The Festival relies on the business community to support the range, quantity and variety of events we stage. In return, sponsors gain from association with the festival and from various promotional benefits. This year we welcome fourteen sponsors who have stepped up to get involved.
Some have been with us from the very start and we are grateful for the continuing support of Elstob Auctioneers, Specsavers, Valentino’s and Ripon Races in this group of returners.
The continued support of Ripon BID (Business Improvement District) is of huge value to us and makes for a great festival partnership with local businesses. We also welcome The Stray Ferret as our 2024 Media Sponsor, helping share our events and activities with new audiences across the region. We join many in delighting at the arrival in the city of The Ripon Inn, bringing much-needed bed-space to support the visitor economy. It’s great to have their enthusiastic support in this their first year of operation.
Corporate support helps us deliver most of our family-focused activities for free or at very low cost and encourages us to be ambitious with our professional ticketed programme.
Concrete4U are sponsoring our Family Day this year and Little Bird Made, curators of the attractive artisan markets, are supporting the pop-up family programme too.
New sponsors also include Solo Estate Agents, Sterne Properties and hospitality providers The Old Coach House and The Staveley Arms. Golden Frog Marketing and Arch Consulting provide valuable expertise and support for our digital marketing and social media too.
Corporate sponsors sit alongside the support we receive from local authorities, our local councillors and from charitable trusts and donors.
We are developing a Sponsors and Supporters’ page on our website where more info will soon be found about each company and organisation which supports us, but for now we say “Welcome” and thank each and every one for giving us the opportunity to put together another festival for 2024.