Student Event Hire Islington

Student event hire in Islington runs through City and Islington College, the sixth forms and the halls around N1, and the calendar holds freshers fairs and welcome days in the autumn, winter balls, then leavers events and graduation celebrations on into July. The run up from Havant covers roughly 75 miles, A3 and M25 for most of it with the A40 as the alternative. We're into the borough regularly through the season, and the inner-London venues are the ones where it's worth sorting access and power early.

City and Islington College anchors the further education side of the borough, and its student union, events office and enrichment team hire exactly this range, from September welcome days to summer send-offs. Around the college, the schools and sixth forms fill the summer term with reward days and leavers events, which is the backbone of our north London diary at that time of year. Halls and student accommodation sites run their own socials through term, and those usually want one or two staffed attractions in a common space.

Kit for a freshers fair in a tight venue

The indoor electronic games suit Islington venues well, being plug-in kit that runs off a standard 13amp socket in a common room or a union bar. Short rounds and visible scores matter where people walk past, so the high striker, the giant buzz wire, Under Pressure, the dance machine, the arcade machines and the Batak Pro are the freshers regulars. The booths print on the night with a member of our team running them, and the green screen booth and the magic mirror both work for graduation events and summer balls as well as fairs.

North London has given us plenty of this work. A sixth form leavers day ran the laser clay pigeon shoot, the rodeo bull, last man standing and a set of inflatables together, and a later activity day in the same part of town had the archery and axe throwing range, a laser tag arena and an assault course out side by side. That spread is the standard leavers-day shape, and it comes down to a single staffed attraction when the budget or the room is smaller.

Rooms, rides and the ceilings over them

The rodeo works indoors in Islington venues where the ceiling height allows, on about a 20ft by 20ft footprint, and it is the piece student accommodation socials and evening balls book most. For the outdoor dates, a quad or a hired green space takes the climbing wall, laser tag or an assault course, and every outdoor inflatable goes out with an anemometer and the written rule that ends the session at 24mph. Photographs from a staffed booth cover the year whichever way the weather goes.

Access is the detail that decides most inner-London set-ups. Under our terms the kit stands within 50 metres of where the van stops, down a route at least 36 inches wide, and each inflatable needs its own 13amp socket within 20 metres. Parking for the van falls to the hirer, and round Islington that can mean a resident bay or a controlled zone, so the loading picture is worth sending with the enquiry. Where the nearest power is a long way off, we bring a generator.

We're a family business, run by Joanne and David Morris from Havant since 2002, and the kit is our own. The inflatables are PIPA tagged and inspected every year, we hold £10 million public liability insurance with the licensed-premises cover, and every staff member is enhanced-DBS registered, first-aid trained and RPII-examined. An events office booking a leavers day with sixteen and seventeen year olds present gets the same paperwork as a university ball.

The Islington event hire hub carries the whole range for the borough, and the garden games hire in Islington page covers the giant games and flat-mat golf for halls and courtyards. The student and freshers event hire and college and university event hire pages split the daytime and evening ends of the student calendar, and the dance machine and green screen photo booth pages cover two pieces that go into most bookings.

An enquiry with the college, union or hall named, the event type, the date, the room or site, the timings and the rough numbers is enough for us to price. Add how the students arrive, in one crowd or in waves, plus the ceiling height if you want the rodeo, the distance to the nearest sockets and any procurement cut-off, and the quote will come back accurate first time.