We’re now looking for key sponsors to come onboard. We're keen to keep a big part of the festival free to ensure everyone's invited!

We're already planning for

2-3 day-long stages
3+ evening venues
An outreach programme for the youth in our neighbourhood
Good food and drink
Local creative collaborations

We look to programme multiple bands simultaneously,
and will pay aim all musicians at par with the good jazz venues in London. If we can't raise all the money through sponsorship, we plan to make up the difference by selling subsidised tickets.

The largest chunk of our budget is musician fee and stage setup. We don’t want to skimp on that. Our costs include stage setup and takedown, robust sound equipment and engineers, instrument hire and transportation, permissions and licenses, insurance, basic festival amenities, artist and agent fees, stage management, content creation, marketing and outreach. If we raise more than our estimated budget, we will consider additional options such as expanding the scope of the community workshops, programming smaller events leading up to the festival to build momentum, providing a nominal payment to festival volunteers, and allocating any remaining funds for planning the second edition in 2026.

Drop us an email at
hello@debeauvoirjazzfestival.co.uk
and we'll be in touch!