Prosecco or Cocktail ladies night.

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I help run a social club. We need suggestions to make it viable to run.
Covid hit us hard. We are getting a few private parties and even a few
weddings, baby showers and funerals.
This is a town without a night club. There is about 70k people that live here.
One of the ideas is to have a ladies night. But not with male strippers as there
used to be in the 1980's.
Would you go to a ladies cocktail disco (other drinks available)
Last orders are midnight.
If not what other nights would you attend.
We already have bingo. Small offices rent out the concert room during the day
for training or seminars.
For the gentlemen it's been suggested after dinner speakers.
Suggestions are welcome for ladies and Men.

If you have local restaurants have a foodies fair, where each restaurant does three cold (or easily cooked) canapés/tapas for a ticket price. They get the ticket money, you get the bar sales, everyone gets to hear about great new restaurants.

Entrepreneur/business-focused nights as long as you can get a credible speaker. While I wouldn't be keen to make that sex-segregated personally, there might be women who would get a lot out of a female entrepreneurs' event. Just don't call it momtrepeneurs or whatever that horrible word is.

Is this Royston Vasey?

Definitely hire the hall out during the day. Playgroups, exercise classes, coffee mornings etc. Low maintenance and gives a regular income.

For evenings, I'd probably attend a quiz night, bingo and live bands - cover bands often go down well in my area.

Seriously, move away from theming nights around sex based interests! The world has moved on!

Quizzes are always a good idea.
Themed nights around a particular decade or country (with themed food ) seem to go down well where I live.

I’d rather do neither. Prosecco is rank, an after dinner speaker sounds awful.

i agree with a pp poster about the sexism.
why can’t women have something relatively interesting.

id also do a beer/real ale tasting night. How about a local band/ dance/ music evening. A quiz. Themed nights.

that would work for everyone, even if
it was ladies/men only nights.

I’m sure some women would love Prosecco/cocktails but really times have moved on!

Do a battle of the bands over a few weeks with a grand final. A club in my home town used to do an annual one every summer and they were always packed out, and they charged an entry fee so no cost for the entertainment AND it made them a few quid.

Crafts - bring an existing craft along, or a kit for something new you want to try. Spend time with others who enjoy crafting, have a g&t or three, and maybe learn a new skill.

80’s disco for me, and a Prosecco night.

What about a (non sex specific) 90s/Noughties Happy Hard-core night? 90s and Noughties dance music, 90s/Noughties dresscode, themed drinks (Smirnoff Ice, Pints of Skittles, Vodka Redbulls) glow sticks, whistles etc.

Prize of a bottle of 20/20 for the best costume.

I'd some market research. Your location can't change so you need up to date information on who your local audience are, breakdowns by age and some kind of categorisation for leisure interests, and also transport routes around you. A city centre location where you can get taxies will do better on drinking events than a small town location where someone has to drive to get you home. There's not much I'd leave the house for so you need to find your audience and talk to them rather than me.

If you want a single sex event for women, that's fine. But please don't call it "ladies' night" - it's incredibly patronising and dated, and just the name would be off-putting for most women in 2022.

Themed Pub Quizzes (one a quarter) always sell out the big pub near us. Friends, Big Bang Theory, Harry Potter, all been recent quiz nights.

I'd like a woman's only disco with cocktails. I hate the idea that if I went out with my país we'd look like women on the prowl - I'd just like a night out without thinking that we are too old for the crowd or are looking for male attention.
Speakers are tricky - if it was paired with a lovely meal maybe.

You really need some experts on your committee, it sounds like you are all a bit scattergun.

Its not ideas you need, its strategy.

First - understand yourselves.

Whats the objective of your organisation? What is is actually for, in a nutshell?

How do you want to meet the objective?

What values do you have?

Then understand your market. PP posted a great set of things to think about there.

Then you can look at any idea and see whether it fits your strategy and market.

I agree with this. If I saw things specifically for men and specifically for ladies like that it would really put me off, especially because it is proescco for ladies and speakers for men, as though the women couldn't possibly understand the stuff the men listen to so should stick to a fancy drink. If there was something one week for ladies, then the same for men the next week that would be different.

I making notes on all these suggestions. We have a meeting on Thursday.

If we held single sex disco how should we advertise it.

There's a social club in my area and they do really well.they have:
Fitness classes( clubbercise/zumba etc)
Toddler sensory groups
Children's themed discos
Then for other nights they have 80s fancy dress nights or 90s rave nights both with drinks/cocktails from that time.
Normal bingo or thier own bongos bingo( does very well) with shit prizes as it adds to the fun.
Tribute bands or live local bands

Also weightless groups/clubs

Themed quiz nights and I know its not for everyone but they had a psychic medium night recently and that sold out very quick.

Honestly your obsession with single sex events is really unsettling - are you perhaps very conservative or religious?

It's really not appropriate to try and define peoples interests by sex in 2022. I don't think you're in the right industry or indeed, century.

I'm also baffled by wanting to make this into single sex events.

Going from another thread, something that might be popular could be over 40s nightclub nights, where you play music from the 1980/90s and people get to dance like they did when they were teenagers/young adults. Different themes like Madchester, illegal rave/hard house or alternative/grunge.

You could serve prosecco if you must, but also a normal range of drinks, or retro teenage drinks like 20/20 plus a prize for the best outfit/dancing etc.

Include food and somewhere where people can sit down and possibly away from the main dancefloor so they can talk while resting their old bones.

What is the demographic?

I can see the appeal of a single sex space for a drinking night as it may make women feel safer to really let go and not have to worry about drinks being spiked or hounded by men on the prowl or whatever. Could even team up with local taxi/minibus firms to run safe women only journeys home at the end of the night.

But I'd imagine this sort of thing would be a one off type thing to raise awareness of how at risk women are on nights out.

You've said you asked for single sex only ideas. Can I ask why you're so fixed on this? It's dated.

I wish people would read the f*Ing thread properly.
I have stated that it could be single sex or couples.
If it was a single sex how do we advertise.

I think it would be really helpful if you say WHY it can only be couples or single sex, and can't possibly be single people mingling at a mixed sex event. It might help people suggest appropriate ideas if there is some specific reason for it, other than just being outdated.