sponsor gallery
We are indebted to our sponsors, the festival could not take place without their support. Please visit them and tell them we sent you. In most cases logos can be clicked to take you direct to the sponsor's website.
our sponsors
Souvenir Programme sponsored by
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Charles Wells Pub Company,
The Morewood Centre,
Eastcotts Park,
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9 De Montfort Mews,
Leicester.
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11 Goldington Road, Bedford MK40 3JY. Tel: 01234 348882 Email: office@eagletravel.co.uk
The Rezidor Hotel Group - The Radisson, St. Helier & Park Inn, Bedford |
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www.eaglebookshop.co.uk Peter Budek ~ Proprietor
www.bedfordswanhotel.co.uk T: 01234 346565 |
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Embankment Hotel (newly refurbished) |
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Le Boulevard, St Aubin, Jersey. Tel: 01534 743044 |
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St Paul's Square,
Bedford.
MK40 1SL
Administration: 01234 344813. Fax: 01234 325358. Email: cornexchange@bedford.gov.uk |
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St George's Day Charity- sponsor of the Festival Prom on 24 May
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Festival Supporters
Bedford and Milton Keynes Waterways Trust
The White Horse - Bedford
An anonymous donor has paid the Festival Events Insurance which is gratefully acknowledged
Website statistics
February - Page Views = 1952
February - Unique Visitors = 740
March - Page Views = 3451
March - Unique Visitors = 1170
These stats will hit the roof by the time the festival starts, and fly into the stratosphere whilst the festival is running! The website is fully indexed with all the world's major search engines, including Google, Yahoo, MSN, All the Web, and DMOZ.
For those who like statistics, countries of origin are always interesting
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<webmaster says> Why is someone in Brazil, China, Norway, Germany and someone in Australia viewing the site ??? >:^)
SPONSORS
RECESSION? THE BLUES?
We’ve managed to keep most tickets to a Festival Fiver!
YOU CAN HELP bring 9 weeks of summer Festival fun to Bedfordshire!
TO SPONSOR WEBSITE PAGES for a year costs just
£75 (sub pages) - £125 (main pages) - £250 home page
WEBSITE SMALL AD SPACE - £50 for a year—
Please contact the Festival Organiser to check availability
EVENTS MAY BE SPONSORED by
corporate organisations and business houses
individuals, perhaps in memory of a loved one,
perhaps in celebration of a birthday, anniversary or
just to support of an international community arts festival
during an international recession.
Expenditure for each event ranges from £30 to £2000
Sponsorship could be shared between friends/businesses/organisations
The Festival offers sponsors 10% of ticket sales income to be presented to a chosen charity
All will be acknowledged on the website and in any events programmes published if wished
Contact Sandra Dudley, Festival Organiser - sandra@bedfordjerseyartsfestival.co.uk
to discuss the many events offered in a programme which, with so much international support,
has gone beyond ‘beyond her wildest dreams’!
Our Festival Website Celebrities want to hear from you!
Get your favourite local pub or restaurant to send a recipe to Andrew,
or send it yourself on their behalf!
The world needs to know where you eat!
CALLING ALL PUBS – CHEFS – COOKS – CAFES - RESTAURANTS . . .
An international gastronomic page
with Festival Master Chef - Andrew Taylor, Canada
Support the Festival ~ local tourism
We want you on our ‘foodie’ page!
Please email a recipe, logo, website address, to Andrew at the address below.
All will appear for just £26 (50p per week) for a whole year!
Invoices to follow!
webmaster@bedfordjerseyartsfestival.co.uk
Please send postal address for invoicing by the Festival Organiser
Do you know a local writer?
Someone with books on sale whether informally or published?
Get them to support the Festival and local writers!
Tell them about the Festival Laureate’s Festival and art’icle magazine website pages!
FESTIVAL LAUREATE
DAVID R MORGAN
has a Festival page too!
Support local literature! Email your latest front covers—ISBN—price—where available – logo - website to Andrew at the address below. Price £26 for one year, invoices to follow. Send review copies to:
Sandra Dudley
Badger’s Retreat
17 Homebrook House
Cardington Road
Bedford. MK42 0RL
Reviews will appear on www.articlemagazinebedford.co.uk FREE!
The Festival Team are all volunteers doing what we love most - promoting the arts - whether in Bedfordshire or Jersey! With the recession reducing expectation for corporate sponsorship, below is an idea to appeal to 'locals' in Bedfordshire and Jersey and, we hope, to all size pockets.
Discover some of the voluntary contribution to the arts that exists within the Festival Team: BEDFORD JERSEY ARTS FESTIVAL is entirely voluntarily organised, many professional performers asking low or no fees to support such a special 9 week unique international community arts festival in Bedfordshire.
Perhaps you will be tempted to contribute as little as £25 to enable most tickets to be just £5 and help build an antidote to Bedfordshire recession-hit summertime! It has to be worthwhile - and a super contribution to community life.
Profiles . . .
The quarterly art'icle magazine Bedford UK has, for 5 years, promoted the arts with up to 60 pages of voluntary local writers' profiles, features and reviews printed free by sponsor Autoglass, distributed free by Bedfordshire Libraries and Bedford Arts Forum. All design, production and income is undertaken by the volunteer editor, Sandra Dudley, a new editor beginning shortly. Sandra has become a voluntary publicist/publisher in Bedford over 7 years working with MUSIC AT ST ANDREW'S, ST ANDREW'S NEARLY NEW FASHION SHOW & EXHIBITION and BEDFORD MESSIAH CHOIR and from the magazine work came the creation and organisation of BEDFRINGE 2007 and a Team who are taking this into future years. Similarly the BEDFORD JERSEY ARTS FESTIVAL evolved from voluntary magazine arts contacts with The Harbour Gallery, Jersey.
www.articlemagazinebedford.co.uk, designed by local arts volunteer, Manoj Gupta, also Chair of Fusion Choir in Bedford with his wife and a team who bring best musical experience to children of Queen's Park, Bedford and beyond. By day, Manoj is an IT Consultant and MD of his company PC Kwikfix in Bedford. It is the intention of Sandra Dudley to develop the website from late 2009 into a county arts website to complement the many local arts organisations' websites - voluntary art'icle reviewers of the past please note!
www.bedfordartsforum.org.uk is a voluntary arts umbrella organisation, originally a Bedford Borough Council initiative to give local arts practitioners a hub. Visual artists have enjoyed enormous benefits of an annual 8 month art exhibition at Bromham Mill and many very enjoyable events under Norma Wall's direction. Energetic fundraising has replaced earlier grants and has completed the funding required to publish art'icle magazine and two websites. The generous sponsorship of Autoglass, PC Kwikfix and Art Centre & Gallery, Bedford is gratefully appreciated.
www.mnlg.com Retired art teacher, Pat Robson and her team also contribute much voluntary promotion of Jersey arts as Director of The Harbour Gallery and Creative Design Studios. To be found at the quaint but lively harbour of St Aubin, situated in the South West corner of the Bay of St Helier, in days gone by it was the main harbour to Jersey housing merchants and privateers. The largest exhibiting gallery in the Channel Island, exhibiting the work of over 100 artists and craftworkers, events include 12 major annual exhibitions, children's and adult's workshops, special events, talks and demonstrations - and is an examination centre for A level Art Textiles. The Creative Design studios consist of The Jersey Soap Shop, Beads &Crafts, Jersey Silver, Pari Designs, Phoenix Art and Design, Harbour Framing, Harbour Music, Knit Wits and Sew & Sew and Husqvarna Viking. There are also 4 artist studios which can be hired on short or long stays.
If you are feeling hungry visit the THE GALLERY café - you will not be disappointed! (Totally confirmed by Sandra Dudley!)
Bedford Jersey Arts festival
1 May – 5 July 2009 in Bedfordshire UK
Celebrating 70 years of friendship 1939—2009
“Victoria College, Jersey children evacuated to Bedford School during the Nazi Occupation of Jersey in WWII”
This website is an ongoing project started in late January 2009.