Four Pembrokeshire festivals have lots to celebrate this week. Between them, they have been awarded £5,500 in marketing grants by Pembrokeshire Tourism. The festivals include a week-long Easter Woodland Celebration at Clynfyw Countryside Centre, the new Cleddau Waterway Festival, the Pembroke Dock Festival and Pembrokeshire Fish Week. Funding for a fifth festival is under consideration. Said Pembrokeshire Tourism chief executive Maureen Prentice: "Pembrokeshire's festivals and events are becoming more and more of a visitor attraction and they really can help bring more tourists in out of season. That's why the South West Wales Tourism Partnership gave us this extra funding - festivals are an important part of our joint commitment to extending the tourism season and giving visitors new reasons to come." Commented Kate Morgan, Pembrokeshire County Council's food officer, who masterminds the Pembrokeshire Fish Week: "We are delighted to receive this extra funding as it will all go on promoting the festival outside Pembrokeshire. Research undertaken last year showed that more and more tourists are specially booking holidays around Fish Week. The word is getting out there that, if you love your food, Pembrokeshire is the place to be in June!" A new festival that has been boosted with a marketing grant is the Easter Woodland Celebration to be run by Clynfyw Countryside Centre. After a successful test run over the Easter weekend last year, organisers Jim Bowen and Vic Williams decided to think big for 2005 and have created a longer festival of storytelling, craft workshops, music and instrument making and woodland processions. Commented Jim Bowen: "The Clynfw Countryside Centre is set in such spectacular countryside that we can't resist organising festivals that take locals and visitors alike into the estate's woodlands and walks so they can experience something that we believe is unique. There is already a lot of interest in the Easter Woodland Celebration, so we look forward to something really special." Subject to funding being made available, Pembrokeshire Tourism and the South West Wales Tourism Partnership hope to offer similar marketing grants to festivals taking place between September and December, 2005. Details will be announced within the next couple of months.