If you are here for the 2025 sponsorship form you can skip everything that follows and get the 2025 sponsorship form here.
If you are new to sponsoring the festival and want to see what it’s all about and what’s available, or you are one of our regulars wanting to see what’s available and what’s new this year … read on …
What’s Changed for 2025
The short answer – nothing. Everyone seems happy with the setup and organisation of sponsoring so we’ve left well alone.
Summary of What’s Available for 2025
Here’s a summary of what we have available for sponsoring the 2025 beer festival.
| Standard Barrel Sponsor | £145. Includes 10 admission tickets, admission to the Thursday sponsors’ hour, your name on a barrel and included in the programme, and a link from our website (it’s good for your Google). |
| Priority Entry Barrel Sponsor | £165. This includes everything in a standard barrel sponsor with two of the tickets converted to priority entry tickets; 8 general admission tickets and 2 priority entry tickets. |
| Bar Sponsor | £250. This includes everything in a standard barrel sponsor plus your name on a banner over a bar. Yes, we can upgrade this to include priority entry tickets. |
| Entertainment Sponsor | £300. Includes everything in a standard barrel sponsor plus your name on a banner over the stage. Yes, we can upgrade this to include priority entry tickets. |
| Tokens Sponsor | £300. Includes everything in a standard barrel sponsor plus your name and company logo on the tokens plus a banner over the tokens desk. Yes, we can upgrade this to include priority entry tickets. |
| Glass Sponsor | Sorry folks – Glass sponsors are already sold out for 2025 £600. This is the big one. Includes a barrel sponsors package plus 10 more priority entry tickets plus your company logo on the festival glasses. We can bespoke the tickets and priority entry tickets in this package to suit you. |
So What’s the Difference Between Tickets and Priority Entry Tickets?
Every package includes a number of admission tickets. Each ticket admits one person to any session of the festival as long as there is no queue. This is important so we’ll say it again. These standard admission tickets do not bypass the queue.
Each priority entry ticket admits one person to any session of the festival. It also bypasses the queue. That’s right, we’ll say it again. A priority entry ticket bypasses the queue. You turn up and walk straight in.
Priority entry tickets are the only way to bypass the queue if we have one.
And What’s the Sponsors’ Hour (Thursday 5pm – 6pm)?
On Thursday (and only on Thursday) we open the festival an hour early for sponsors only. For 2025 the public get to come in at 6pm. Sponsors are welcome from 5pm.
This sponsors’ hour is totally brilliant. It is really cool and chilled. You get to be the first people to see the festival and you see it at it’s absolute best. You get first dibs on all the tables and chairs. Every beer is available. You feel a bit special knowing you are doing something that’s limited to the chosen few.
If you want to entertain some clients, take your team out to say Thanks for working hard (and convince them to work harder next year), or do a bit of networking, this is the session for you.
Sponsors’ Hour Free Beer Tokens
Free beer? Did someone say Free Beer?
Yes, we did. When you walk into the sponsors’ hour on Thursday with a sponsor’s ticket we give you a £10 sheet of tokens. There’s no catch. There’s no restriction on what beer you can buy with it. We give you a sheet of tokens and you go find your first beer.
The only teeny tiny restriction on these free tokens is that they expire at last orders. Unlike regular tokens we won’t cash them back in for cash at the end of the night. Use ’em or lose ’em.
If you need to slake a raging thirst (hey, we’ve all been there) or you want to hit some of the more expensive beers straight out of the trap fear not, we’ve got you covered. The token desk will be open from 5pm so that you can top up your token supply whenever you want to.
I’m Not A Business, Can I Still Sponsor You? Maybe With Friends?
Yes. Of course you can.
We get asked this a lot. The packages are the same. The tickets and tokens work the same. You’re welcome to join everyone at the Thursday sponsors’ hour. Same price same benefits. Then instead of a business name you can put a personal message on a barrel or a banner. Engagement or wedding coming up? Milestone birthday? Christening? In memory of a lost loved one? You choose the occasion and we’ll put your message up there.
If a standard sponsorship package seems to big for your group of friends, get in touch with us and ask about doing something smaller. We can almost certainly tailor something to fit to you.
The Packages and What They Include
Standard Barrel Sponsor
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 get in to the 5pm-6pm sponsors’ only session on Thursday
- £10 of beer tokens for everyone attending the Thursday 5pm-6pm sponsors’ only session
- Your name over a barrel
- Your name and details in the festival programme and a link from our website (it’s good for your Google)
The price for this package is £145.
If you are totting all this up in your head, yes, you are right. Ten people’s admission, plus £10 each of beer tokens at the Thursday sponsor’s session and you can see how good value this is.
It’s better still if you are sponsoring as a business. Tick YES on the form and we will send you a receipt to take the cost through your accounts and save a bit of tax. Book it as client entertaining or team building. Remember – the team that drinks together thinks together.
Priority Entry Barrel Sponsor (Including 2x Priority Entry Tickets)
This is the same as the Standard Barrel Sponsor but we convert two of the free tickets to priority entry. These priority entry tickets will bypass any queue we have up to 7:30pm. Priority entry tickets are the only way to bypass the queue.
The price for this is £165.
Bar Sponsor
This includes everything in the standard barrel sponsor’s package plus we hang a banner over one of the bars with your business name and logo.
The package includes 10x admission tickets, your name in the festival programme and a link from our website.
We can bespoke this package a little for you. If you need more tickets than the 10 included or you want to convert some of them to priority entry, get in touch and we can discuss it.
The price for this is £250.
Entertainment Sponsor
This is just like the Bar Sponsor package plus we hang the banner with your company name and logo over the stage.
The package includes 10x admission tickets, your name in the festival programme and a link from our website.
The price for this is £300. It’s a more prominent position than the bars.
As per the bar sponsors we can bespoke this package a little for you if you want to do something different. Get in touch and we can talk through the options.
Tokens Sponsor
This is pretty cool. Like the bar and entertainment sponsors we hang a banner with your company name and logo over the token desk. We also print your details onto the tokens. Yes, each and every sheet of tokens.
The package includes all the benefits of a barrel sponsor; 10x admission tickets, your name in the festival programme and a link from our website.
If you are interested in this get in touch as soon as possible as we need to check that the tokens haven’t already gone to print.
The price for this is £300.
Just like the bar and entertainment packages we can bespoke the tickets included for you.
Glass Sponsor
Sorry folks, this is now sold out for 2025.
This is the big one and it’s pretty awesome.
We print your company logo on the festival glasses. Yes, all three thousand of them. That’s so cool huh?
We include the usual 10x admission tickets and then we amp this up by adding an extra 10x priority entry tickets. Twenty admission tickets in total and ten of them bypass the queue.
This takes some organising with your artwork for the glasses so you need to be talking to us as early as possible if you want to take this up.
Advertising in the Festival Programme
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. Put a coupon in there. Make them an offer they can’t refuse.
Let’s be honest about this. Advertising with us is not likely to lead to you buying the island next door to Sir Richard Branson. There. We’ve said it. What it will do is get you in front of the estimated 3,000 to 4,000 people (mostly local) visiting the festival over the three days. We are also a registered charity so this is a great way to book a few pounds to the corporate and social responsibility line in your accounts.
If you are interested in this send us an email to advertising@bentnbongs.com and we’ll send you the rate card for programme adverts.
What Are You Waiting For?
If you have read this far you are interested, right? Or you are trying to find a better way of getting to sleep.
Assuming it’s the first one all you have to do next is pick up the 2025 sponsor form, fill in your details, and then send it back to us.
We can do this paperless if you prefer, and to be honest we prefer this as well. Send the form back by email (address on the form), send us an electronic payment, and you’re all set. We’ll do the rest.
Half A Million Thank Yous To All Our Sponsors
We say this all the time and we can never say it enough. Thank You so much to all 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.
For 2025 we are saying an extra Thank You to everyone who has supported us through the years. The festival has now raised over half a million pounds which has all been put back into charities, good causes, and the local community. Let that sink in for a moment and we’ll leave it right there. Half a million pounds.