festival pack

Gardenbury brings you the fun of a festival from the comfort of your garden!

Organising a mini festival in your own back garden is the perfect way to celebrate the festival season and get the great feeling that comes from helping St Luke’s. This festival pack is full of guidance, ideas and templates to ensure yours is the best festival of the summer!

How to organise your Gardenbury Pick a date. With the festival season in full swing for the whole summer, your Gardenbury can be held on a weekend that suits you. Choose a theme. With so many festivals this summer your Gardenbury could take inspiration from Glastonbury with camping and wellies, Bestival with a fancy dress theme, or channel the chilled vibes of Into the Woods with quirky decorations and lighting. Invite your guests. Text them, tweet them, set up a group on Facebook, or go all out and use our templates to create your own invitations. However you choose to invite them, remember that a wristband or VIP Lanyard when they arrive will bring an immediate smile and help them embrace your Gardenbury. Begin your planning. From food and drink, to decorations and lighting, these elements will help bring your theme to life. Don’t forget to think about the added extras – a pile of blankets for your guests to relax on or keep cosy when the night cools down, and if your Gardenbury is child friendly then activities, games and VIP kids tent is essential! Organise your playlist. If you’re watching live festival coverage on the red button or listening on the radio then this is easily taken care of. If the weather is dry you could move your TV or radio outside, or keep it sheltered in a doorway close to your garden. There are other festivals covered on TV, radio and YouTube throughout the summer so there is plenty of choice, or have a browse for festival inspired playlists. If live music is more your thing then consider an acoustic set – from playing your own guitar and having a sing-along to organising a local band or DJ to play, you really can make Gardenbury exactly what you want.

How to raise money from your Gardenbury for St Luke’s

Your Gardenbury can raise money for St Luke’s in so many different ways, here a few of our favourite ideas to get you started. You’ll find some lovely designs and messages to stick to jam jar all around your Gardenbury so you can raise lots! VIP entry. Is your Gardenbury ‘access all areas’ or VIP only? We have a fantastic design you can download so all your guests can have a VIP pass, or if children are coming along you could ask them to design some wristbands from ribbon and beads for everyone to wear for the true festival experience. If your Gardenbury is child friendly why not consider making a kids only tent with chairs and an old bed sheet, they could have their own coloured wristband for their private tent! Adult trespassers must make a donation! Food and drink. Festivals are all about the food, but your Gardenbury can be ex-actly what you want – keep things as simple or unusual as you would like. Dona-tion jars by the BBQ or drinks station are an easy way to collect your donations. An alternative option to the BBQ could be pizza making where everyone gets to make their own pizzas and bake them in an outside pizza oven. Later on you could toast marshmallows on a fire pit, or use the kids wendy house as pudding station. After all the dancing you can offer guests a boost with a pick and mix, just don’t forget your donation jar! Face painting. Gardenbury is a chance to go with the festival dress code, and face painting is a fun and unique way for everyone to get involved. Your face painting station could be manned or unmanned, simply add your donation jar to the table. Lovely loos. Queues at Gardenbury are a think of the past, so give your guests a chance to say thank you for the fresh scent and stash of loo roll with a donations jar in your lavatory! Camping tickets. Depending on how much you’re embracing the festival theme (and of course what the weather is doing!) you might decide to offer guests the chance to camp, a great way to extend the party and another way to raise more money for St Luke’s! And don’t forget to share #MyGardenbury with us online! Enjoy!

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