How much does a children’s entertainer cost?

Looking for a children’s entertainer near you and wondering what it costs? Here’s an honest guide to our prices, so you know where you stand before you enquire.

Our price guide

What changes the price

Three things, mostly:

• The day. Weekdays cost less than weekends.
• The season. Summer and December are our busiest months. Off-peak dates are cheaper.
• How far we travel. We’re based in Stonehouse, near Stroud. Anything beyond about half an hour carries a travel charge.

So a weekday show a few minutes from us costs noticeably less than the same show on a Saturday in July an hour away. Tell us your date, your postcode and roughly how many children, and you’ll get a firm price rather than a range.

What’s included

Every booking comes with an entertainer who arrives early, sets up, runs the fun and clears away afterwards. I carry £5 million public liability insurance, and every entertainer I work with carries their own. Risk assessments are available on request.

What about DBS checks?

Entertainers aren’t required by law to hold a DBS check, because we’re never left alone with your children — we’re entertainers, not care providers. Most of the entertainers I arrange hold one anyway, because we know it puts people at ease, particularly schools. If you need the person coming to you to be DBS checked, tell us when you enquire: we’ll either send someone who already holds one, or arrange a check for them, given enough notice.

Where we cover

Stonehouse, Stroud, Gloucester, Cheltenham, Cirencester, Dursley and Nailsworth, and out along the M5 to Bristol and Worcester. We travel further for events, holiday parks and SEND school work.

Every one of these can be combined — face painting alongside a bubble show, balloons with the animals — and we’ll price the whole thing as one booking. See our bubble shows, face painting, balloon modelling, animal parties and event packages.