponsors has enabled Nairn Book and Arts Festival to successfully apply to Culture and Business Fund Scotland (CBFS) for the first time.
The support from headline sponsor AES Solar and associate sponsors Fred Olsen Renewables and Nairn’s Oatcakes has enabled the festival to secure matched funding of £3500.
This takes the total of additional funding secured by the festival up to £7000 – which organisers have welcomed as a huge injection of much-needed financial support a year after the festival had to cancel its live events due to Covid-19.
This is also the first time the festival has successfully attracted three internationally-recognised companies as festival sponsors, further cementing its reputation as one of the key cultural events in the Scottish Highlands.
This year’s festival has a strong environmental theme, Close to Nature’s Heart, leading ist…
