Electric Brixton
Installed here a few times over the years, a 500 drop at Electric Brixton.
Angry Crab Shack
Organic Garland to frame The Angry Crab Shack in the Theatre District of London. I used carb foil shaped balloons and vinyl graphics on the larger 16″ balloons. As usual, my thanks to Laura & Alex for the help.
St George’s College
Organic Rainbow with a bit of cloud action to frame the stairway entrance at St George’s College, Weybridge
Balloon Count doesn’t match my Paid Count
Always be careful accessing the “administer the balloons” section when your sales are busy. If a balloon has just been created it will show on your list as “inactive”. Whilst you’re looking at your list the buyer completes their payment and on the server their balloon is now active (but on your screen it’s inactive). […]
Brigg, Boughton
Organic style arch to frame the bar in Bring, Boughton
12% Cost for integrated card option (stripe)
I know 12% sounds steep, hopefully the below explains how I only just break even. If it was highly profitable I could offer the race for free and just take the 12%… but it’s not. The concept for taking card payments and sending a BACS was requested by those using the race who had no […]
Manchester Central
Here’s a wall, freestanding with vinyl graphics & Gold Orbz installed at Manchester Central entrance for those insta selfies. Latex colours Navy, Gold & White
Balloon Race New Server 2023
The move to PHP was completed in September 2022 and everything is running so much better. During the changeover there were live races on both servers so to save confusion I ran the old server as balloonrace.com and the new as balloonrace.net. Now the move is complete both domains point to the new server. The […]
Selling less than 200 balloons?
The easiest way to run the race is to use the stripe option and I bacs a payment to your bank account. Stripe will accept payments from all over the world and you simply set the page up, share the URL and watch the sales build. If you sell balloons by cash you can add […]
Oldham, Royton
Here’s 500 drop in Neon coloured balloons installed on 29th December ready for New Yeas Eve.
NEC – 3 x 500 Drops
Here’s 3 x 500 balloon drops installed at The NEC. The first drop was over the entrance for the morning and then 2 more drops over a stand for an evening drinks reception.
How do I contact the winners?
There are 2 ways to find contact details for the winning balloons. Login to your admin area, scroll down to the bottom of the page and click “administer the balloons taking part” to see all names & contact emails: Alternatively scroll down to the bottom of your admin page and click “Download the balloon data […]