You can help the Festival by becoming a Friend. Friends of the Festival make a donation of £10 or more (£15 or more for a couple). This can be done when booking your tickets or at any time by post. Click here to be added to our mailing list.

We encourage Friends who are UK tax payers to use Gift Aid so that we are able to recover the tax from H M Revenue and Customs. If you would like to send a donation separately from your ticket application click here to download a Gift Aid form. [Click here to email the Treasurer or here for a phone number.]

Friends are automatically added to our mailing list and entitled to priority booking when the application forms are sent out. Priority booking is a great benefit as the best seats in our venues are snapped up early and Friends stand a better chance of getting them. Ticket applications received from Friends and Hosts during the priority period are dealt with in the order they are received and before other applications. After the priority period postal applications from Friends are dealt with before ordinary applications received at the same time.