Temporary event staff for hire.
Hire event staff for conferences, exhibitions, corporate functions, brand activations, festivals and retail launches.
We supply trained staff who run the front line of your event, from registration and hospitality to floor support and queue management. A single host or a 100 strong team.
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Temporary event staff, also called casual event staff, are short term workers hired to perform specific operational, hospitality or guest facing roles during an event. Typically that means guest registration and check in, cloakroom and wayfinding, bar service and VIP areas, floor and queue support, and event merchandise sales.
Whether you need one person or a team of event staff, we match to your brief, your venue and your event numbers.
Casual event staff, whatever you are running
The right staff for event days of every kind, from the welcome desk to the show floor. Where a setting has a page of its own, it is linked below.
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Business events and awards evenings
Guest check in, front of house and guest support for awards evenings, company events and networking.
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Conferences and seminars
Delegate registration, badge collection, speaker liaison and seminar room support.
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Trade shows and stands
Stand teams, visitor engagement and lead capture at expos and consumer shows.
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Fixtures and race meetings
Stadium, racecourse and arena crews for match days, meetings and endurance events.
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Festivals and open air sites
Multi day outdoor crews for wristbands, access points, bars and general site support.
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County shows and showgrounds
Local teams at agricultural shows and country fairs, priced per show day.
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Welcome desks and guest support
Polished front of house for welcome desks, guest lounges and private rooms.
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Arrivals and door teams
First point of contact at the door, directing guests and keeping arrivals moving.
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Nothing here quite right? We staff events of every shape, so describe yours and we will work out the mix of roles it needs.
Get a quoteEvent support staff for the desk, the floor and the bar
Take one of these roles or combine several. Every temp event staff booking is filled from the same staffing pool and operates as one team on the day.
Hire event staffRegistration and check in, hired by the shift
The desk at the entrance, weighted to the arrivals hour and thinned out once the room has filled. Names ticked off, badges and lanyards issued, late arrivals handled without holding everyone else up.
Ticketed events · Open days · LaunchesCasual and VIP hospitality event staff
VIP event staff for brand hospitality areas, sponsor lounges and the parts of the day where guests need looking after. Dress code agreed up front, not assumed.
Brand hospitality · Sponsor lounges · VIP areasBar teams, booked by the session
Bar service for brand and promotional events. Serving, running glassware and keeping service moving, scaled to the session and not the whole day. Alcohol licensing available on request where the site requires it.
Showground bars · Brand promotions · Summer campaignsCloakroom, bag drop and information points
Coats taken quickly at the start and handed back just as quickly at the end, on a numbered system, with extra cover at the close when everyone leaves at once.
Winter events · Hotel venues · Awards eveningsWristband, ticket and access checks
Wristbands issued against the zone plan, accreditation scanned on the entry points, and the team briefed on the access rules for every area before the gates open.
Outdoor event staff · Multi zone venues · Ticketed showsFloor support and queue management staff
Queue lines held, split and released to keep waits down, plus wayfinding between rooms and zones. This is event support staff on the floor, not stewarding or security, which are licensed roles we do not supply.
High footfall venues · Open air sitesMerchandise selling on the night
Card and cash sales from a stand, a pop up counter or a truck, with stock counts at open and close and reconciliation at the end of the night.
Concerts · Festivals · Fixtures · Touring showsEvent management staff and onsite leads
One named lead oversees the logistics, coordinates your onsite event staff and deals with the venue, so operational questions do not come to you on the day.
Event management staff · Larger teams · Multi zone sitesNational event staff, multi day and multi city
Event staff UK wide, drawn from whichever of our 40 hubs sits nearest the venue, so several cities on the same dates stay a single booking with one point of contact.
Tours · Rollouts · SeasonsEvent staffing solutions with the briefing, payroll and admin built in
Casual staff, without the casual staff admin. Every team comes from our own people across 40 UK hubs, briefed on your brand before they arrive.
Six things that make our event staffing solutions different from a rota.
Teams built to scale
Book one person or a 100 strong team. We can staff an event of any size, with people selected around your venue, schedule and requirements.
Quotes in hours
Share your venue, dates and staff needs and get a fully itemised quote, usually within hours. Day rates, hours and on-costs broken down, no hidden fees.
Matched to brief
Our operations team picks the best event staff for the brief, on skills, location and experience, and for your venue, audience and dress code rather than on who happens to be free.
Trained and briefed
ID and right to work checked before deployment, with tailored briefing docs covering your brand, messaging and on site expectations. Staff arrive prepared.
Managed 24/7
Shift reminders, geo-tagged check-ins and a project manager on every booking. Our staff support event organisers from the first brief to the final shift. Enhanced reporting packages available.
Trusted since 2007
3,000+ clients, from Shell, Nike and ASOS through to one off private events, booked again and again, not once.
See our event staff hire in action
Real bookings, named brands and named venues. We staff events across the UK. Every booking below was quoted, briefed and managed by us.
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RecentKinder Bueno | Reading Festival 2026
RecentGoHenry | Bluewater | 14 Days | 42 Shifts
RecentMedicube | UK Launch | 5 Cities | 42 Shifts
RecentSpace NK | Multiple Store Activation
RecentCorona | Wilderness Festival 2026
RecentEmmi Caffé Latte | UK Roadshow
RecentEquinox Kombucha | Great Yorkshire Show
RecentKorea Tourism Organisation
Temporary event staffing, in our clients' own words
How to hire event staff, brief to invoice
The same four steps for every temporary event staffing booking, whether it is one person for a morning or thirty across a week in three cities.
Send the details
Your objectives, the venue, the dates, the hours you want covered and the number of event staff required. That is all we need to put a price together, and asking costs you nothing.
Read the costing
Your quote sets out the staffing, the hours and the agreed costs clearly. Once approved, we hold the dates and begin selecting the team.
We match and brief
Professional event staff are matched to the brief on skills, experience and location. An account manager is assigned once the quote is signed off, and your briefing form becomes the document the team is sent before the day.
Run and invoice
Settled at our end, with no paperwork to process and none to reconcile afterwards. Attendance confirmation, on site photos and feedback are available as a paid extra.
Get a fast, itemised quote for casual event staff
Fill this in and the price comes back with every line visible, so there is nothing to query later.
Or call us directly on 0113 479 0075 or 0203 026 1069
Temporary event staffing FAQs
The questions we are asked most often by people looking for event staff.
What happens if somebody does not turn up?
Attendance is monitored live, so a gap is visible to us at the time it happens and not at the end of the day. The project manager on the booking is the person who picks it up, whatever hour it lands.
How much does it cost to hire temporary event staff?
There is no flat day rate for event staff hire, and anyone publishing one is guessing. The figure moves on headcount, shift length, start time, the city and whether it falls on a weekend, which is why each temp event staff booking is priced on its own and not off a rate card.
I need event staff at short notice, how quickly can you cover it?
Faster than most people expect. Filling a booking depends on the date and the city, not the size of the team, so a weekday in a large city is straightforward and a Saturday in December is the one to ask about early. You can hire staff for event dates weeks out or a few days out, and event staff needed at short notice are quoted on exactly the same basis as anything booked months ahead.
Can I book a single member of staff?
Yes. Whether you hire staff for an event once or book every month, a single host for one shift goes through the same selection, the same checks and the same briefing as a large team.
How is payroll handled?
All payroll, tax, National Insurance and HR are handled in house on PAYE. It comes back to you as one bill with nothing to administer.
What checks do your event staff have before a booking?
Right to work and ID are checked for every member of staff before deployment, and Employer Liability and Public Liability insurance covers every campaign. DBS checks, food hygiene certificates, alcohol licensing and risk assessments can be added where the venue or the product calls for them.
Do you supply staff for evening and weekend events?
Yes. Weekend event staff, evening shifts and multi day runs are quoted on exactly the same basis as anything else, so the cost of unsociable hours is visible before you commit and never added afterwards.
Can you cover events in several cities at the same time?
Yes. Simultaneous teams in different cities run to the same brief, and event staff management runs from one point of contact here, so you are not coordinating three suppliers and nobody is travelling half a day to reach a shift.
What information do you need in order to quote?
Enough to size the team and put a price on it: what the staff are there to do, where, when, and how many of them. The quote form above asks for it in order, so you do not need to prepare anything beforehand.
What do event staff do on the day?
Whatever the brief sets out, within the operational, hospitality and guest facing roles the venue allows. In practice that means registration and check in, cloakroom and wayfinding, bar service, VIP and hospitality areas, floor and queue support, access checks and merchandise sales. Stewarding and security are licensed roles and we do not supply them.
Do you have specialist teams for a particular kind of event?
Yes, and where one fits it is the better starting point. Delegates and a programme, conference staff. Your own stand at a show, exhibition staff. Your company hosting its own guests, corporate event staff. A fixture or a race meeting, sports event staff. Multi day outdoors, festival staff. Welcoming and front of house, event hosts and hostesses.
