Medway Pride 2025 Sponsorship

You can make donations to our Medway Pride Fund to help us deliver our events and services for the LGBTQIA+ Community

Medway Pride 25 Funding

Medway Pride 25 is a Free to Access Community Event. Although the event is free for the public to enter the cost of producing the event is covered by Medway Pride CIC a not for profit company owned and managed by volunteers. 

We need to raise approximately £85,000.00 per annum to cover the cost of our annual events and the services we provide to support the LGBTQIA+ community members of Medway and the surounding area. These funds come in the form of grants from public and private bodies, business and private sponsors of our events and donations from members of the public.

Medway Pride CIC would like to thank all our Sponsors, Grant Providers and those who have donated to the Medway Pride Fund

Medway Pride 24 was supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

Other Funding sponsors included Medway Council, Universities at Medway (University of Greenwich, University of Kent, Canterbury Christ Church University), Rochester Riverside Community Fund.

Other sponsors include, State 4 Restaurants McDonalds, Kent Cider Company, Kreston Reeves, MHS Homes, Moat Housing, Poco Loco, Veolia, Coop, Tesco, Henry Schein 100, Giant Stride Graphics, R. Flood Chair of City of Rochester Society, Ship Inn Rochester, WCB Utilities Ltd, Kent Police PCC, Medway Labour & Co-operative, Orbit Group, Making a Differance Locally Ltd., Hempstead Village Fayre, plus individual donations.

PLEASE MAKE A DONATION TO THE MEDWAY PRIDE FUND 

Your donation will help us to keep producing our pride events and deliver our services.

Medway Pride 25 is an LGBTQIA+ community festival with entertainment, music, local, national, internationally recognised acts.

Oportunities to join Medway Pride as Partners, Sponsors, Supporters.

Here at Medway Pride CIC we are planning Medway Pride 2025 festival which is proposed to take place during the week 11th to16th August. We will be updating the page below to reflect the new plans over the comming months.

Below is information about Medway Pride 2025

Medway Pride 2025 & Medway Pride Fringe are LGBTQIA+ community cohesion events which aim to bring all Medway communities, together to support equality and Inclusion of all people and celebrate
their diversity with the LGBTQIA+ communities of Medway and the surrounding area. It will
build on the success of Medway Pride 2021, 2022, 2023 & 2024

Medway Pride Fringe events take place in the INTRA area of Chatham & Rochester with opportunities for other venues across Medway to host their own Fringe Pride events during the week 11th August to 16th August.

Medway Pride 2025 plans will include a festival parade along Rochester High Street to Rochester
Castle, with participants from all communities, sponsors, members, or allies of the
LGBTQIA+ communities of Medway and beyond. The parade will end with a community
festival at Rochester Castle with stage-based entertainment, community stalls, and local
supportive businesses providing food, drink and memorabilia.

Medway Pride CIC would like to invite you / your organisation to become a Partner /
Sponsor of Medway Pride 2025.

Please see the information about the fundraising sponsorship opportunities for 2025 details below.
If you would like to sponsor Medway Pride or run an event to raise funds please contact :
Hilary Cooke – sponsor @ medwaypride.uk (sp*****@me*********.uk)

You can make a donation via the link on this page.

All Pride events throughout the UK are 100% self-funded, meaning that we raise all the
money for them ourselves with support from sponsors, grant providers, and community donations. Medway Pride is looking to partner with businesses andnorganisations to create lasting relationships between them and the LGBTQIA+ community. Pplease take a look at our sponsor packages below on this page.

One of the Aims of Medway Pride 24 was to raise awareness of the LGBTQIA+ Community and the challenges we face, through our history, creativity and cultural impact.

We achieve this goal through increasing our communication reach with the public by 66% on 2023 and 419% on 2022, promoting not only Medway Pride, but also our sponsor and grant partners along with the Medway Towns as a place of diverse communities and cultural activities through utilising Print, TV, Radio Broadcast, and social media.

We produced 6000 Tickets for Medway Pride 2024 which were free of charge and the attendance for the Pride Parade was estimated at 2000, with additional events held as part of the Medway Pride Fringe over the week running up to the big weekend events bringing more opportunities to engage with community members.

What we can do for you.

We offer packages and options for Sponsorship of Medway Pride 2025.
This will…
• Give your organisation Brand Visibility
• Give unique media opportunities and can assist in the promotion and growth of businesses
• Increased credibility in respect of your inclusiveness of diversity
• Promote your business to the LGBTQIA+ community in the Medway area and beyond
• Promote community cohesion
• Free Diversity Awareness Training available
• Medway pride Radio shout outs
• Logos on the events main stage video screens during the festival
• Logos on the Official Medway Pride CIC website and social media pages
• Use of Medway pride official logo for your business
• Live main stage call outs on the day of the event

Medway Pride offers an opportunity for you and your organisation to be more creative and
interactive with their business promotion, whilst supporting the community as well as your
LGBTQIA+ staff and customers.

ANY donations or goods or services which would help us run Medway Pride 2025 would be
greatly appreciated…

Medway Pride 2024 production came to £78,996.00. Medway Pride CIC 2025 funding target is £85,000. This target includes partial funding for LGBTQIA+ support services for the community of Medway during 2025. Medway Pride CIC is managed by volunteers so all funds raised go towards delivering events or services for the community.

Medway Pride 2024 Grant Providers and sponsors

MEDWAY PRIDE 2025 FUNDING PACKAGES

SILVER SUPPORTER £1000.00+
Medway Pride Supporter Pack, Memorabilia, Your logo on website, LGBTQIA+ information & advice

GOLD SPONSOR £5000.00+
Medway Pride Sponsor Pack, Memorabilia, Your logo on sponsor advertising, on event video screen & our website with links to your choice of www location. Space for a stand at event in prime location, LGBTQIA+ information & advice plus awareness training available, Access to VIP Area Backstage, Invite to After Party.

PLATINUM PARTNER £10000.00+
Medway Pride Partner Pack, Memorabilia, Your logo on partner advertising, on event video screen & our website with links to you choice of www location. Space for a Stand at event in prime location LGBTQIA+ information & advice plus free awareness training package available, Access to VIP Area Backstage, Invite to After Party.

Medway Pride CIC is a not for profit community organisation which aims to promote
equality and diversity across all communities of Medway for the public benefit and in
particular the elimination of discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation and gender
identity especially for those living in Medway and the surrounding areas in particular but not
exclusively by:

• Raising awareness and educating the public about the issues and difficulties affectingthe lives of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer & Intersex (LGBTQIA+) people.

• Cultivating a sentiment in favour of equality and diversity in particular through celebratingthe diversity of the LGBTQI+ community.

• Staging an annual LGBTQI+ festival and smaller events, including regular social eventsfor the LGBTQI+ community in a safe environment throughout the year.

• Raising funding for voluntary organisations which support diversity and inclusion of LGBTQIA+ communities in Medway.

Medway Pride CIC promote community events that invite all Medway communities to
come together to support diversity and Inclusion for everyone, with the LGBTQIA+
communities of Medway. Medway Pride 2025 is a community project organised by
volunteers and LGBTQIA+ organisations working in Medway.

Kind regards

Hilary Cooke
Chair Medway Pride CIC

MGSD Centre, 331 High Street, Rochester, ME1 1DA

Company number 13428352