
Fringe Growth and Fringe Benefits by the Sea
“You’ve got some big shoes to fill…how on earth are you going to fill them???” was the common thread people said when they heard we were taking over Fringe By The Sea. The small festival had been running for 10 years in North Berwick when, at the end of 2017, my business partner and I heard that the founders (John Shaw, Jane Thomson and Eric Wales) were looking to hand over the reins to someone else.