A Gift for the Future

At the Edinburgh International Festival, we are always looking ahead. Curating a Festival of such exceptional quality and scale requires years of advance planning. While each August brings new artists, new ideas and new audiences to the city, our vision remains: to provide the deepest experience of the highest quality art for the broadest possible audience.  

To ensure this vision endures for generations to come, we invite you to help build something lasting. 

Making an Endowed Gift

By making an endowed gift for the Festival, you will be investing in the Festival’s success in perpetuity, ensuring that the very best artists from around the world will appear on the Festival’s stages, and that the broadest possible audience will have the opportunity to experience the power of their artistry.

You can make a gift during your lifetime, in a similar way to how you might already support the Festival with an annual gift.  

You can also leave a gift for the Festival’s endowment in your will or as a beneficiary of a pension or life insurance policy.

To discuss your gift intentions, and learn how your gift will impact the Festival’s mission, vision and ambition, please contact Katherine Planas, Director of Development at [email protected] or Phone +44 (0)131 4732067 

The Festival’s Endowment Fund

An endowment is a permanent fund—carefully invested to generate income for the Festival each year. Endowment support is an enduring form of support that provides much-needed resources for the Festival’s future plans – ensuring the Festival can continue to commission bold new work, welcome outstanding artists from around the world, and reach wider, more diverse audiences.  

The Festival’s Endowment Fund is a separate charity, governed by an independent board of trustees. The Endowment Fund is prudently invested to provide a stable and long-term source of funding for the Festival. The Festival is grateful to the Endowment Fund trustees for their ongoing stewardship of endowed support to benefit the Festival.  

Let’s Start a Conversation

If you’re considering making an endowed gift to the Festival, we’d be delighted to speak with you. All conversations are entirely confidential. To arrange a conversation at your convenience please contact:

Katherine Planas - Director of Development 
Email – [email protected]
Phone – +44 (0)131 4732067

Thank you for considering a gift that will help shape the Festival’s future.  

With your support, the Edinburgh International Festival will continue to be a place where the world gathers and comes together to celebrate the very best of the performing arts and the world’s greatest artists and remain a beacon for the enormous creativity, curiosity and potential held within individuals, communities and our nation.