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Event & Festival Budget and Break-even

Ticket tiers, sponsorship and costs for an event – profit at different sales levels and the tickets you need to sell to break even

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Event & Festival Budget and Break-even

Overview

Most event costs are committed long before tickets sell. This workbook shows how many tickets you need to sell to cover them, and what happens if sales are slower than you hope – before you sign the contracts.

Price
£20
Who it’s for
Planning & Finance
Works with
Microsoft Excel for Windows and Mac
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See how it works

A walk through the main sheets

The sheets you will use most, in the order you will use them – shown with the sample data every workbook comes with.

Step 1

Tickets

Ticket tiers, prices and expected sales. What you do: one row per ticket type.

Tickets
Budget

Step 2

Budget

Every cost and other income for the event. What you do: one line per item.

Step 3

Scenarios

Profit at different sales levels. What you do: nothing to enter.

Scenarios

Step 4

Who it is for

Made for people like you

  • Example – text
  • Event and festival organisers – Know your break-even before you commit to costs.
  • Charities and community groups – Plan fundraising events with confidence.
  • Venues and promoters – Test different ticket prices and line-ups.

Quick start

Up and running in minutes

  1. Example – text
  1. Settings – Event details, capacity, VAT and the platform fees you pay.
  2. Tickets – Each ticket type with price and allocation.
  3. Budget – Other income, fixed costs and costs per person.
  4. Scenarios – Change the scenario percentages on Settings to test different sales levels.

Key features

  • Sets out ticket tiers with prices, allocations, VAT and platform fees, plus sponsorship, bar share, stall fees, merchandise and grants.
  • Budgets every fixed cost and every cost per person, and works out profit at pessimistic, expected and sell-out sales.
  • Shows the number of people you need on site to break even and how close that is to your capacity.

What’s included

  • Dashboard – Will it make money?
  • Settings – Event, fees, VAT and scenarios
  • Tickets – Ticket tiers
  • Budget – Other income and costs
  • Scenarios – Profit and break-even
  • Guide – How to use this workbook

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