Food & Beverage Concessions
Reading Pride was founded in 2003. We are a registered charity run solely by volunteers, aiming to promote equality and diversity, advance education and work towards eliminating discrimination in relation to Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) people, in Reading and across the Thames Valley. Reading Pride is best known for the annual festival we stage. Our "free-to-enter" event celebrates our local community and has made significant progress in developing an environment in favour of LGBT equality.
Throughout the year we work to raise public awareness of our friends and colleagues at other charitable and voluntary organisations in the local area who provide information, advice and support on a breadth of LGBT issues. Over the last 6 years we have worked tirelessly to raise funds for the community and for our annual festival where we showcase diversity and encourage acceptance throughout Berkshire. Our next festival takes place on 4th September 2010 at Kings Meadow, Reading, and we expect over 14,000 local residents will attend this free event. Reading Pride is interested in sourcing food and beverage supplies to the main Pride site during the 2010 event, providing a range of hot and cold foods, soft drinks and alcoholic beverages to visitors.
Reading Pride is seeking to identify and select outside businesses to perform such activities. The remainder of this document provides additional information that will allow a service provider to understand the scope of the effort and develop a proposal in the format desired by Reading Pride.
