University of Bristol's Welcome Fair

As we did for our Refreshers period in January, this year for our Welcome (Freshers) period, we’re asking some amazing local organisations and brands to promote their products and services to our students in a gamified way.

We want to give students the opportunity to 'take away' exciting and unique freebies by visiting the Bristol SU Instagram through a competitions that will go live every week of the Welcome period for 6 weeks (starting on 13 August). If your business/brand/organisation is able to donate any freebies, prizes, or vouchers that we are able to distribute to students or giveaway in our competitions, please get in touch!

In exchange for you providing something unique and exciting for our students to 'take-home', we are offering free advertisement opportunities for your business, including but not limited to: 
•    SOLUS email to our student database to promote anything you have coming up
•    Social media content (Our Facebook account has 21,000 followers, and our Bristol SU Instagram has 5,800 followers)
•    Welcome Portal banner or your logo in our ‘sponsors’ section (this will be a big hero banner or your logo at the heart of the homepage)
•    Welcome Fair stall (these are RRP starting from £240-300 so would be allocated to bigger prize givers)

Our deadline to let our marketing team know all the wonderful freebies we have for our students is 2 August so please get in touch before this date if possible.

 

Haven’t heard of the Welcome Fair?

The Freshers Fair (or The Welcome Fair, as we call it) is a colourful mix of commercial, University and student stalls. Our last physical Welcome Fair in 2019 was attended by 13,000 students. This year, for the first time ever we are offering a two-day Welcome Fair on the 24 - 25 September 2021! This is a fantastic chance to connect with more students than ever before as our aim for this year is to engage with not only the newest first-year intake, but also last year’s first years (our now second years) after a difficult they’ve had with COVID-19 and then national lockdown taking away their opportunities to live the freshers experience. We’re keen to get as many local Bristol businesses and organisations on board as possible for the fair to help promote their brand to our students after a difficult year for everyone. 

If you are at all interested in providing a prize (or in booking a stall with us!) or know someone who might be that you can pass on, please don’t hesitate to get in touch and we would love to discuss an option that works for you! We’re looking for a diverse offering from clothing, food and drink to theatre vouchers, art exhibitions and shows and more. 

I’ve attached our ‘welcome media pack’ for more information if you’re interested on what we offer advertisement wise and so you can see more info on our stalls. Our local rates aren’t included in here so pop us a message if you want to know about pricing for any items.