Welcome to Bugfest
Education...Fascination...Inspiration...
Because the Earth matters.
We are the UK’s leading, multi-award winning, entomological experience and entertainment provider.
We are nationwide, with twenty years of delivering qualified excellence behind us.
Best UK Educational Visit Provider 2023
Minibeast pre-school visits
Top Rated on Eventsense 2024/5
Bug visits in schools.
Youth group bug visits
Best UK Educational Visit Provider 2024
Care home bug visits
Why Choose Bugfest?
In the ever growing niche of animal visits to school providers (you’ve seen the Google search results) it’s important to look for the right qualifications in providers.
Bugfest is managed and created by a QUALIFIED teacher (PGCE) with nineteen years of teaching experience across primary, secondary and tertiary education, an ex-teacher trainer and PGCE mentor, a member of the Verrall Association of Entomologists, and a holder of the prestigious status of Elected Fellow of The Royal Entomological Society.
The Bugfest team are all personally mentored and supported to ensure our original essence of: “science and learning made fun” is still central to our mission of saving our planet through “education fascination and inspiration” today, as it was twenty years ago when our first ever minibeast event was launched in 2006: The Creepy Crawlies’ Big Night Out.
We can offer a great many ways to bring the world of natural history and exotic animals to you. With a wide variety of service options and packages, we have something for everyone.
EXCITING NEWS!
Bugfest sessions and parties have just been upgraded!
Bugfest has a new and fantastic "jungleiscious" home.
Join us for exciting minibeast handling sessions in our AWESOME bug room in the heart of Dorset.
Naturalised enclosures
Can't get to us? No problem, we can come to you.
It's just so much easier with Bugfest.
We provide the best birthday party packages out there.
Very much copied, but never surpassed, the Bugfest parties are unbeatable, and will leave lifelong memories of an amazing time had by all.
School visits are exciting, dynamic and hands-on.
Save hundreds of pounds and weeks of planning and headaches and booking coaches for a zoo trip. Let Bugfest bring the exotics to you instead.
We have been visiting youth groups for ten years.
Bugfest has been visiting child, youth and SEN groups for years. Our team members have also taught and worked in the youth age group for many years.
We have been visiting care provisions since we started up.
Our care home visits are built upon eighteen years of visiting the widest range of care home contexts, including severe dementia. Bugfest always raises a smile every time we visit.
We love supporting your community events be they big or small.
Bugfest has a large team of staff and volunteer handlers, who like to help out at community events. We have enough resources to be out at two separate events at the same time.
We have experience and capacity for major events and festivals
Bugfest is renowned for delivering spectacular festival content. We can bring a large team of handlers who will bring a little of the wild world to add extra sparkle to your public events.
Bugfest delivers bespoke sessions directly linked to your curriculum areas, such as:
Rainforests
Find out about the animals that live in rainforests.
Learn about the different layers of the rainforest, and just how important rainforests actually are.
Africa
Discover the vast array of animals to be found in Africa.
Sadly we can’t bring you a lion or a cheetah, but we do have amazing minibeasts from the continent for your children to learn about.
Habitats
What is a habitat? Where are they found? Who lives in them?
Discover how creatures are adapted to living in their habitats and how they have evolved to fit into their own little niches.
Eco Systems
Eco systems can be vast and complex.
Here you will learn about all the animals that live within them and how an ecosystem is built up.
Endo/Exo-skeletons
Most things have a skeleton, but what kind is it?
What is it made from? Why do we need them? Does every living thing have one? Can a creature have more than one type of skeleton?
Humans and Animals
Humans and animals have many similarities, but also differences.
Discover the animal kingdom with the Bugfest minibeasts and find out why we all need each other.
Bugfest uses modern and emerging technology.
We are using HD cameras that we can plug into your projector for extra close up images, and deliver a world-class learning experience for your children.
Detailed covid risk assessment, public liability insurance and enhanced supply teaching DBS certificate available on request.
