We’d love you to donate directly to Self-Pub Fest as ALL the money donated goes to the three book-related charities local to Aylesbury, where the In-Person festivals take place.

Expenses come out of ticket sales, sponsorship etc. Any money left from those at the end of each year is split between the three charities. See the end of this page for the current accounts.

You can either use the QR code on the right ~ which will take you to the donation page ~ or you can click directly HERE. Thank you!

It’s not just your donations that will go to the three charities listed on the main Charities & Donate page. ALL the profits from the In-Person festivals (Apr/Oct) as well as many of the authors appearing have opted to waive their offered £20 travel expenses or +1 ticket (worth £20) in favour of donating that straight to the charities!

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Direct donations received to-date are…

• 3 March 2026: Dennis C from Bucks donated £20 (£20.91 before PayPal’s fee)
• 28 March 2026: Daniel Furl from Essex donated £30 (£31.20 before PayPal’s fee)
• 7 April 2026: BB Elsin from Bucks has donated £10 through rounding up book purchases.
• 26 April 2026: ten of the twenty-seven authors have chosen to donate the offered £20 towards their expenses to go to the charities totalling £200!
• 26 April 2026: £51 from the sale of tote bags, notebooks and ‘keep the change’ round-ups.
• 30 April 2026: BB Elsin has donated another £25 (£26.06 before PayPal’s fee)
• 4th May 2026: 50-word story competition regular Tierney DT has donated £0.97.
• 5th May 2026: Self-pub Fest viewer Melissa C has donated £4.89.
• 7th May 2026: local reader Chris D has donated £2 (through the purchase of a book swap library book)
• 8th May 2026: Author of horror, children’s and MG/YA stories and poet Shaun Allan has donated £36 (donating monies earned at the 26th April 2026 Festival)
• 27th May 2026: Daniel Furl from Essex donated another £20 (£20.91 before PayPal’s fee)
• 31st May 2026: £18.43 raised from the inaugural ‘300 Words’ Flash Fiction Competition (April/May).
• The balance at this point was £418.29!
• 1st June 2026: Sarah Kirwan from The Author Bridge donated £20 (£20.91 before PayPal’s fee)
• 9th July 2026: BB Elsin has donated £9.41. (£10 before PayPal’s fee)
• 30th July 2026: Daniel Furl donated another £25 (£26.06 before PayPal’s fee)
• 31st July 2026: £32.68 raised from the second ‘300 Words’ Flash Fiction Competition (June/July).
• 13th Sept 2026: Annie Demuynck donated £19.73 (£20.91 before PayPal’s fee)
• 18th Sept 2026: Pam Arland donated (a whopping!) £50 (£51.80 before PayPal’s fee)
• 21st Sept 2026: Jill Todd donated £20 (£20.91 before PayPal’s fee)
• 21st Sept 2026: Genevieve Marenghi donated £30 (£31.20 before PayPal’s fee)
• The balance at this point (exc. the upcoming competition amount*) is £625.11!
• 30th Sept 2026: £tba* raised from the third ‘300 Words’ Flash Fiction Competition (Aug/Sept).
• 2nd October 2026: Daniel Furl donated another £20 (£20.91 before PayPal’s fee)
• 5th October 2026: £65.91 from goodies sales (Morgen covered the cost of these plus the shortage, £55, between the ticket sales and venue hire) from the 2nd (4th Oct 2026) in-person festival. Hopefully we’ll be in profit for the next ones.
• This could be you!

Thank you so much!

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The post-April 2026 Festival accounts (ticket sales minus expenses) are shown below…

As you can see, Self-Pub Fest is currently running at a loss but that’s okay. Most of the set-up costs are one-off so we hope by selling at least 47(.5!) tickets to October’s in-person event (and possibly sponsorship) we’ll break even, then into profit!