Loughton Festival Sponsorship Pack

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The Loughton Festival - An Annual festival of walks, talks, music and literary events.

The Festival began in 2007 and runs for six weeks in the Loughton area.

Organised entirely by volunteers, the Loughton Festival celebrates the history and talent of local people, both in the past and in the present.

Each year the festival volunteers raise money for a local charity. In 2012 we will be raising money for Haven House Children's Hospice in Woodford Green.

Estimated attendance, including those attending our partnership events, runs into the thousands.

15,000 programmes distributed, courtesy of Haslers Chartered Accountants & Business Advisors.

In the first eleven months of 2011, our website registered 13,657 hits!

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Event Sponsorship includes:

• Company name incorporated into the event title, as long as agreed prior to the date that the programme is sent to the printers (January 2012)
• Company logo alongside the event on our website (must be submitted as a jpg)
• Company name listed as a sponsor on our website
• Company name listed on any posters created for the event
• 4 Complimentary Tickets
• Company acknowledged in all pre and post-event press releases (we cannot guarantee these will be published by the local press)
• Note of thanks by Festival Director or Event Chair at the start of the event

Events Available for Sponsorship: £200 - £900 per event

March Quiz Night (date / venue not yet agreed)

Saturday 17th March: Meet the Author: Penguin Author, Prof. David Stevenson, speaking about his new book: Our Backs to the Wall – how World War One ended. Out now in hardback, and will be published in paperback in May.

Sunday 25th March at 2.00pm. Chapel End Savoy Players Afternoon Concert. The Church of the Holy Innocents, High Beach.

Tuesday 27th March to Tuesday 1st May 10.30am – 12.30pm Six Week Class: Mediaeval Houses of Essex. Tutor: Anne Padfield, an expert in traditional buildings.

Saturday 31st March: Meet the Author: Paul C Doherty. St Edmunds Church Hall, Traps Hill (next to Loughton Library). Website: www.paulcdoherty.com

Saturday 7th April 10.30am Easter Saturday Walk in Epping Forest and beyond. An extremely popular all day walk, led every year by the West Essex Ramblers.

Saturday 14th April at 7pm: West Essex Musicians. Four Seasons in music and storytelling. Featuring Xanthe Gresham at Loughton Baptist Church, 92 Loughton High Road, Loughton, Essex IG10 4QU.

Saturday 21st April Loughton's Creative Writers, an afternoon event. (venue not yet confirmed)

Saturday 21st April 7pm: Gardening Question Time

March / April: Front garden competition

We are also looking for dance, fitness and gardening-related businesses to put up a display at two events: Dance / Fitness 14th April & Gardening-Related 21st April for £10 to Haven House Children’s Hospice.

Event Insurance, an ‘invisible’ cost that must be included in each event’s budget.

If we can attract sufficient sponsorship, we would also like to:

• Put on a play based on the work of local author Arthur Morrison. We run the Morrison Society. An estimated cost of producing the play would be c£800
• Variety Show costing an estimated £800 if we use semi-professional / amateur players. To include venue, performers and the hire of sound and lighting
• Hire an exhibition space for an art exhibition / display. This has not yet been costed, but we have local artists already interested in exhibiting their art work

More Information
Sue Taylor - Festival Director
Tel: 0208 508 2512
Email: info@loughtonfestival.org.uk
Website: www.loughtonfestival.org.uk

EssexTouristGuide.com 5th December 2011

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