Our pricing shown will now have booking fees included, so there’s no surprises at the checkout. We’ve replaced our Day Supporter with a General Admission Ticket, this is £18.50 and reflects the increased challenges we face in making Pride happen. We still have Fast Track, Day+Night combo and Super Supporter options available. We will also still reward you for supporting Pride with great benefits like money off bar prices and free travel and we’ve kept prices as low as we can and really feel we offer exceptional value for money.
As it stands tickets should be at least £52 to cover our costs but it remains important to us that no-one is excluded from Pride because they can’t afford it, so we subsidise tickets via sponsorship and donations to enable this. In recent years sponsorship and donations have decreased so in light of this we have introduced a True Cost Ticket for those able to pay what it actually costs. Along with this we have introduced an £11 concession option for those on low or no income which is priced the same as our 2025 Day Supporter including booking fees. As always there will also be a Pay What You Can lane available on the day. We’re proud to be the only Pride of our size to keep our pricing this low, but we really do need as many people as possible to at least get our new General Admission ticket.
In the face of reduced income and increased costs it’s fair to say putting Pride on is harder than ever. You’ll all know a festival that has been cancelled recently, some big names included, there is a crisis in the events industry, and we are just not getting the funding we need to make Pride happen. We’ve been working to keep costs down but we have had to make small increases to our tickets to provide a safe and secure space for the community to come together in celebration and protest, to pay our artists and performers and to continue to ensure our funding comes from ethical sources.
You can see more about our income, costs and how we raise the money to make Pride happen here.
Holding an event of Bristol Pride’s size comes with responsibilities, approvals, paperwork and costs. We spent over £15,000 on toilets alone last year, £20,000 on power and need to raise over £22,000 just to cover the costs of making the Parade happen. You can see a breakdown of our costs and how your ticket money helps make Pride happen on our website or just take a look around at the festival and see what you’ve helped create! Two weeks of events and Pride Day sees 10 hours of performances on a stunning green space and multiple areas and things to do, a Parade March which is safe and open to all to march in and working year round for the community. Bristol Pride is a registered not for profit charity, we’re independent and not owned by a big festival machine, every penny goes directly to putting Pride on.
More importantly, in the face of rising hate and attempts to erase us from society, to make sure Pride keeps happening because it’s as much needed now as ever was.
Thank you for your continued support.
