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SubWoofers 2018 - yes we did that!

Since September my day to day life has consisted mostly of planning for May 6th and hoping that it’d be a success!

As team leader for marketing my main job was to get people through the door and get tickets sold. In the build up the online sales were slow but picked up as we managed to get some print material out. We were incredibly blessed to have the weather on our side for the whole weekend so the build and break of the site was easier than if we had pouring rain. The day before the event consisted of putting up fencing around the site - which was hard in the heat but everyone was very hard working and pulled through to get that up. 

On the day of the event I arrived at 7:30am with half of the team to begin final preparations for the event. This entailed setting up the box office, queuing systems, putting up signage and getting the remainder of stalls/traders/rides in. Having all the team there on the morning after 10:30 was really helpful as we managed to get everything together quicker! 

By 12 people were already arriving - even though we didn’t open until 1! The last hour until the opening was manic as final checks needed to be done and everything needed to be in place. Once we opened I stayed at box office to get people through the door quicker. Our pre-paid queue was moving very slow and we had a few disgruntled customers complaining. I managed to work out a new system that would then get the queue moving quicker. Once this was implemented the queue started to move and we got people through the door in a faster time. The main rush of people came within the first two hours and the site soon filled up.

The day seemed to fly by and it was already time for Ska Souls to take the stage. This was my favourite point during the day - a group of us all were by the stage and everyone was really happy and dancing along to them. It was also great seeing the crowd up on their feet dancing along to the music and enjoying themselves. 

Once they left the stage the site emptied and it was time for our break down. The production team organised this incredibly well and we all were put into smaller groups. This allowed us to get the site broken down before we left for the evening leaving us with less to do post event! 

From a marketing point of view throughout the build up to the event I was so worried that we wouldn’t get anyone through the door. Each sales update we would get would fill me with dread that the event wouldn’t be a success for the Hearing Dogs for Deaf People. I couldn’t have been more wrong! Seeing the queues of people at 1pm working their way into site and the car park filling up made me feel like we had done a job well done!

We managed to get all our print out - that being banners, A0 boards, posters and fliers. We got posters up into shops and fliers handed out at train stations during peak hours. We managed to secure interviews on BBC Three Counties, Wycombe Sound and Marlow FM. We had a media partnership with Mix 96 who played an advertisement for SubWoofers in the last two weeks running up to the event. We engaged with Bucks Free Press, Bucks Herald, Wendover News and Hiya Bucks. All of them put us into their media. On the day - we had photographers from Bucks Free Press and Bucks Herald come to site and photograph. Helen from Hiya Bucks came along with her family and is going to cover the post-event on her platform. The Hearing Dogs got print out from their end too to volunteers and distributed at schools. Banners were placed at areas with high amounts of traffic. All of this was such a success as we managed 3,500 attendees through the door on the day - which is more than I could have ever imagined!

The only thing I would criticise myself on would to have grown more of a back bone to delegate the jobs building up to the event. I enjoyed being team leader so much but found it difficult to fully get through to people what I needed them to do. For the most part - half of my team were incredible at what they managed to achieve and I’m so proud of them!

SubWoofers was incredible and I am absolutely gutted I won’t be able to put it on again next year as it is my favourite thing I’ve done at uni in the last two years!!!

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The event is happening in just two weeks time from now. Over these few month we were all working hard to get everything ready. Each person was assigned to one area to focus on. But we are all helping each other because eventually it is our joint event. We also have our lecturers that help and keep us going.

This family event is a partnership between Bucks New University and Hearing Dogs for Deaf People. It’ll take place on the charity field in Saunderton starting at 1pm and finishing at 7pm. There will be lots of amazing music, wonderful performances, fairground rides, inflatables for kids and many more.

Like last year people were going to workshop to paint the signs. There were some radio interviews to advertise our event. We were arriving on the field plenty of times to walk around it, measure it, visualise what should be where. We made a presentation for people from the charity to show them our plan for the event. We work on it together and we try to communicate as smooth as it’s possible, what it very important in order to make this event going.

I am in charge of the food traders and I will be managing them on the day of the event. It was not easy to find an appropriate number of diverse services. Eventually I manages to find something for everyone. There will be choices of vegetarian, vegan, gluten free, dairy free, and also halal food to satisfy any kind of hunger. Attendees will be able to enjoy their time eating any kind of meal they want. Little Reds will provide wooden fried pizzas, also halal. Crocus Paella will be serving meaty and vegetarian paellas. Fritto & Via will please us with fish & chips and burgers. Yes Chef will bring their Mexican tacos and burritos. Over The Grill will introduce us to the Caribbean cuisine. Rub BBQ will be selling their jerk pork, chicken wings and halloumi wraps. Happy Crepes will suit us with both savoury and sweet crepes. Walls & Lyle will prepare for us their homemade cakes and muffins, and will be serving refreshing cocktails and Prosecco. Global Catering will be making fresh milkshakes and smoothies. Party On Slushy On will content kids with freshly made popcorn, candy floss, slushes, and halal sweets. There also will be an ice-cream van in the chill our area.

My job was to collect all the paperwork, pitch sizes, arriving times, etc from these traders. I had to provide them all the information about event and sent over the contracts which I received back signed and confirmed. Whenever I don’t know the answer for any question they are asking me about I can always expect help from other people working in my group.

I was also asked to create a site map for the event as I did it last year which wasn’t great in my opinion and because this event is a much bigger deal I wanter it to be quality-wise. Therefore I asked my sister for help as she is an architecture student in Poland so she advised me to use Photoshop and showed me how to operate it. So thanks to her I created it :

I took the image of the dog from our leaflet created by another colleague.

There were many changes and difficulties. Although, we managed to face all of them. From now on it’s the matter of accomplishing each section. I can see my colleagues stressing out a little but everyone is working hard at this point and I am sure we will create a great and enjoyable for everyone event.

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Saunderton Oct 15 2017

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Saunderton Oct 15 2017