Sky is all about providing choice. That includes giving arts lovers the content they are passionate about, and making great arts accessible to everyone. Sky Arts is the only stable of television channels in the UK dedicated entirely to the arts, screening 24 hours a day, every day on Sky Arts 1, Sky Arts 2, Sky Arts 1 HD and Sky Arts 2 HD. Sky is one of the largest corporate sponsors of arts in the UK. Sky Arts supported Artichoke since 2008, enabling Artichoke to develop new opportunities for artists to create work across the country, and new ways to delight, surprise and challenge audiences everywhere.

Dining with Alice is the final event in the Sky Arts Artichoke Series, which also included Antony Gormley’s proposal for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, One & Other. This was followed by Lumiere, a festival of light in Durham, and The Magical Menagerie as part of the Milton Keynes International Festival, and three salons in London, Liverpool and Cornwall.

Arts Council England works to get great art to everyone by championing, developing and investing in artistic experiences that enrich people’s lives. We support a range of artistic activities from theatre to music, literature to dance, photography to digital art, and carnival to crafts. Great art inspires us, brings us together and teaches us about ourselves, and the world around us. In short, it makes life better.

Between 2008 and 2011, we will invest £1.3 billion of public money from government and a further £0.3 billion from the National Lottery to create these experiences for as many people as possible across the country.

Norfolk & Norwich Festival is  the oldest single city festival – was founded almost 240 years ago. Since 2004 under the directorship of Jonathan Holloway, the Norfolk & Norwich Festival has become a year round organisation whose annual reach is in excess of 350,000. Funded by the Arts Council, Norfolk County Council, Norwich City Council, commercial sponsors, private donations and growing income from ticket sales, the Festival held in May each year is now the fourth largest city arts festival in the UK and the organisation as a whole is celebrated as a jewel in the cultural crown of the East of England.

Bompas & Parr designs spectacular experiences often working on an architectural scale with cutting-edge technology. Installations have included a spectacular 12-course Victorian breakfast at Warwick Castle; The Jelly Banquet at the 2008 London Festival of Architecture which included a 14m long selfwobbling jelly table; the Architectural Punch Bowl with Courvoisier, flooding 33 Portland Place with over four tonnes of punch – enough for 25,000 people; and The Ziggurat of Flavour at Big Chill Festival 2010, a pyramidal art installation containing a cloud of breathable fruit where visitors contributed to their five-a-day by breathing.

City College Norwich is a large college of further and higher education with around 15,000 students each year. The College has won two National Training Awards, has National Skills Academy status in 5 areas (Creative & Cultural, Financial Services, Hospitality, Manufacturing and Retail) and won a Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education in 2009.

For over 250 years, the Theatre Royal has presented a high quality performing arts programme for the people of Norfolk and Norwich. A registered charity, it also provides an extensive education programme, working with around 25,000 young people annually. With audiences each year of around 370,000 attending 420 performances, it is the largest and most successful theatre in the East of England.

Founded in 1977, Speedy is the leading UK provider of equipment rental and support services to a wide range of clients across the construction, infrastructure, industrial, manufacturing and facilities management sectors – as well as to local trades and industry.

Operating from over 325 fixed sites – together with a number of on-site facilities at client locations throughout the UK, Ireland and the Middle East – the company supplies a range of services including the provision of small tools and equipment, surveying and measurement instrumentation, lifting and materials handling equipment, powered and non-powered access equipment, temporary accommodation, compressed air, temporary power generation, mechanical pumps and temporary site communications.

Proudly made in Norfolk since 1988, KETTLE® Chips are still the nation’s favourite. The tasty handcooked chips come in a range of seasonings in several pack sizes, from large sharing bags perfect for pouring into a bowl, to small individual bags if you want a treat all to yourself. They have always been made using real potato slices with no artificial colours, flavours, preservatives or MSG.

Holkham Emerald is a new joint venture  between the Holkham Estate and Emerald Crops Limited bringing together Holkham land and water and Emerald marketing and growing skills.

The first crops were planted in 2009 and included 300 acres of potatoes, 220 acres of carrots and 75 acres of parsnips on various parts of the estate. This increased in 2010 to 500 acres of potatoes and 320 acres of carrots, whilst the parsnip area remained at 75 acres. 2010 also saw the first crops of salad potatoes grown.In order to develop the business a 12 million gallon reservoir was built at Castle acre in 2009 and a further reservoir is planned for the Holkham area next year in order to allow the business to expand across the in hand farms.

Frank Dale Foods are the UK’s leading ‘premium party food’ producer, supplying caterers, hotels and restaurants nationwide with an award winning range of quintessentially British miniatures, hand crafted canapés and stone-oven-baked quiche pickups which are guaranteed to add colour and interest to any buffet.

Formed in 1994 and based in the heart of the Norfolk countryside, family business Frank Dale Foods consistently provide their customers with exciting new products and innovative buffet ideas whilst remaining true to founder Jean Dale’s passion for quality. For more information on Frank Dale Foods, please call 01953 788900 or visit the website.

Whether you’re after the refreshing touch of a Barefoot Pinot Grigio, the fruit-filled luxury of a Merlot, or the mouth-watering finish of a Barefoot Shiraz, just kick back and go barefoot. Barefoot owes its creation to the carefree days of Sixties California. Kissed with sunshine, laid back and cool. Barefoot was never going to follow the pack – and it hasn’t.

Going barefoot is about more than kicking off your shoes. It’s about stripping away the barriers. It’s a feeling that inspires everything we do. We’ve been going Barefoot in the UK since 2007 – and getting involved with everything. Music, arts, charities, beach cleaning, beach sports, you name it.