Friday, November 28, 2008
Pride award 3 year bar contract to local company
Following a rigorous and open tendering process, Pride in Brighton & Hove have awarded the bars contract for Preston Park, to Aeon Events PR Ltd. whose brands include Wild Fruit, Sunday Sundae, Monkey and Cash Queen. The deal is subject to contract and lasts for the next three years. Pride will be working closely with Aeon Events over the coming weeks to finalise the contract.
Paul Kemp from Aeon Events PR Ltd said,
“As a local gay business and staunch long term supporter and fundraiser for Pride we are thrilled that Pride have granted the bars contract to Aeon Events (subject to contract). Once we had met the criteria, we were advised that it would be fair and more flexible of us to submit several options for Pride to consider. Running the bars at Pride is an enormous undertaking and until contacts have been signed we can’t comment on specific details. However, we will be working closely with Pride over the next month and initial plans are that Wild Fruit will continue to operate the Wild Fruit dance tent bar whilst several of the other bars can be sublet including the cabaret tent bar, members bar, etc in order to be inclusive & encourage other local businesses to operate on the park and be involved in Pride as in previous years.”
Yvonne Barker, Chair of Pride in Brighton & Hove added,
Paul Kemp from Aeon Events PR Ltd said, “As a local gay business and staunch long term supporter and fundraiser for Pride we are thrilled that Pride have granted the bars contract to Aeon Events (subject to contract). Once we had met the criteria, we were advised that it would be fair and more flexible of us to submit several options for Pride to consider. Running the bars at Pride is an enormous undertaking and until contacts have been signed we can’t comment on specific details. However, we will be working closely with Pride over the next month and initial plans are that Wild Fruit will continue to operate the Wild Fruit dance tent bar whilst several of the other bars can be sublet including the cabaret tent bar, members bar, etc in order to be inclusive & encourage other local businesses to operate on the park and be involved in Pride as in previous years.”
Yvonne Barker, Chair of Pride in Brighton & Hove added,
"We look forward to working closely with Aeon Events to ensure the bar service provided involves and meets the needs of the local LGBT community and contributes to the continued success of Pride."
