Corporate Event Hire Eastleigh

Corporate event hire in Eastleigh tends to come from the business parks around Southampton Airport and the offices stretched out towards Chandler's Ford and Southampton. We've covered SO50 and SO53 for years, with the workshop at Havant about 24 miles back down the M27, so a weekday induction day or a Friday afternoon of team building fits the diary easily. What follows is how we'd put a kit list together for an Eastleigh company day.

What Eastleigh companies book

Most of the corporate work here splits into three shapes. A company sports day wants organised heats and a running scoreboard, a summer BBQ or family fun day needs things people can drift in and out of between the food and the speeches, and an induction day works in teams and time slots with the whole group rotating between stations. Office managers and HR teams usually arrive with a headcount and a date before anything else, and that's enough for us to start quoting from.

For the sports day shape we'd anchor the timetable with one big piece and spread short rounds around it. The Last Man Standing Sweeper takes eight players at a time as a knockout, and Dash N Grab takes eight over much quicker rounds, so a single queue never builds up in one place. The Multi Sports Arena switches between volleyball, basketball, netball, badminton and five-a-side with our operator handling the changeovers, and the High Striker settles most of the arguments in the office sweepstake.

Kit sums for an Eastleigh site

The courses have different appetites for space and power. The 150ft Army Assault Course wants six standard 13amp sockets, and the two-lane Boot Camp Challenge takes four plus drive-on access and 110ft of clear flat ground, so a sloping field or a long cable run changes which one fits your site. Where the ground is tighter, the 80ft Big Red course uses three sockets and still gives you a proper race. Tell us the surface, the access and where the sockets sit before you settle on a shortlist.

When the weather or the season points everyone inside, the function rooms take over. Interactive darts, air hockey, shuffleboard, table tennis, arcade machines and a photo booth all plug in on ordinary 13amp sockets, with the dance machine and racing simulators joining them for a Christmas party or awards night in a hotel suite. Several of these come with one of our crew to run them, and the Eastleigh Christmas entertainment page covers the December versions.

Paperwork, staff and the drive

For the procurement file, the items that always travel with an operator are the Sweeper, the climbing wall, archery, the laser clays, human table football, the Multi Sports Arena, the pedal go-karts and Dash N Grab. We can send the insurance certificate, the risk assessments and the method statements with the quote, and every member of the crew is on the enhanced-DBS register. Every inflatable in the fleet is PIPA-tagged and gets its yearly inspection from our in-house RPII inspector, and Joanne and David Morris have run the firm as a family business since 2002.

The run out is about 24 miles west along the M27, which is close enough that late additions to an Eastleigh booking are usually workable. We've run the corporate days for the businesses around the airport and out towards the city, so the site details we ask for, meaning surface, access, power and numbers, are the ones that decide the quote.

The Eastleigh event hire hub lists everything we run in the town, the assault course and rodeo bull pages cover the bigger outdoor pieces, and photo booth hire in Eastleigh takes the evening. The garden games hire in Eastleigh page suits the lower-key end of a family day, and the full range is on the team-building and corporate events page.

For a quote, email the date, the venue name or postcode, delegate numbers, the format you have in mind, team sizes and timings, whether the space is indoor or outdoor and how big it is, the surface, the access, the power and a rough product mix. If procurement has a deadline for the paperwork, tell us that too and it goes out alongside the quote.