Support the Festival
Become a Friend, Supporter or Patron
As a Friend, Supporter or Patron of the Festival, your yearly membership is essential in bringing together authors, performers and audiences, and in helping us to make writing, storytelling and creativity accessible to the whole community.
In these challenging times, we need your support more than ever. Not only will you be helping us to protect the festival for the future, but you can also enjoy a range of great benefits too!
As a registered charity, the Borders Book Festival relies on your support. We could not do what we do without your help.
See below for more information on membership benefits.
Please note that Friends and Supporters membership is now closed for 2025. Thank you for your support.
FRIEND BENEFITS
Become a Friend of the Festival and receive the following benefits:
- Advance booking of up to 6 tickets per event*
- No booking fee on tickets purchased during the priority booking period
- Advance digital copy of programme
- Invitation to the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction award ceremony
- Advance booking for out-of-season Borders Book Festival events
- Programme posted directly to your door, on request
*Single membership - up to 4 tickets per event.
Joint membership - up to 6 tickets per event.
SUPPORTER BENEFITS
Become a Supporter of the Festival and receive all Friend benefits PLUS:
- Tickets available at concession prices*
- No booking fee on tickets purchased during the priority booking period
- Invitation to the festival programme and media launch in Melrose
- Acknowledgement of support in the printed programme and on the website
*Except for special events where no concessions are advertised
PATRON BENEFITS
Become a Patron of the Festival and receive all Friend and Supporter benefits PLUS:
- An invitation to the author Sunday brunch
- 12 pairs of complimentary tickets
- Reserved seats at the events of your choice
Please Donate
As a charity, Borders Book Festival relies on the generous help of our supporters. This is even more important now at a time when we are under even greater financial pressure than ever.
* Please help to keep Borders Book Festival the place where words come alive by donating what you can.
Donate £5
Text BBF to 70970
Donate £10
Text BBF to 70191
* Fundraising, payments and donations will be processed and administered by the National Funding Scheme, operating as DONATE, a charity registered in England and Wales (1149800) and Scotland (SC045106). In addition to any text donation, you will incur your standard network message charge (based on your service provider rates).
For Terms & Conditions, see www.easydonate.org