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Skipton Building Society will once again be headline sponsor of the Ilkley Literature Festival.
"Ilkley Literature Festival is a perfect fit for us", said Matthew Cox, the Society's Corporate Communications Manager. "Events which matter to our members matter to us. We are lucky to have such a prestigious national event on our doorstep and Skipton Building Society is in a strong position to help the Festival grow and reach ever wider audiences".
The Festival is held over a two week period at the beginning of October in this miniature Victorian spa town at the foot of Ilkley Moor. The town is surrounded by beautiful countryside but is only fifteen minutes away from Leeds Bradford Airport and a stone's throw from Howarth, Harrogate, Leeds and Bradford. The Festival is supported by Arts Council England Yorkshire, West Yorkshire Grants and Bradford Metropolitan Authority, the latter also providing the Festival with a tiny office in a listed Victorian cottage on the site of a Roman fort in the grounds of the Manor House Museum.
Skipton Building Society is the Festival's headline sponsor, with Spellman Walker sponsoring the Festival print and the Open University sponsoring the workshop strand. A range of other firms support specific events.
Events take place in a variety of venues across the town, from a well equipped modern studio theatre for 150 at Ilkley Playhouse to the large function rooms at the imposing Craiglands Hotel and the ornate Grade 2 listed nineteenth century Kings Hall, with its gilded boxes and balconies, seating 500. The Children's Festival has a home at the newly built All Saints Church of England Primary School and other events take place in the Crescent Hotel and the Education Room at the Manor House Museum. There are projects and residencies involving local schools and community organisations across the town and a lively Fringe that squashes into any venue it can find.
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