The most obvious question, which is best answered with the classic "it depends!" Your costs are going to rest largely on the size of the stage you hire. The bigger the stage, the higher your costs are likely to be.

Don't forget to take into account the associated equipment hires such as lighting and sound too. Many outfits give you a price for the stage only, whereas our stage hire packages come with extensive AV equipment included within the flat fee you pay.

If you want ballpark figures, you can hire a small outdoor covered festival stage from us for comfortably under £1,000, which represents incredible value for money (not that we are biased). At the other end of the scale, for our most extensive stage hire package (which includes an industry-leading event production set up lighting, sound etc.), you're looking at closer to £10,000.

Custom setups could run to even more once logistics and set up costs are included. It all depends on your specific requirements. If you want to learn more about the costs that go into stage hire in England, you can read about stage hire costs here.

Once again, lead and build times are heavily dependent on the specific type of stage you have chosen.

As you might have guessed, the larger the stage, the longer it takes to construct. Smaller, mobile 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.

That's why it's always a good idea to allocate more time than you should need for us to construct the stage. It just ensures that you don't run into any issues come the day of 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. We ask for a minimum of six weeks, but six months is preferable as it allows for adequate planning and preparation go in beforehand.

Remember, we can help you navigate the significant amount of red tape required by local and national authorities for large outdoor events. But we can only offer you our help if we are in the picture at an early enough stage of proceedings.

Obviously, we are flexible in specific cases, such as when 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 all booked up, that's it. Thus, delaying your stage hire booking is only going to cause you problems in the long run.

Yes! We're not messing around when we state that we supply an end-to-end service. We provide all aspects of event production, such as sound equipment, lighting fixtures, sound systems, LED screens, PA wings, and power supply.

Better still, we can support you by providing all of the necessary health and safety documentation concerning the stage, take care of the logistics, and supply some of the most experienced personnel in the events industry to ensure that setup and disassembly are silky smooth.

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. But we can supply a stage hire package to any location in England, or the rest of the UK for that matter. We also provide our stage hire services across continental Europe.

If you're unsure whether we can help you, just give us a quick call anytime, and we'll tell you within minutes whether or not our stage hire services are a good fit for you (they usually are!).

We do indeed! We offer several all-in-one stage hire packages, which help to streamline the decision-making process. They include additional event production aspects, including lighting and sound equipment hire, so all you have to do is pay the package price, and we'll handle the rest.

If your event doesn't neatly fit into one of our packages, we can quickly develop a bespoke hire package for you, no problem. Whichever route you choose to go down, we will still provide you with an excellent value-for-money stage hire service.

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. That includes both indoor and outdoor stage hire options.

This service is perfect for 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 signing off on the event. You can learn more about our new 3D stage production rendering service here.