support

Harrogate International Festivals (HIF) has a range of sponsorship opportunities available, including Event Sponsorship and our Premier Partners membership scheme.

EVENT SPONSORSHIP

Event Sponsorship of the Summer Music Festival gives sponsors an association with the highest quality performing arts in Harrogate and Yorkshire. Sponsorship packages are designed to meet your business needs and worked out on an individual basis. We would be delighted to discuss a bespoke benefit package and depending on the event opportunities include:


Branding:

  • Logo accreditation inside Festival Brochure (35,000 distribution regionally and nationally)
  • Logo accreditation inside Festival Programme (2,000 distribution)
  • Logo accreditation (web link) on website www.harrogate-festival.org.uk
  • Free A4 full page advert in Festival Programme (worth £500)
  • Logo accreditation on tickets for sponsored event
  • Opportunities for branding at venues

Entertainment:

  • Complimentary tickets
  • Ticket discounts for your staff
  • Champagne Receptions
  • PR and photo opportunities

Additional:

  • Priority booking
  • Festival team support for event planning and booking
  • Regular newsletter and updates on Festival news
  • PR campaign around the sponsorship
  • The cost of sponsorship varies depending on the event

PREMIER PARTNERS

Harrogate International Festivals has introduced an exclusive sponsorship offer. We are looking for a limited number of Premier Partners to share in our success and access exclusive benefits not available anywhere else. Premier Partners will have access to Harrogate International Festivals full range of activity including:

  • Sunday Series Classical Concerts (January – April)
  • Summer Music Festival (July)
  • Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival (July)
  • Carnegie Sporting Words (October)
  • Learning and Education Programme (year- round)

Where else can you find…

  • World renowned artists, performers and authors with a guaranteed programme of artistic excellence
  • Continual exposure to our audience of ABC1 professionals and high net worth individuals
  • Corporate Social Responsibility that directly targets social problems in the local area: our work has reached 6,000 ‘at risk’ young people in the last 2 years and worked with young mothers in Harrogate, which has one of the highest rates of teenage pregnancy in the country
  • Unique and dynamic Festivals, including the world’s first sporting words Festival and the biggest literary Festival of its type in the world
  • Memorable client and staff entertainment opportunities at Festival events

HIF offer our Premier Partners a comprehensive series of benefits designed to maximise PR, branding and client entertaining opportunities:

  • Exclusive Premier Partner Receptions at HIF events
  • 10x ‘best house’ tickets per year for any HIF performance or event (maximum of 4x tickets per Premier Partner for any single event)
  • 20% ticket discount on all events for Premier Partner staff
  • Fast-track entry to events- no need to queue
  • Exclusive Premier Partners events throughout the year
  • Logo credit in Festival Brochures (40,000 distribution) and Festival Programmes (2,000 distribution)
  • Half page advert in Festival Programme
  • Logo and links on Festival website
  • Verbal acknowledgement of Premier Partners during events
  • Acknowledgement in e-newsletters (4,000 distribution)
  • 5x artist-signed Festival Programmes
  • Use of an exclusive Premier Partner logo
  • The Premier Partners scheme costs:
  • £3,000 + VAT per year for 3 years
  • £2,000 + VAT per year for 4 years


For further information or to discuss opportunities please contact:

Chris Duffy
Partnerships Manager
chris@harrogate-festival.org.uk
01423 562 303