Christmas Entertainment Oxford

Oxford's December calendar is ball season: the colleges and the university departments plan their Christmas balls and winter dinners across OX1 to OX4, the hotels take the office dos, and the schools run their fairs in the last week of term. The city is about 75 miles north-west of the workshop, A34 most of the way, and it's one of the regular runs on the diary.

A college ball or a big office party in Oxford usually takes a headline piece and a supporting cast: the rodeo reindeer or the snowboard simulator drawing the queue, the magic selfie mirror or Christmas photo booth working the corner all night, and the racing simulator, retro arcade machines and dance machine keeping the middle of the room busy. Where the room is smaller, Whack an Elf and the Christmas mega wire bring the games without crowding the dance floor, and the family fairs take Santa's grotto and the inflatable snow globe.

The job we're proudest of on this run is the STFC graduate event at The Cosener's House, where the feedback went into the report the organisers wrote for their senior line managers, and it shows what the kit does in a stately setting with a proper guest list. Ball committees tend to want the same things: pieces that set up fast in a marquee on the lawn or a function room, run all evening with our own operators, and pack down without waking the porters.

On the record that ball committees and procurement teams ask about: the firm has been Joanne and David Morris's since 2002, trading from Havant, with every Christmas item owned outright and no sub-hire anywhere in the chain. Oxford bookings run on kit that is PAT tested for the plugged items, ADIPS certified for the rodeos, and crewed by our own operators, who are enhanced-DBS registered and first-aid trained. The £10 million public liability certificate and the additional licensed-premises cover are part of every Oxford quote email.

The Oxford event hire page lists everything we take up the A34, with corporate event hire in Oxford covering the company evenings and student event hire in Oxford following the academic calendar. The garden games hire in Oxford page is the summer fete side, and the Oxfordshire Christmas entertainment page covers the county towns.

Enquiry early for an Oxford December, because the ball dates are fixed long before the month arrives and the staffed pieces go to whoever asks first. Send the venue, the timings and the expected numbers, and the package is built around the room you've got.