Festival Partners
We would like to thank the following supporters and partners for making York Festival of Ideas 2026 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 and Humanities Research Council
- Association of Voluntary Guides to the City of York
- Athena Swan Steering Group, University of York
- Atlantic Books
- Birlinn
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Bootham School
- British Origami Society
-
Calderdale Museums
- C and JB Morrell Trust
- Central Methodist Church
- Centre for Indigenous and Settler Colonial Studies
- Churches Conservation Trust
- City of York Council
- Comma Press
- Climate Fresk
- Complex Trauma Institute
- Council for British Archaeology
- Dance the Past
- Doug James at Mode
- Duckworth Books
- Earth Science Outreach UK
- Economic and Social Research Council
- Elliott & Thompson
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
- Explore York Libraries and Archives
- Faber
- First Bus
- Fishergate, Fulford and Heslington Local History Society
- Foolish Improvisation
- Fox Lane Books
- Friends of York Walls
- Geologists Association
- Glasgow Piano Project
- Granta
- HarperCollins
- Headline Publishing Group
- Head of Zeus
- Heritage for Global Challenges Research Centre
- Higher Education Innovation Fund
- Hiscox
- HistoryExtra Magazine
- Humanities Research Centre
- Institute for Safe Autonomy
- Interactive Media Showcase
- Involvement at York
- Jaipur Literature Festival
- Jane Moody Fund
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust
- Joseph Rowntree Theatre
- La Casa Mandarina
- Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity
- Little Vikings
- LNER
- LUMA
- Macmillan Publishers
- Make It York
- Manasamitra
- Manchester University Press
- Morrell Centre for Legal and Political Philosophy
- MySight York
- National Railway Museum
- Navigators Art & Performance
- North South Café Bar
- Orion Books
- Ouse It or Lose It
- Penguin
- Philharmonischer Chor Münster
- Princeton University Press
- Professor Phil Harris and Mrs Irene Harris
- PSHE Association
- Queer Arts
- Reaktion Books
- Reel Art Press
- Riding Lights Theatre Company
- Royal Museums Greenwich
- SAINTS AI Centre for Doctoral Training
- St Helen Stonegate
- St Nicks
- St Saviourgate York
- Skald Theatre Group
- Soapbox Science
- Sociologically Imagining York
- Stockholm Environment Institute
- StreetLife York
- Syzygy
- Thames & Hudson
- The Annual Distinguished Patrides Lecture
- The Black Swan Inn
- The Borthwick Institute for Archives
- The Burgess Family
- The Company of Merchant Adventurers of the City of York
- The Company of Merchant Taylors of the City of York
- The Foss Fairy Trail
- The Institution of Engineering and Technology
- The National Centre for Early Music
- The Place
- Thin Ice Press: the York Centre for Print
- Three Minute Thesis
- Uncomfortable York
- University of York
- University of York Europe Campus
- Visit York
- XR Stories
- York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority
- York Archaeology
- York Army Museum
- York Cares
- York Central
- York CliConnect
- York Community Energy
- York Concerts
- York Consortium for Craft and Conservation
- York Crime Walk
- York Death & Culture Walk
- York Design Awards
- York Environmental Sustainability Institute
- York Lindy
- York-Maastricht Partnership
- York Medical Society
- York Minster
- York Museums Trust
- York Musical Society
- York Pride
- York Rhythm and Tap
- York Rivers Trail
- York St John University
- York's Hidden History
- Yorkshire Bach Choir
- Yorkshire Philosophical Society
- Yorkshire Water
- Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
- YorkTalks
- York Unlocked
- YorSpace