Partners
Friends of Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery is dedicated to championing the museum’s collections, exhibitions, and role in the city’s cultural life. The Friends bring energy, expertise, and a deep sense of care—ensuring Peterborough’s rich heritage remains accessible, inspiring and relevant to all who call the city home.
CPSL Mind supports mental health and wellbeing across Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and beyond. Their involvement ensures that the festival is as caring as it is creative—embedding rest, reflection, and emotional connection into the programme, and reminding us all to look after our minds as well as our city.
Peterborough City Council plays a vital role in shaping Peterborough’s cultural future. Through strategic support and civic leadership, it helps champion local pride, creative opportunity, and community inclusion—ensuring the festival reflects and celebrates the city’s diverse residents, neighbourhoods, and stories.
PECT (Peterborough Environment City Trust) leads the charge on sustainability and climate action across Peterborough and the region. Their partnership brings green thinking and planet-positive practice into the festival—from reducing waste to inspiring action—helping to ensure that celebration today leaves a legacy for tomorrow.
As the city’s Business Improvement District (BID), Peterborough Positive brings energy and ambition to the city centre. Supporting events, local enterprise and public life, it works to boost footfall, nurture pride, and help make Peterborough a more vibrant, welcoming place to live, work, and visit.
At the heart of Peterborough’s commercial and community life, Queensgate is more than a shopping destination—it’s a cultural stage. As a host venue and active partner, Queensgate connects everyday life with creativity, helping to reimagine the high street as a place of gathering, discovery, and celebration.
This Is Peterborough! is a unique celebration of our rich cultural identity combined with a historical and modern backdrop of a city centre that’s constantly evolving. As the representative voice of city centre businesses, Peterborough Positive is excited to be supporting this creative placemaking initiative, which will undoubtedly increase footfall across the city centre and amplify a true sense of pride and belonging. Inclusivity breeds connected communities, and this event will showcase the strength we have as cohesive city, which has always embraced culture and championed heritage. I’m a proud, born and bred Peterborian and feel like I’ve been waiting for a cultural extravaganza like this all my adult life. I can’t wait to be part of the celebrations!
Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and South Lincolnshire (CPSL) Mind is proud to be involved in This Is Peterborough – which promises to be a culturally vibrant celebration of all that Peterborough has to offer. At CPSL Mind, we know that being part of a community can make life feel more meaningful and enjoyable, help us feel happier and safer, and improve our mental health. By making the most of the communities around us, we can strengthen our connections, find new opportunities, and support one another. We are really looking forward to connecting with people at the This Is Peterborough event, and we encourage anyone who needs mental health support to reach out to the CPSL Mind team.