ABSTRACT
The importance of having a clear vision, mission, and purpose is regularly cited as being crucial to the success of a not-for-profit organisation. Despite this, little attention has been given to the moments at which such clarity of purpose has emerged in the development of new arts organisations. As an organisation that relies on receiving funds from both state and private supporters the Lammermuir Festival is constantly under the type of external pressures that, left unimpeded, would most likely lead to the hollowing out of its unique vision and purpose. The purpose of the trust was to do good for the community through music, and what was being proposed was a festival in which the music and the place would be indivisible. With Lammermuir "the mixture of the historic places and the music was key, it is central to the identity and the two come together as an artistic concept.
