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Edward Cooke Family Law is new Festival of Chichester principal sponsor
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22/01/2025
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Good afternoon, my name is Phil Hewitt, Group Answer Disservant at Sussex Newspapers, but
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also Chairman of the Festival of Chichester, and it's fabulous to introduce and to announce
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our new Principal Sponsor for the 2025 Festival of Chichester, Edward Cook, who runs Edward
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Cook Family Law. Now, Edward, you have had a long connection with our Festival over the
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years. It's fantastic that you are this year our Principal Sponsor. What's the thinking
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behind becoming our Principal Sponsor? Well, we're a firm of solicitors and mediators
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based in Chichester, Brighton and in Farnham in Surrey. We're very much a Chichester-based
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firm. We founded in Chichester in 2018. I was born and brought up in the city. I've
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always been passionate about the arts and about culture and about supporting local community
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events like this. So we're absolutely delighted to be the new main sponsors of the Festival.
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We've been involved for the last five or six years. So when the opportunity arose and you
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asked us, we were absolutely delighted to accept. Fantastic. And you've been so supportive
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of the Festival. Why do the arts matter so much in Chichester? And we're so wonderfully
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endowed with the arts in Chichester, aren't they? But why are they so important, do you
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think? Well, obviously you've got the iconic venues in the city, the Festival Theatre,
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Pallant House, New Park Cinema, Chichester Cathedral. We have got such rich cultural
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heritage and history of the arts. But I also think the Festival is very important in terms
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of bringing the city together once a year to celebrate not just those big events, but
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the small events, the smaller groups, the amateur musicians, as well as the professional
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musicians, and bringing the city together in a celebration of the vibrancy and our cultural
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heritage. So that's why, for me, the Festival is so important. And we've always thought
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of the Festival as creating opportunities for people. And that's something that you
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instantly picked up on when we were speaking just now, that it is a platform for everyone,
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Absolutely. No, it really is. I mean, I've been delighted for the last couple of years to take
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part myself, actually. So I'm a part-time musician, a church organist. So I've been
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involved in a couple of events last year, which was great fun. And that's the great
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thing. It's the openness of the Festival. You know, you have some fantastic world-class
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groups and orchestras taking part, for example. But you also have a huge variety of musical,
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dance, theatre, word-based events across the city, and huge numbers of people taking part
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in it. So that, for me, is the exciting thing about the Festival, seeing there's such a
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wide variety of events going on. And you are the ideal principal sponsor for us, because
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not only do you come and see events at the Festival, you have participated. Tell me
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about one or two of the events that you've really, really enjoyed being part of and offering
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yourself. Yeah, I really enjoyed two events that I was involved in last year. So one event
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was with my brother, who's a local music teacher, and we raised several hundred pounds
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through a cream tea concert at St Paul's Church. We were doing piano duets, organ duets,
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and also piano and organ duets together, which is quite unusual. And that was great fun. And
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I think the audience really enjoyed that. We played a piano and organ suite last year.
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And so that was great fun. The other event that I took part in last year was a come and sing
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Evensong at the church, where we had someone from the BBC Singers in London down, who did a
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community-based choir Evensong event. That was great fun. I paid the organ for that. So yeah,
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I do feel very much imbued in the Festival and the culture of it, and I love to be involved.
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But most importantly, as a firm more widely, we're just delighted to get involved and to
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support it in this way. And we are absolutely thrilled to welcome you as our principal sponsor.
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Always lovely to speak to you, Edward. Thank you so much for your support.
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Thank you, Phil.
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Appreciate it. Thank you.
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Your pleasure. Thank you. Thank you.
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