Houghton Festival

What Houghton Festival does

Houghton Festival is a United Kingdom-based festival/event organisation headquartered in King's Lynn, Norfolk, with a registered web presence at houghtonfestival.co.uk. The entity was founded in 2017 and, according to the available firmographic data, operates with a headcount of approximately 12 employees, placing it in the small-operator tier of the UK live-events sector. The company name and domain extension (.co.uk) are consistent with a domestic, consumer-facing events business serving UK attendees.

The source material does not contain substantive product, service, technology, pricing, customer, or partnership data. The corporate webpage returned only a loading/verification screen ("One moment, please... Loader... Please wait while your request is being verified..."), and no operating status, legal entity name, ownership structure, or company-type classification could be extracted. Similarly, no revenue, funding, management-team, app, social, or geographic-footprint data was available beyond the King's Lynn base. As a result, the company's specific festival programming, ticketing mechanics, sponsorship mix, and commercial model cannot be described from the input alone.

Given the data thinness, the business model can only be described at the structural level: as a festival operator, Houghton Festival's revenue mechanics would typically derive from ticket sales, on-site consumer spend, brand sponsorship, and ancillary hospitality — but none of these revenue lines is confirmed in the source. The only defensible description is therefore a foundational one: a small, privately-held UK festival entity founded in 2017, based in Norfolk, with no publicly disclosed financials, ownership, leadership, or product details available in the current data set.

Name

Houghton Festival

Website

https://houghtonfestival.co.uk

Company type

Private

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Houghton Festival is a small UK festival/event organisation founded in 2017, headquartered in King's Lynn, Norfolk, operating with approximately 12 employees. The source material provides no further detail on its programming, commercial model, or ownership.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Live Music Festival

NAICS

Promoters of Performing Arts, Sports, and Similar Events without Facilities (711320)

SIC

Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900), Services-Miscellaneous Amusement & Recreation (7990)

akta.pro primary industry

Music Festival Organizers & Promoters (MPAGAAAB)

Keywords

• Music festival
• Live events
• Cultural festival
• Entertainment events
• Arts programming

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Houghton Festival is a festival organization founded in 2017 and based in King's Lynn, Norfolk, United Kingdom. The source data does not provide detailed information about specific offerings as the official website returned only a loading/verification screen. Based on the company name and "Festival" designation, the company produces and hosts a live music/cultural festival event.

Product overview

No product information available. The source page displays a loading/verification screen without substantive content about Houghton Festival's products or services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

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Direct peers

• Wilderness Festival: UK boutique music-and-arts festival with a similar curated positioning, audience, and ticket-yield profile to Houghton, though typically larger in scale.
• Lovebox Festival: London electronic and dance-music festival competing for similar electronic-music audiences and sponsorship pools as Houghton.
• Junction 2: London-based electronic music festival with a focused underground/techno programming angle directly comparable to Houghton's electronic-music curatorial identity.
• Green Man Festival: Independent UK music and arts festival operating at similar scale to Houghton with comparable audience demographics and programming philosophy.
• Field Day: London-based electronic and alternative music festival competing for the same forward-thinking UK electronic-music audience as Houghton.
• End of the Road Festival: UK boutique music festival with a comparable intimate-venue, curated-lineup model and a similar target audience of discerning festival-goers.
• Gottwood Festival: Boutique electronic and underground music festival held in North Wales, very similar in scale, vibe, and audience to Houghton Festival — comparable curated-event operator.

Emerging players

• Eastern Electrics: UK electronic-music event brand targeting a similar underground dance-music audience as Houghton, though primarily operating single-day/club-format events rather than multi-day festivals.

Broad incumbents

• All Points East: London-based multi-day music festival with overlapping electronic and live-music programming, competing for UK festival audiences but at a much larger scale.
• Boomtown Fair: Larger UK music and arts festival operating in a comparable festival niche but at significantly greater scale and with broader genre programming than Houghton.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses3 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights3 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/houghton-festival

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Funding overview

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Investors

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Investments

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