Leeds Lit Fest really needs your help. We want to give the Festival a sustainable future and ensure its permanence in Leeds’ cultural calendar.

Leeds Lit Fest is a volunteer-run festival that puts the grassroots writing communities of the city at the heart of its programming. In its seventh year, most of its annual programmes have been staged without significant local or national funding. We rely on grants, ticket income, sponsorship, Pay What You Feel and donations to make the Festival possible.

We are grateful to Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society for their grant award this year.

Please help us if you can – even just a few pounds will really help!

To deliver the Festival our sponsorship target for core costs is £8,000. We receive a wealth of in-kind support from a wide range of volunteers, venues and supporters. This helps to keep our costs to a minimum and ticket prices affordable or free making our Festival enjoyable for as wide an audience as possible.

We are grateful to the Grammar School at Leeds for their partnership sponsorship this year.

If you are interested in sponsoring the Festival, please email Bronagh Daly at bronagh.daly@leedschurchinstitute.org