Student Event Hire Alton

Student event hire in Alton usually means Alton College, the town's sixth form college, and its calendar of September welcome events, Christmas socials and the leavers season from May. We are a family firm working out of Havant, and Alton is about 22 miles up the A3 and A31, which puts the town well inside our East Hampshire patch. Our diary does not yet hold a student event at the college, so this page sticks to the kit and the practicalities, with no job list attached.

Sixth form events around Alton

Alton College is where the town's sixth formers study, and its enrichment and events people are the ones who book entertainment of this kind for welcome socials, Christmas dos and leavers afternoons. The calendar to plan around starts with the freshers and welcome day slots in September, moves through the December do and the February ball, and ends with the leavers days and summer events once the exams finish in June. A sixth form crowd is one of the easiest to buy for, because competitive kit with a score on it works from sixteen to nineteen.

A leavers day wants kit with a queue, and the rodeo bull reliably builds one. Our operator sets the speed for each rider and keeps the line orderly, and the high striker beside it gives the competitive students a number to beat. The review below is from a college welcome event where that exact pairing ran, and it turned into a challenge between the students, which is usually how these afternoons go.

What fits a college hall

The electronic games are the straightforward half of any college booking: the dance machine, the arcade machines, the under pressure reaction game and the interactive darts are plug-in kit that runs off a standard 13amp socket, so any common room or hall with ordinary wiring can host them. The rodeo needs a square 20 feet by 20 feet with headroom above it, which a sports hall has and a common room rarely does. How high is the sports hall ceiling, because that single number decides whether the bull travels or stays home.

For a leavers afternoon out on the field, the climbing wall, laser tag and the assault courses are the picks, with laser clays where the site allows. Outdoor inflatables go out with an anemometer and the 24mph wind cutoff written into the paperwork, and any marquee needs flat grass for its anchor pins.

A college booking usually arrives through an events office or a procurement route, much like the university ones, and the file will want the insurance certificate, the risk assessment and the method statement. Where the students include sixteen and seventeen year olds, the enhanced-DBS registration held by our staff matters as much as the kit does, and multi-day applicants weeks are routine for us.

We own the whole fleet outright, so nothing is sub-hired in and the crew that quotes is the crew that arrives. The insurance runs to £10 million public liability with the licensed-premises extension, the electricals are PAT tested, and every operator is first-aid trained.

Alton sits about 22 miles north of the yard, A3 then the A31, which keeps the travel side of a college quote modest. Most of our work around here is village halls and schools, and a college date would slot into the same weekend runs.

Everything else we run in the town is on the Alton event hire hub, with the rodeo bull hire Alton, photo booth hire Alton and garden games hire Alton pages covering the individual items. The wider student range is on the students and freshers and college and university events pages, and the rodeo bull and high striker are the natural pair for a sixth form leavers day.

When you enquire, give us the college and the event, the date, the hall or field, the timings, the numbers and any procurement deadline, and say whether the students come through in shifts or all at once. We come back with a shortlist that fits the room and the budget, usually the same day.