Making our free tickets fair and sustainable
As a festival we’re proud to offer free tickets to anybody who needs them. We use an ethical ticketing system to ensure our events are fairly priced.
We’d like to thank our friends at Andro & Eve for their help in adapting our model.
To continue offering free tickets to anybody who needs them, we now have a new sliding scale ticket system as below:
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General Admission - For those who:
Are comfortably able to meet all their basic needs**.
Can afford public / private transport and can afford petrol.
Are employed / freelance or have regular ongoing work.
Regularly eat at restaurants / have takeaways or buy tickets to events.
Have access to financial savings.
** Basic Needs include food, housing, clothing and transportation
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Low Income - For those who:
Stress about meeting their basic needs** but still regularly achieve them.
Can afford public transport and often private transport. If you have access to a car, you can afford petrol.
Are employed / freelance or have regular work.
Can sometimes afford to eat at restaurants/ have takeaways and buy tickets to events.
Might have access to financial savings.
** Basic Needs include food, housing, clothing and transportation
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Unwaged - For those who:
Frequently stress about meeting their basic needs** and do not always achieve them.
Sometimes cannot afford public or private transport.
Are unemployed or underemployed.
Can’t afford to eat at restaurants and rarely buy tickets to events.
Qualify for government and/ or voluntary assistance.
** Basic Needs include food, housing, clothing and transportation
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For those who meet the criteria of the General Admission ticket and would like to use their disposable income to pay a ticket forward for someone else.
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Offered to organisations and individuals supporting refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, and/or those who are financially vulnerable.
Tickets are also available for individuals on request.
Free tickets are given out on an honesty basis. There is no need to provide any evidence. If you would like free tickets to events as an individual, please email us info@migrationmattersfestival.co.uk to book.
This ticketing model was developed by Sheffield’s Andro & Eve who have provided the festival with consultation, and helped adapt the model to suit our programme and audiences.