Eton College event hire

Eton College is the boys' boarding school across the Thames from Windsor, founded in 1440 and the largest boarding school in England, with around 1,350 boys aged 13 to 18 living in 24 boarding houses plus College for the King's Scholars. The school also runs a corporate events side of its own, with School Hall and the Cloisters let for gala dinners, award ceremonies and conferences. Our booking there was the school side of the calendar: a boarders' Sunday funday in September 2026 with the multi-sports arena and the crazy golf out on the grass.

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The boarders' Sunday funday

The September 2026 job was a Sunday afternoon for the boarders, on a grass pitch among the trees on the school site. The multi-sports arena went out as the main draw, played as bouncy football, volleyball, dodgeball and basketball depending on the group, and the crazy golf ran alongside it for the boys who wanted something quieter. The arena is a 40ft by 20ft enclosed court on two 13amp sockets and came with one of our operators for the afternoon. The golf is nine separate putting mats, each around 8ft by 2ft, that sit flat on the grass, so it can be handed over for the school's own staff to run.

Sunday is the slot boarding schools use for this kind of day, because the houses run their own weekend schedule and the pupils come and go in house groups through the afternoon. That shapes the kit list: the arena takes a group at a time with a queue that moves, and the golf holes give everyone else something to pick up and put down between turns.

The college's own event spaces

The corporate side of Eton runs across a handful of rooms: School Hall, the Cloisters, Election Hall, the Headmaster's Dining Room and College Hall. School Hall is the big one, built in 1908 and opened by King Edward VII, refurbished by Hopkins Architects and given a 2025 RIBA South Award, and it seats 200 theatre-style or 198 for a private dinner. The Cloisters take the drinks reception, Election Hall holds 60 for a meeting, the Headmaster's Dining Room takes 30 for a private dinner, and College Hall takes the evening events.

A gala dinner or an awards evening in a room like School Hall wants the plug-in range, with the inflatables left outside: the interactive darts, the arcade machines, the racing simulator, air hockey and the Batak Pro all run off a standard 13amp socket and turn people round in a minute or two, and the magic selfie mirror covers the photographs. The room and the service times decide which of those fit, so we check the floor and the power before quoting.

• 50 milesFrom Havant, A3 or M3 depending on the day
• 40ft x 20ftArena court, on two 13amp sockets
• DBSEnhanced checks on every operator
• £10mPublic liability, certificate with the quote

Working there

Eton sits across the river from Windsor, around 50 miles from our unit in Havant, usually the A3 and M25 or the M3 depending on the day. The school sets the access and timings, so we ask early where the van can stop, which gate we come through and when the site is clear enough to set up without crossing the school day.

The paperwork travels with the booking: £10 million public liability insurance with licensed-premises cover, the risk assessment and method statement, PIPA-tagged inflatables inspected annually by our in-house RPII inspector Dave, PAT-tested electrics, and operators who are RPII-examined, first-aid trained and enhanced-DBS registered. For a boarding school the DBS register matters, because our crew spend the afternoon among children.

For a boarders' funday or a school event at Eton, ring us on 01428 751925 or fill in the enquiry form and tell us the date, the site or room, the age groups, the numbers and whether the day runs as one session or house by house.