What else will be happening over the two days?

After carefully working through the programme, reviewing your feedback from previous years we have brought together a revised programme for this year's Festival. It will still feature all the favourites of five workshop sessions, showcases and updated competitions BUT NEW FOR 2022 we will be starting earlier on the Friday creating space and the opportunity to meet with other teams and individuals in your local area. also, after the Friday Night Showcase there will be a special 'Interactive After Hours Event' (hosted by Eddie the Donkey of course) PLUS a new special main hall session on the Saturday too. We will be announcing more information about all of this and the revised programme very soon.

The main showcase on Friday evening will see the 2022 Puppet Academy Team performing a number of brand new songs using a wide variety of puppets, techniques and creative arts, pushing the boundaries once again! We hope that this will inspire you to try out new performance ideas in your own teams. Alongside the Puppet Academy team on the Friday night and also in a second different showcase on the Saturday will be our outstanding special guests!

The Festival will also feature four competitions including: Puppetry, Ventriloquism/Solo Puppetry, the Lip Sync Challenge and a Creative Arts Competition. More information on these competitions will be available shortly.

Not forgetting worship at the start of each day as well as the opportunity to network with others, share ideas, find other teams that are local to you and encourage one another.

At the Equip Festival, there will also be our largest range of resources available for you to see, try and take back home with you, with many items on special offer. This will include all of our brand new product launches as well!

Can you sponsor someone to attend the Festival?

Thank you to everyone who generously donated to the 2019 'Make It Possible' fund, an incredible 12 places were gifted, all of these went to successful applicants enabling 12 people to attend the Festival who would have otherwise been unable to attend!

At One Way UK we are incredibly passionate about our ministry and providing resources and training to as many people as possible. We keep our resources and training as best value as we can to ensure it is accessible and we work hard to keep our Festival tickets affordable. We would love to see a full venue with hundreds of people being inspired, resourced and encouraged!

However, we also appreciate that puppet team members may have to fund their own places in order to attend the Festival. Each year we hear of those who are unable to come for financial reasons, but have a passion and enthusiasm to develop their skills and ministry further. So what can we do?

As much as we want to, One Way UK sadly can't afford to give out free places but we hope that others may be able to help. This is why we have established the "Make It Possible" fund. This is our way of matching up people's kindness and generosity with the need that is out there. We have set up a new ticket that can be purchased by itself or alongside a normal Festival booking. This acts as a gift into the 'Make It Possible' fund. One gifted ticket = one full weekend pass made available. Want to contribute but can't manage the full £40? We have now made it possible to donate smaller contributions to the fund too. Simply >>click here<< to be taken to the separate donation page where you can gift from £5 to the full ticket price into the fund.

It is clearly important that we are good stewards of this fund, so there will be a separate application process (click the 'Apply button to complete the online form) for those who are applying for the gifted passes. If you decide to gift a ticket, whilst we cannot pass on any information of the person who has been granted the support we can act as a 'middle-man' to pass on any encouragement or thanks either way.

Will you prayerfully consider if this fund and the individuals who apply is something that you can invest into? In the unlikely situation that the fund exceeds the demand, the fund will simply roll onto the following year. Our promise is that all tickets gifted will always be awarded to a successful applicant.