Sponsors and supporters

Cambridge City Council is extremely grateful to all our sponsors and supporters whose contributions help enormously towards making the Cambridge Folk Festival run as smoothly as ever:

• Creative Scotland for their grant support of the Festival’s Scottish Showcase
• PRS for Music Foundation for helping us to launch The Den and develop new music at the Festival
• UNISON for supporting the Festival’s continued high standards of facilities for disabled people
• English Folk Dance & Song Society for supporting the development of youth folk talent at the Festival
• Escalator Music (an Arts Council England initiative) for supporting the inclusion of emerging English folk artists from the East of England.

We would also like to thank our media partners:

• BBC Radio 2 for their extensive radio coverage of the Festival
• Sky Arts who broadcast highlights of the Festival
• MOJO who are our print media partners and also run the artist signing tent at the Festival
• Adrenaline Creative for building and supporting the Festival website.

We would also like to thank The Ink Corporation who will be providing artwork around the Festival arena.

Sponsorship Opportunities
The Cambridge Folk Festival has an international reputation that greatly exceeds its on-site capacity, reaching millions of people each year through its close media partnerships and online presence. The Festival is built on its core values of integrity, quality, heritage, fairness, and ethical and environmental responsibility. The range of opportunities to partner with this brand are extensive and range from ancillary sponsorships to trading partnerships.

Benefits to our supporters

• An association with one of the world’s most respected and recognised music festivals
• 13 million people nationwide reached via media partnerships
• Over 5 hours of national broadcast coverage
• An opportunity to engage directly with 14,000 loyal attendees
• An all year website presence with over 5 million hits
• Major media acclaim often including The Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph & specialist music press

Title sponsor
After three successful years with The Co-operative as title sponsor, Cambridge Folk Festival is looking for a new partner for the event from 2012. The Festival is a winner of the A Greener Festival award and prides itself on its ethical and environmental values that are treasured by its loyal audience.

“The Co-operative Cambridge Folk Festival has been a great partnership for us, and an ideal platform to communicate our ethical and green credentials.
Having worked with Cambridge Folk Festival for the past three years, we’re really pleased with how our brand has steadily increased its association with the Festival.
We would like to thank the team at Cambridge City Council for helping to make the partnership a success.”

Liz Matkin, Head of Sponsorship at The Co-operative

The Co-operative & Cambridge City Council are winners of The District Arts & Business Cultural Branding Award 2010 & the Arts & Business Sustained Partnership Award 2010.

If you would like to discuss a partnership with Cambridge Folk Festival and find out more about other sponsorship and advertising opportunities, please contact Elaine Midgley, Arts & Events Manager at Cambridge City Council on 01223 457592 or elaine.midgley@cambridge.gov.uk