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Lead Sponsor
One of the UK’s last family-owned, full-service jewellers, Pragnell offer the widest and most beautiful selection of fine jewellery, watches and silver, both antique and modern, in the UK. As a sixth-generation, family-owned company, the Pragnell name symbolises its innate commitment to quality.
Event Partner
David Fickling Books is a leading independent publisher of books for young people including the very successful Phoenix Comics.
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Media Partner
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Sponsors and Partners in Kind
Festival Gold Benefactors
Sally Lovecy
Madeleine Parker
Robert Salt
Emma Smith
Festival Benefactors
Robert and Pippa Brook | Jann Tracy
Patricia Hawes | Louise Courtney
Robert Davies | Lynn Day
Alison Parsons | Kathy and Tim Hampden
James Crocker | David Squires
Allison Fletcher | Maria Manly
Kirsten Suenson-Taylor | Anne de Gay
Susan Reynolds | Nigel de Gay
Robert Bertram | Fiona Stark
Georgina Holding | Sue Lawton
Diana Owen | S Saunders
Suzanne James | Jeremy Rodway-Smith
Simon Mapp | Helen Winkler
Lorraine Scrivens | Tanis Austin
Janet Smith | Elizabeth Keighley
Jane Siddle | Joanna Painter
Tina Stokes | Sonya Millman
Purni Majha | Gillian Cawley | Janet Palmer
Charities We Like
Every year Storybook Dads helps over 5,000 prisoners to record bedtime stories for their children. By sending a story disc to their children, parents can bring comfort to their children and share the joy of storytelling from behind bars. Prisoners who write stories at our workshops often record them through the Storybook Dads system.
Schoolreaders’ goal is for all children, regardless of background, to leave primary school being able to read well so they can go on to access their secondary education fully and maximise their future life chances. Established in 2013, Schoolreaders matches volunteers to local primary schools – focusing on schools with the greatest need – where they give one-to-one reading sessions.