The Great Fair of Shalford

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The Great Fair of Shalford
The picturesque village, located just outside Guildford in the UK, was given a charter by King John (1199 – 1216) over 800 years ago to host a fair, and still to this day hosts the local community’s Great Fair of Shalford.

The fair has now been given a new lease of life by Frank Ago, owner of the ever popular Snooty Fox cafe. Frank is a self-confessed amateur when it comes to event planning, and has been able to save time and manage his 60+ vendors efficiently thanks to OnePlan.

The Great Fair consists of three stages playing live music, a funfair with ferris wheel, dog show, farmers’ market, classic cars, as well as a large food and drink area with multiple beer and gin bars.

Frank says: “OnePlan has made my planning of this Fair so quick. I put aside two evenings for it and I’ve got a thorough plan in place, that I can download and share with whoever I need. I’m not a computer specialist and it’s hard to plan an event just in spreadsheets.

“I love OnePlan because it makes it so easy for me to plan visually on a map and still have all that event data.”

With the event plan created, Frank was able to create a public facing map to use in pre-event marketing and printed as a big guide at the fair itself. To do this, he used OnePlan’s Public Map service which easily converted his event plan to an external map for attendees.

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