Be the Exclusive Sponsor of the Festival

You are named throughout the year in all our media activity which includes national press and magazines; radio and television and social media; you receive 10 complimentary tickets to any of the shows in either the Royal Hall, including a champagne reception, canapés and wine at the end of the show and an opportunity for you and your guests to have a VIP table in our nightly Festival Club which includes bar, food, good company and some excellent cabarets. You also receive acknowledgement of your support from the stage prior to each performance; ten pull up promotional banners strategically positioned around the Royal Hall and Harrogate Theatre for the duration of the Festival; full page advertisement in the Festival souvenir programme.

Support the Students – The UNIFest Competition

For this you are named throughout the year in all our UNIFest media activity and promotion to University G&S Performing groups around the world; you receive ten complimentary tickets to each of the University productions in the Harrogate Theatre including champagne reception, canapés and wine at the end of the show; acknowledgement of your support from the stage prior to each performance; four pull up promotional banners strategically positioned around the  Harrogate Theatre for the duration of the Festival; full page advertisement in a special UNIFest souvenir programme.

Support the Professionals

Sponsor our National Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company for its entire summer season. This covers more than 50 individual performances of either Pirates of Penzance, Trial by Jury & The Sorcerer, Iolanthe, Haddon Hall or Ruddigore presented by Britain’s leading professional G&S specialists.

You are named throughout the year in all our media activities as the exclusive sponsor for the performances already confirmed in major theatres in Buxton, Harrogate, New Brighton, Whitley Bay, Dartford, Wycombe, Norwich, Malvern and Darlington. You will have your own pull-up banners displayed in each of the theatres. A full page colour advertisement in each of the four opera company souvenir programmes and in the Festival souvenir programme.

In Harrogate you will be offered eight pairs of tickets to each of the five new Opera Company productions; a champagne reception; a buffet supper after the performance and an opportunity to meet some of the stars from the cast. Your support will be acknowledged from the stage in advance of each of the Harrogate Opera Company performances.

Alternatively you may wish to sponsor just one performance of our professional National Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company. The cost for this would be £5000 and include acknowledgement from the stage; ten pull-up banners strategically positioned around the Royal Hall; a welcome champagne reception for your guests before the show and a buffet supper after the performance with an opportunity to meet members of the cast. Your guests would be our guests in the Utopia pavilion for the late-night Festival Club.

It is a great evening out for important clients or staff – and never fails to impress.

Support the International Competition

The Festival is recognised around the world for its International Competition. It attracts between seven and twelve of the world’s leading performing groups who sometimes travel thousands of miles for a single performance. We would love to have a sponsor of this key element of the Festival. This includes six pairs of tickets to each of the competition performances. You are promoted through pull-up banners prominently positioned around the Royal Hall and Utopia Pavilion; your support is acknowledged from the stage in advance of each of the competitive performances; you get a full page, full colour advertisement in the souvenir programme; a champagne reception for your guests and complimentary tickets to the Festival Club which follows each of the performances.

Support the Over 60’s

Bus Pass Opera. Although Gilbert and Sullivan is increasing its appeal to younger audiences and performers there is no doubt that its major support comes from audiences who are 50+ and who were brought up very much on the original D’Oyly Carte Opera Company. Three years ago Bus Pass Opera was launched exclusively for performers who were 60+. It has proved enormously popular with audiences, and performers travel from as far afield as Australia and North America for an opportunity to rub shoulders with a highly experienced cast which comes together for a week’s rehearsal led by a professional director and conductor. Sponsorship for Bus Pass Opera is only £5000 for one year – or £10,000 for three years. It  includes six pairs of grand circle tickets; champagne reception; buffet supper and an opportunity to meet members of the cast; acknowledgement from the stage and 10 pull-up banners strategically positioned around the Royal Hall and Utopia Pavilion.

Support the Youngters

Another major Festival highlight is our annual youth production. This is for young people aged between 9 and 19 who come together for a week’s rehearsal led by a professional director and conductor. Sponsorship is only £4000 for one year – or £8,000 for three years. It  includes 12 tickets for the performance in the Harrogate Theatre; pre show champagne reception; acknowledgement from the stage and pull up banners strategically positioned around the Harrogate Theatre and Utopia Pavilion.

Mobile Ticket Office

To be successful we have to promote our Festival around the whole of North Yorkshire and beyond. It would be fantastic if we could have our own mobile ticket office which could travel round many of the market towns on market day handing out Festival literature and actually booking tickets online. This requires a mobile “ice-cream” type van specially equipped for the purpose. We estimate that the cost of purchasing a suitable second-hand vehicle; equipping it and decorating it with your logo as its sponsor and appropriate Gilbert and Sullivan images would be around £15,000.