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Focus Bank Holidays
If you’ve got the space and the weather is good, why not have some fun outdoors?
Fun and games
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GET NOTICED. Do something different. Create a course for the day for £150 plus VAT from event between 10p and 15p of every £1 candy floss or
stir. It’s all too easy to suggest you put on some- and party hire company Little Monsters. Each hole popcorn sold. So what have you got to lose? Merlin
thing extra special to get people into your pub over involves a different obstacle to negotiate, including can also provide pre-packed candy floss on a sale
the approaching bank holidays – but what can you pyramids, castles, tunnels, loops and bridges. Hire or return basis with pots costing 50p. The company
actually do? We’ve rounded up a few ideas to help includes everything from putters and coloured balls delivers in the Nottinghamshire area.
you put on something memorable. From smaller to score cards, pencils and bunting. Clubs are suit- www.merlininflatables-uk.co.uk
products that can fit in any pub, to supervised able for children from age three upwards. And of 0115 9202200
activities and larger games, there’s something for course there’s the option to charge people for a
everyone. Some involve an initial cash outlay, but if game, which should mean you can make back the 5. Sumo suits
you’re canny about it, you can more than make hire cost pretty easily – weather permitting. Little It’s great fun to run at people and try and push them
your money back. Monsters delivers nationally. over when wearing a big, bouncy, fat suit. Fact. You
Some of the suppliers included here deliver www.littlemonsters-bouncycastles.co.uk can rent giant sumo wrestling sets including suits
nationally, some don’t. But you can find similar 0800 0430 346 for children, teenagers and adults, a padded tourna-
services in your area through local directories or by ment mat, neck pads and head guards for £120 from
visiting the British Inflatable Hirers Alliance 3. Giant darts Bounce Krazee. It’s worth checking with your insur-
website at www.biha.org.uk Get your champion darts team of 2020 in training ance provider to see if you need additional cover
early, and without the risk of permanent injury, before deciding to host something like this. Also
1. Goody bags with this giant inflatable darts board. Bean bag check if your supplier has public liability insurance.
Goody bags can entertain children, and promote darts attach to the Velcro board when thrown. It Bounce Krazee deliver to the Middlesex, Oxford-
your pub at the same time. Adults with children are may be tall, but you don’t need much space to host shire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire areas.
likely to stay in your pub longer and spend more one, about two meters square in fact, and hire is www.bouncekrazee.com
money if kids behave well. You can also boost your around £55 per day from Triple A Inflatables, which 01494 464902
chances for repeat visits from customers, who will delivers to the Cambridgeshire area.
appreciate your pub is good value and family- www.aaainflatables.co.uk 6. Fun and games
friendly. Goody Bags Online offers a range of bags 0800 0437 620 Whether its giant games of Jenga, Connect 4 or a
featuring colouring books, crayons, games, toys and sack race, games create a talking point and enter-
puzzles. The bags can also be personalised with 4. Candy floss hire tainment for kids and big kids alike. Zebedee Cas-
your pub’s logo and contact details. Prices start at Whether you’re using your garden to host a live tles supplies giant games including chess, ludo,
85p per pack and go up to £3.95. They are available band, a fête, beer festival or bouncy castle, it’s a dominoes, and noughts and crosses. Or why not
on next day delivery nationally. good idea to offer something different. Candy floss conjure up the atmosphere of a traditional village
www.goodybagsonline.co.uk and popcorn stalls create a bit of theatre and with fête with an old-fashioned coconut shy stand? Ren-
01926 642344 that gorgeous smell wafting around, who can resist? tal starts from £35, with prices rising depending on
Merlin Inflatables offers hire of a machine, a staff what prizes you offer. Zebedee supplies to Norfolk,
2. Crazy golf member to run it, and a choice of stall from which Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex. ■
Bring a true bank holiday feel to your beer garden to sell it, depending on space. What’s more, hire is www.zebedeecastles.co.uk
with a spot of crazy golf. You can hire a nine hole free on a profit sharing basis. You’ll get to keep 0800 611 8171
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