Become a Hay Festival Benefactor

Benefactors contribute hugely to the Festival's ongoing development aims.

As a Benefactor you will receive the following benefits annually, helping make your visit to Hay Festival extra special:

• Your name will be printed in the Festival programmes, in the supporter page of the website and on billboards on site
• Complimentary tickets to all our festivals around the world – in Wales, Spain, Colombia, Mexico and Peru – as well as other Festivals that may come on stream in the next five years
• Advice about travel and accommodation to and at international festivals, as well as providing a ‘Director’s cut’ of each programme – a bespoke list of 30 events selected by the Festivals’ Director, Peter Florence
• Reserved seating in the Festival venues
• Access to the Kitchen Table, a private area for Benefactors and Patrons to relax between events, with a concierge desk service and cloakroom facilities
• An invitation to coffee at the Director’s Table in the Green Room whenever space allows, and you may entertain your guests in the Artists’ Restaurant (food & beverages to be paid on account separately)
• Invitations to special receptions and parties at each Festival, including two tickets for the annual Festival Family Supper
• Complimentary daily pass to the official Hay Festival car park

The membership is for five years and two people. The cost of becoming a Benefactor is £10,000 for five years (or £2,500 per annum).

Download the application form

BECOME A HAY FESTIVAL BENEFACTOR

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Gift Aid Declaration

To support the Foundation, you may wish to Gift Aid any donation made today or in the future, and any donation you may have made in the past four years to the Hay Festival Foundation. A minimum payment of £1,000 per annum secures all benefits (whether you pay annually or as a one-off payment) and you may purchase these benefits separately without making any further donation. The balance of £1,500 is a suggested donation to the Hay Festival Foundation and gift aid can be claimed on this amount to support to the Foundation’s programmes.

Benefactors

Elizabeth Bingham, Kate Bingham and Jesse Norman, Philip and Janet Bunce, Lord and Lady Burns, Nick Butler and Rosaleen Hughes, Danny Rivlin and Jacqueline Harris, Katherine and Sophia Featherstone, Tom and Karen Kalaris, Peter Lacy and Lucy Rice, Pauline and David Maydon, Hannah Rothschild, Maurice Saatchi, Terry, Sian, Isabelle and Miles Sinclair, Guy and Lory Spier.

Table of benefits for Hay Festival memberships