Sponsorship Guidelines and Gallery

When drawing up your proposal for arts sponsorship funding, please bear in mind the following guidelines, which have been created to help focus your application:

Your proposal should be relevant to at least one of the areas served by our airports, including the entire North West of England, Yorkshire, North Wales, Humberside, Bournemouth and the East Midlands.

In line with our policy of contributing our local communities, arts organisations based in our operational areas generally (though not always) have priority over other applicants.

We will also consider applications from arts organisations based elsewhere in the UK for projects; touring the areas served by our airports.

We particularly welcome applications from projects or organisations that encourage community-wide access to the arts or have outreach programmes.

In order to promote the very best from our local communities, we always look for evidence of quality and excellence. The majority of our sponsorships are awarded to professionally run arts organisations in the ‘not for profit’ sector.

We do not sponsor individuals.

We do not sponsor capital projects.
Projects in the education and health services cannot be supported by our arts sponsorship programme.

We are also interested in any future plans you may have for international projects. At this stage, such information is for our background use only.

Deadline for applications
All applications must be received by 31 December to be considered for sponsorship in the following year.

Contact: Caroline Walkden - Government and Industry Affairs Specialist

Tel: +44 (0) 161 489 3719
Email: caroline.walkden@manairport.co.uk

Here’s just a selection of the events and performances we sponsored recently;

Opera North

Library Theatre

Northern Ballet

Wigan Jazz