Summer Ball 2010 tickets are now on sale! Get yours from the Ember Lounge, LRV, The Lounge and Students' Union shops, as well as online right here. Tickets cost £40 / £55 VIP

Group Discount - OFFER EXTENDED UNTIL 7th MAY
Get your friends together for the ultimate end of year event! When four or more of you purchase your tickets together, each receive a £5 drinks voucher to spend on the night, effectively making your ticket just £35! This offer is now available on ticket sales made before 7th May, but time is ticking - so move fast!

Please note that drinks vouchers will be issued on arrival at the Summer Ball to the person purchasing the tickets for the group. It will be ticket purchaser's responsibility to divide these amongst the remainder of the group purchasing together.

VIP tickets SOLD OUT
VIP tickets to the event are strictly limited to 200 and guarantee that you'll get the full VIP treatment at the biggest event of the year. Your VIP ticket includes a champagne reception, private VIP Lounge, priority access to the Main Stage as well as complementary hot buffet and drinks.

Travel to the Summer Ball
For all students based at Stafford, the price of your ticket includes transport to and from the Summer Ball site and you can choose from several time slots available when purchasing your ticket. Just remember to select the 'free travel ticket'.

Remember to bring your student card to the event with you as your official ticket is assigned to your student card.

There is a limited capacity at the ball with only 2000 tickets available - so make sure you buy your tickets early to avoid disappointment.

The ticket price
The Summer Ball is a self-funded event, which means that all of the money needed to host the event has to come from ticket sales as the Students' Union receives no funding from the University or elsewhere and no profit is made from it either. We as a Union hold the Summer Ball not to make a profit (because we don't!), but as a fantastic way for students to end their University year and say goodbye to friends they may not see again until September.

We know that this event can sometimes sound expensive, so wanted to give you an idea of some of the costs for the fundamental elements that go into putting on a knockout event...

• Staffing costs for running the Summer Ball (excluding security) come to more than £800 per hour the event runs for.
• The production costs - such as generators, lighting and sound equipment and staging come to the region of £7,000
• Big name artists can often cost far in excess of £25,000 to perform at Summer Balls (largely because they aren't performing for people they know are their fans i.e. at a gig).

The total budget for the 2010 Summer Ball is in the region of £58,000.

Summer Ball refunds
The Students' Union operates a 'no refund' policy on tickets, but in the case of the Summer Ball, where tickets are assigned to a person's student card, we will consider requests for a refund on a case by case basis.

If you wish to be considered for a refund, which are by no means guaranteed, then please complete the refund form and your case will be considered.