The most obvious question, which is best answered with the classic "it depends!" Your costs are going to be primarily determined by the size of the festival stage you hire. The bigger the stage, the higher your costs will tend to be. Then you've got to factor in all of the associated equipment hire such as lighting and sound. Distance from our base to your venue and set up costs also need to be accounted for.

If you want ballpark figures, you can hire a small outdoor covered festival stage for comfortably under £2,000. Yes, that's right, for an event where you might have ticket sales in the region of £10,000 - £20,000 you can secure a high-quality festival stage for less than a tenth of your ticket sales.

At the other end of the scale, for our most extensive festival stage hire package (which includes an industry leading event production set up lighting, sound etc.), you're looking at closer to £18,000. Again, these are everything included prices. Always check with stage hire providers that the price they are giving you includes everything you need. You can learn more about festival stage hire costs here.

Once again, it depends on the specific type of festival stage hire option you've chosen. But, as with costs, the larger the stage, the longer it is likely to take to be built. Smaller festival stages can be constructed and completed within a matter of hours.

However, our biggest stages take at least a few working days to complete and can take longer if the weather poses any significant threat to access or safe construction processes. You must always allocate a time period appropriate to your festival stage hire package to avoid running into any difficulties come the event. You can learn more about how long it takes to build a festival stage here.

The short answer is as much as possible. Six weeks is usually the bare minimum. Six months is much better and allows for adequate planning and preparation go in beforehand.

Remember, for large outdoor events, there is a significant amount of red tape for you to negotiate with local and national authorities before we can even think about building a stage on your proposed site. We can help you through this process as experienced festival stage hire providers, but only if we are in the loop at an early enough stage of proceedings.

Obviously, we are always as flexible as possible with our clients. We can work on shortened timescales (especially for small festival stages) if another provider lets you down at the last minute. However, the other reason you need to book in early is that there are only so many stage hire companies and so many festival stages to go around. Once they are gone, they are gone. That means the longer you leave it, the higher the chance is of you missing out on booking the appropriate stage for your event.

Yes! We genuinely mean it when we say that we provide an end-to-end service for our clients. We've already mentioned that we provide all aspects of event production such as sound equipment, lighting fixtures, sound systems, LED screens, PA wings, and power supply.

However, our scope includes supporting you with all necessary health and safety documentation concerning the stage, wind documentation, logistics, and experienced personnel on the ground ensuring set up and dismantling procedures are as smooth as possible.

Outdoor Stages is based in the South East of England, and so a large proportion of our work takes place in and around London and its surrounding counties. However, we have auxiliary warehouses across the country, meaning we can provide festival stage hire right across the UK.

We have also completed several summer tours across continental Europe and will continue to do so moving forwards. If you're unsure whether we can help you, just give us a quick call anytime, and we'll give you an honest assessment of the costs of transporting and setting up a festival stage in your specific location.

Here at Outdoor Stages, we offer several preset, all-in-one festival stage hire packages, which can help streamline your decision making process. They include additional event production aspects including lighting and sound equipment hire, so all you have to do is pay for the package, and we'll handle the rest.

Of course, we can also come up with a tailor-made package for your event. So if your event doesn't neatly fit into one of our packages, there's no need to be concerned. We can still provide you with an excellent value-for-money festival stage hire service, including all event production aspects.

Yes, we can! Here at Outdoor Stages, we are proud to announce that we are the first UK stage hire company to offer a full 3D rendering service for any of our stage hire packages.

This service is perfect for outdoor event planners who need to know what their stage production package will look like, not just from a design perspective, but also for the regulatory bodies and local authorities signing off on the event. You can learn more about our new 3D stage production rendering service here.