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This project successfully funded on 1st June 2025, you can still support them with a donation.
This project successfully funded on 1st June 2025, you can still support them with a donation.
Aim: Help make the Southend Jazz Festival happen in 2025!
Since we started in 2019, the Southend Jazz Festival has grown in to an important and much-loved part of the arts scene in South Essex and beyond.
We've worked hard to bring the Southend jazz community together and, year on year, we all work to deliver an incredible week of music and events. In 2024 alone we:
We've worked incredibly hard to grow and broaden both the audiences and the range of musicians playing in Southend. In 2024, 49% of all those involved in the festival were under the age of 25, along with nearly 25% of all musicians.
We are creating the future of jazz in South Essex!
So why are we Crowd Funding?
Since 2021, we have been fortunate to receive some degree of Arts Funding, which has allowed us to deliver the festival we believe you all deserve. From Arts Council England to Southend City Council, we are so grateful for the support we have received. Unfortunately, despite out best efforts, we have been unable to secure such funding for 2025.
This means, for the first time ever, we are reaching out to the public, to ask you if you can help us make the 2025 Southend Jazz Festival happen.
We're now working with some incredible people on a longer-term plan to ensure Southend will have this amazing event for many years to come, but right now, we really need your help.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!