Freshers Fairs are Coming Soon - Are You Ready?
Catherine Dove • August 31, 2017
It’s coming up to that busy time when nervous yet excited students are leaving home to explore their new university and the various societies, clubs and sports teams that are open to them. To smoothly run a successful freshers fair you need to facilitate the students who are so passionately trying to build up their society members. So how can you best do this? Here are some tips to ensure you run the most exciting freshers fair to date:
- Shout about it! If you haven’t already started making leaflets, branded freebies and other promotional materials then you should get to it now. University branded bags, stress balls, clothing, sweets, key rings and USB sticks are all great ideas to get the students interested and engaged with the upcoming fair.
- Sort out stand layout.
How many societies, clubs and sports team do you need to facilitate for, and what exactly do they need? Electricity, props or extra space are all things to consider when completing the layout of the fair. If part of the fair is held outside, which stands would need to stay indoors?
- Talk to us about your display board hire requirements.
We have a lot of experience with multiple universities
providing shell schemes
and poster board, so you can rely on quality, availability and a fast turnaround. Our expert team will help plan according to your exact needs to ensure that no society is left without a stand and that everything goes smoothly. Our boards are available for either purchase or hire, so get in touch.
“We use SD Displays for their poster board hire and we have always found them to be prompt, friendly and reliable suppliers. On the rare occasions when we have last minute requests, SD Displays have been prompt with their service”
- Senate House, University of London
- Keep your students engaged.
Use social media and email to update your students on how the freshers fair went, for instance let them know how many societies and students attended, and some of the big highlights of the day. A feedback form can also be distributed through these platforms, which can highlight issues and help you improve year on year.
We want your freshers fair to be an exciting, memorable and flawlessly organised event, and we can help. Get in touch on 01628 673864 or drop us at email at info@sd-displays.co.uk.
Our office hamster Syd would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New year. At SD Displays, we understand how quickly calendars get filled up around this time of year, so here are our special Christmas opening hours to help you plan accordingly: We are shut for Christmas from Monday 23rd December to Thursday 2nd January.
SD Displays have been working with GEWISS for the past 3 years providing them with exhibition stands, graphics and Point of Sale (POS) boards. GEWISS is a well-established leading market player in the international electrotechnical industry, with offices, subsidiaries, and production sites in more than 80 countries. The POS boards are by far the most work we do with GEWISS as we make these in large quantities at a time. We create two sizes of boards with them – the large ones being 1100 x 800mm and the mini ones being 800 x 400mm. These eye catching and lightweight boards are used to display their products such as industrial plugs and sockets and rotary isolator switches, in electrical wholesale outlets, exhibition stands and demos. We print directly onto 19mm Strada boards and then attach their products to create the final display. We process about 50 – 100 boards per order and it takes on average 20 minutes to produce one board. These are a great example of the bespoke displays we can produce for our customers, so if you have an idea in mind for your own products, get in contact to see how we can help.
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