Sponsors

As a not-for-profit organisation, the support we receive from sponsors is invaluable.

We are beginning to look around for individual and business sponsors for next year. Individual donations of £150 plus and business sponsorship of £250 plus are most welcome. There are various ways that we can thank you for your support or promote your business, but please remember that our hospitality is personal rather than corporate.

For more information about sponsorship opportunities please contact hannah@westportbookfestival.org.

This year’s festival was made possible by generous sponsorship from Editions publishing, the charity Prince’s Scottish Youth Business Trust, and London-based auctioneers Bloomsbury Auctions.

Editions write for Scotland’s largest companies. Books, magazines, speeches, websites… it’s more fun than you might suspect. caspian@editions.co.uk.

The Prince’s Scottish Youth Business Trust is a charity that helps young people start up and continue in business, whoever they are and wherever they come from. With 18 offices throughout Scotland they offer business advice to people aged 18-25 years old and a package of support which consists of loans of up to £5,000, grants of up to £1,000, mentoring for the first two years of the business and free bookkeeping training to anyone wishing to realise their dreams of self employment. T: 0141 248 499: www.psybt.org.uk.

Bloomsbury Auctions, currently celebrating its 25th Anniversary, has grown to become the world’s largest auction house for rare books and works on paper. International growth in Rome and New York is not at the expense of their core which they strictly adhere to: experienced staff, high levels of customer service, speed and approachability. They deal in all printed matter from incunabula through to ultra-modern first editions. If you are a first time buyer or seasoned auction-goer they strive to ensure consigning or buying is a fun and exhilarating experience. www.bloomsburyauctions.com.

A special thanks to Alexander’s, The Coffee Mill and Preachers, three fantastic sandwich shops in West Port who kindly supplied us with lunch.

Thanks to print programme advertisers, although we would like to make one correction: Mr Wood’s Fossils is located on 5 Cowgatehead, Grassmarket, EH1 1JY, not 5 Cowgate as our advert inexactly stated. Mr Wood’s Fossils has an international reputation for quality fossils from all over the world. Their stock includes dinosaur teeth, trilobites, ammonites, fish, as well as a broad selection of crystals and minerals. Read more

Thanks also to:

• the Caledonian Brewery, Tunnock’s,
• Villeneuve Wines (City Branch),
• Copy Stop (22 Morrison Street),
• Neil Lindh Adcock, Shelagh Neil,
• Karis Hunt, Claire Wingfield clairewingfield.co.uk,
• Peter Bell, Sue Black, Blue Blazer,
• Richard Browne, eca, David Govan,
• William Lytle, Edward McGowan,
• Kenn Musso, Team Pageant, Andrew Pringle,
• Jennie Renton www.textualities.net, Isabelle Ting.

Thanks also to SR Gents, a fantastic band from Manchester who busked at our Victorian Fair and played in Cinema 1 of the Cameo on our last night. Guys – you’re legends. Punters – this band is on their way to the top.

‘You have got to see this band live, they are so good, exceptional, please go and see them, one of the most exciting live bands around at the minute, sr gents put on a really good show. The drummer is also the trumpeter, and you have to see them just to see that. They are so good live, I can’t promote them enough as it were, so go and see them, and get their volume 1 ep as well.’ www.srgents.com.