For the following few years, festival organisers were granted money from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) to help cover costs.

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The European investment comes through a programme called West Wales and the Valleys ERDF Convergence which runs west from Denbighshire to Anglesey in the north to Pembrokeshire and Caerphilly in the south.

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