2018 Sponsorship

Bent and Bongs 2018

If you are a regular sponsor and are here looking for the form, you can download the 2018 sponsorship form here.

If you are thinking about sponsoring the festival for the first time, or you want to know more about it before committing, here are the details for 2018.

Our standard package for 2018 includes:
– 10 tickets for general admission at any session
– These tickets are the only way you can get in to the early hour, 5pm-6pm on Thursday, for sponsors only
– £10 of beer tokens for everyone attending the 5pm-6pm Thursday sponsors’ session
– Your name over a barrel
– Your name and details in the festival programme and linked from our website

The price for this package is £135.

If you are sponsoring as a business or company, tick YES on the form so that we can send you a receipt. This way you can claim the cost through your company accounts.

If you want to do something bigger than our standard sponsorship package; put your logo on the glasses, sponsor a bar, increase the number of people/tickets, etc. we can usually tailor something for you to fit.  Get in touch to sponsors@bentnbongs.com and we’ll work something out with you.

The Thursday 5pm-6pm Sponsors’ Session

We run the Thursday sponsors’ session to say Thank You to you, our sponsors. While we open to the general public at 6pm on Thursday, we open an hour earlier for sponsors at 5pm. This first hour is sponsors only and, well, it’s pretty cool to have the whole festival to yourself.

Plus when you arrive between 5pm and 6pm we give you a sheet of £10 worth of tokens so that your first few beers are on us.

These tokens work just like the tokens at the public sessions. You buy your beer with them. It makes your first £10 of beer absolutely free.

That’s right – if you can get all 10 people into the Sponsors’ hour the package is effectively free.  If you’re wondering what the catch is … there isn’t one!

The tokens don’t expire at 6pm so you can use them any time through Thursday night. This way you don’t need to feel like you have to drink quickly in order to get your money’s worth. You can enjoy a few beers, have a chat and a catch-up with the people you are with and generally have a chilled out time before the festival gets busier when the general public arrive at 6pm onwards.

If your tokens run out during the sponsors’ hour, fear not. We will have the token desk open selling the regular tokens. This way, if you want to try the most expensive beers early the choice is yours. You can top up your token supply any time you want, or as soon as your free ones run out. You can use your free tokens up quickly, or you can savour the taste of every mouthful and use them well into the night. The choice is yours. The only difference with the sponsors’ beer tokens is that you cannot cash them in when leaving the festival. So be sure to use them first.

I mean – what’s not to love about this? You’re the first into the festival. There’s a lovely laid-back feel. Every beer is available. There’s no rush. There’s no queue at the bars. And there are plenty of seats available over by the food. It’s beer festival heaven.

 New for 2018 – The VIP Room

This is the ultimate Beer Bash VIP experience.  It’s available to small groups only and gives you exclusive access to the VIP lounge at the roller rink.

This means guaranteed seating on the sofas and comfy chairs in the roller rink’s lounge.  You can use it however you want.  Spend a bit of time catching up with friends.  Head to the bar to grab a beer.  Chill for a bit.  Bob out to listen to the band.  Pick-up something to eat.  We provide the space, how you use it is up to you.

The price for the VIP Room is £40 per person.  This includes (for each person):
– A priority entry ticket*
– £10 of beer tokens
– Your group’s exclusive use of the VIP lounge
* – The priority entry ticket gets you straight in to the festival.  It enables you to bypass any queue and is available only to our main sponsors and VIP Room guests.

For 2018 we are offering this to small groups (minimum 5 people) on a session by session basis, in that when you book it you book the VIP Room for a specific session; either Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday 12 – 5pm, or Saturday 5pm – 9pm.

Thursday night and Saturday 12 – 5pm are already booked, leaving Friday night (all night!) and Saturday 5pm – 9pm available.

If you are interested, please get in touch via sponsors@bentnbongs.com and we will take it from there.

Programme Advertising

We offer advertising space in the festival programme. Anything from a quarter page up to a full page including the back and inside covers. It’s an affordable way to reach people; most of whom are local, most of whom enjoy a few beers, and a night out with friends, and something good to eat, and a bit of entertainment.

In all honesty, advertising with us isn’t going to be like winning The Apprentice. But with around 4,000 people visiting the festival over the three days, it certainly can’t hurt.

What To Do Next

If you want to take out a sponsorship package for 2018, download the 2018 sponsorship form, fill in the details and send it back to the address on the form.

If you are interested in doing something a bit bigger or a bit smaller or the VIP Room, drop us an email to sponsors@bentnbongs.com and we’ll work something out with you.

And if you want to know more about advertising in the festival programme, send an email to advertising@bentnbongs.com and we’ll get straight back to you.

Thanks in advance you beautiful people for supporting the festival, and in so doing supporting the charities that we support.