If you are a regular sponsor and are here looking for the 2022 sponsorship form you can shortcut everything below and get the 2022 sponsorship form here.
If you are a new sponsor or are looking to refresh your memory about what’s available and how it works … read on for details.
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 two of the tickets guarantee priority entry. What’s priority entry? It will bypass any queue we have up until 7:30pm. Priority entry tickets are the only way to bypass the queue!
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 for anyone who wants to do something a bit bigger than our standard package.
It includes all the benefits of our standard package plus a large banner over a bar with your company name, logo, and message.
It includes 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 is a biggie. This will get your company name and logo printed onto 3,500 festival glasses.
Prices start at £500 for this package but we can tailor it specific to your requirements.
If you are interested in being a glass sponsor for 2022 please get in touch to sponsors@bentnbongs.com
Something Bigger or Smaller
The above are our standard type packages but we can usually do something bigger (or possibly smaller) if it suits you. Send us an email to sponsors@bentnbongs.com, tell us what you have in mind, and we’ll see what we can do for you. Examples include:
– Increasing the number of tickets in your package
– Upgrading more tickets to priority entry
– Adding the VIP room (see below)
– Building a personal package with just a few tickets to get yourself and friends in to the 5pm-6pm Thursday Sponsors’ Session.
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, 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. We open to the general public at 6pm on Thursday, but we open an hour earlier for sponsors only 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 as long as you arrive before 6pm we will 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 are doing the maths in your head, 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 is beer festival heaven.
The VIP Room
Up front disclosure. This is expensive. It’s a VIP Room! If expensive is not for you 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 use of the VIP lounge
* – The priority entry ticket gets you straight in to the festival. It enables you to bypass any queue.
This really is beer festival exclusivity at its best.
The VIP Room is available only to small groups (minimum 5 people) on a session by session basis. That is 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.
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 likely to make you an overnight millionaire. But with 3,000 to 4,000 people (mostly local) visiting the festival over the three days, it certainly can’t hurt.
Prices range from £100+VAT for a quarter page ad to £280+VAT for a full page.
What To Do Next
If you want to take out a sponsorship package for 2022, download the 2022 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.