If you are here just for the 2024 sponsorship form you can skip everything that follows and get the 2024 sponsorship form here.
If you are new to sponsoring the festival 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 2024
The quick summary is nothing really. 2023 was a popular event, all our sponsors had a great time, so why change something that’s working well?
Summary of What’s Available for 2024
Here’s a summary of what’s available for 2024.
| Standard Barrel Sponsor | £145. Includes 10 admission tickets, admission to the Thursday sponsors’ hour, your name on a barrel, included in the programme and linked from our website. |
| Priority Entry Barrel Sponsor | £165. This includes everything in a standard barrel sponsor with two of the tickets converted to 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 | £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. |
What’s With the Tickets, Priority Entry Tickets, Sponsor’s Only Session, and Beer Tokens? How Does All This Work?
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.
Priority Entry Tickets
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 any queue we have.
The Sponsors’ Hour (Thursday 5pm – 6pm)
On Thursday (and only on Thursday) we open the festival an hour early for sponsors only. For 2024 the public get to come in at 6pm. Sponsors are welcome from 5pm.
This is a really cool and chilled session. You get to be the first people to see the festival. 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.
Free Beer Tokens
When you walk into the sponsors’ hour on Thursday (5pm – 6pm) with a sponsors ticket we will give you a free £10 token sheet. That’s cool huh? Free beer! These tokens are yours to spend through the whole of Thursday night. The only restriction on them is that just like Cinderella’s carriage, they turn into a pumpkin at midnight.
If you come with a raging thirst or want to drink some of the more expensive beers fear not, we’ve got your back. The token desk will be open from 5pm to top up your token supply.
I’m Not A Business. Can I Still Sponsor With My Friends?
We get asked this a lot. Of course you can. The packages are the same. The tickets and tokens work the same. You’re welcome to join everyone at the Thursday sponsors’ hour. Instead of a business name you can put a personal message on a barrel or a banner.
We’ve had people sponsor a barrel to celebrate a birthday, remember a loved one, or just because they have a bunch of friends and want into the 5pm – 6pm Sponsors’ Hour on Thursday.
We’ve thought about doing something smaller than the standard barrel sponsor for a group of friends. So far we don’t have anything official but if you get in touch and ask we can almost certainly work something out with you.
Here’s the details for what’s available …
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 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 £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 (Includes 2x Priority Entry Tickets)
This is exactly the same as the Standard Barrel Sponsor but we convert two of the free tickets to priority entry. These will bypass any queue we have up to 7:30pm.
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.
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 to be a bar sponsor is £250.
Entertainment Sponsor
This is just like the Bar Sponsor package except we hang the banner with your company name and logo over the stage.
The package also 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
This is the big one and it’s pretty awesome.
We print your company logo on the festival glasses. And yeah, that’s so cool.
We include the usual 10x admission tickets and then we amp this up by adding an extra 10x priority entry tickets. Woohooo!
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.
We’re going to be up front about this. Advertising with us is not likely to make you enough money to buy a superyacht and park it in Monaco for the F1. There, we’ve said it! We do get between 3,000 to 4,000 people (mostly local) visiting the festival over the three days. Put a coupon in the programme. Make them an offer they can’t refuse. If you are a local business it surely can’t hurt to try this.
If you are interested 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.
If it’s the former and you want to sponsor the 2024 festival, download the 2024 sponsors form, fill in the details, and send it back to us to the address shown on the form.
If you like to do everything electronically you can email a scan back to sponsors@bentnbongs.com, send an electronic payment, and we’ll organise it all from there.
Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, 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.
