What to Consider When Organizing an Event Where Children Will Attend
When you don't have children it can be difficult to know what they need when organising a party or event.
It's never wise to not consider what the children will need for several reasons.
1.
A grumpy child can cause serious problems for noise levels and atmosphere at an event.
2.
Parents can very much take offence if their job is made more difficult because the right facilities aren't there.
This article is written to highlight a few things you should be considering when you're looking at organising an event where children may be.
Firstly it's worth sorting out children's high chair hire, if you have a guest list I would work out how many children you have under the age of 3 and sort out children's high chair hire for all of them.
Although not all of them will use one you're better over catering than under.
If you don't know how many people will have children of this age always just hire a few.
In addition to this I would also make sure you have changing facilities.
Most places don't and then you have people trying to change their child on the grass, which is never a good idea.
It doesn't even need to be something that you hire, it can be something as simple as a private or closed off area or rooms with bins, tables and clean areas.
If it's a large event and you've got several different forms of entertainment I'd strongly recommend catering for children with a few additional things such as pony ride hire.
Many parents within reason will pay anything to keep their children entertained and for them to have a good experience so with something like pony ride hire you'll not only keep the children happy but you'll rake in the profit.
With any event whether it's hosted for children or not I'd strongly recommend sorting out the necessary insurance and permits for the event.
Accidents will always happen and further more if you have an ill organised event people are more likely to take legal proceedings.
The other things I'd strongly recommend with any event but especially around children is that all staff are fully trained to complete the task they're paid for.
This will reduce the amount of accidents.
Although it may cost money to train them it's far better to pay for this that to pay for court fees if someone decides to sue you because of an accident in the work place.
Further more I'd strongly recommend doing background checks on anyone working with the children so that you don't have anyone with a criminal record working for them.
It's never wise to not consider what the children will need for several reasons.
1.
A grumpy child can cause serious problems for noise levels and atmosphere at an event.
2.
Parents can very much take offence if their job is made more difficult because the right facilities aren't there.
This article is written to highlight a few things you should be considering when you're looking at organising an event where children may be.
Firstly it's worth sorting out children's high chair hire, if you have a guest list I would work out how many children you have under the age of 3 and sort out children's high chair hire for all of them.
Although not all of them will use one you're better over catering than under.
If you don't know how many people will have children of this age always just hire a few.
In addition to this I would also make sure you have changing facilities.
Most places don't and then you have people trying to change their child on the grass, which is never a good idea.
It doesn't even need to be something that you hire, it can be something as simple as a private or closed off area or rooms with bins, tables and clean areas.
If it's a large event and you've got several different forms of entertainment I'd strongly recommend catering for children with a few additional things such as pony ride hire.
Many parents within reason will pay anything to keep their children entertained and for them to have a good experience so with something like pony ride hire you'll not only keep the children happy but you'll rake in the profit.
With any event whether it's hosted for children or not I'd strongly recommend sorting out the necessary insurance and permits for the event.
Accidents will always happen and further more if you have an ill organised event people are more likely to take legal proceedings.
The other things I'd strongly recommend with any event but especially around children is that all staff are fully trained to complete the task they're paid for.
This will reduce the amount of accidents.
Although it may cost money to train them it's far better to pay for this that to pay for court fees if someone decides to sue you because of an accident in the work place.
Further more I'd strongly recommend doing background checks on anyone working with the children so that you don't have anyone with a criminal record working for them.
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