Welcome to Dartmouth Pride

A Note from our Director:

We hope your 2026 has had a lovely start! As we head into Spring and hopefully towards some better weather, we are once again asking Dartmouth: Will you help us Sponsor our 2026 Dartmouth Pride Festival? 

With your support last year, we made the MASSIVE move to host our Pride festival in the Royal Avenue Gardens! With this move, we saw our attendance go from 250 people in 2024 to around 850 in 2025. We could not have done that without your support. No one in our organisation makes a salary or takes administrative fees so know that 100% of your donation went to our musical entertainment, festival fees, and operational running costs. We believe that our Pride should be free to everyone. No matter who you are or where you come from, we want to continue to make our Pride Festival accessible to everyone in our Dartmouth LGBTQIA+ community. Last year, the UK saw several majors Prides, both up country and even one as close as Plymouth, cancel due to lack of funding and we 100% understand their struggle. So we really do rely on your support for our event. 

As we would like our festival to support the town as much a possible, we have made the decision to once again not to have any food trucks at Pride this year. We hope this encourages people attending to explore Dartmouth during the day to find options for both lunch & dinner while our Pride is running. Just like last year, we plan to also use Bandstand announcements during our Pride festival to encourage people looking for a meal towards businesses that take part in our Pride Sponsorship as at least a Town Ally. Several businesses said they very much felt a boost after these announcements. We’d also be happy to have take away menus out on our tables to encourage people to support our local allies. Several festival goers even reported walking an extra 4/5 minutes to purchase from a Pride sponsor instead of buying from businesses across the street from the gardens who choose not to participate in 2025 Sponorship. So your sponsorship really does matter to our community. 

Last year, several businesses reported after Pride that they had business from LGBTQ+ customers several months after our Pride becuase of their 2025 sponsorship. To help boost this show of support for our LGBTQ+ community, we’ve decided to offer 2026 Sponsorship Window Clings so your business might showcase your support through sponsorship all year long. 

Our main event this year will be our 2026 Dartmouth Pride Festival, once again in the Royal Avenue Gardens. We will have our now annual Pride Walk and Pride Sail from Dartmouth Castle to the Royal Avenue Gardens and plan for a day of fun with music in the Bandstand with plenty of celebrations! We of course have other events on the day and throughout the month planned and will be announcing our full Pride Month activities soon. 

While we work to keep Dartmouth Pride local, we need help. 

Your support & contributions will enable us to keep our annual Pride free to everyone. Your generous donation will fund our mission as well as our Pride festival, flyers, flags, websites, and other running costs. 

Thank you for your support Dartmouth, 

- Jonathan, Director of Dartmouth Pride UK CIC