In our first year taking over the city, we’ve been nominated in the category for best Metropolitan Festival, which looks to recognise a festival that most convincingly made a city its own!
Well, we think that the 82,000 people that joined us across our Pride in the City festival will agree, we most certainly transformed the city into the best, unapologetically visible, queer celebration the region has ever seen, in fact, 78% of attendees said it was our best festival EVER!… so please head to the UK Festival Awards nomination page and vote for Northern Pride!
Pride in the City, presented in partnership with Newcastle NE1, welcomed record numbers to this year’s festival across Newcastle city centre, with over 82,000 people engaging with the joy of pride, supporting a positive economic impact of c £4m.
“From the satellite events which started earlier in the month, to the main events and through visitors to Newcastle during the weekend, including those who were able to enjoy from the sidelines, the positive impact on the city has been huge.” says Ste Dunn, Director of Northern Pride.
“After such a positive response from our community, supporters and partners, who have embraced the citywide takeover, to receiving our economic impact and satisfaction data this week, we’ve been overwhelmed at the success of this year’s event. We set out to create a more accessible, unapologetically visible pride celebration, but also a festival which would benefit the city, local people, local bars, restaurants and hotels and we’ve achieved that together and we are so grateful to everyone who made this possible.”
The economic impact and satisfaction survey confirmed that for a third of attendees, this was their first experience of pride. 75% of participants identified as LGBTQIA+, with 73% of attendees visiting from outside of Newcastle city centre postcodes. Of those in attendance who had experienced pride before, 70% said it was ‘better than previous years’, with 90% confirming they would return next year. Overall perception scores were positive, with most scoring 8+ out of 10.
We would like to take this opportunity to once again, thank everybody that made the festival happen ! From our team of volunteers and event teams, to every single creative, artist, performer that took part, and to all the amazing LGBTQIA+ friends families and allies that turned out in their thousands to join us in our mission to be unapologetic visible!
Stay tuned for more information about 2025… but for now get voting!
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