How you can support Winchester Books Festival

Support & Sponsors

We are so thrilled to be growing the Winchester Book Festival and have excited new audiences wanting tickets and events, here in Jane Austen’s city.

There are different ways you can support us and get involved in this fast growing cultural community.

We look forward to meeting you soon.

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Why our Sponsors work with us

  • Targeted Brand Alignment: Align the brand with a highly engaged, curious, and culturally conscious audiences and segments.
  • Enhanced Brand Prestige: Benefit from association with a leading and highly respected UK literary festival.
  • Values-Matched Visibility: Events are specifically selected to connect with the sponsor’s brand values, ensuring relevant and impactful visibility.
  • Growing Digital Reach: An opportunity to promote the brand digitally to a growing and broad online audience.
  • Premium Hospitality: Receive complimentary tickets to supported events for sponsors and their guests, ideal for client entertainment or staff rewards.
  • Exclusive VIP Access: Enjoy exclusive meet-and-greet opportunities with authors, together with book signings, offering memorable VIP experiences.
  • Community & Cultural Investment: Demonstrate support for the growing cultural scene in and around Winchester, boosting local community relations and corporate social responsibility (CSR) profile.

Our Sponsors

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Anne Brock | Director | Bacardi

“Winchester is the closest city to Bombay Sapphire Distillery, so it is our home city and at the Distillery we love to support the local community and what better way to do that than through the Winchester Books Festival.”

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Robert Tottle | Savills

“We are very pleased to be supporting the brilliant Winchester Books Festival, which is an important event for the local community and enjoyed by many.  We are very much looking forward to continuing to be involved.”

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Jack Gardener | Partner | Phillips Law

“Books have a unique way of bringing people together, sparking conversation, and inspiring creativity.

Phillips Law is delighted to sponsor the Winchester Books Festival and support a cultural event within Hampshire that champions the joy and importance of storytelling.”

Will Kendall | Winchester Office Head | Rathbones

“After the success of last year’s events with Jeremy Bowen and Mary Berry, Rathbones is proud to continue supporting the Winchester Books Festival in 2026. It’s a pleasure to support another year of ideas, creativity, and community once again.”

Hugh Petter | Director | ADAM Architecture

“Reading is one of life’s great pleasures. Literature can inspire, enrich, and connect communities. We are immensely proud to be able to support Sophie and Sian for creating this spectacular and significant cultural event for the community in and around our great city.”

Jonathan Poulter | Partner | Rothmans

“Rothmans is proud to sponsor the Winchester Books Festival for the fourth year. Working with Sian and Sophie and helping them to create a new exciting organisation, especially in Winchester, is important to all of us at Rothmans. We look forward to supporting another successful year.”

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Paul Spencer | Director | Winchester BID

“Winchester BID is delighted to be supporting Winchester Books Festival. This event appeals to people of all ages and brings people into the city to celebrate the joy of books.”

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Lindsay Johnn | Director | Strutt & Parker

“I am genuinely delighted to be supporting the Winchester Books Festival again this year and to be part of something that brings so much life and enjoyment to the city. Having attended several events last year, I saw first-hand the joy the festival created and loved being part of it. I am particularly excited about this year’s programme, so thoughtfully curated by Sian and Sophie, and I am already looking forward to reading as many of the festival authors’ books as I can before April.”

Our Supporters

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Kate Booth | Director | The New Forest Fruit Co. Ltd.

Farming whilst respecting and protecting nature.

From the way we grow, pick and pack our produce, to the innovations we embrace and the people we work with, everything we do at New Forest Fruit is centred around passion, sustainability and innovation.

Would you like to become a sponsor?

Our Fabulous Sponsors

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