Thirty thousand people leave. The next event is tomorrow.
Stadiums, arenas, sports clubs, race courses and event venues across Sheffield and Yorkshire. Event turnarounds staffed to the fixture list — concourses, seating bowls, washrooms and hospitality at scale — with a standing contract for the offices, changing rooms and public areas in between, and supervisors on site while the clock is running.
A turnaround is a deadline with a crowd on the other side of it.
Venue cleaning is about scale and time. Three things in how we work exist for a building that fills, empties and has to be right again by a fixed hour.
Teams sized to the event, not the building
A turnaround is staffed to the fixture — the number of people the concourses, bowl and washrooms need to be right by the deadline — drawn from employed teams and a relief pool rather than agency labour turning up cold.
Supervisors on site while the clock runs
Full-time mobile supervisors are on site for the turnaround, zoning the building, checking each area off against the specification and moving people to where the work is. Cleaners check in and out with GPS-verified timestamps, so the labour on the invoice is the labour that was there.
A standing contract between events
Offices, changing rooms, hospitality suites and public areas are cleaned on a normal round between fixtures, by a regular team who know the building — so the turnaround crew arrives to a venue that is already maintained, not one that needs rescuing.
The specification, written for a venue.
Two specifications, one contract: the event turnaround and the standing round. Both are written at the site visit to the building and the calendar.
Post-event, to a deadline
- Concourses litter-picked, swept and machine-cleaned
- Seating bowl or stands litter-picked, seats wiped, aisles cleared
- Public washrooms cleaned, sanitised and restocked — every block, every cubicle
- Kiosks, bars and hospitality suites cleared and reset for the next event
- Turnstiles, entrances and external areas cleared
- Bins emptied, waste segregated to your recycling targets
- Press, media and officials' areas reset
- Changing rooms turned around to a match standard
Between events
- Offices, reception, ticket office and meeting rooms
- Changing rooms, physio and gym areas
- Hospitality suites, boxes and boardroom
- Staff kitchens, welfare and washrooms
- Public areas, museum or club shop where present
- Touch points throughout
Scheduled into the season
- Pre-season deep clean of the whole venue
- Machine scrub, strip and seal of concourse and hospitality floors
- High level — roof steel, lighting gantries, ledges, with method statements
- Seating bowl pressure-wash and deep clean
- Carpet and upholstery extraction in hospitality
- Post-works cleans after refurbishment
Waste and recycling at event scale can sit inside the same contract. Waste & recycling → · every commercial service →
Overnight after the event, and on a round in between.
The fixture list sets the calendar. These are the patterns we run.
Overnight turnaround
The crew arrives as the venue empties and works through to a deadline — usually a morning handover for the next event or the next working day.
Staffed to the fixtureSame-day turnaround
For back-to-back events — an afternoon fixture and an evening one — zoned and staffed so areas are released as they are finished.
Zoned and releasedStanding round
Offices, changing rooms and hospitality on a normal weekly or daily round between events, by a regular team.
Fixed daysPre-season and closed periods
Deep cleans, floor work and high level scheduled into the weeks the venue is dark.
Planned into the calendarAccess, accreditation, stewarding liaison and keyholding are arranged during mobilisation and held under our procedures.
A non-league ground and a 12,000-seat arena are different contracts.
Sporting facilities is a category. These are the venues it usually means.
Football and rugby stadiums
Bowl, concourses, hospitality and washrooms turned around on a fixture list, plus the standing round for offices and changing rooms.
Arenas and concert venues
Multi-purpose floors, changeable seating and hospitality reset between very different events, often same-day.
Sports clubs and training grounds
Changing rooms, gyms, physio areas and clubhouses on a regular round, staffed to the training and match calendar.
Race courses and outdoor venues
Grandstands, enclosures and hospitality on race days, with the standing round in between.
Conference and exhibition halls
Turnarounds between shows, plus public areas and washrooms on a round. Hospitality & event venues →
Sporting facilities are one of twelve sectors. See all twelve or go back to commercial cleaning as a whole.
Consumables, waste and windows should not be three more suppliers.
Buildings rarely need only cleaning. Two parts of the business exist so that the rest does not become four more contracts, four more invoices and four more people to chase.
Consumables, waste and the outside of the building
Managed on the same schedule as the clean and billed on the same invoice, so usage is tracked against what the building actually gets through rather than a standing order that arrives whether you need it or not.
- Washroom supplies
- Sanitary units
- Waste & recycling
- Confidential waste
- External windows
- Signage cleaning
Staff, when the building needs more than cleaners
The same recruitment, vetting and HR that puts our cleaning teams in place, used to staff the other roles a site runs on — employed by us, covered by us when someone is off.
- Reception & front of house
- Caretaking
- Kitchen & catering
- Security
None of it is compulsory. Plenty of contracts are cleaning and nothing else — but if you are currently managing four suppliers for one building, raise it at the site visit.
Four steps, and a price that comes from the building rather than a rate card.
Anyone who quotes without seeing the site is guessing at your hours. This is what happens instead.
Site visit
We walk the building with you — the areas, the hours you need covered, the standard you are working to, and the things the last contractor kept getting wrong.
Written proposal
A specification and a price, with the tasks and frequencies set out plainly. Insurance certificates and compliance documents come with it, not on request later.
Mobilisation
Team assigned and inducted on site, access and alarms arranged, RAMS written for the building, consumables and equipment set up. A start date, not a vague fortnight.
Supervision
Mobile supervisors audit against the specification, your named contact stays the same, and the schedule flexes as the building changes.
Sheffield first, and staffed locally everywhere else.
We are registered and based in Sheffield and most of our contracts are here. Further afield, a contract is staffed with a team recruited near the building and supervised on a regional route — distance is a logistics question, not an obstacle.
Yorkshire
- Sheffield
- Barnsley
- Rotherham
- Doncaster
- Leeds
- Huddersfield
- Wakefield
- Bradford
- York
Derbyshire
- Chesterfield
- Derby
- Dronfield
- Buxton
Greater Manchester
- Manchester
- Stockport
- Oldham
- Salford
- Bolton
- Bury
- Wigan
Nottinghamshire
- Nottingham
- Mansfield
- Worksop
Lincolnshire
- Lincoln
- Scunthorpe
Somewhere between those towns? Ask — the honest answer depends on whether we can recruit a reliable team within sensible travel of your site. See every location we work in →
The questions venue operations managers ask.
Q.01How do you staff a turnaround for a large event?
To the fixture, not the building. The site visit and the specification set how many people each zone needs to be right by the deadline, and the crew is drawn from employed teams and a relief pool, with supervisors on site zoning the building and checking areas off. Cleaners check in and out with GPS-verified timestamps, so the labour invoiced is the labour that was there.
Q.02What if the next event is the following morning?
That is the normal case. The crew arrives as the venue empties and works overnight to a handover time. Where two events are back to back on the same day, the building is zoned and areas are released as they are finished.
Q.03Do you also clean between events?
Yes — a standing round covers offices, changing rooms, hospitality and public areas by a regular team who know the building. It means the turnaround crew arrives to a maintained venue rather than one that needs rescuing.
Q.04Can you handle waste and recycling at event scale?
Segregation to your recycling targets is part of the turnaround specification, and collection can be arranged as part of the contract or coordinated with your existing waste contractor.
Q.05Do you reset hospitality suites and boxes?
Yes — cleared and reset for the next event as part of the turnaround, and cleaned on the standing round between. Catering equipment stays with your caterer.
Q.06What about accreditation, stewarding and safety on site?
Arranged during mobilisation: accreditation for the crew, liaison with your safety and stewarding team, and HSE-compliant RAMS written for the venue — including working at height for high-level work — supplied before the first event.
Q.07How is venue cleaning priced?
Turnarounds are priced per event against a written specification with the labour stated; the standing round is priced like any contract, from a site visit. Both sit on one invoice. Anyone who prices a turnaround without seeing the venue is guessing at your crowd.
Q.08Which areas do you cover?
Sheffield first, then Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Greater Manchester, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire — 25 towns and cities. See the full list →
Something not covered? Email hello@nowthencleaners.co.uk or call 0114 212 7030 — the office is reachable seven days a week.
Show us the venue and the fixture list. The plan is written to both.
Half an hour on site, a written specification, a price with the hours stated — and a start date rather than a vague fortnight.