Corporate Event Hire Kensington

Corporate event hire in Kensington is a run of around 75 miles from our unit in Havant, up the A3 and round the M25, and a good share of what we deliver into the W and SW postcodes goes straight into a function room. The company calendar here runs on conferences, induction evenings, awards nights and office parties in the hotels and venues the borough is full of, so the compact electronic games and the photo booths travel up as often as the inflatables. The page below sets out what that range needs, and what our recent London induction work looked like.

The 500-delegate induction evening

The recent London induction evening we ran drew more than 500 delegates from across the country, and nine activities filled the venue for it: interactive darts, air hockey, shuffleboard, table tennis, crazy golf, the dance machine and the magic selfie mirror, with the stations spread so no corner of the room took the whole crowd. An evening on that scale runs on people milling between stations, so the guest numbers and the room size decide how long the list of activities needs to be. That is the shape of a big indoor corporate date in this part of London, and a smaller one simply shortens the list.

For a team-building evening or a smaller reception, two or three stations cover it, and the whole indoor range plugs into ordinary 13amp sockets: arcade machines, air hockey, shuffleboard, table tennis, the dance machine, a racing simulator and the photo booth, several of them arriving with one of our operators to run them. Where a venue has grounds or a terrace, the climbing wall, at ten metres tall and needing vehicle access, is the outdoor anchor a family fun day or sports day builds itself around, and the rodeo bull fits a flat 20ft by 20ft area with about 10ft of clear height, indoors or on a terrace.

What procurement and venue teams ask for

Compliance questions land early with corporate bookings in Kensington, and the answers are ready before they're asked. The £10 million public liability certificate includes the cover licensed venues need, the inflatables carry PIPA tags anyone can verify on the national register, the electrical kit is PAT-tested every year, and the climbing wall and Sweeper sit among the mechanical devices covered by ADIPS inspections. The risk assessment and method statement travel with the booking, so a compliance pack can be assembled while quotes are still being compared.

The staffed items matter when the day is built round a timetable: the Sweeper, climbing wall, archery, laser clays, human table football, the Multi Sports Arena, pedal go-karts and Dash N Grab all come with operators of our own, who hold the RPII operator and supervisor exams, current first-aid certificates and enhanced DBS checks. Joanne and David Morris have run the company since 2002 from the commercial unit in Havant, and the fleet is owned outright, so nothing between the booking and the night gets passed to an agency.

Kensington is around 75 miles from Havant, and in a borough like Kensington and Chelsea the van usually ends up in resident parking or a loading bay, so the hirer arranges the permit side and we plan the unload around the street. The pitch wants to be within 50 metres of the van, down a route at least 36 inches wide, with a 13amp socket within 20 metres of each inflatable, and where the power sits further off we bring a generator along.

The Kensington event hire hub holds the full local range, and the garden games hire in Kensington page matches the giant games to the terraces, courtyards and walled gardens the borough is known for. Interactive darts and shuffleboard are the two cards most often requested for indoor company dates up here, and the team building and corporate page carries the rest of the range for event agencies and in-house teams.

To get a quote moving, let us have the date and the venue with its postcode, the delegate numbers, the format, whether that's an induction evening, a conference reception or an awards night, and the timings. The room's dimensions and clear ceiling height, the floor level, the access route and the available power decide what fits indoors, so include those, plus a rough product mix. Any deadline procurement has set for the certificates, let us know and it goes in the same email.