The Festival is owned by the Chalke Valley History Trust which we have set up to promote the understanding, importance and enjoyment of history to the widest possible audience of all ages. The main Trust activity thus far is furthering the history education of children by running a concurrent Festival for Schools for which we have a bursary scheme to enable pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds to attend. Started in 2013, this was extended in 2014 to include primary schools.
Key stats from 2019
44,480
Tickets sold
99,835
Unique web visitors from January to July 2019
2382
pupils attended Schools Festival
200+
Talks and interactive events
237
Volunteers
Sponsorship opportunities
We have a broad array of sponsorship opportunities, ranging from £750 to £25,000 – from individual event sponsorship to naming the venues.
Benefits to sponsors include complimentary tickets with reserved seating for your clients and/or staff; the opportunity to distribute promotional material; and the placement of your logo on our website, in our programme and at the event itself. From January to July 2017, our website attracted 470,751 page views, while the programme is sent out to our database of over 13,000 with a further 17,000 copies available in Waterstones stores across the southwest.
”I wanted to let you know how much our clients enjoyed the two talks which we sponsored last week – both could not have gone better.” ~ JM
