Museum of Science and Industry

Manchester Science Festival is an annual nine-day, multi-venue festival run over the October half-term holiday. It is Manchester’s premier event for public engagement with science and engineering, promoting the region’s rich heritage of past scientific achievements and endeavours whilst showcasing current innovative science, technology and engineering research and practice.

The programme includes a wide range of activities and events, including workshops, exhibitions, films, talks, tours, and more, and takes place in venues across Manchester city centre, utilising unexpected public places and other cultural and science venues across the city and Greater Manchester. There is also a programme for schools which takes place prior to the Festival.

From the evaluation of the 2009 Manchester Science Festival, we established that:

• 102,288 attendees from Greater Manchester and across the UK enjoyed;
• 317 events (exhibitions, demonstrations, school workshops and community projects) created by;
• 57 organisations across;
• 48 unique, city-wide locations, (including public, cultural, community, academic, educational, social, indoor and outdoor sites) 

Events at the 2009 Festival included:

• Walking with Robots at MOSI
• The science of bees with the British Bee Keepers Association
• The science of the paranormal – lecture and mock séance with Richard Wiseman on Halloween night
• Open tour of the Siemens train care depot
• Science experiment busking at the Trafford Centre, Arndale and on the Key 103 bus.

Benefits of Manchester Science Festival Sponsorship

Logo branding and/or accreditation on:

• Manchester Science Festival marketing and education literature including, T-shirts, banners and city wide marketing campaign
• MOSI What’s On? guide and Science Festival programme
• Pop up banners used to promote the Festival at all outreach / science busking events in spaces such as: The Trafford Centre, Piccadilly train station and Manchester Airport
• Press advertising for the Festival
• E-shot to MOSI and Festival e-mailing lists
• MOSI website.

 PR

• Inclusion in MOSI PR
• Opportunity to stage photo shoots at MOSI to promote the sponsorship

 Hospitality

• Invitations for your staff to attend Science Festival events
• Opportunity to host an event in a MOSI to promote your involvement

Direct Involvement

• Opportunity to develop staff involvement and outreach programmes to directly link your staff with Festival participants and events
• Opportunity to host science busking events at your offices

For further information or to adapt the package to best suit your business needs, please contact John Dennis, Head of Fundraising, on 0161 606 0168 or email j.dennis@mosi.org.uk

The Manchester Science Festival and MOSI would like to thank Siemens and Astra Zeneca for their generous support of the 2009 Festival.

Banner image by photographer and conceptual digital artist Andrew Brooks