Our sponsorship details for 2019 are much the same as for 2018. If you are a regular sponsor and are here looking for the form, you can download the 2019 sponsorship form here.
If you are thinking about sponsoring the festival for the first time, or you want to refresh your memory, read on for the details about what’s available for 2019.
Our Standard Sponsors Package
This is the package that most of our sponsors go for. It 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.
And yes, if you compare this price to admission, plus £10 of beer tokens at the Thursday sponsors’ session, you see how good value it is. Especially if you are sponsoring as a business or company. If you are, tick YES on the form so that we can send you a receipt. This way you can claim the cost through your company accounts.
Something Bigger or Smaller
If you want to do something bigger than our standard sponsorship package drop us an email to sponsors@bentnbongs.com. Whatever you have in mind we can usually tailor something specific for you. Examples include:
– Getting your logo onto the festival glasses
– Increasing the size of our standard package (more people/tickets)
– Decreasing the size of our standard package (fewer people/tickets)
The Thursday 5pm-6pm Sponsors’ Session
N.B. This is for sponsors only. If you are reading this and you are not sponsoring the festival, please DO NOT turn up at 5pm on Thursday. You won’t get in.
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.
It’s a great opportunity to mingle with like-minded people, be the first to the beers, grab a seat, grab a bite to eat, and generally see the festival exactly as it was set-up.
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 – as mentioned above, 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. There are seats a-plenty. It’s beer festival heaven.
The VIP Room
This was the big hit from 2018 so we’re bringing it back again for you for 2019.
Up front disclosure. This is expensive. It’s a VIP Room! If expensive is not for you that’s not a worry, skip forward and save yourself the time of reading.
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. That’s how exclusive this package is!
The VIP Room is available only 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 so that we can get back to you with more details and 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, a night out with friends, something good to eat, and a bit of entertainment.
In all honesty, advertising with us isn’t going to make you rich overnight. 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 2019, download the 2019 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 wonderful people for supporting the festival. We couldn’t run this event without you, and for that, and on behalf of the charities we support, we are eternally grateful.