Event, Festival & Wedding Ground Protection

Keep guests, caterers and vehicles moving across grass without leaving the lawn churned up. Lay temporary walkways and access routes for weddings, fetes, festivals and shows – walkways that keep guests out of the mud, trackway for marquee lorries and catering vans, and parking that still works after a wet weekend – then lift everything when the event is over and the field looks untouched.

Which product do I need?

• Lightweight ground protection boards: 2.4m x 1.1m boards with an anti-slip tread and interlocking edges. Light enough for one person to lay, for walkways, marquee floors, bar areas, stall pitches and light vehicle access.
• Hi-vis walkway matting: lightweight 1m-wide rolls in 5m and 10m lengths for clearly marked pedestrian routes from the car park to the marquee or across a festival field.
• Medium-duty ground protection mats: 8ft x 4ft trackway for catering vans, generators, toilet trailers, deliveries and marquee build-up.
• Turf reinforcement mesh: for venues, showgrounds and village halls that host events regularly and want permanently reinforced parking and access.

Planning a wet-weather route

Walk the route guests and vehicles will take and note where it crosses lawn, gateways and slopes. Lay walkway matting on the pedestrian route, ground protection mats on anything vehicles use, and double-mat gateways and turning points where tyres scrub. For a wedding, a 10m roll of walkway mat and a short run of lightweight boards is usually enough; for a festival or show, send us the site plan and we will plan the trackway with you.

Planning tips

• Lay routes before build-up starts, so vans and trolleys never touch bare grass.
• Walk every route once it is down and check that joins sit flat.
• Lift boards as soon as the event is over, so the grass underneath gets light again.

Quick answers

Can the boards be reused? Yes. They are made to be lifted, cleaned and laid again event after event.

Buy or hire? Venues, marquee companies, event hire firms and estates buy mats to use season after season rather than hiring each time; for a one-off event a short run of boards and walkway matting is a small outlay that is ready for the next party.

Event organiser or venue? Tell us your route lengths and the vehicles involved on 01282 270214 or by email, and we will recommend a layout and quote for trade quantities.

Related: overflow & event parking on grass and the full ground protection mats range.