March/April 2022

FUNCTION VENUES
PRODUCT IN FOCUS
Bars &
Catering
Motorpoint Arena, Nottingham
Product: Reusable cups
Supplier: Green Goblet, 01278 238390, info@
green-goblet.com, www.green-goblet.com
Details: The Motorpoint Arena was the first UK
entertainment and sports venue to introduce
reusable cups, leading the way to eliminating
single-use cups. It hosts a wide range of events
from ice hockey to live music and adapts its
layout for every event it holds.
Operating the reusable eco cups on a £1.00
deposit scheme, the arena offers a variety of
cups sizes and different designs. These include
elite ice hockey league team The Nottingham
Panthers as well as generic Motorpoint
branding such as Christmas and Halloween
designs. Hospitality cups are branded
differently as no deposit is charged on them.
By switching over to reusable cups,
Motorpoint Arena has saved hundreds of
thousands of single-use cups going into landfill.
Instead, the reusable cups are supplied and
washed by Green Goblet at one of their wash
stations, using the latest most environmentally
friendly washer/dryer machines.
Since December 2017, when they first
started operating the reusable cup scheme,
other stadiums and arenas have followed suit.
Green Goblet now supplies reusable cups
and tableware to venues up and down the
country and is helping organisations to lower
their carbon footprint, as well as giving their
attendees a better drinking experience.
The great news is that Motorpoint Arena uses
its reusable cups hundreds of times over, and at
the end of their life they are recycled into useful
objects such as ice scrapers or coat hangers.
#Refill Not Landfill.
Customer feedback: Commercial director
Phillip Jones said: “Motorpoint Arena is proud
of the fact that we have saved hundreds of
thousands of cups from going into landfill over
the years by using reusable cups throughout
our venue. Saving the planet should be at the
core of every organisation.”
Great Betley
Farmhouse, Sussex
Product: Event catering food
truck
Supplier: Old Skool Bus Catering
& Events, 07918 761981,
hello@oldskoolbusevents.com,
www.oldskoolbusevents.com
Details: Being an outdoor venue,
Great Betley Farmhouse gets lots
of wedding couples, corporate
clients and outdoor event
organisers looking for quality
catering options from awesome
looking food trucks, as well as
more formal seated marquee
dining. Skool Bus Catering &
Events offers buffet and familystyle
seated dining as well as a
festival food truck service, so they
can do the wedding breakfast and
the evening food.
The team uses locally sourced
food and are very experienced
at organising both the
catering service, and the event
management side of outdoor
events. They're happy to take
work off of a venue’s hands with
planning as well as helping with
event management on the day.
Skool Bus Catering & Events also
runs licensed bars, either from a
bar set up or from the bus itself.
Customer feedback: Kim
Stewart, venue owner and
manager, said: “It's always a
pleasure to have such helpful
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