Christmas Entertainment Harrow

Harrow is about 85 miles from our unit in Havant, up the A3 and round the M25, so it's towards the top end of where we work, and the December diary there follows the schools: Harrow College and the schools around the HA postcodes plan their Christmas balls for December, and the hotels take the office dos. We're up that way through the year for the college events and the community days, so a December booking rides on routes we already know.

The December and February ball calendar is the backbone of the student work up there, and for the Christmas ball the rodeo bull is the regular headline - which in December means the rodeo reindeer or the Christmas pudding attachment on the same machine. Around it: the Christmas photo booth or magic selfie mirror working the wall, the retro arcade machines and racing simulator on the sides, and Whack an Elf with the Christmas mega wire for the smaller function rooms. Community and family events take Santa's grotto, the inflatable snow globe and the Christmas side stall games instead.

Community work is part of the same patch: we've run the Ealing Playday over in Ealing for hundreds of local children and families, and the coordinators' verdict then was a jam-packed day of fun - the same kit list, indoors and themed, is what a Harrow community Christmas needs.

On the checks a Harrow booker makes: the business has been Joanne and David Morris's since 2002, run from the commercial unit in Havant, and nothing on the Christmas list is borrowed or sub-hired. The rodeo machines are ADIPS certified, the electronics are PAT tested annually, and the crews are ours, enhanced-DBS registered and first-aid trained. Harrow quotes come with the £10 million public liability certificate, the licensed-premises addition and, where a venue wants them, the risk assessments and method statements.

The Harrow event hire page holds the full range, with corporate event hire in Harrow covering the office side, student event hire in Harrow the ball calendar and garden games hire in Harrow the fete kit.

Schools fix their ball dates well before December, so once yours is set, send the Harrow venue, the timings and the expected numbers, and the date gets held while the package comes back.