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Seasonal Event Characters
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🎃🎄 Step Into Character This Seasonal Season - Join Our Children’s Events Team! 🎄🎃
Do you love performing, bringing characters to life and creating magical experiences for children and families?
We’re looking for fun, confident and enthusiastic Seasonal Event Colleagues to join the Bents team for our Halloween and Christmas children’s parties.
From transforming into a wickedly wonderful Witch at Halloween to becoming one of Santa’s cheerful Elves at Christmas, you’ll help create a brilliant atmosphere and make each event a memorable experience for our younger visitors and their families.
This could be the perfect seasonal role for a drama or musical theatre student, budding performer, or simply someone with a big personality who loves entertaining and engaging with children!
What You’ll Be Doing
As part of our Children’s Events Team, you’ll get into character and help our seasonal parties run smoothly. You’ll welcome and interact with children and families, support the event activities and timings, and most importantly, help create a fun and magical atmosphere from start to finish.
What We’re Looking For
We’re looking for colleagues who are:
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- Friendly, welcoming and full of enthusiasm
- Confident engaging with children and families
- Comfortable getting into character and dressing as a Witch or Elf
- Calm, patient and approachable
- Great communicators with excellent customer service skills
- Organised and able to follow event timings and running orders
- Proactive and adaptable when things get busy
- Safety-conscious and responsible
- Happy working as part of a team
- Passionate about creating memorable Halloween and Christmas experiences
Previous performance experience isn’t essential, although this role would be particularly suited to musical theatre or drama students looking to gain experience.
Our Seasonal Events & Shifts
🎃 Halloween Parties - Witch Characters
- Wednesday 28th & Thursday 29th October
- Hours: 4:30pm - 7:00pm
🎄 Christmas Tea Parties - Elf Characters
- 1st, 2nd, 4th, 8th, 11th, 15th, 16th & 18th December
- Hours: 4:30pm - 7:00pm
🎅 Christmas Breakfasts - Elf Characters
- Saturday 5th, 12th & 19th December
- Hours: 9:00am - 11:30am
We’re looking for two colleagues for each event, so please let us know your availability to work when applying.
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More Seasonal Character Opportunities! ✨
Love getting into character? We’ll also have a small number of exciting character roles available as part of our seasonal Light Walk trail.
These roles will be perfect for confident, engaging performers who love interacting with customers and bringing a little extra magic to an experience.
More details, including characters, dates and shift times, will follow soon. If you’re interested in being considered for one of our Light Walk character roles too, please register your interest when applying.
Who Are Bents?
We’re a family-run business with a proud heritage and a passion for creating exceptional experiences. Since 1937, we’ve grown from our garden centre roots into an award-winning destination for everything home, garden and dining.
We’re also proud to be recognised as a Great Place to Work®. ✨
When you join Bents, you’re not just taking on a seasonal role — you’re joining a team that loves creating special experiences for our customers.
Ready to step into character? Join our seasonal events team and help us make Halloween wickedly fun and Christmas truly magical! 🎃✨🎄
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