Thank you to all our fantastic sponsors and supporters!
Main funders
Arts Council England
Creative Scotland
Cumbria County Council
Lake District National Park Authority
South Lakeland District Council
In partnership with…
Better Leisure
Kendal College (Founder)
Lakeland Arts
Old Laundry Theatre
Sheffield Hallam University
The University of Manchester
Windermere Jetty Museum
International Partners
Belgian Comic Strip Center
British Council
Czech Literary Centre
Délégation Générale Wallonie-Bruxelles au Royaume-Uni
The Dutch Foundation for Literature
Escola Joso – Centro de Cómic y Artes Visuales
Finnish Institute in London
Flanders Literature
Institut français du Royaume-Uni
Italian Cultural Institute in London
Lyon BD Festival
National Cartoonists Society
The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
The Rada and Mutaz Sawaf Center for Arab Comics Studies at the American University of Beirut
Wallonia-Bruxelles International
Authors, Commercial Partners and Publishers
David Fickling Books, publishers of The Phoenix comic
Fanfare Press UK
GetMyComics, publishers of SHIFT
Author John Patrick Green
Macmillan Children’s Books
MTP Media
Panini Comics
Our Patrons
Yomi Ayeni, Kate Charlesworth, Keli Lark, Michael Lark, Sean Phillips, Bryan Talbot, Mary Talbot and Zoom Rockman
Huge thank you to our donors:
Generous donation from the Adlard Family Foundation, Festival Patron Sean Phillips, Bryan Talbot and Stephen Parkes – and to all the artists who contribute to our annual fundraising auctions