Specsavers have put forward the cash to ensure the Red Arrows will fly in Arbroath this summer.
The first-ever Arbroath Festival of Heroes is due to take place at Victoria Park on June 4, with 10,000 people expected to be in attendance.
The festival’s organising committee secured the Red Arrows display team but warned it would be “an almost impossible element to afford” if £10,000 was not raised.
A crowdfunding bid was subsequently launched but it has now emerged that enough money has been raised to ensure the display team visits the town.
In a post on the Arbroath Festival of Heroes Facebook page, committee chairman Jamie Buchan said:
“As some of you may know, I am the director of Specsavers in Arbroath and Dundee.
“My business partners and I were making a healthy contribution to the budget of this event and they all believe in what we as a committee are trying to achieve.
“As we went public a couple of weeks ago when news of the Red Arrows broke, the story of what we are doing here in Arbroath started to reach my Specsavers director colleagues around Scotland and unbeknown to me, they all talked and I received an email from our regional chairman offering £9,000 as a contribution to Arbroath’s Festival of Heroes.
“On top of the £4,000 that I was putting into the pot along with my partners from my own businesses, takes us to the £13,000 required for funding the Red Arrows display team.”
Mr Buchan said the committee is still around £10,000 away from its full target and donations can continue to be given at www.crowdfunder.co.uk.