Envisage Agency

Envisage Agency, event and promotional staffing in the UK

Envisage Agency is an event and promotional staffing agency with nationwide coverage in the UK. Founded in 2010, it works with brands, agencies, exhibitors, venues and event organisers, and supplies customer-facing teams for trade fairs, conferences, brand activations and promotional campaigns. The company presents itself as capable of covering everything from a single person for a stand to hundreds of people in a nationwide campaign.

Promotional and brand services

The agency's catalogue includes promotional staff, themed promotional staff, brand ambassadors, experiential marketing, exhibition staff and exhibition sales staff, field marketing staff, lead generators, international staff, hostesses for the National Exhibition Centre, social media influencers, student marketing, trade show staff, actors and extras, presenters and event support staff.

Event support and operations

On the operational side, Envisage provides event staff, security staff, marshals and stewards, conference staff, conference registration staff, corporate event hostesses, immersive event staff, event crew, event managers, event cleaning services, festival staff, hospitality staff, kitchen and waiting staff, on-demand staffing, car park staff, product placement, road show staff, walking billboards and themed entertainment staff.

Entertainment and characters

The entertainment offering covers Christmas characters, with services including hire a Santa, Santa at home, street Santa, Santa goes to school, Zoom Santa, Storytime with Santa, hire a Father Christmas for your Christmas parade or light switch on, hiring Father Christmas for shopping centres and personalised videos from Santa. It also includes costume performers, children's entertainers, stilt walkers and performers, face painters, performers for family events, cheerleaders, night club promotions, fire performers and fun casino hire.

Retail, merchandising and market research

For the retail sector, the agency offers in-store retail staff, in-store demonstrators, merchandisers, product placement, product sampling, temporary sales staff and temporary retail staff. In distribution, it covers flyer distributors, controlled publication distribution campaigns and crowd engagement services. It also has mystery shoppers, rent a crowd, rent a mourner, TV extras, market research staff, data capture, focus groups and product testers.

Models and image profiles

The models section includes catwalk models, curvy models, grid girls and atmosphere models. The agency also offers actors and actresses, mature actors, male and female models, Scottish models, mature models, dancers and fashion models.

Coverage and operations

Envisage serves England, Scotland and Wales, with support also for needs in the rest of the UK and Europe. The company states that it prioritises local staff whenever possible to reduce travel and accommodation costs, and that its office team coordinates campaigns in one or several locations, offering a central point of contact. The agency states that in 2025 it achieved a 99.58% attendance rate across more than 18,000 staff days. Among the conditions it declares are prior briefing of staff, public liability and professional indemnity insurance, full booking management, support during the event, replacement in the event of an unforeseen absence and clear pricing with no unexpected additional costs.

Experience and clients

With more than fifteen years of activity, Envisage has worked on individual trade fairs, corporate events, large public events and national campaigns. The company has independent reviews on Google and Trustpilot and publishes case studies, including the Gladiators Experience at the NEC in Birmingham, support for The Events Company's Summer Fun Days and crowd talent for the Turbo Tango launch in Manchester.