Thank you for your interest in Newcastle Beer & Cider Festival
This is our 44th festival in the heart of Newcastle upon Tyne at Northumbria Students Union, showcasing the best of real ale & cider, craft beer, local gins and spirits
We open the festival at 4pm on Wednesday 6th April 2022 with a 2-hour trade session attended by brewers, publicans and suppliers to the trade.
An excellent place to socialise and make new friends, suppliers and customers
Each Guest recieves a complementary copy of the Festival Programme, Containing a listing of all the beers & ciders, with tickboxes to check off their progress.
Why not sponsor one of our carefully selected beers?
Your name/business name and contact details will appear alongside your chosen beer(s) in the festival programme.
£80 One Beer
£150 Two Beers
£400 Five Beers + Half Page Advert in the Festival Programme
Other combinations available to suit your requirements
Prior to the festival we spend a lot of time
marketing our event, one of our most successful
items is the distribution of beer mats and we can tailor our delivery method to meet your target market. Sponsoring this item gives you a side of the beer mat for your own branding.
£1000 gets 40,000 Beer Mats
Other volumes available
We regretfully cannot accept partnerships from breweries on this item due to conflicts of interest in establishments we distrbute these in.
Why not sponsor the bags our guests receive on admission as a keepsake, or the bags our Trade Show invitees receive?
You could even contribute branded pens or other marketing materials to be placed in each and every bag.
We can arrange your brand printed on items
£300 gets 1500 pens
£650 gets 1000 tote bags
The volunteers at our festival wear a branded T-Shirt, which is your opportunity to showcase your brand. Those volunteering at the festival often wear these items with pride to other beer/cider events
£1000 will pay for 100 T-Shirts
Your brand highly visible
Co-promotion opportunities on social media and in our branch magazine which is distributed in pubs across Tyneside and Northumberland
Feature on a 3m long banner in the hall in a popular photo spot
Entertain your guests
Ten Patron Entry packs, Including entry, programme and glass and their first three glasses of beer or cider
Use these for your staff, family or customers it’s your choice!
£500
Want to make it Special?
We can arrange a private seating area with grazing platters
Buy in advance
We can take prebookings for your team events – perfect for a social or recognition reward
Rate card to be released soon, but get in touch if you are interested!
Be Social
Pubs, breweries, sponsors and suppliers to the trade are welcome to our trade session. get in contact to arrange admission
Drive Sales
Why not hire a table to showcase your brand, with such a wide range of trade visitors you will get great exposure
Be seen
Each festival visitor gets a free programme, how about an advert to get your business noticed?
Quarter Page £52 93.5 x 62mm
Half Page £100 93.5 x 128mm
Full Page £180 190.0 x 128mm
Combine this with an advert in our branch magazine “Canny Bevvy” for a 10% discount on your festival programme advert
Each year we look towards a series of vendors to assist us in our event, we have a pitch avaible for a Gin/Spirits Bar. (Thurs- Sat) Plus two pitches which are normally taken for cold snack vendors.(Wed – Sat)
There are also pitches availible for the trade session only