The Cuckoo Fair, as a major event, relies extensively on The Event Industry Forum’s Purple Guide. This sets out best practice for events in the UK and as such defines the benchmark as to what local authority event safety advisory groups are looking for. We’d recommend that other events refer to it as a useful source of advice. It helps us ensure that our Event Management Plan is up to date which is a requirement from our insurers and it is also requested by Wiltshire Council for the road closure. Our other main document is the Build Plan and its annexes. This is our aide memoir and captures what needs to go where and when. We only do the fair once a year and we’d forget stuff if it wasn’t written down! Having a smaller fair won’t necessarily reduce the amount of paperwork we need to manage and deliver the Fair.
