Another great Beer Festival and another great year for Hampshire charities!

The morning of Friday 6th October came around quickly, as it usually does with these events. It never really matters what lead time we have or how long we have to prepare it’s always the last couple of days, fuelled by earl grey tea and raw enthusiasm and another great event is launched!

Be clear, be confident and don’t overthink it. The beauty of your story is that it’s going to continue to evolve and your site can evolve with it. Your goal should be to make it feel right for right now. Later will take care of itself. It always does.

Massive thanks goes out to Black Smoke Rebellion and of course the awesome Acoustic Biscuits for creating the LIVE MUSIC set in the evening.

social media - Black Smoke Rebellion

social media - Acoustic Biscuits

Gary ( beer festival event organiser ) had been to a previous music event with Black Smoke Rebellion and The Mafia called ‘Rock Night’. This was also a charitable event organised by HDS whereby ticket sales, raffle and merch sales had created nearly £2500 raised for The Fareham Food and Basics Bank earlier in 2023. The community team designed and produced all the marketing materials for the Rock Night event including road side banners, posters displayed in venues across the south of Hampshire, tickets, charity bucket labels, pull up banners for the venue, all the social media collateral as well as redesigning the Black Smoke Rebellion website to accommodate the gig and the limited edition merch for the event.

The team went door knocking across Fareham and the surrounding area meeting with businesses to gain support for the gig. So many helpful and charitable businesses offered their help and the team grabbed so many raffle prizes they never knew if there would be time to call them all on the night!

One thing that HDS does really well is create engagement between community and business and this is shown in every event. So much so, Laura ( studio director ) is chair of the Waterlooville Community Events team that create funded FREE events for the families of Waterlooville - you can find out more here to see what they get up to and how you can benefit form the events or become a contributor -

Waterlooville Community Events

So if you are a member of a community project, charity, school, college, CIC etc, please get in touch and ask our team about how we can support you and your event and make sure you ask about the studio funded ‘community fund’ that is used to subsidise and support community projects!

email the community directly : community@hampshiredesignstudios.co.uk

Hampshire based band Black Smoke Rebellion rocking out at the Wickham Charity Beer Festival.

The mighty Acoustic Biscuits…

What a great, chilled out sound from these seasoned veterans of LIVE MUSIC! Filling their 2024 gig diary, you can keep up to date with them on their page here…