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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.

£8,115 Raised of £68,385

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Costs

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

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
Target: (inc. fees) £68,385

http://www.debeauvoirjazzfestival.co.uk

The De Beauvoir Jazz Festival was founded in 2024 in De Beauvoir, a charming neighbourhood in Hackney, with blurring boundaries between Hoxton, Haggerston, Shoreditch, Canonbury and Dalston.

Payal Wadhwa is the founder of the De Beauvoir Jazz Festival and lives in the neighbourhood. For the last two decades, she's worked across civic innovation, public realm design, placemaking and for design of products and services. This festival is a way to bring together - not just the many worlds of her own practice but also a formidable team that can help bring positive change to the local area and run a stellar festival.

Pete Horsfall, our Artistic Director, an award winning jazz musician himself, has played the biggest stages of Royal Albert Hall, Lincoln Center NYC, Paris' Duc Des Lombards, The North Sea Jazz Festival, Glastonbury Festival and Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, is a regular guest on BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 3 and JazzFM and teaches at Cambridge University, Guildhall School of Music and the Trinity-Laban Conservatoire. Deeply entrenched in the world of jazz, he's curating a lineup of homegrown and international musicians that we hope this fundraiser will help us bring to life, plus one that we can't wait to share with the world. More about Pete here. https://www.petehorsfall.com/bio

Formed as a Community Interest Company (CIC) the festival team now consists of Gillian Da Costa, Dinesh Markose, Kyla Taylor and 6+ volunteers with expertise in event production, marketing and content, arts management, legal, finance, placemaking and community engagement.

The CIC's "Everyone's Invited" manifesto https://www.debeauvoirjazzfestival.co.uk/everyones-invited focuses on belonging, inclusion, and accessibility.

We couldn't have got to this point without the incredible support of Hackney Council - our local councillors, the events and culture teams, the markets team amongst so many others. We're also deeply grateful for the support of the De Beauvoir Association, the Women's Institute, all of the venues who are throwing their doors open to host performances as a part of the festival and our growing list of partners, contributing in kind and with energy a festival like this couldn't be run without!

Crowdfunding, grants & sponsorship will keep majority of the festival free. Project costs in reality are much higher than campaign target. Overfunding will help us reduce reliance on other sources.

Project Owner: De Beauvoir Jazz Festival The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.