The festival committee promotes three activities: Since 1994, a fundraising jazz & firework concert has been held on Oundle School playing fields, which has become the highlight of the year in the small market town of Oundle, attracting an audience of up to 5,000 from across the Midlands.
In 2007, the Festival undertook a community opera for the first time, with three performances of Tobias and the Angel by Jonathan Dove.
Since July 2002, the Prospective Organ Scholars course has been separated from the main summer school in Oundle and now takes place in Cambridge and Oxford in alternate years.
The students are accommodated in an Oxbridge College, and thus are given a real boost prior to their all-important organ scholarship examinations in September.
They are required to direct, sing, and accompany three Evensongs in different college chapels, with Compline on two evenings.