Our future is in your hands
Harrogate International Festivals has long been an ambitious organisation with entrepreneurial ideas for our future and a rugged determination to see them through. However, the funding landscape for the arts in the North of England continues to shrink. Whilst our approach of anticipating financial challenges has proved successful, we have no regular annual funding to plan beyond six months ahead and this has an impact on both the scale and reach of our delivery.
In short our ambition is hindered by our resource.
The Festival cannot stand still. We are determined to invest in our strengths of raising aspirations, creating opportunity and nurturing excellence.
Future Access
Creating access to the arts for the widest range of audiences and participants through:
Programmes for those with least access
Keeping prices affordable or free for young people
Building new audiences through new programmes
Increasing audiences through live and digital experiences
Future Work
We will be a Festival that leads, not follows creating exciting new work that:
Takes bold artistic risks
Creates new work and commissions
Allows Guest Curators to fulfil their artistic vision
Develops a body of work to engage the community
Creates new programmes, with an artistic legacy, making a valuable contribution to Harrogate and beyond
Future Bright
We will help transform the lives of disadvantaged children and young people by supporting them to achieve their full potential through engagement in the arts by:
Transforming the opportunities for participation in literature, music and science
Supporting the rising stars of the future
Taking creative risks to develop our future
Creating opportunities to develop talent regardless of background or genre
Future Festival
Philanthropic investment is now critical to the Festival being a sustainable organisation, with the ability to make full use of our artistic and cultural inheritance and create life changing opportunities in the arts.