Festival Partners

We would like to thank the following supporters and partners for making York Festival of Ideas 2025 happen:

  • All Saints North Street
  • Ambassade de France au Royaume-Uni - Higher Education, Research and Innovation Department
  • Annual Aylmer Lecture
  • Annual Bruce Wannell Memorial Lecture
  • Arts Council England
  • Association of Voluntary Guides to the City of York
  • Athena Swan
  • Atlantic Books
  • BBC History Magazine
  • Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Bootham School
  • Café Scientifique
  • C and JB Morrell Trust
  • Centre for Lifelong Learning
  • Churches Conservation Trust
  • CITY College, University of York Europe Campus
  • Climate Fresk
  • Complex Trauma Institute
  • Council for British Archaeology
  • Dance the Past
  • Doug James at Mode
  • Duke of York Pub
  • Ebor Lecture Series
  • Ebury
  • Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
  • English Heritage
  • EUTERPE
  • Explore York Libraries and Archives
  • Faber 
  • First Bus
  • Fishergate, Fulford and Heslington Local History Society 
  • Fox Lane Books
  • Friends of York Archaeological Trust
  • Friends of York Walls
  • HarperCollins
  • Headline Publishing Group
  • Head of Zeus
  • Heritage for Global Challenges Research Centre
  • Higher Education Innovation Fund
  • Hiscox
  • Humanities Research Centre
  • Hurst Publishers
  • Institute for Safe Autonomy
  • Interactive Media Showcase
  • Involvement at York
  • Jaipur Literature Festival
  • Jane Moody Fund
  • Jessie's Fund
  • Joseph Rowntree Foundation 
  • Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust
  • Le Puits The Story Well
  • Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity
  • Life of Pippa
  • Little Brown Book Group
  • Little Vikings
  • LNER
  • LUMA
  • Macmillan Publishers
  • Make It York
  • Make Space 
  • Manchester University Press
  • Morrell Centre for Legal and Political Philosophy
  • MySight York
  • Navigators Art & Performance
  • North South Café Bar
  • Our City Hub
  • Orion Books
  • Penguin
  • Princeton University Press 
  • Professor Phil Harris and Mrs Irene Harris
  • PSHE Association
  • Queer Arts
  • Reaktion Books
  • Riding Lights Theatre Company
  • Sacristy Press
  • Science Gallery Bengaluru
  • Sheldon Memorial Trust
  • Soapbox Science
  • Sociologically Imagining York
  • St Chad's Church
  • St Helen Stonegate
  • St Nicks
  • St Olave's Church
  • St Peter’s School
  • StreetLife York
  • TALKSHOP
  • Thames & Hudson
  • The Black Swan Inn
  • The Borthwick Institute for Archives
  • The Burgess Family
  • The Company of Merchant Taylors of the City of York
  • The Foss Fairy Trail
  • The Friends of Rowntree Park
  • The Institution of Engineering and Technology 
  • The National Centre for Early Music
  • The Northern Agenda
  • The Rowntree Society
  • Thin Ice Press: the York Centre for Print
  • ThomFong
  • Three Minute Thesis
  • Two Hoots
  • Uncomfortable York
  • University of York
  • Visit York
  • Yale University Press
  • York Archaeology
  • York Army Museum
  • York Art Gallery
  • York BID
  • York Biomedical Research Institute
  • York Cares
  • York Central
  • York Climate Commission - York Waterscapes Working Group
  • York Concerts
  • York Conservation Trust
  • York Crime Walk
  • York Death & Culture Walk
  • York Design Awards
  • York Lindy
  • York-Maastricht Partnership
  • York-Münster Twinning Association
  • York Museums Trust
  • York Musical Society
  • York Pride
  • York's Hidden History
  • Yorkshire Bach Choir
  • Yorkshire Philosophical Society
  • York St John University
  • York Theatre Royal
  • York World Heritage Steering Group