DB Entertainment

DB Entertainment: event entertainment hire since 1999

DB Entertainment is a British company specialising in event entertainment equipment hire, operating since 1999. Its catalogue includes more than 600 products across 68 categories, stored in a 25,000 square foot facility located between Rotherham and Sheffield, five minutes from the A1, M1 and M18 motorways. The company presents itself as one of the UK's largest event hire ranges and covers everything from a private garden celebration to funfairs, stages and generators in an urban venue.

Product and service catalogue

The offering spans a wide variety of attractions and equipment for different types of events:

• Bouncy castles, including adult models, and inflatable slides.
• Disco domes, soft play, ball pools and photo booths.
• Assault courses, climbing walls, mobile zip lines, bungee trampolines and laser quest.
• Full It's A Knockout package with presenter and medals.
• Funfairs with real rides, side games and arcade games.
• Sports inflatables, rodeo bulls and multi rides.
• Event stages, marquee hire and marquee sales.
• Generators and safety equipment.
• Wedding entertainment, with PA and music equipment.
• Themed parties, including princess-themed parties, and children's entertainment.
• Water inflatables and hot tub hire.
• Electronic interactive games such as Batak Pro, Grab a Grand and The Vault.
• Arcade machines and funfair games.
• Christmas hire: grottos, snow globe photo pods, light switch-ons and market stalls.
• Halloween and Christmas attractions.
• Items for sale.

The catalogue shows indicative prices for some products, such as Noughts & Crosses Inflatable from £295, Chaos 4 Player from £395, football table from £295, Whack a Zombie from £495, safe axe throwing from £145 and Spider Mountain from £895.

Specialisation in corporate events and funfairs

The company has a dedicated division for game hire at exhibitions and trade fairs, with more than twenty years of experience at venues such as the NEC, ExCeL London and Manchester Central. Its vehicles make frequent deliveries to those halls and to the Telford Exhibition Centre. Most stand games can be customised with a branding wrap.

For corporate events and open days, DB Entertainment offers assault courses, climbing walls, It's A Knockout packages and funfairs with rides. The company cites recurring work for companies such as Amazon and has served Sheffield City Council fundays, school reward days and scout camps.

Packages and ready-to-book solutions

The website groups popular combinations into ready-made packages: action offers and bouncy castles, garden games, soft play for toddlers and wedding entertainment. Packages are also offered for Christmas parties, corporate entertainment, themed funfairs, themed parties, indoor entertainment, princess parties, school fun days, scout events, team building, toddler entertainment, fun food, school reward days, freshers fairs, seasonal event extras, carnival games, event infrastructure and temporary power, Halloween and Christmas.

Latest arrivals

Recent additions include Spider Mountain, an eight-metre scramble-net climbing tower with a freefall drop slide and room for sixteen climbers at a time, designed for company fun days, community events, school reward days and scout camps. The AI Photo Booth has also been added, turning a selfie into a custom portrait using artificial intelligence, with more than 180 templates and the option to integrate the client's branding. For stands and exhibitions, the Grab a Grand, The Vault, Batak Pro and arcade machines can also be customised with branding.

Logistics, coverage and booking process

DB Entertainment owns 95% of the equipment it hires out, so every hire is delivered, set up and collected by its own teams in company vehicles, with no intermediaries. The company states it carries £5 million public liability insurance as standard, and provides risk assessments and method statements to the client or venue before the event. For larger bookings, a member of the office team manages the entire event, including generators at sites without a power supply. Trained monitors are also available to operate the equipment during the event.

Local coverage includes Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster, Worksop, Barnsley, Wakefield and Chesterfield. West Yorkshire and Greater Manchester are considered immediate working areas, and for larger events the company delivers UK-wide. The Nationwide page explains which products travel to each area.

The booking process is handled through the website: each product page shows real-time availability, allows you to select dates, book and pay online with no deposit, for a single day or a whole weekend. Outdoor inflatables cannot be booked in late autumn and winter; indoor games, arcades and photo booths are available all year round. To hire more than three items, the company asks you to send the enquiry form with the date, theme and a rough plan, or call the office. The site states that quote requests are answered the same day.

Venues and regular locations

The website includes a list of venues where the company operates frequently, including Abbeydale Sports Club, All Saints Ecclesall Parish Hall, Armthorpe Community Centre, Aston-cum-Aughton Parish Hall, Barnburgh Village Hall, Brampton Bierlow Parish Hall, Brecks Community Centre, Brinsworth Community Hall/pavilion, Castle Park - Doncaster Rugby Club, Catcliffe Memorial Hall, Channing Hall, Chestnut View Communal Hall, Christ Church Hall, Church of the Nazarene, City Limits, Clifton Park, Dalton Parish Hall, Darfield Community Centre, Dinnington Resource Centre, Double six youth club, Ecclesfield Community Sports Centre, Edward Dunn Memorial Hall, ExCeL London, Forty Martyrs Church Hall, Herringthorpe URC Church, High Street Centre, Kilnhurst Community Resource Centre, King Ecgbert School, Kiveton Park & Wales Village Hall, Maltby Progressive Club, Mapplewell & Staincross Village Hall, Montgomery Hall, NEC Birmingham, North Anston Parish Hall, Powerleague Sheffield, Ravenfield Parish Hall, Rawmarsh High Street Centre, Shirecliffe Community Centre, Silverwood Miners Welfare Resource, Springwell Gardens Community Centre, St Cuthberts Church Hall, St. Andrew's Community Centre, Sunnyside Community Centre, The Carlton Civic Centre, The Gordon Bennett Memorial Hall, The Village Hall (Calver), The Wesley Centre, Thurcroft Community Hall, Treeton Community Centre, Treeton Miners Welfare, Unity Centre, Victoria Hall, Whiston Manorial Barn, Whitley Hall and Wickersley Hall.

Location and contact

Bede House, Maltby, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom · Phone: 0114 345 0135