Woven in Kirklees

Woven is a festival that aims to bring together the local community in Kirklees to take pride in its textiles heritage and celebrate its future opportunities.

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The Brief

WOVEN is a festival that aims to bring together the local community in Kirklees to take pride in its textiles heritage and celebrate its future opportunities for careers, creativity and innovation. It was initiated by Kirklees Council, which commissioned festival curators HATCH to collaborate with local businesses, schools, communities and artists. Faith was asked to implement a three-month PR and social media campaign to celebrate the district’s globally recognised industry from the past, present and future, that would build up to a week-long calendar of events, culminating in its big festival weekend in June 2019.

Approach

 

Our approach was to create a professional communications campaign to launch the pilot WOVEN festival and promote its events and activities. Content centred around telling the stories of those involved in the textile industry, past and present, from those that make the textiles, to those that use them creatively, and how they have helped shape the world around us. Managing relationships with various stakeholders involved in the festival, carrying out interviews and gathering information. We also sought to promote the district’s textile heritage, creativity and innovation, as well as raise awareness of the careers and skills opportunities for future generations.

 

Results

Media relations and social media activity collectively saw us reach nearly 1.7 million people and an estimated 8,000 people attended the 105 events which took place between Saturday 8 – Sunday 16 June. Stakeholders from all aspects of the textile industry got on board with the campaign and demonstrated their passion to back the festival, its aims and its supporting communications activity. The local media engaged with the week-long celebration and featured press releases, wider features and images throughout the event. A total of 30 pieces of coverage were secured, including wider features and various articles in the Huddersfield Examiner, Yorkshire Post and Batley News.