GALA Music Festival 2024 (Peckham Rye Park and Common)

Community benefits.

1. More event activity will result in increased fundraising activity for GALA’s charity partner, Southwark Day Centre for Asylum Seekers (SDCAS), with the aim of exceeding previous fundraising targets in 2024.
2. There will be a 10% increase in the number of free tickets offered to local charities/social impact-orientated groups and more effort to engage with these groups so that more tickets are taken up (500 tickets were offered in 2023, but only 239 were used)
3. There will be an increase in the resident ticket allocation – 3,500 in total were allocated across all three days of GALA in 2023 - an additional 500 will be added for 2024 with the addition of more event shows.
4. The GALA team will continue to create community/charity collaborative partnerships to build on their already successful partnerships with SDCAS, Peckham Platform and South London Gallery
5. The GALA team will continue to provide enhanced event accessibility – GALA has achieved Bronze standard of Attitude is Everything’s ‘Live Events Access Charter’ for improving venue access for disabled audiences, artists, crew and volunteers. Silver accreditation will be sought for 2024
6. The GALA team will provide enhanced event welfare services and wellbeing strategies for those attending the event.
7. There will be opportunities for local businesses to provide services to the event. Local businesses who can meet the requirements for services or products will be favoured above those from further afield.
8. There will be opportunities for local food traders to trade at the event by applying to attend through GALA. Any applications from local traders, meeting the menu, safety and hygiene requirements, will be favoured above those from further afield.
9. There will be opportunities for local artists and creatives to showcase at the event. Gala have previously partnered with Peckham based music collective, Born N Bread to give opportunities for local young femme DJ’s who are black or minority ethnic to play a DJ set at Gala. In addition, they have partnered with Peckham Platform and South London Gallery (Art Assassins) to work with local artists to commission art installations for the event site.
10. There will be opportunities for local people to be employed at the event. Gala aims to staff the event locally wherever possible, using local production crew and bar and ticketing staff. Gala are working with the providers of these services to continue to target local people for recruitment by advertising jobs locally and jobs being awarded to the most local applicants, if suitably skilled, in the first instance. They aim for all primary suppliers and agencies to pay London Wage as a minimum.
11. The GALA team will pay the council an Environmental Impact Fee (EIF) – the EIF is paid in addition to the site hire fee and is ring-fenced to be spent by the council’s Parks team on projects that will enhance Peckham Rye Park.
12. Additional funding will be provided by the GALA team for biodiversity projects.
13. The GALA team will pay the council a commercial site hire fee. The hire fee goes directly towards:

    • Funding the council’s free events programme

    • Supporting subsidised fees for community events

    • Off-setting the running costs of the Events service, which supports the delivery of the community events programme

The GALA team is actively looking for the following:

• opportunities to engage with more charity and community partners (item 4) 
• connections to local charities and social impact-orientated groups for their free ticket allocation (item 2)
• suggestions for biodiversity projects which could be funded (item 12)

To find out more or make suggestions, please contact: daniel@thisisgala.co.uk

Page last updated: 18 April 2024