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:

• Crabbie’s: our Principal Sponsor and supporter of the Crabbie’s Bar
• Creative Scotland for their grant support of the Festival’s Scottish Showcase
• 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

We would also like to thank our media partners:

• Sky Arts who broadcast TV highlights of the Festival including live coverage for the first time in 2012
• BBC Radio 2 for their extensive radio coverage 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.

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

2013 Opportunities
The Festival has a range of opportunities for 2013 available including title sponsorship, ancillary and stage sponsorships, campsite sponsorship, product supply and pouring rights, advertising partnerships and more.

If your business would like to reach our audience or thinks your values align with ours we would love to hear from you.

For all sponsorship or advertising opportunities contact Elaine Midgley, Arts & Events Manager at Cambridge City Council on 01223 457592 or
elaine.midgley@cambridge.gov.uk

“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 (Title sponsor 2009-2011)

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