London Gatwick Airport announced as headline sponsor of Crawley Pride 2023
London Gatwick Airport has been announced as headline sponsor for this year’s Crawley Pride event, taking place on 19 August in Goffs Park.
London Gatwick Airport has been announced as headline sponsor for this year’s Crawley Pride event, taking place on 19 August in Goffs Park.
Gatwick sponsored last year’s Crawley Pride event - with a group of airport employees leading the parade alongside a local dance group - and has now increased its involvement to become the headline sponsor for 2023.
Approximately 2,300 people attended last year’s Pride, an important event for Crawley and one that supports Gatwick’s commitment to Diversity, Equality and Inclusion.
Gatwick has recently launched an employee network, Gatwick Pride, who will lead airport’s involvement in this year’s Crawley Pride. The network is dedicated to representing and advocating for its LBGTQ+ colleagues and supporting the business’ diversity aims.
Simon Brady, Chair, Gatwick Pride said: “We are delighted to support Crawley Pride in such a significant way this year. Crawley LGBTQIA+, which runs the event, is a fantastic organisation and really aligns with Gatwick Pride’s aims to promote diversity and inclusion within the LGBTQ+ community and our allies.
“It’s important that together, we can promote Gatwick and Crawley as safe places for all members of the community, and as a great place to work for LGBTQ+ people.”
Vincent Wootton, Managing Director, Crawley LGBTQIA+ said: “After two years of successfully running Crawley Pride, we are thrilled to be back for 2023 with Gatwick Airport as our headline sponsor.
“The support we are able to provide during this festival is breath-taking. It connects, educates and celebrates all things LGBTQIA+, while delivering a friendly safe space, which welcomes all.
“This year we have introduced a low-income ticket scheme, as well as providing tickets to community organisations.”
Liberty X is this year's headline act, supported by the UK tour show; Queenz, Pixie Polite from RuPaul’s Drag Race, and hosted by Sandi from Channel 4’s Gogglebox. There will also be many more exciting local acts, alongside food and drink vendors, community stalls and a fairground.
Tickets are available from www.crawleylgbt.com. Any money made from Crawley Pride goes straight into creating and running projects throughout the year, such as the Sussex Trans Social group, helpline and heritage project.
Crawley LGBTQIA+, organisers of Crawley Pride, were among the winners at last year’s Crawley Community Awards, also sponsored by Gatwick Airport.
London Gatwick is the UK’s second largest airport and is a vital piece of national infrastructure that helps drive both the regional and national economy. More than 40 airlines fly from the airport to over 150 short-haul and more than 45 long-haul destinations. The airport is focused on rebuilding and growing sustainably in the long term. It has ambitious plans to be a net zero airport by 2030 and increase capacity by bringing its Northern runway into routine use. VINCI Airports owns a 50.01% stake in the airport, with Global Infrastructure Partners managing the remaining 49.99% interest.
The world's leading private airport operator, VINCI Airports operates more than 65 airports in 12 countries in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Thanks to its expertise as a global integrator, VINCI Airports develops, finances, builds and manages airports by providing its investment capacity and its know-how in optimizing operational performance, modernizing infrastructures and managing their operations and environmental transition. VINCI Airports is the first airport operator to have committed to a global international environmental strategy in 2016, to achieve the goal of net zero emission across its entire network by 2050.
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www.vinci-airports.com
@VINCIAirports
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GIP manages the remaining 49.99% interest in Gatwick and is a leading independent infrastructure fund manager that makes equity and debt investments in high quality infrastructure assets in the energy, transport, water/waste and digital infrastructure sectors. GIP manages US$84 billion for its investors. Its 46 portfolio companies have combined annual revenues of US$61 billion and employ nearly 100,000 employees. For more information on GIP please visit http://global-infra.com
