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It's too late in the year now but something like a summer polo punks picnic could help. Something that's a fun day out for anybody, but which you can use to sneakily slip bike polo into people's minds.
(Ben's?) Portable soundsystem + lots of free food and beer donated by whoever can afford to donate it, and i dont know what else, to attract the non-polo-playing public... who's gonna say no to music, free food and beer, seriously? I would chip in £20 for food. I'm sure dan would too, he's loaded.
Since the (fucking, bastard, cunting) law decided to stop people performing music in public without a permit, any attempt to get people to play music next to a polo court would no doubt lead to police intervention. You couldn't even guarantee that one man with a flute wouldn't get arrested. But there are a few people on here who organize gigs - someone could put on an afterparty at a nearby pub (the wagon & horses is near highgate courts isnt it) and, if there exists a decent, definitive UK polo scene documentary vid by next summer, some sorta outdoor bike polo video screening. And, rather more expensively, a polo photo exhibition...
Blagging a few sponsors for edible/drinkable goodies would be awesome. Anybody with a car and a big camping stove would be useful for reheating precooked food. Or a car and a BBQ... and the car's soundsystem could come in useful.
I dunno what else to suggest. Everything I've mentioned so far would require more motivation than I feel capable of at the moment, but once I'm recovered from sleep deprivation I could start working on something. Or nothing. I dunno.