Corporate Event Hire Basingstoke

Corporate event hire in Basingstoke mostly means the business parks, with Chineham, Houndmills and Viables keeping our diary steady from the first warm weekends through to the December dos. The trip north from Havant is about 38 miles, A3 then M3, and we run it all season. Office managers and HR teams across RG21 to RG24 book anything from a single staffed photo booth to a full company fun day with organised heats.

The formats that suit a park campus

A company sports day works best with one big anchor race and a ring of shorter games around it, so the timetable keeps moving and nobody queues all afternoon. A summer BBQ or family day is the looser shape, where colleagues and their families drift between the attractions while the food is on. Induction and team-building days are the structured ones, with fixed groups moving between stations on a bell. Come December the same parks switch to staff parties and team dos, and the combination we deliver most often up there is a rodeo attachment with the photo booth and a couple of electronic games making up the room.

The electronics and the booths are the picks that come up the M3 most often for Basingstoke office events, and for the bigger summer dates we build full multi-attraction spreads with our own operators running each station.

Picking the kit for the site

Whether the day sits on grass outside or in a function room decides most of the shortlist. Outdoors, the 150ft Army assault course is the anchor we quote first; it takes six standard 13amp sockets and gives the day its headline race. The Boot Camp Challenge is the two-lane alternative at 100ft, needing four sockets, drive-on access and about 110ft of flat ground. The climbing wall stands ten metres high and needs the vehicle right beside it, and the rodeo bull wants a level 20ft by 20ft patch with around 10ft of clear height above.

Between the big pieces, the short-round games keep everyone playing: the Sweeper takes eight at a time as a knockout, Dash N Grab runs eight players in quick bursts, and the High Striker and Multi Sports Arena suit the gaps in the schedule. The Sweeper, the wall, archery, laser clays, human table football, the Multi Sports Arena, the go-karts and Dash N Grab all arrive with one of our operators, and we can run timed heats on the courses if you don't want to supervise them yourselves.

Indoors, the plug-in range covers interactive darts, arcade machines, air hockey, shuffleboard, table tennis, the dance machine, a racing simulator and a photo booth, all running from ordinary 13amp sockets with several of them staffed. For a conference or awards night in one of the town's hotel rooms, that list is usually where the quote starts.

The paperwork and the practicalities

Procurement teams at the bigger employers normally ask for documents before anything gets signed, so it's all ready to send. We've been a family firm since 2002, run by Joanne and David Morris, and every item in the fleet is owned outright, so nothing gets sub-hired in behind your booking. The cover runs to £10 million public liability with licensed premises included. Each inflatable is PIPA-tagged and inspected every year by our in-house RPII inspector, and the climbing wall, the rodeo and the sweeper also carry ADIPS inspections as mechanical devices.

Everything we deliver locally sits on the Basingstoke event hire hub, from rodeo bull hire and assault course hire to photo booth hire and garden games hire. The corporate team building page goes deeper on the formats, and the sweeper and climbing wall pages carry the product detail.

To get a quote moving, send the date, the venue and its postcode, the delegate numbers, the format and rough team sizes, and the timings you're working to. For anything outdoors, add the surface, the size of the space, the access route and what power sits within reach, plus your rough product mix. If procurement has a deadline for the insurance certificate or the risk assessment, tell us and it is attached to the quote.