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Price’s Great British Funfair was formed in 2010 by Arthur Price.

Arthur is a 6th generation showman based in Gloucestershire. A showman all his life, he has travelled the world with all manner of rides and attractions, as well as supporting local events and fairs nearer to home.

A couple of years ago, Arthur felt the general public were not getting enough opportunities to have a traditional British funfair experience, provided by proper showpeople, in a professional manner. Price’s Great British Funfair was born, providing standalone funfairs, and supporting some of Britains biggest events with their rides and attractions.

Great British Funfairs are constantly adding to their stable of vintage, and historically noteworthy attractions, providing you with an educational, and nostalgic experience of the highest order.

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The way we operate, is really, the way you want us to operate. We can set up the way we run things in all manner of different ways to suit the needs of your event; we can do pay per play, whereby everyone pays individually to take part in each attraction.

We can run a token system, where we have one central office that sells tokens for all attractions. When doing this we are able to offer value deals on multiples of tokens. On pay per play, and the token system, we accept all forms of payment from our customers. We will also run massive promotional campaigns, with posters, social media, radio, and sometimes TV advertisements, all helping to drive up footfall four your venue.

We can do full outright hire of any piece of equipment. If you are hiring for a private event, then of course, you can you use at your leisure for the agreed period. You may be hiring on behalf of a school, or charitable organisation. If so, we are happy for you to charge customers and keep all revenue. This may help raise funds for cause, or go some to offset the hire fee.

We can do part hire, whereby we reduce the full hire fee to you, but we also charge people a reduced cost to ride as well. This can work well if you are on a budget, but still want to offer something to your guests/customers.

Whichever way you choose to do things, you can always rest assured we will carry out our service to the most professional standard. We are a family business, with four generations still actively working some way or another. We also have a great mix of an experienced and trusted core team, and youthful part time staff to call upon when necessary.

Our work ethic is second to none, and we strive for excellence in every aspect of our service, from our office team, right through to our fully uniformed ride attendants. We always live up to the high standards we set ourselves, which leads us to build long lasting working relations with some really great events, companies, and most of all people.

The Great British Funfair’s commitment to safety is at the top of our agenda. All of our rides are annually inspected by independent, A.D.I.P.S. registered engineers, for structural, mechanical, and electrical soundness. This is our industry standard, and conforms to all current U.K. health and safety legislation. Our attractions also have individual risk assessments, and method statements, as well as overall dynamic risk assessments for each site we work at.

Extra to the annual checks carried out by the independent engineers, we as owners, along with our staff, cherish our rides. They are treated with respect, each component handled and checked every time we set them up. This constant vigilance ensures even the smallest problems can be rectified instantly, thus helping to keep our rides some of the safest in Britain. Our ride operators are fully trained in all aspects of their duties, working their way up in experience from games, to small rides, and when they are ready, the big rides. As well as ride operation, our operators are also trained to carry out the daily inspections of the rides. These rigorous daily checks are also overseen by the on site manager before the rides are put to work each day. Together with the safety measures we have in place, all our rides carry £10000000 public liability insurance cover as a matter of course.

We also have in place, a comprehensive covid-19 secure operational plan. We implemented this in the summer of 2020, and it allows us to operate in a completely covid secure manner, in line with government guidelines, when coronavirus is prevalent in the community. These measures include; hand sanitising units on each attraction, social distancing in place on each ride where necessary, extra signage, cashless payment options across all attractions on site, face coverings for all of our staff, temperature checks for all of our staff before they start each shift. All of this is underpinned by comprehensive covid-19 risk assessments and method statements.

We are owners and operators of all the equipment featured on this site. This ensures that the quality of our rides is second to none.