We have an exciting change for our sponsorship plans for 2020. The standard package but with 2 x priority entry tickets. Read on for more details.
Before that if you are a regular sponsor and are here looking for the form, you can download the 2020 sponsorship form here.
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.
Our Standard Sponsors Package With 2 x Priority Entry Tickets
This is our standard sponsors package but with two of the tickets converted from general admission to priority entry. This means these two tickets will bypass the queue up until 7:30pm. The package includes:
– 2 priority entry tickets that will bypass the queue up until 7:30pm (for any session)
– 8 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 £155.
Bar Sponsors
This is our standard sponsors package which also includes a large banner with your company name, logo, and message over one of the bars.
Tickets included are 10 normal sponsors tickets with the option to upgrade two of them to priority entry.
The price for this package is £250, or £270 with the 2 x tickets upgraded to priority entry.
Glass Sponsors
This would get your company name and logo onto approx 3,500 festival glasses.
Sadly this is now no longer available for 2020 as the glass design has now gone to the manufacturers. If you are interested in becoming a glass sponsor for 2021 please get in touch to sponsors@bentnbongs.com
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 and 2019 so we’re bringing it back again for you for 2020.
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 is already booked, leaving Friday night (all night!) and Saturday noon – 5pm and 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.
Prices range from £75+VAT for a quarter page mono ad to £260+VAT for a full colour full page ad.
What To Do Next
If you want to take out a sponsorship package for 2020, download the 2020 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.