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De Beauvoir Jazz Festival By De Beauvoir Jazz Festival

Jazz festival across multiple stages in venues across the neighbourhood. Deepening a sense of place and building a community around live music, with creative collaborations at the heart of it all.

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Every contribution will help us keep all or at least a big part of the festival free to attend. We’ll make up the remainder through institutional grants, sponsorship and/or highly subsidised tickets for the festival. On the 12th of July 2025, De Beauvoir Jazz Festival will bring grassroots, homegrown and international jazz to our vibrant neighbourhood in Hackney, London. Multiple venues will host simultaneous performances - day long stages in public spaces to evening gigs in bars, restaurants, local pubs and community venues. The festival celebrates local culture, food, drink whilst supporting independent businesses and community groups. A youth outreach programme is a salient part of the mix.
 Instagram : @debeauvoirjazzfestival Website: www.debeauvoirjazzfestival.co.uk
 The money raised from this campaign will be used for planning and producing the festival. We're a Community Interest Company (CIC), and our core team is working on this festival pro-bono.

What we'll deliver:

  • A stellar lineup featuring some of the most noted figures in jazz - homegrown and international
  • Day long gigs across multiple venues
  • A youth outreach programme focused on music and community

Why it's a great idea:

1. Catalyse community connections 2. Introduce new audiences to jazz and make it accessible 3. Economic stimulus for local businesses 4. Emerge as a platform for creative collaborations 5. Enhance De Beauvoir Town's cultural profile + harness the potential of our local neighbourhood spaces 5. Create opportunities for volunteer involvement and employment over time 6. Promote arts education and cultural diversity 7. Foster a strong sense of place and belonging We are committed to making this festival inclusive, safe, and accessible. We want to bring new audiences to jazz and elevate the marginalised voices in jazz, creating a platform that benefits everyone. We have garnered interest from local businesses and community groups and everyone’s been incredibly supportive.

Steps to get it done:

  • Campaign to reach crowdfunding target. Get all our friends and supporters to spread the word!
  • Finalise the stellar lineup we have pencilled in
  • Get all licenses, insurances and permissions finalised with Hackney Council. Already working close together towards this
  • Run our curatorial briefings and release the lineup to the general public
  • Commission a good technical team to ensure the best sound stages cognisant of the neighbourhood
  • Run a strong marketing campaign and ensure maximum festival attendance
  • Build a community through activations leading up to the 12th of July 2025
  • Festival setup
  • Running the festival at multiple locations!
  • Ensuring a smooth de-rig and clearout
  • Festival roundup, evaluation and impact assessment
  • Festival planning towards Edition 2

Support us to help cover the costs of having a stellar lineup, great sound, good stages and great venues onboard - so we don’t have to pass on the cost of the same to our audiences through ticketing. Also, please help us spread the word! We plan to run this festival annually and look forward to seeing you there!

Location Hackney

About the space

De Beauvoir Town, London

Council

London Borough of Hackney

How will the money be spent?Target (inc. fees)  £68,385

Musicians fee (incl travel + hospitality) - £22,850
Stage installation, festival infrastructure, crew - £11,280
Production - Expert fees - Sound Engineers, Artistic Direction, Event Production, Stage Management - £10,120
Marketing - £4,000
Event costs - road closures, event fee, insurance - £2,862
Contingency (5%) - £2,400
Website Design and Management - £1,400
Outreach programme - development and delivery - £1,400
Staffing - £1,282
Instruments provided free of charge that we would otherwise have to buy or hire+transport - £750
Other - £2,850

Costs Breakdown

This shows how money raised for the project will be spent. These costs have been confirmed by the project's Delivery Manager and verified.

Musicians fee (incl travel + hospitality)
£22,850
Stage installation, festival infrastructure, crew
£11,280
Production - Expert fees - Sound Engineers, Artistic Direction, Event Production, Stage Management
£10,120
Marketing
£4,000
Event costs - road closures, event fee, insurance
£2,862
Contingency (5%)
£2,400
Website Design and Management
£1,400
Outreach programme - development and delivery
£1,400
Staffing
£1,282
Instruments provided free of charge that we would otherwise have to buy or hire+transport
£750
Other Read More
£2,850
  • Hire charges for venue
    £600
  • Security
    £600
  • Marketing access to 12000 readers across multiple newsletters
    £500
  • Food for volunteers
    £350
  • The use of rehearsal space that we would otherwise have to pay for
    £300
  • Hire charges for venue
    £250
  • Hire charges for venue
    £250

Overfunding

This project is enabled for overfunding. If the project hits its funding goal before the end of the campaign period, any extra funds raised will be spent (in order of priority) on:

  • Our project costs are much higher than the target set on Spacehive. Overfunding would greatly support us and reduce reliance on corporate sponsors and national grants that are very competitive!
  • Contingency for the project to protect against price fluctuation
  • Bringing more venues onboard to expand the reach of the festival

Target (inc. fees)  £68,385

Our Volunteer List

We're currently looking for people to offer skills and time to develop our project! Check out the list of what we need below and then use the 'Volunteer' button to the right to get involved.

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