Summer festival season is one of the busiest and most exciting periods in the events calendar. From major music festivals and city-centre celebrations to local community gatherings and food festivals, organisers across the UK look for attractions that keep visitors engaged throughout the day and into the evening.
Funfair rides and attractions help create movement, atmosphere and visual impact across a festival site. Whether you are organising a large-scale event comparable to Glastonbury or a smaller independent local festival, a well-planned fairground setup can help turn open space into an active and memorable environment for guests.
At We Are Tricycle, we provide nationwide fairground and funfair hire for festivals of all sizes, supplying everything from traditional rides and giant wheels to side stalls, interactive attractions and festival-friendly entertainment zones.
Why Funfair Attractions Work So Well at Festivals
Festivals are about more than just music or food. Visitors expect a complete experience with activity across the site, places to explore and attractions that help fill quieter periods between performances or scheduled programming.
Funfair attractions naturally encourage movement around a venue and help create focal points that stand out across crowded festival grounds. Large rides such as the Giant Ferris Wheel provide visual landmarks visible from across the site, while attractions like the Traditional Chair-O-Planes and Tea Cups Funfair Ride add movement, lighting and energy throughout the day.
Festival-goers are also increasingly looking for interactive experiences outside the main stage areas. This is where attractions from our funfair games and carnival games ranges work especially well, creating casual activity spaces that appeal to a broad audience.
Funfair Hire for Large Festivals and Touring Events
Large festivals require suppliers that understand logistics, scheduling and public-facing operations. Our team regularly supports complex events with structured installation schedules, coordinated delivery and experienced ride operators.
For major events, organisers often combine headline attractions with a mixture of family rides, thrill rides and interactive games to create a balanced festival layout. Popular options include:
These larger attractions work particularly well within wider festival hire programming and can help create dedicated entertainment zones across expansive sites.
Funfair Attractions for Smaller Community Festivals
Not every festival needs a giant wheel or a large thrill ride. Smaller local festivals, village events and independent gatherings can benefit just as much from compact family attractions and traditional side stalls.
Classic games such as the Ball In The Bucket Side Stall, Ring Toss Side Stall and Tin Can Alley Side Stall are ideal for community-focused events where organisers want accessible entertainment for all ages.
Children’s attractions like the Toy Town Merry-Go-Round and Children's Horse Carousel are also popular choices for family-friendly summer festivals and daytime community celebrations.
Festival Catering and Additional Entertainment
Alongside rides and attractions, many organisers choose to build wider entertainment and catering areas around the funfair. We can support this through services such as event catering solutions and food vending tricycles.
Traditional festival favourites such as the Candy Floss Food Vending Tricycle Hire, Ice Cream Food Vending Tricycle and themed catering stations help create a more complete event environment for guests.
For organisers looking to create branded areas or sponsor-led activity zones, we also support experiential campaigns through brand activations and exhibition stand entertainment hire.
Festival Funfair Hire Across the UK
We provide festival funfair hire throughout the UK, regularly supporting events in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield, Bristol, Nottingham, Leicester, Coventry, Oxford, Cambridge and many other towns and cities.
Our team also works extensively across counties including Yorkshire, Lancashire, Kent, Essex, Surrey, Hampshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Gloucestershire and beyond. You can view our full coverage on the areas we cover page.
Complete Event Entertainment Packages
As well as creating bespoke rides and branded attractions, we can supply complete Company Fun Days | Corporate Events, experiential activations and touring entertainment packages throughout the UK. Whether you're organising an exhibition in London, a shopping centre activation in Manchester, a university event in Birmingham or a large-scale public festival in Leeds, we can provide a full mix of entertainment, catering, decor and staffing to bring your concept to life.
Our custom attractions work perfectly alongside classic Fairground Rides, immersive Funhouses, high-impact Thrill & White Knuckle Funfair Rides and interactive carnival games. We regularly combine branded installations with rides such as the Modern Dodgems, WaveSwinger Chair O Planes, Apple Coaster - Family Roller Coaster, Star Flyer and the iconic Giant Ferris Wheel to create fully themed event environments.
Interactive Branded Games & Exhibition Attractions
Our team specialises in interactive experiences for exhibitions, conferences and product launches. We can produce custom-built Exhibition Stand | Branded Games, digital reaction games, carnival stalls and immersive challenges designed around your branding, campaign or marketing message.
Popular options include the Chaos Strike A Light | 4 Player, Tap The App | Strike A Light, Batak Pro, Catch It - Reaction Ring Game and fully customised Bespoke Branded Funfair Game Stall installations. These attractions are ideal for exhibitions, trade stands, experiential campaigns and corporate hospitality events where audience interaction is essential.
We regularly provide exhibition entertainment at venues including the Exhibition Hire at the ExCeL London, Exhibition Hire at the NEC Birmingham, Exhibition Hire at the Olympia London, Exhibition Hire at the ACC Liverpool and Exhibition Hire at the Manchester Central Convention Complex.
Custom Theming, Decor & Scenic Event Production
Our bespoke creations can also include scenic builds, immersive set design and full event styling. We can transform venues into vintage fairgrounds, futuristic brand spaces, circus-themed experiences, beach parties, Christmas markets and fully immersive themed environments.
Enhance your attraction with Carnival Decor, Event Furniture & Decor, Photo Opportunities, Photo Mosaic Wall installations and themed props. We also provide practical infrastructure including Crowd Barrier Fences, Picnic Benches and Dry Hire Equipment for large-scale productions and touring events.
Popular additions include the Photo Mosaic Wall Hire, Carnival Bunting Hire, Funfair Decor, Crowd Barrier and Picnic Bench.
Bespoke Catering & Food Experiences
We don't just create custom rides and games. We also build fully branded food and drink experiences for festivals, exhibitions, Christmas markets and corporate activations. Our themed catering units and Food Carts & Bars can be customised to match your campaign, colours or event branding.
Choose from traditional food vending tricycles, winter market catering, branded bars and festival food setups including Burgers & Fries, German Sausage, Chinese Noodle Box, Mac N Cheese Main, Loaded Fries, Chicken Wraps and festive Christmas Winter Warmers.
For Christmas campaigns and seasonal activations, we can combine bespoke attractions with Christmas Market Stalls, Christmas Hut - Retail Chalet hire and immersive winter theming for shopping centres, city centres and festive light switch-on events across London, Manchester, West Midlands, West Yorkshire, Wales and throughout the UK.
Custom Attractions for Every Type of Event
Our bespoke funfair attractions are suitable for almost any type of event or venue. We regularly work on projects for brand activations, Conference Fun, Team Building, University & Fresher's Week, School Events, Council & Local Authorty Events, Charity Events, festivals, sporting events and television productions.
We also supply custom-built entertainment for Music, Arts & Cultural Events, Weddings, Circus Events, Beach Events and fully themed Themed Events. Whether you need a one-off stunt attraction, a touring promotional roadshow or a fully branded funfair, our experienced team can help bring your ideas to reality.
From initial concept sketches and CAD planning through to fabrication, transport, installation and operation, we provide a complete turnkey solution nationwide. Visit our Case Studies and Gallery pages for inspiration, or Contact Us to discuss your next bespoke fairground attraction project.
Planning a Festival with We Are Tricycle
Whether you are organising a large music festival, a cultural celebration, a university event or a local summer gathering, funfair attractions can help add energy, movement and atmosphere to your site.
We can help you select the right combination of rides, games and attractions for your audience, available space and operational requirements. From traditional fairground favourites to modern festival attractions, our team can support events of all sizes across the UK.
To discuss your festival plans and explore available attractions, please visit our contact page and speak with the team.