The run-up to Christmas 2025 was the busiest and most successful period we've had in the company's history. More events out the door than any December before it, from corporate Christmas parties to big festive activations, with vans up and down the country most days and a fair few new clients booking in alongside the regulars. A record-breaking year all round - more jobs than we've ever run, events in more places than ever, and a warehouse that rarely had everything home at once.
The standout was our new AI photo booth, launched properly this Christmas. It shoots multiple people in one frame and turns out custom AI-generated images, and it changed the shape of the events we took it to. Where one of our selfie pods would normally take around 100 photos across an event, the AI booth was capturing several hundred. The demand was huge, and it pulled in every age group going - the kids and the grown-ups in about equal measure, which is not something you can say for much kit. The shots go out printed or straight to people's phones by QR code, so groups left with the photos in hand. It's already one of the most requested items we run for corporate events and Christmas parties, and through December it barely saw the warehouse between jobs.
The tried-and-tested favourites went out hard all month too. Bouncy castle hire, Batak hire and the Snownado machine were rarely back for long, going out to corporate events and Christmas parties, with a few longer staff-engagement hires running right through the month. There's a reason these keep getting booked: they get colleagues talking to each other, competing and having a laugh, rather than standing round the buffet making small talk. A Batak leaderboard does more for a works do than any icebreaker we've ever seen.
Among the December jobs worth a mention: a Christmas event at Amazon's DSA2 site over in North Ferriby, with children's rides, a grotto and hot chocolate for the teams. That one had the full range in a single place - rides outside, grotto and food inside - with our crew running the lot, which is the in-house advantage doing its job.
The food and drink side had its biggest month as well. Across December we served around 20,000 cups of hot chocolate from our hot chocolate machine, along with mini chocolate doughnuts, pretzels and warm sugar and cinnamon doughnuts, out at events the length of the country. There's no great science to why that side works - a warm cup and something sweet is half of what makes a Christmas event feel like one, and the smell alone pulls people across a room.
We've been trading over 25 years now, and everything - the kit, the crew, the delivery - is handled in-house. That's how a month like December gets run without it falling over: one warehouse, one crew list, everyone working to the same diary.
Thanks to everyone who booked with us in 2025, the regulars and the new faces both. We're already taking dates for 2026, so if you're planning something for the year ahead, get in touch with the office and we'll talk it through. Here's to doing it all again.
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