University of Exeter matchfunded £3,696
By
Tristan Gatward
Exeter
Hi there, thanks for reading! If you haven't come across Poltimore Festival before, we're a project run by a group of around 40 student volunteers that looks to celebrate the music, theatre and arts communities in Exeter, while raising money for the restoration of Poltimore House. Having rebranded last year and seen our biggest audience yet, we're now needing to raise £2500 to ensure the running of this year's festival, and to guarantee it can become a sustainable community project in the future.
My name's Tristan - I've been the lead on Poltimore Festival for the last 2 years. I was initially invited along to perform a poetry reading when the Festival was known as Arts on the Move. Myself and a few other performers on the day fell in love with the House, and when we heard that the project wasn't going to continue, wanted to do all we could to sustain its momentum, and to get as many students and members of the community engaged with work that's being done to restore one of the county's most historic and beautiful sites.
The festival is completely unique in Exeter - its focus is on all artistic scenes within the South West, offering a shared platform for student and local communities to come together. At the same time, the festival places a prerogative on local and independent food, drink and entertainments, creating a greater visibility for everything the South West can offer in every department. The merchandise is sourced and created by a independent Exeter start-up company, and even the ticketing platform we use was created by a recent graduate at the University of Exeter. The entire project is a celebration of the wonderful creative and entrepreneurial work that comes out of the county.
If you are kind enough to be a donor on this project, you will be having a huge impact to an organisation that refuses to cut corners and costs, and values the vibrancy of the local community and everything that it has to offer. Being entirely student-led, without the backing of any large charities or organisations, these donations will sit also to assure that any commercial liability doesn't sit with the creators of the project, or with people giving their time to help the project succeed. You will be directly impacting the local creative scene in Exeter and the South West, and we're very thankful for it.
The costs associated with such an ambitious project aren't light. If we reach our target, with every penny donated matched by the University of Exeter's Annual Fund, the funds will go a long way to support our ambitions in their entirety. This includes staging and technical support, subsidising travel costs for our audience to attend the festival and general site logistics such as fencing, waste disposal and portaloo hire. A brief outline of our outgoing costs are as follows:
Before the Festival we've sold over 300 advance tickets, pitches to local producers and suppliers securing around £4,000. We expect to sell around 150 more tickets, a total of around £2,000.
Raising our target of £3,000 in donations will ensure the festival can continue each year and continue supporting Politmore House.
Find us on Facebook /PoltimoreFestival, Twitter @PoltimoreFest and Instagram @PoltimoreFestival. We're also online at www.poltimorefestival.co.uk .
With love and thanks,
The Poltimore Festival Team
Select this reward if you just want to donate to the project without receiving a reward.
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Badge of honour ★ Thank you for your donation! As a thank you, we will send you a limited edition Poltimore Festival mini-badge that you can wear around with pride for all the world to see.
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Poster Paint ★ Thank you for your fantastic donation! We'll send you a copy of our "Friends of Poltimore Festival" poster showing the great event and feelings of the 2017 festival.
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The Executive Ticket ★ Thank you for your generosity! This donation gives you full access to the Poltimore Festival site on Sunday 28th May for the Festival, as well as being listed as one of our executive producers and friends on www.poltimorefestival.co.uk. Your name will be included in a one-off poster produced after the event by our in-house artist Samuel Cooke, thanking you for contributing to making the event possible.
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Been there, done that, got the t-shirt ★ We are taken aback by your kindness! This donation will go a long way in helping us achieve what we're setting out to do at Poltimore Festival. As a reward, we'd like to offer you a ticket for entry to Poltimore Festival on Sunday 28th May, listing as an executive producer of the event, inclusion on our "Friends of Poltimore Festival" poster, a Poltimore Festival badge and an exclusive Poltimore Festival 2017 t-shirt.
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