2024 Festival Sponsors & Supporters

Our Corporate Sponsors
The key purpose of sponsorship is to support us in our charitable objectives of promoting the arts by enabling us to bring high quality performers to Rye at modest ticket prices and invest in assisting the appreciation and education of the arts.

Ethel Loves Me; The George in Rye; Hayden’s; Heringtons Solicitors; Mermaid Inn; Phillips and Stubbs; Puckhaber Decorative Antiques; Rye Fine Wines; Rye News; Rye Art Gallery; Rye Conservation Society; RX Architects; Clive Sawyer Gallery; W Tollett Builders; Wilson, Wilson and Hancock.

Our Private Sponsors

We very much welcome the contribution of our private sponsors as a vital element of our funding, especially when supplemented by our ability to claim Gift Aid within the established rules. Our wide range of events also benefits the individual venues that we use through the fees that we pay them.

Adrian and Lisa Binks; Kenneth and Margaret Bird; Lady Clarke; Steve Edge and Jane Fogg; Mike and Madeleine Eve; Stuart and Linda Harland; Andrew Hitchings; Sarah Hodson; Sir Paul McCartney CH; Alexander Stiller; Nigel and Heather Wilkinson; And our anonymous sponsors.

Our thanks to Rye Town Council and Rother District Council for grants they have provided.

We very much welcome the contribution of our private sponsors as a vital element of our funding, especially when supplemented by our ability to claim Gift Aid within the established rules. Our wide range of events also benefits the individual venues that we use through the fees that we pay them. The benefits of sponsorship include complimentary premium seats for you and your guests at the event or events of your choice, listing against the relevant event and on the Sponsors’ page on our website and an opportunity to meet performers (subject to their agreement). The minimum amount to share in these benefits is £250 – there is no maximum.

Acknowledgements

Rye Arts Festival offers thanks for their help and support to:

Rye Arts Festival offers thanks for their help and support to:
the Rector and PCC of St. Mary’s Church, Rye Rector & PCC; St Thomas’ Church, Winchelsea; Rye Baptist Church; Tilling Green Community Centre; Rye Cricket Club; Adams of Rye; Care Signs Ltd; Chatswood Associates; City Music Foundation; Rye Community Transport; Grammar School Records; Andrew Harrison; Kino Digital, Rye; Rye Bookshop; Rye Community Centre; Rye & District Camera Club; Rye Harbour Nature Reserve; Rye Heritage Centre; Rye Museum Association; Rye Town Council; St Mary’s Centre, Rye; The Mermaid Inn; The George in Rye; Rye News; A Rye Good Time.