The 10 community festivals which received the most public funding in each of the last two years are shown in the following tables:
Festival Funding provided (£) Feile an Phobail 360,037.95 Maiden City Festival 82,700.63 Ardoyne Fleadh Cheoil 75,080 Greater New Lodge 43,110 Tommy Makem International Festival of Song 23,000 Belleek and Fiddlestone Arts and Cultural Festival 15,783.19 William Kennedy Piping Festival 15,000 The Hills above Drumquin Townlands Festival 14,914.81 Armagh City and district council Mall Events Project 14,900 Living History Festival 13,097.40
Festival Funding provided (£) Feile an Phobail 273,768.01 North West Rural Development Maritime Festival 2006 101,681 Maiden City Festival 84,150 Ardoyne Fleadh Cheoil 66,405 Greater New Lodge 36,660 Panarts (Belfast Nashville Songwriters Festival) 18,500 Armagh Festival of International Folk and Song 17,500 William Kennedy Piping Festival 15,000 Country Comes to Town 12,000 The Irish Country Lifestyle Festival 11,113.17 Notes: For the purpose of this answer, a community festival is defined as follows: “a concentrated and orchestrated series of events with a common theme and within a defined period” This definition is taken from the ‘Community Festivals Fund Policy and Guidance Framework’ launched in February 2006. The answer does not include information on funding allocated to speciality arts and sports festivals.