Marquee Hire News

We like to keep our clients, prospective clients, colleagues and friends up to date with the goings on at Cascade Events.

August 2011

20m and 15m Clearspan Marquees Arrive

We have hugely expanded our hire stock with some much larger structures up to 20m wide. More details and pricing will be coming soon on the all new Cascade Temporary Structures website.

June 2011

Cascade Events continues to support Wokingham Mencap

Local marquee hire and event management company Cascade Events is continuing to support Wokingham Mencap through their new charity referral programme.

The programme is designed to encourage satisfied clients to pass on Cascade’s details to other people they know who may wish to use the company’s services by donating £50 to Wokingham Mencap for every marquee hire booking made as a result of a referral. The company hopes that the incentive will be enough to jog people’s memories whenever they hear of somebody planning a wedding, party, ball or other event and remind them to pass on Cascade’s details whilst also raising much needed funds for Wokingham Mencap. Cascade is also donating £2 for every client who completes their “After Job Satisfaction Survey”.

For more information on the scheme please visit Cascade Events’ website www.marquee-tent-hire.co.uk.

May 2011
The season is upon us! Here at Cascade Events we are very much looking forward to a successful summer 2011 in partnership with all our clients.

We have also launched our Charity Referral Program to help a good cause and to reward our past clients who recommend us to their friends.

January 2011
Oh dear! My best intentions to keep the news up to date appear to have fallen by the wayside slightly! It must be a result of 2010 being the busiest and most successful year ever for Cascade Events. Our foreman resigned suddenly and without warning in July but all of our chaps really stepped up to the plate, came completely out of their shells and did a great job.

2011 sees the formal launch of our furniture hire service which is targeted at other marquee companies as well as private clients. More details can be seen at www.cascadefurniture.co.uk.

The summer is already filling up fast and so if you have a need for a marquee during the peak months of May, June, July, August and September then please do get in touch ASAP!

April 2010
Wow! Apologies for the lack of marquee hire news recently but I have been so busy planning our packed summer ahead that I haven't been able to get around to sorting the website. We have had loads of marquee hire jobs confirm and the furniture hire side of the business is starting to take off as well so it is looking like 2010 might end up being a good year in contrast to 2009!

Other fantastic news is that Cascade Events Ltd has been short listed for three awards in the National Hire Excellence Awards. Our committment to customer service has been recognized by our shortlisting for "Event Hire Company of the Year (Single Outlet)" and for "Excellence in Customer Service" and our forward thinking furniture hire website (www.cascadefurniture.co.uk) which allows customers to check stock levels and book online has been shortlisted for Event Hire Website of the Year!

Looking forward several weekends are already fully booked over the summer so do get in touch ASAP if you are planning on holding a party or a wedding as you may miss out on using our fantastic (see above) services!

January 2010
The snow has gone! I have to tell you that without wanting to sound too much like a scrooge, runing a marquee company with 18 inches of snow on the ground (yes, there really was that much in Reading) was not all that much fun! But with the help of perseverence, the good natured attitudes of our clients, some careful driving and enforced senses of humour we got through it. All tents which were meant to be delivered were successfully delivered and all our clients had fantastic Christmas and New Year parties because of it!

With those busy marquee hire periods now finally behind us (we really hadn't stopped since the season was meant to be over!) we can get down to those jobs that we have been putting off whilst hiring out our marquees. It is not, however, just a period of retrenchment! The end of December and the start of January saw the arrival of our huge stock of new furniture! Along with the extra stock we have launched a new furniture hire website www.cascadefurniture.co.uk where you can make furniture hire bookings online!

Moving into 2010 we have plenty to keep us busy, loads of exciting enquiries coming in and we are already fully booked for three weekends over the summer and that's after we have bought the significant amounts of new marquees which will be arriving in May! Onwards and upwards!

October 2009
Phew! The business of the summer is finally behind us! We can now take a bit of a breather, go on our holidays and start planning next year!

It is meant to be a relaxing time for us, with the summer rush over but it doesn't appear to be working that way! First of all there is all the maintainence to do including: cleaning all our PVC covers to make them sparkle, buffing and polishing our dancefloor, repainting all of our tables, repainting our solid doors, cleaning, polishing, PAT testing, buying new equipment, testing, sorting, replacing and expanding!

On top of that we are planning our very exciting business expansion. As of 10th December 2009 we will be launching Cascade Furniture Hire which will be an arm of the business specialising in the delivery of quality event furniture. We already have over 300 folding black samsonite chairs for hire at a cost of just £1.45 if you order over 100 of them!

To register your interest in Cascade Furniture Hire and receive a price list on our launch date please email enquiries@cascadeevents.co.uk.

July 2009
We are right in the middle of our busiest time of the year, although saying that it feels like the last two months have been the busiest time of the year! Having provided the marquee for Wargrave festival with great success and the St Andrew's school ball going fantastically we seem to have moved away from our large jobs and are now providing marquees and event management at many more intimate events including several weddings which have all gone absolutely superbly despite the "unsettled" weather!

August is a very busy month for Cascade with lots of events including Wokingham Festival over the bank holiday weekend and we can't yet look forward to a break as September is filling up fast too!

June 2009
The silly season is almost upon us! The weather is picking up and we have already had two fantastic weddings in the sunshine at the end of May. The whole team is looking forward to getting out on site over the next few weeks and providing our clients with the quality marquees we have become reknowned for.

We are pleased to welcome Stephen Guinpen onto the full time team at Cascade he will be concentrating on managing our maintenance and cleaning programme as well as assisting with on-site delivery.

We are looking forward to our big jobs towards the end of June. We are very pleased to once again be providing the marquee for The Wargrave Festival and we are looking forward to working with St Andrews School in Pangbourne for the first time this year.

March 2009
As the season starts to fill up with bookings we get to the usual frustration that everybody wants to book our services for the same weekends. So, if you are thinking of making an enquiry please do get on with it ASAP! It has been a busy couple of months with winter business and, of course, that all important maintainance to make sure our marquee equipment and furniture looks fantastic when we hire it out over the summer. We have also been shopping for bits of marquee! We now have some new solid, wooden framed doors, to add that extra touch of style during the summer months or keep you insulated in winter. In addition to this we have expanded our 6m stock as we are finding it is become more and more popular especially amongst the events companies we work with. Add to this some 2m walkway with walls we have bought brand new from Losberger in France.

Cascade Events is always keen to expand the work we do with venues and after a successful partnership agreement last year with The Olde Bell, Hurley we were delighted to attend their wedding open day on 15th March. The day was a great success and we look forward to working there over the summer.

January 2009
We have started the new year with one of coldest snaps that we can remember, although perhaps we are just out experiencing it more this year than before! Despite the near arctic conditions January has not been a month of hibernation. On Sunday 4th January, having taken down our NYE party tents, Cascade Events took part in the Bridal Fayre at Cantley House Hotel, Wokingham. Cascade are the exclusive providers of marquees and marquee equipment to Cantley House Hotel and Court Lodge and the aim for 2009 is for Cantley to be selling many more marquee weddings than before. The hotel is delighted that they can now cater for up to 400 people seated and dining in style and comfort which has dramatically improved on the 80 that they had been advertising before. The day was a fantastic success and has already led to confirmed bookings for marquee weddings at the hotel. For more information please either visit their website: www.cantleyhotel.co.uk or have a look at our venues section.

The rest of January is a little quieter than the start but with a few large jobs lined up, we will certainly be kept busy. Chris Monk is especially busy this month as everybody seems to have decided to start planning their marquees for the summer in the same 10 day window and so he is rushing around the countryside meeting clients and seeing sites.