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It's been a week now since discovering our funding has been cut.
Since receiving this news we have desperately been trying every angle we can think of to find new ways of raising the money we need to make your festival happen.
A few local businesses have come forward offering support in kind and Pure Mint Recordings have helped support our educational programme. To them we are very grateful, but generally the response has been dissapointing thus far.

We still need to raise £42,000 if our festival is to deliver to you The Live Day, Frieze Box, Graffiti Legends Showcase, Raw (spoken word event), Fresh Styles film screenings, Dark Daze Collectable Photographic Prints, and our Industry Event.Out of these events only Fresh Styles will be charging a fee for entry. This ticket money will be used to cover the cost of putting these screenings on. As with all our events nobody on the BHHF team will be getting paid.
We develop this festival to develop and promote local and national Hip Hop talent. We have artists from all over the world ready and willing to take part in the events we've programmed.
If we don't raise the necessary funds those artists will not be able to attend.

If we cannot bring you the festival this year, it'll make it doubly difficult to revive it for future years. We've spent 5 years building the momentum which has seen the festival to mature into what last year attracted over 20,000 people and 700 artists over the 2 weeks it took place.

We urgently need some help in finding this money.
If anybody out there can assist us in raising funds or publicising our plight then please come forward. Time is running out!

Thank You

The BHHF Team