Benefactors of the Event
• Local schools, teachers and children taking part in the lantern making workshops
• Shops in the Creative Quarter including those taking part in the Arts Market and those that stay open late on the evening of the event.
• Local Community visiting and taking part in the event
• Local art groups and individual artists taking part in Arts Market
• Students from University Centre Folkestone that perform at the event
• Visual Arts students at UCF that take part in Master Classes at the University where a large lantern build for the parade will be created
• A local charity invited to make collections at the Harbour Area on the event night
• Local retail businesses in the vicinity of The Old High Street, Tontine Street, the Harbour Area (Ark Site) and those on the parade route where potential customers will visit.
• The University Centre Folkestone, businesses in the Creative Quarter, workshop artists, local artists and the organisers as a result of the increased public awareness and press coverage that the event will attract.
