The complete kit list, written down
What our optimiser computes per event, published as honest checklists: every hire line, the quantity logic, the booking order and the budget bands. Steal freely; the optimiser just does it faster.
Eleven hire lines stand between a field and a wedding. Here is every one of them, with quantities, prices and the order to book them in.
A festival is a small town built in a week. This is the infrastructure list for the 500 to 2,000 person scale, with the ratios your event management plan will be judged on.
The fete is the most organised chaos in English life. Here is the hire list that keeps the committee sane, for a typical 500-visitor afternoon on the green.
Corporate events carry a different bar: brand-clean presentation, AV that cannot fail, and welfare your CFO would use. The list for a 300-person summer party or launch.
A bonfire and a fireworks display is a crowd standing in a dark field next to a fire. The kit list is almost entirely about managing that safely, not decorating it.
A summer marquee list and a Christmas one share a shape, but winter adds four problems money has to solve: mud, dark, cold and coats. Here is the checklist for a 150-guest office party.
A 40th, 50th or 60th in the garden needs around ten hire lines to go from lawn to party. Here is the checklist, with quantities for 80 guests.
A charity ball has to look effortless and raise real money on the same night. Here is the hire list that makes both possible, worked at 200 guests.
A christening or naming day is a short, seated afternoon for close family, not a party that needs a dance floor. Here is the shorter hire list that actually matches it, worked at 40 guests.
A wake is not a party dressed down, it is its own kind of gathering: unhurried, catering-led, and usually organised at short notice by someone who has enough to think about already. Here is the shorter, quieter hire list that actually matches it, worked at 50 guests.
A launch is built around one moment, the reveal, and everything on this list exists to make that moment land and then get out of the way for the drinks reception after it. Worked at 150 guests.
One clubhouse, six age groups, one afternoon: a presentation day outgrows most clubhouses long before it outgrows the club. Here is the hire list that closes the gap, worked at 150 guests.
A village show runs two events at once: a century-old produce competition judged in near silence by 11am, and a public show day for hundreds of visitors by 1pm. Here is the hire list for both, worked at 800 visitors.
A school fete runs under rules no village green needs: safeguarding, under-16 raffle law and a PTA committee's own insurance. Here is the hire list and the paperwork that sits around it, worked at a 350-visitor primary school scale.
A street party runs on a road closure order, not a venue hire contract: the houses either side already supply the toilets and the kitchen that every other event on this list has to hire in. Here is the short, honest kit list for a closed residential street at 150 guests, and the council paperwork that actually comes first.