Christmas Entertainment Chichester

December work in Chichester has a proper anchor to it: the company Christmas party we ran at Goodwood Racecourse, with the snowboard simulator set up indoors in its winter print. Around that, the December diary takes hotel dos and office parties in the city, the season the University of Chichester students' union plans around, and the school fairs out towards Petworth and Midhurst. It's about twelve miles east of the workshop straight along the A27, so it's one of the shortest runs on the December diary.

A Chichester office do usually takes a headline piece and builds around it: the rodeo reindeer or the snowboard simulator as the centrepiece, the Christmas photo booth or magic selfie mirror against a wall, and electronic fillers such as the dance machine, the retro arcade machines and the racing simulator for the gaps in between. Smaller rooms run leaner, and Whack an Elf plus the Christmas mega wire fill a corner without eating floor space. For the school fairs, Santa's grotto, the inflatable snow globe and the Christmas side stall games are the family end of the list.

The Goodwood party is the December job people around here tend to know: the snowboard simulator went into the racecourse indoors, winter scenery and all, for a company do. The University of Chichester students' union has had us back for the summer ball two years running, and the same relationship keeps the phone ringing when the ball season turns. Whatever the room, the pieces arrive with our own crews and the staffed ones stay with an operator for the whole event.

The firm behind it: Joanne and David Morris have run Monster Event Hire from the commercial unit in Havant since 2002, with everything on the Christmas list in our own fleet and nothing sub-hired in. The crews are ours, first-aid trained and enhanced-DBS registered, the rodeo machines carry ADIPS certification, and anything needing a plug is PAT tested. Chichester quotes include the £10 million public liability certificate with the extra cover licensed venues ask about, and the risk assessments are ready when the venue wants them.

If the Christmas do is one part of a bigger year, the Chichester event hire page lists the lot, and the corporate event hire in Chichester page covers the company side of the diary. The student event hire in Chichester page follows the university calendar, and the garden games hire in Chichester page is the one for the summer fete kit.

December's staffed pieces go with the operators before the kit goes with the vans, so get the Chichester date in early. Send the venue, the evening's timings and roughly how many are coming, and the package and the paperwork come back together.