Corporate Entertainment Hire in Barnsley
Corporate entertainment hire for Barnsley company days, Christmas parties and college events, delivered by our own crew from the Rotherham warehouse twenty minutes up the road. 25 years trading, £5 million public liability, and the same kit that has played the bigger corporate venues nationwide.
Company Events We Cover in Barnsley
Barnsley's corporate work runs through the college, the council and the town's employers. Barnsley College has booked us for event days at its Old Mill Lane campus - the simulator experience and interactive games among them - and Barnsley MBC has taken our climbing wall, gazebos and PA kit to community events on the Dearne side of the borough. Private firms book the fuller set: Christmas parties with dance machines and rodeo reindeer, and summer fun days with the Bootcamp 220ft assault course, Hungry Hippos and fun-food stands.
Whatever the shape of your event, the backbone of a company day here is the same: a big shared outdoor item, quieter games for the less energetic, a marquee if the weather has other ideas, and one crew that sets it all up and clears it away. For indoor staff parties the Batak Pro wall, Whack a Mole and dance machine fill a function room without needing anything more than sockets.
Barnsley town-centre venues have mains we can plug straight into; the sports grounds and business parks out toward the M1 usually want our generators. The college events tend to specify the quieter battery kit for indoor halls, which we supply as standard. If the fun day is on grass and the forecast looks Barnsley about it, the marquee option goes on the same van.
The Kit Barnsley Bookings Actually Take
Each item below is owned stock from the corporate entertainment range - about 150 products in total - delivered, set up and collected by our crew at the same price across the area.
Batak Pro Reaction Game
The reaction wall adapted from sports-science testing: hit every light before the clock runs out. Walls and leaderboards print with your branding. from £495 plus VAT.
Whack a Mole
Two mallets, six moles and a scoreboard. The most-booked exhibition game we run, and the one that gets custom-branded most often. from £445 plus VAT.
Dance Machine Hire
The full-size arcade dance machine with two pads and every difficulty setting - the ice-breaker that needs no explaining. from £495 plus VAT.
AI Photo Booth
Studio-grade AI photo booth that turns guests into astronauts and pixel art. Prints on site, overlay carries your logo. from £695 plus VAT.
360 Photobooth Hire
The slow-motion video booth on a spinning arm. The clip lands on guests' phones, ready for the company socials. from £595 plus VAT.
Atari Pong Table
A playable Pong cocktail table with no coins to feed it. Suits networking drinks and office parties. from £425 plus VAT.
Rodeo Bull / Bucking Bronco
The bucking bronco, with comedy commentary from our operator. Repeat-booked for work Christmas parties. from £395 plus VAT.
Hungry Hippos
Four players on bungees grabbing balls for their hippo - zero fitness required, everyone plays. from £595 plus VAT.
Why Barnsley Organisers Book Us
The commercial terms are the ones schools, colleges and council departments are used to checking: £5 million public liability, risk assessment and method statement for every item emailed ahead, trained and uniformed staff where an item needs running, and invoicing on payment terms rather than payment up front. About 95% of the stock is our own, racked at Rotherham twenty minutes away - swaps and add-ons for a Barnsley event are a van ride, not a negotiation with a broker.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does corporate entertainment hire cost in Barnsley?
As a planning figure: budget £325 to £495 per indoor game, £395 up for the rodeo bull, £699 for the climbing wall and £1,695 for the Bootcamp assault course. The multi-item company days that most organisers book run £1,500 to £5,000, with the discount applying to items shipped on the same delivery.
Do you deliver to Barnsley?
Yes. The warehouse is twenty minutes away in Rotherham via the A61 or the M1 at J36, so we deliver across the whole borough with our own vehicles, generally with a little more schedule flexibility than the bigger cities. Delivery, set up and collection are included.
Can you work in hotel function rooms and conference venues?
Yes. The college, the civic venues and the town's hotels and clubs all run our kit, and Penistone and the Dearne-side community halls book us for their committee events. One socket per electronic game, a ground sheet under the rodeo, risk assessments to the venue beforehand - it is a well-practised routine.
What about branding?
Branding is done in-house rather than outsourced: Batak panels, Whack a Mole leaderboards, prize crane wraps, gazebo tops and booth overlays printed with your artwork. Decathlon's branded Batak and the Specsavers builds above came off the same presses. Allow a little lead time on top of the booking.
How far ahead should we book for Barnsley?
Barnsley events are close enough to the depot that fortnight-notice bookings are normal for mid-week dates. Summer Saturdays and December party nights go early everywhere in South Yorkshire - the earlier of those two problems is usually the summer fun day, so aim for May and June dates if you can.
What Our Customers Say
Fantastic service, friendly staff and very accommodating. Such a huge choice of entertainment options. The feedback from our fun day was very very positive and the kids loved it
Jane Oates, organised fun day.
Just wanted to pass on a huge thanks to the DB team for attending our event yesterday. As always everything ran smoothly, the setup was great including safely getting the large climbing wall on site (which the kids loved!) It was really busy all day and the staff were amazing! Thanks once again, see you again next year!
Annual repeat client, climbing wall at a big recurring event.
Book Corporate Entertainment in Barnsley
The green Get A Quote buttons on the products above start the quote and let you stack items into it. For the bigger and more complicated bookings - big rides, multi-day runs, full staffed fun days - the office quotes per date instead: ring 0114 345 0135 or send the enquiry form and we will put the whole thing together in one go.
One Barnsley-specific note: the college and council calendar fills the town-centre venues around graduation and results season, so if your event shares a weekend with those, early is better. Deposits are small and the rest is on payment terms. Delivery, set up and collection included.
Also in Barnsley: assault courses, exhibition hire, funfair ride hire, marquee hire, rodeo bull hire and table and chair hire.
We also run corporate entertainment hire in Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster, Worksop, Chesterfield, Hull, Yorkshire, Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Liverpool, Nottingham, Newcastle upon Tyne, Edinburgh, Glasgow and London.