Support us – and thank you!
“What a superb festival! Chamber music as chamber music should be! Recession or not, we are delighted to support such a venture and to encourage it to grow” Frank and Freida Stack (founder Patrons and continuing Associates)
St Lawrence concert, April 2010. Photo: Bruce Edwards
We’re delighted that since its inception in 2008, the Festival has established itself so firmly and successfully on the local cultural map. However, we all need Friends and the Festival is no exception, particularly in these challenging financial times! This special event happens with the loyal support of a growing number of individuals who want to play their part in ensuring that the Festival continues to thrive.
Please join this valuable band of people and become a Festival Patron, Associate or Friend. You will receive exclusive benefits and the satisfaction of playing a crucial role in helping the Festival go from strength to strength.
Join our supporters
NEW FOR 2011: We are thrilled that two of our valued patrons, Caroline and Richard York, have taken over the co-ordination of the Friends scheme on a voluntary basis. Download our form if you’d like to join them in supporting the 2012 festival! Friends 2012 form, PDF format
Buy our greetings card and support the Festival!
This lovely image (pictured above) of our late night concert at St Lawrence Church in 2010 features on our greetings card, which is blank inside for your own personal message. Photo and card production courtesy of Festival volunteer, Bruce Edwards. For info on how to purchase, click here (Order form in PDF format)
Corporate and in kind sponsorship
The festival also seeks to make links with local businesses. If you or your firm would like to know more, please contact us: click here
Other support – especially print distribution!
There are many other ways you can support the Festival – for example, we are looking for volunteers to help us with print distribution, especially in the outlying villages and towns. Several people responded to our 2011 call, but we could always do with even more help for 2012. If you think you could assist, please contact us: click here
Thank you…
For 2011: Warm thanks to our principal partner, the Discovery Centre. A huge thank you also to our volunteers – Audrey Atter, Gill Collymore, Bruce Edwards, Iris Gould, John and Susan Gould, Christine Hardwick, Clare Harvey, Kate Morgan, Jane Poulter and Louise Woods, without whom the Festival could not happen.
Fundraising is crucial to maintain this special event year on year and we are immensely grateful to our Founder Patrons, Audrey Atter, Lewis and Angela Atter, Michael Bell, Jane Poulter and Freida and Frank Stack, who were instrumental in inaugurating the Festival. Thanks also to our 2011 patrons, Jane Poulter and Caroline and Richard York (and a special thanks also to the Yorks for voluntarily co-ordinating our Friends scheme). A warm thank you too, to the individual donors who prefer to remain anonymous.
We greatly appreciate the continuing support of the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
We are indebted to Michael Gwinnell, Trustee of The Leopold Trust under whose auspices we are able to make your donation go further through GiftAid. To support us for 2012, please download our form:Friends 2012 form (PDF format)
We appreciate the support of the CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, Hampshire County Youth Orchestra and Hampshire Music Service; all three organisations in their different ways are helping us to help young people discover the beauty of chamber music. We greatly appreciate The Pilgrims’ School offering us rehearsal space. A big thank you to Chris Bruty, of Habanero Design, who created our print and Sarah Bucknall, who helped shape this website. Thanks also to Carol Orchard, Brian Oswald, Richenda Power and Peggy Souter for help with print distribution.
We are grateful to both St Lawrence and St Paul’s churches for providing such wonderful settings for some of our events, and to Milner Hall for hosting our autumn fundraising concert in 2010.