Enhancing the Festival Experience with CrowdComms Event App
Key Achievements
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Additional donations raised for 2024
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ENHANCED FESTIVAL EXPERIENCE
Background
Home Farm Fest is the largest annual fundraiser for the charity “School in a Bag,” an organisation dedicated to providing educational resources to children in need.
The event, held in Chilthorne Domer, Somerset, spans three days, from June 7th to 9th, 2024, featuring live music across nine stages with over 150 acts. In 2024, for the first time, School in a Bag partnered with CrowdComms to introduce an event app, designed to enhance the festival-goer experience and drive engagement throughout the event.
Event Goals
- Develop a user-friendly app for festival attendees to access performer details, site maps, trader information, and charity details.
- Enable attendees to create personalised schedules by selecting their favourite acts.
- Increase engagement and communication during the event.
- Provide a free tool for festival-goers to enhance their overall experience.
- Ultimately, raise more funds for School in a Bag through improved event engagement.
Product Used
CrowdComms provided a comprehensive Event App, tailored to Home Farm Fest’s needs.
Key features included a performer schedule, site map, live feed, and push notifications, all designed to improve user engagement and event organisation.
Challenges
- Limited experience with event technology on the part of the organising team.
- Time constraints in learning and utilising the app’s full potential.
- Ensuring sufficient user adoption from attendees, traders, and performers.
Solution
- CrowdComms provided extensive support and guidance to maximise the app’s use.
- Key app features included personalised schedules, interactive maps, and real-time push notifications.
- A live feed allowed performers, traders, and attendees to share updates and images during the event.
- The event app enabled attendees to discover other bands and activities they may have otherwise missed, encouraging a broader exploration of the festival.
- Effective management of the live feed ensured no inappropriate content was posted.
- Real-time communication enabled festival organisers to promote flash sales, boosting ticket sales for next year’s event.
Conclusion
The introduction of the CrowdComms app at Home Farm Fest 2024 significantly enhanced the attendee experience, helping the event achieve its goals of greater engagement and communication.
While there were initial challenges with adoption and time constraints, the app’s success in its first year has paved the way for even greater use in future festivals. With improvements planned for next year, including better integration with traders and performers, School in a Bag is excited to continue its partnership with CrowdComms to further grow the festival and its fundraising impact.
What They Say
“Our whole experience of working with CrowdComms was fantastic, right from the get-go. The app was a fantastic addition to our festival, giving punters the ability to make their ‘own’ Home Farm Fest by favouriting the performers they wanted to see and then gaining a personalised list of who was playing where, and when. To add to this the ability to talk about what was going on at any given time right across the festival site knowing that those signed up would be alerted to the news, it made it a very ‘of the moment’ tool”
Zoë Fox, Home Farm Fest
CrowdComms In Action
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Frequently Asked Questions
A mobile event app is a mobile or web-based application that supports event attendees with agendas, engagement tools, content, notifications and interaction.
The best event app depends on your goals. For engagement-led events, specialist mobile event apps often outperform all-in-one platforms.
Attendees use event apps that are intuitive, interactive and relevant to their experience. Are event apps dead? Definitely not. Read or watch our 2025 Event Advice on event apps.
Yes, modern event platforms support in-person, hybrid and virtual attendees through mobile and web-based access.
About
Home Farm Fest is a family-friendly charity music festival held each year at Home Farm in Chilthorne Domer, Somerset.
What began as a small one-day event has grown into a vibrant three-day festival featuring over 150 bands across multiple stages, alongside food, workshops, family activities, and camping. Run largely by volunteers, the festival raises funds for the charity School in a Bag, helping provide essential educational supplies to children around the world.
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