This year's Victorian Festival in Llandrindod Wells could be in "jeopardy" if funding is not secured.

Organisers of the festival are calling for the town to save the event as a lack of funding from the county council puts it under threat of closure.

Between 2011 and 2013, the Victorian Festival received £11,000 from Powys County Council and £3,000 from Llandrindod Town Council.

However, the funding has since been reduced.

Last year the town council paid directly for the fireworks display and the county council gave the festival a grant of £5,670. The festival as a whole made a loss of £1,500.

Chris Hartley, festival director, said: "The Victorian Festival need grants, funding and donations, without this 2019 is in jeopardy and a

37 year tradition of Victorian Festival Week will come to a close."

Organisers said that they have been led to believe that they will not receive a grant for 2019; and that if they do, it will be reduced by at least 30 per cent.

Mr Hartley has pointed out that 2019 is also the bicentenary of the birth of Queen Victoria. He said: "Perhaps Llandrindod Wells, a truly Victorian town, will be unable to celebrate this occasion."

Mr Hartley said that the reduced grant of £3,960, if the festival receives it, "would be insufficient to run a seven-day festival".

"We need the town and businesses in Powys and in particular Llandrindod Wells to get behind us," Mr Hartley said.

On Tuesday, January 8, Powys County Council released its draft budget, which outlines more than £9m in cuts.

The proposals, which are yet to go through council, include a 100% reduction of the Community Enablement Support Fund: where the Victorian Festival receives its grant money from.