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  • How to make money from 40,000 People
  • thepodge
    Free Member

    There is a good chance that for 1 weekend next summer there will be 40,000 people in the park at the end of my road at a music festival. A good chunk of people local are moaning but I’ve been trying to work out how to make some cash out of them.

    Air BnB is out, not enough return for the effort
    Selling food is out as I presume I’d need a hygiene licence
    Selling flashing plastic tat could be a goer but not sure

    Any suggestions?

    mechanicaldope
    Full Member

    Peep show?

    Ewan
    Free Member

    Parking on your drive if you have one.

    If it looks like rain by some plastic cagols and cheap wellies

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    martinhutch
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    Moan at the organiser until they provide free tickets for your entire family. Then sell them on.

    perchypanther
    Free Member

    Taking a dump in your toilet. £1 a go.

    TheFlyingOx
    Full Member

    Send the kids out with a screwdriver in each hand and equipped with the phrase “5 quid to watch your car, mate”

    mikewsmith
    Free Member

    Car parking – talk to the local school etc – do it for charity for them.
    Bottles of water etc.
    Geocache wine and beer around the park

    trickydisco
    Free Member

    £1 pac a macs for £6
    wellies
    Cans of beer

    thepodge
    Free Member

    Traffic is terrible round here at the best of times so any car related stuff is out.

    Tickets are £30, not sure its worth the return.

    Bottled water maybe not a bad idea.

    Doubt I’d get away with selling warm beer on the street.

    trickydisco
    Free Member

    is it a camping festival?

    binners
    Full Member

    Coke and hookers

    thepodge
    Free Member

    Not camping and I already have the C & H market covered.

    DezB
    Free Member

    If it looks like rain by some plastic cagols and cheap wellies

    Or if it looks hot, sunglasses and suncream! or all 4 🙂

    andyrm
    Free Member

    Cans of Stella and Thatchers in a big bin full of cold water on the route in. £2 a pop. Security can’t do anything if you are not on the bounds of the event site.

    Maybe add bottles of water too, again £2.

    Good luck! Let us know how much £££ you make 🙂

    TheBrick
    Free Member

    Nitrous oxide in a balloon.
    Magic tricks.
    Rillza and lighters.
    Prepackaged food and snacks.
    Water.
    Toilet rolls.
    Shewee type devices.

    perchypanther
    Free Member

    Cans of Stella and Thatchers in a big bin full of cold water on the route in. £2 a pop. Security can’t do anything if you are not on the bounds of the event site.

    The local Alcohol Licensing Authority might have something to say about it though.

    howsyourdad1
    Free Member

    ” Pills, weed, acid, trips” a la Glastonbury Stone Circle every year ad infinitum

    PimpmasterJazz
    Free Member

    Warm-up festival in your front garden. £3 entry. Get people in the mood as they head to the main event.

    DezB
    Free Member

    Hire a minibus and do shuttle runs to the train station.

    Trimix
    Free Member

    Just ask them to sponsor you to ride your mountain bike for a year. 10p from each of them and you have £4,000

    rt60
    Full Member

    What’s the festival?

    rene59
    Free Member

    Pick their pockets, beg and extort.

    kimbers
    Full Member

    dig a secret tunnel to the park from ypur back garden

    charge 15 quid pp

    codybrennan
    Free Member

    Offer a 10 minute hot shower. Supply dry towels. £5 a go. Trust me, its a winner.

    woody2000
    Full Member

    Secure bag storage?

    bearnecessities
    Full Member

    Back rubs.

    thepodge
    Free Member

    do you know, I saw some lockers going free just the other day.

    docrobster
    Free Member

    Yeah what’s the festival? I want to go!

    Edit: are you on about tramlines?
    In which case I’ll buy some warm Stella from you for £2

    nedrapier
    Full Member

    Gallagher’s Finsbury Park do?

    Used to live just round the corner, I wonder if we overlapped?

    wrightyson
    Free Member

    Bags of ice. No one likes a warm lager or cider. I’d gladly pay 3 or 4 quid for a bag of ice at a festival.

    wrightyson
    Free Member

    Just seen no camping so the ice is out. Not really a festival then. Bottled water is the winner really.

    thepodge
    Free Member

    Its Tramlines festival.

    Not sure I can get away with supplying alcohol even if it is warm.

    njee20
    Free Member

    Offer a 10 minute hot shower. Supply dry towels. £5 a go. Trust me, its a winner.

    Depends on how many towels you have, I doubt most people have more than 10 or so, and you’re not gonna dry them in time. Not sure it’s worth buying 500 towels, nor worth doing for £50.

    Could you just rob the punters? Gotta be some nice watches in there, and loads of cash.

    paladin
    Full Member

    mobile phone charging, £5 for an hour

    mikewsmith
    Free Member

    Have a bbq and see what you can listen to.
    All great suggestions but nothing that will equate to more than a couple of quid an hour for the effort you put in.

    docrobster
    Free Member

    So is it true it’s moving to hillsborough Park then?
    If previous years are anything to go by I think rain capes will be the biggest sellers.

    cloudnine
    Free Member

    Metal detector / scavenging the morning after. People lose or leave all sorts at festivals.

    thepodge
    Free Member

    Not 100% confirmed that its in the Bro but it looks like if its not there then its not happening.

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