Venue Facilities

Media and Marketing

Media and Marketing Contact

The person who you designate as your venue media contact will be the point of contact for everything relating to the media and marketing of your venue. It's mandatory to enter a contact name for the media and marketing of your venue. This field is mandatory.

They will need to keep in regular contact with the Fringe Media Office and their contact details will also be made available to accredited journalists so please let this person know in advance that they might receive press enquiries.

If you start to type an EdFringeware user's name in the Media and Marketing Contact field, then a drop-down box will display all similar names registered with EdFringeware and you can select the correct one before saving. To enter your own contact details, start typing your name and then select yourself from the list.

If the person that you want to invite to be the Media and Marketing Contact isn't registered with EdFringeware, select or add contact details before filling out the rest of the invitation.

Festival website

Add your venue's website here for it to be listed with your venue entry in the Fringe Programme and online. This field will be featured in your venue's listing on tickets.edfringe.com. You can only add one web address here.

Venue has a media office

If your venue has a dedicated media office that can be contacted by journalists, please tick this box.

Venue has media staff

Even if your venue doesn't have a dedicated media office, please tick this box if you have staff who can be contacted by journalists.

Media office opening times (during festival)

Please enter hours that your media office is open (or the hours in which your media staff can be contacted).

Charge for publicity

If your venue offers publicity services to groups using your venue and make a charge for this, please tick this box. This includes any extra charges to be included in printed programmes.

How much do you charge?

Please state how much your venue will charge for publicity.

Own programme published

If your venue publishes a printed programme of events, please tick this box.

Size of print run

If your venue publishes a printed programme of events, please write the number of copies that are printed.

Other marketing support or information for your venue

If your venue offers any further help with marketing to performers and groups then please write the details of this support here.

 

Venue Advertising 

Each venue is entitled to one large venue board for free. How many large venue boards would you like in total, including your free one?

Large venue boards are 1221 x 916mm corex signs that are printed with your venue number and can be affixed to the outside of your venue. You will be provided with one large venue board free of charge and can buy extra ones for £30 each. Please specify how many large boards you would like in total, including your free one.

How many small venue boards would you like? 

Small venue boards are 742 x 482mm corex signs that are printed with your venue number and can be affixed to outside of your venue. These help people to easily identify your venue. Small venue boards cost £17.50 each. If you would like your free venue board to be small rather than large, please put '0' into the large venue quantity, and indicate the quantity of small boards you would like, including your free one.

Venue board delivery and special requirements

Please let us know if there is any extra information that will make delivering your venue boards easier for us, such as days and times of access to a property, alternative address, etc.

Desired number of venue maps

We print an official map of all venues which you can give away to audience members in your venue. These are pocket-sized, fold-out maps that are taken away and help audience members navigate their way through the city. They are also useful to members of your staff when helping to explain directions to customers in your venue. There is no charge for these, but we might limit quantities to meet demand.

 

Box Office and Public Information

Box Office Contact

The person who you designate as your box office contact will be the point of contact for everything relating to ticketing at your venue.

If you start to type an EdFringeware user's name in the field then a drop down box will display all similar names registered with EdFringeware and you can select the correct one before saving. To enter your own contact details, start typing your name and then select yourself from the list.

If the person that you want to invite to be the Media and Marketing Contact isn't registered with EdFringeware, select or add contact details before filling out the rest of the invitation.

It isn't mandatory to have a Box Office Contact, so you can select Don't specify contact if you don't want to enter a name here.

Box office telephone number

If provided, the venue's box office telephone number will appear in the printed programme and online. This number will be displayed alongside the programme entries for each of the shows held at your venue, so it is important to ensure that the number provided applies to all shows appearing at your venue. If this field is left blank, the main Fringe Box Office contact number will be displayed.

Venue runs own box office

If your venue has its own box office (so it sells tickets to the public direct from the venue) then please tick this box.

Opening hours (during festival)

This information is printed in the Fringe Programme and refers to the opening hours of your venue's box office. If tickets are sold on the door before the show you can add this information here. If you do not run a box office or your shows are free, leave this space blank.

Box office staff

If your venue has dedicated box office staff whose sole job it is to sell tickets for shows then please tick here.

Accepts credit cards

If the public are able to pay for tickets purchased from your box office using a credit or debit card, please tick this box.

Computerised box office

If your box office runs a computerised box office system, please tick here.

Does this venue use the VIA ticketing system and is it therefore linked to the Fringe box office?

If your box office links directly with the Fringe box office using VIA software, please tick here. 

Phone sales

If the public can buy tickets over the telephone, then please tick this box.

Ticket printing

If your box office can print its own ticket directly from the sales system, please tick here.

Online venue ticket sales

If you sell tickets online through a venue website, then please tick this box.

Further box office information

If there is further information about your box office that you would like to share in your venue listing, then please include this information here.

Information telephone number

You can add a number for general information (not box office) here and it will be included in the printed programme and online. This might be useful if you are listing the Fringe Box Office phone number for people buying tickets, or it is a non-ticketed show, but you still want the public to be able to contact you. If your information number is the same as your box office number, please leave this section blank.

Admin opening hours (during festival)

Please give the hours that your administrative staff are available during the Fringe.

 

 

Venue Facilities

Front of House staff

If your venue employs front of house staff (for example, checking audience tickets, serving drinks, helping audience members to find their seat and looking after them while they are on the premises) then please tick this box.

Technical staff

If your venue employs staff to assist with the technical aspects of a performance such as lighting / sound / electricians then please tick this box.

Bar

If your venue has a bar which sells alcoholic and soft drinks to audience members, then please tick here.

Café or catering

If your venue serves food to audience members (over and above bar snacks such as crisps and nuts), then please tick this box.

Food & drink description

If your venue has food or beverages available for the public, you can detail the facilities in 20 words or less here. This information will be included in the printed programme and online with your venue entry.

Additional venue facility details

If there are any further venue facilities that you offer, please write these here.

Exhibition space

If you have an area within your venue that can be used by group to hold exhibitions then please tick this box.

Exhibition space description

If you ticked the question above this one to indicate that your venue has exhibition space then please write the specifics of the exhibition space in this box.