Inflatable Igloo Ideas for a Winter Wonderland Themed Event

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Winter Wonderland Inflatable Igloo Themed Event Ideas

The client came to us with a request. As a secret idea, could he hire our Inflatable Igloo? He wanted to propose to his sweetheart in a romantic setting. The transparent igloo idea was just what he needed. It was a complete surprise to his girlfriend. An absolutely wonderful setting for a secret proposal.

Wedding and engagement party planners are finding the idea of an Inflatable Igloo offers a fantastic photo opportunity for pre and post event activities.

Then there’s “Christmas in July” parties. What better way to celebrate than to set up an igloo in the backyard or a park, and serve chilled drinks from inside.

Also, another idea is “Winter Wonderland” themed events at council family fun days and shopping centre promotions, which aren’t the same without an inflatable igloo. Can you imagine Santa and his helpers sitting in the igloo? Your kids will love it! Also, you can decorate it with balloons, streamers, colourful lights, and flowers.

Finally, if you are having a themed winter wonderland party at home, the idea of hiring an inflatable igloo is fantastic. It’s a great gathering point for food and drink distribution.

If you are looking for some extra activities with a “winter” theme, try our Mechanical Snowboard or Inflatable Snow Globe. Yes, unlike the snow globe souvenir on your mantle, it’s the largest snow globe in Australia! Also, some clients like to hire one of our live entertainment option such as a roaming cartoonists or even Santa Claus!

So, let us make your next party ideas such as jumping castles, inflatable igloos, mechanical devices, or interactive sports hire in Sydney a memorable success.

Oh, and yes, she accepted his proposal!

Contact us

Bubbling With Energy Entertainment https://www.bubblingwithenergy.info/ , have been in operation for over 28 years.

So, contact us for all your backyard, school, charity, shopping centre, council, and company event hires:

Corporate Customers Ph: (02) 9829 8653 | Private Parties Ph: (02) 9829 8929 or sales@bubblingwithenergy.com.au

Unit 6/14 Stennett Road, Ingleburn NSW 2565
Sydney, Australia

Jumping Castles for Hire in Sydney

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Jumping Castles for Hire in Sydney

Hire a jumping castle in Sydney from Bubbling With Energy (BWE) Entertainment. We are Australia’s most experienced amusement hire company with over 27 years in the industry. Our client events range from small backyard birthday parties to special celebrations. Also we provide inflatables for school fund raisers, sports club activities, and large corporate and council events.

Our huge range of products include large and small jumping castles (sometimes called bouncy castles), themed castles, and combo’s. Also, we hire out other amusements such as inflatable obstacle courses and interactive games. Furthermore, carnival rides and dry or water slides are also popular products

Jumping Castles

Our inflatable jumping castles for hire in Sydney range from toddler size, to larger castles for teens and even adults. For instance, the space required for our small Dora the Explorer castle is L:7m x W:6.5m x H:5m. Our extra large Euro Bouncer requires an area of 7.5m (L) x 5.5m (W) x 6m (H).  You just need to tell us the size of your backyard or event play area. We will find an inflatable to suit. They can be set up in school yards, parks, and some of the smaller inflatables can even be erected in community halls.

If you are having a children’s birthday party, we can provide a themed inflatable. These include Disney Characters like Frozen, Cinderella and Princess, TV characters like Paw Patrol and P J Mask, and superheroes like Spiderman and Batman. Check out our range of themed castles at this link.

Jumping Castle Combos

A jumping castle combo is a Sydney jumping castle for hire which is more than just a bouncy inflatable. For instance our Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle C5 is a bouncy castle rental for children up to 13 years. This popular combo inflatable has a jumping area, climbing ladder, slide, pop-ups and a basketball hoop.

See our range of large and small combos for all size events here. Additionally, the combo themes include Star Wars, the World of Disney, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and even Toy Story.

More About Bubbling With Energy Entertainment

Finally, we deliver to all of Sydney and Wollongong. Our staff are fully trained to provide a safe and fun event for you. Also, we have the AM-SAFE Credential which means we are annually audited and accredited for safety and professional management. Furthermore, all of our inflatables are SafeWork NSW inspected and accredited.

So, let us make your next jumping castle hire in Sydney a memorable success.

Contact us

Bubbling With Energy Entertainment https://www.bubblingwithenergy.info/ ,

have been in operation for over 27 years.

So, contact us for all your Sydney Jumping Castle backyard, school, charity, and company event hires:

Corporate Customers Ph: (02) 9829 8653 | Private Parties Ph: (02) 9829 8929 or sales@bubblingwithenergy.com.au

Unit 6/14 Stennett Road, Ingleburn NSW 2565
Sydney, Australia

Team Building Debrief Questions

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DEBRIEF QUESTIONS FOR TEAM BUILDING ACTIVITIES

Many of our clients use inflatable obstacles courses, jumping castles, dry and water slides and interactive games as team building activities on courses and at company seminars and events.

The fun part is “playing the game” but don’t lose sight of why you are having that activity. It needs to be suitable debriefed so that the maximum learning can be extracted from the team building activities.

If you are the corporate trainer or event organiser using inflatables for team building events, here are some pertinent questions you can use in debriefing the team building activity. They are not in any particular order as not every question will suit your circumstances. Therefore, we suggest you select around 10 of them for your debrief.

Team Building Debrief Questions

  1. How do you feel now?
  2. What did you learn about your team in that activity?
  3. What did you learn about yourself as a team player?
  4. Did you select a Leader? How and why was that person selected?
  5. How were team roles selected? In hindsight, was that successful?
  6. Did anyone think of selecting a “safety” officer for the activity? Why or why not?
  7. How did your team communicate? Was it successful?
  8. What tactics or processes did you use to complete the task?
  9. What behaviours were particularly effective in accomplishing the team objective?
  10. Were you conscious of time through the activity? Does this relate to time management in the workplace? How?
  11. How did you start the activity? Did you give enough time to think about and discuss with the team how to accomplish it?
  12. After the team building activity did your team use questions to debrief?
  13. How did the team handle those who were struggling to do the task?
  14. If you were struggling to do the task, how did you get through it?
  15. What obstacles to working as a high performing team did you face?
  16. How did the team handle conflict?
  17. In terms of working as a team, what would you do differently next time?
  18. (If appropriate) What feedback would you like to give to your activity team leader?
  19. What did you learn today that you will take back to the workplace?
  20. Is there anything in the workplace that should be changed as a result of what you learned during the team building activities?

Read our CEO’s LinkedIn article about using Inflatables for Team Building activities. You will then see how useful these team building debrief questions are for your event.

About Bubbling With Energy

Bubbling With Energy Entertainment https://www.bubblingwithenergy.info/ ,

have been in operation for over 27 years. Talk to us now about your next event.

If you liked the Team Building Debrief Questions, contact us for more Team Building with Inflatables Ideas:

Corporate Customers Ph: (02) 9829 8653 | Private Parties Ph: (02) 9829 8929 or sales@bubblingwithenergy.com.au

Unit 6/14 Stennett Road, Ingleburn NSW 2565
Sydney, Australia

Successful Event Planning

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Successful Event Planning

Successful event planning might be needed for a child’s birthday party, a company picnic, a child care centre celebration, a school fun day, a sports presentation or a major corporate event. Whatever it is, the same event planning principles will apply.

Bubbling With Energy have been assisting event planners such as parents, volunteers, social club secretaries, professional corporate event planners etc to plan all kinds of events for over 27 years.

Here are some event planning tips to make your next event successful.

What’s your plan?

The earlier you begin planning the better. In fact, from our experience the very best annual events are those where planning starts immediately after the last event.

Planning includes deciding on the event budget, purpose, who’s the audience, and marketing. It also covers what memorable activities will be booked, sponsorship, catering, and the venue.

The planning committee?

Don’t do it all yourself! Even for a family birthday or anniversary celebration you can delegate catering, greeting or cleaning duties to other family members. In fact, some people get annoyed when they are not asked!

Therefore, for larger events you need to develop and manage an enthusiastic committee of finance, marketing, volunteer coordinators, activity bookers, sponsor minders, etc.

Additionally, make sure you track your expenses and activities on an Excel spreadsheet or Project Planning tool.

Event activities

Successful Event Planning includes great activities. The memorable activities you book will depend on the purpose of the event, your audience, and whether it is an indoor or outdoor venue.

For instance, your purpose might be a fundraiser, a community fun day, a product or service brand activation or launch. It might also be a commemorative celebration, a themed activity, an exhibition, or even team building.

Indoor Activities

For indoor events consider entertainment such as roaming clowns, temporary tattoo artists (yes, they do wash off) or face painters.

Alternatively, if you are having a sports theme, Bubbling with Energy can also supply interactive games.  These include the inflatable basketball or soccer shootouts, football passing or the mini golf challenge.

Arcade games are also excellent indoor event ideas.

We also have small jumping castles which can fit into most indoor venues.

Outdoor Activities

For large corporate events and festivals and fetes, consider having carnival rides or a bank of dry or water slides and spectacular obstacles courses. Some of the latter include the Ninja Warrior Challenge (as seen on TV’s The Footy Show), the Extreme Fun Run, the Inflatable Maze, and the Toxic Shock Wipeout Challenge. These exciting names featured in your event advertising will attract visitors. They also add to the memorable experience every successful event planner seeks.

If you really want to go big try the Stunt Jump (yes, it’s a stunt pillow just like those used in high action TV shows or movies).

For school fun days, fundraisers, fetes and festivals consider hiring the famous Dunk Tank or Cash Grabber.

For smaller events, themed kids jumping castles such as Superhero and Disney inflatables are all the rage. They have theme names like World of Disney, Fairy Tale, Teenage Ninja Mutant Turtles, and Justice League.

For adult parties hire the Inflatable Pub, or one of our mechanical bucking bull type devices. The latter are particularly popular at hens and bucks parties and anniversaries.

Planning a Successful Event – Marketing Tips

  • Use every media possible including FaceBook, Instagram, Pinterest, Newsletters, school/parent notices. Ask a sample of potential event visitors how they like to hear about events and follow that advice?
  • Media releases should feature the purpose of the event. For example, if you are raising funds for “Koalas burned in recent bushfires”, feature that in your copy. News outlets will grab emotional content like that.
  • Ask your suppliers, sponsors, and the venue, to feature your event on their websites.
  • Provide copy (including pics) for the “What’s on in XXXX” type websites. Can you imagine how attractive a photo of the Stunt Jump, or one of our large inflatables, will be on those websites.
  • You marketing should continue right up until the event starts. If it is an annual activity, the marketing should continue beyond the event to advertise next year’s activity.

Here is a Forbes magazine article about Marketing Successful Events.

Event Feedback

After the event seek feedback so that you can honestly congratulate your event planning assistants, and also improve it next time.

Automate all the event information so that you don’t have to reinvent the wheel when looking for successful event activities in the future.

Successful Event Planning with Bubbling With Energy

Finally, you’ve heard the expression “We are here to help!”  Well, we are!

Above all, we have the experience, the professional staff, and the widest range of exciting activities to add to the success of your next event. So, contact us now and be safe in the knowledge that we can make your event planning an easier experience.

Bubbling With Energy Entertainment have been in operation for over 27 years.

Contact us for more Successful Event Planning Ideas:

Corporate Customers Ph: (02) 9829 8653 | Private Parties Ph: (02) 9829 8929 or sales@bubblingwithenergy.com.au

Unit 6/14 Stennett Road, Ingleburn NSW 2565
Sydney, Australia

Hiring a Mechanical Bucking Bull Checklist

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Mechanical Bucking Bull Checklist

Welcome to 0ur Mechanical Bucking Bull Checklist. The Mechanical Bucking Bull is famous around the world because it is both unique and challenging. Who else can ride like a Rodeo Cowboy in the comfort of their local pub, community hall, or back yard? They are used for corporate events, hens and bucks parties, 21st birthdays and significant anniversaries. Our clients also use them for hotel activities, product launches and brand activations, or cowboy theme parties.

Unfortunately there are some providers who do hire out Mechanical Bucking Bulls without taking care of the safety of their clients. Hence we have created this Mechanical Bucking Bull Checklist to assist you to choose the best provider. Of course, we expect that you will choose Bubbling With Energy (BWE) because we provide everything on this Checklist. However, if you do not hire us, here are some things to look out for:

Checklist – Safety of the Device

  1. Is the device SafeWork registered? If not, the hirer’s insurance company may not indemnify them if a claim happens.
  2. Ask for a copy of the Mechanical Bucking Bull “Risk Assessment”. BWE’s Risk Assessment covers things the Operator must do. These include crowd control, removing sharp objects, rough play, removal of patrons loose accessories etc.
  3. Is it a Galaxy Bull (best in the world and uses good quality mechanics and electronics)? BWE only uses Galaxy bulls.
  4. Some bulls are hard plastic which can add to injury concerns. Ours are bone which is softer.
  5. Does the Mechanical Bucking Bull have real cow hide (some use carpet)? Carpet is not as aesthetically pleasing.
  6. Does the company have more than one bull, in case one breaks down? Your event might be featuring the Mechanical Bucking Bull as the major attraction. If the provider does not have more than one device and it breaks down, it can ruin your event. BWE has three Mechanical Bucking Bulls. If the Bucking Bull doesn’t suit your theme, we have other mechanical devices such as  the Bucking Football, Bucking Can, Bucking Bottle, the Mechanical Surfboard. Also, we even have a special one for “adult” parties.

Checklist – Operator Training

  1. Is the Operator trained for safe use of the device? This includes adjusting the speed for the competence of individual riders. It also includes ensuring no one enters the play area while someone is riding, checking for sharp objects, properly operating the mechanism etc. At BWE the Operators are professionally trained in all aspects of supervision of mechanical inflatables.
  2. Does the company have guests sign a “ride at your own risk form”? This provides YOU with extra protection in case of an injury. Anyone over the age of 18 has to sign a waiver so they understand their responsibilities as a rider.
  3. Ensure the Operator is supported in making decisions about intoxication. It doesn’t mean that people shouldn’t ride the device if intoxicated. It’s how intoxicated they are which is the issue.
  4. Is the company an AM-SAFE Credentialed Operator. For instance, BWE has been accredited under the AM-SAFE Safety Support Program. It means we are The Industry peak body, Australian Amusement Leisure and Recreation Association Inc.(AALARA), as a compliant provider of amusement, leisure and recreation services, in accordance with the Best Practice standards, established as being most appropriate to ensure that businesses provide at all times, the best possible management, operation and duty of care to their clients, guests and staff.

Also see our blog called a Checklist for Hiring Amusement Devices.

About Bubbling With Energy

Finally, please be aware that in any industry, including ours, there are fly by night and disreputable operators. They might be cheap, but will take safety short cuts. This puts you and your children and older clients at risk. Also, their equipment will not be well maintained or safe and their staff will not be appropriately trained. And, they will not have the correct insurance coverage.

Bubbling With Energy Entertainment (link), have been in operation for over 27 years. Above all, we take pride in ensuring our equipment is safe and well maintained. Our staff are trained to help you have the best event possible.

Also please note that Bubbling With Energy is working towards becoming a carbon neutral company (see Blog). Be assured that we have a social responsibility to help protect the environment. Apart from installing solar panels on our buildings, we also recycle our jumping castles for repair material, and are training our staff in ways to foster better use of our natural environment. Every booking you make with BWE contributes to the planting of trees in reforestation projects.

Contact Bubbling With Energy:

Corporate Customers Ph: (02) 9829 8653 | Private Parties Ph: (02) 9829 8929 | (02) 9829 2623 or sales@buckingevents.com.au

Unit 6/14 Stennett Road, Ingleburn NSW 2565
Sydney, Australia

 

Checklist for Hiring Amusement Devices

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Hiring an Amusement Device Checklist

Whether you hire with us or not, Bubbling With Energy (BWE) want to make your amusement device hires as safe as possible. Here is an Amusement Hire Checklist. It will help you decide if you are using an appropriate and reputable company for your event. Furthermore, this is a generic list only, prepared from our extensive experience.

Also, for more information you can access further details via this amusement devices link to SafeWork. They are the government agency responsible for safety in NSW.

Our Amusement Device Checklist is applicable to hiring of inflatable jumping castles or inflatable obstacle courses. It is for where you will supervise the device yourself (allowed for smaller devices), or use a trained supervisor.

Amusement Device Checklist

Please ensure that:

  1. is a reputable amusement hire firm being used? Check that they have an ABN, public liability insurance?
  2. you have received notice of your booking, and an invoice?
  3. is the company an AM-SAFE Credentialed Operator. For instance BWE has been accredited under the AM-SAFE Safety Support Program. It means we are The Industry peak body, Australian Amusement Leisure and Recreation Association Inc.(AALARA), as a compliant provider of amusement, leisure and recreation services. This is in accordance with the Best Practice standards, established as being most appropriate to ensure that businesses provide at all times, the best possible management, operation and duty of care to their clients, guests and staff.
  4. the amusement device provider supplied instructions on proper operation of the device. For example, if you are not using a BWE supervisor in your jumping castle hire, on booking we give you access to a safety video. The video details how to monitor/supervise the inflatable to ensure your users are safe. BWE ground crew will still deliver and install the inflatable;
  5. does the device fit the allocated area? Do, check that it is free of overhead power lines, overhanging trees, debris etc?

Also ensure that:

  1. is the device clean and in good working order?
  2. have all electrical leads, generators etc been appropriately inspected and tagged?
  3. did you inspect the device prior to allowing patrons to use it? For example, this is to ensure it has no tears, trip obstacles, and has appropriate safety signage;
  4. has the device been properly secured? Also, have you been given instructions about what to do if the wind picks up. For example, BWE will provide you with a wind meter. Use this to personally monitor wind conditions on the day. For any hire, deflate the device if the wind reaches 30km/hour. Or use a Beaufort Scale – click this Beaufort Scale link.

Finally ensure that:

  1. the installer has completed an installation checklist (BWE use an online checklist)? Go through this checklist with the operator to ensure it has been completed.
  2. have safety barriers been set up, where applicable?
  3. are impact absorbing safety mats, that are at least 50mm thick, placed at entry and exit points?
  4. have sponsors been suitably recognised on or near the device;
  5. is an emergency exit plan in place?
  6. are device risk assessments readily provided if required?
  7. has appropriate insurance coverage been arranged if you are not using the amusement hire company staff to supervise the activity?
  8. the device is stored safely prior to pick up by the amusement hire company at the end of the event.

Also, check out our new Blog about a Checklist for Hiring a Mechanical Bucking Bull.

About Bubbling With Energy (BWE)

Finally, please be aware that in any industry, including ours, there are fly by night and disreputable operators. They might be cheap, but will take safety short cuts. This will put you and your children or other guests at risk. Also, their equipment will not be well maintained or safe, their staff will not be appropriately trained. Furthermore, they will not have the correct insurance coverage.

Bubbling With Energy Entertainment (link) , have been in operation for over 27 years. Above all, we take pride in ensuring our equipment is safe and well maintained.  Our staff are trained to help you have the best event possible.

 Also please note that Bubbling With Energy is working towards becoming a carbon neutral company (see Blog). Be assured that we have a social responsibility to help protect the environment. Apart from installing solar panels on our buildings, we also recycle our jumping castles for repair material, and are training our staff in ways to foster better use of our natural environment. Every booking you make with BWE contributes to the planting of trees in reforestation projects.

Contact Bubbling With Energy:

Corporate Customers Ph: (02) 9829 8653 | Private Parties Ph: (02) 9829 8929 | (02) 9829 2623 or sales@buckingevents.com.au

Unit 6/14 Stennett Road, Ingleburn NSW 2565
Sydney, Australia

Planning a Corporate Christmas Party

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Planning a Corporate Christmas Party

The year is coming to an end and you have the job of Planning a Corporate Christmas party event for your colleagues, to celebrate the past year.

Bubbling With Energy have lots of experience in helping people plan memorable events at times like this. Here are some tips:

Decide the date and venue?

This will impact on what kind of activities you will have at the event. For example, you may be using a large room at the office, a conference venue, a park, a restaurant, or a local community hall and outdoor area.

What’s your budget?

This will also impact on the food, drinks and activities.

Decide a theme.

This adds to the excitement, the design, and the uniqueness of the event. It could be a pink (or other colour) party, a letter of the alphabet party, a true-blue Aussie casual dress or national costume event, a fundraiser for a charity or major disaster event, a Christmas Mask or Bad Christmas outfit party, a pool party, or a fun in the outdoors event. See Event Birdie or StyleCaster for more theme ideas.

Who’s coming?

It may be staff only, or with their families, or you may be inviting valued clients to the event. Are there any with special food needs? The trick in planning and creating a memorable Corporate Christmas Party event is to match the activities at the event to the people who are coming. For example, companies such as Call Centres, where the majority of staff are Under 35’s, may prefer a more physical event.

6 Unique Corporate Christmas Party Ideas

Here are some amazing Corporate Christmas Party activity ideas to help you:

1 THE INFLATABLE PUB

Don’t hire a Pub … set up your own! We can install a medium or large sized inflatable Pub in a community hall or outdoor area. You can decorate it with your company, theme or “Merry Christmas” etc signage velcroed to the structure.

Add to the adult excitement with a mechanical bull, mechanical can, or even a mechanical football. Some companies also hire the Human Wrecking Ball or Human Whack a Mole activities from our Party range to add to the excitement of the event.

2 INDOOR CHRISTMAS PARTY IDEAS

Have you thought about having an entertainment activity such as a temporary tattoo artist (yes, the tattoos wash off); a roaming clown or magician; Santa Claus; a set of 1980’s style arcade games; or Face Painters Fun (for kids and adults).

You can also hire a cash grabber machine. You may have seen the cash grabber machine on TV. A contestant stands in the centre of the machine and has a certain time in which to catch the “money” being fast blasted around them. Substitute “money” with 50 or so pieces of coloured paper. On 2 or 3 of them offer prizes such as Christmas cookies, chocolates, or a day off!

3 COMPANY CHRISTMAS PICNIC

When Planning a Corporate Christmas Party you may decide to have a company picnic. But how can you give it the Wow factor? Adult and child jumping castles, spectacular dry or water slides, and challenging obstacle courses can add to the fun of a company picnic. Depending on the size and budget of your event, a variety of activities can be set up in a picnic area to entertain your guests.

Some companies also hire the famous Dunk Tank. See how much fun it is to “dunk” the CEO or a favourite Manager! Add some Carnival Food and a Roaming Santa and your day will be complete.

4 CHRISTMAS POOL PARTY

Did you know you can have a small or large inflatable water park set up on a swimming pool? Hire a private or council pool and we can set it up for an incredible day of fun.

5 CHRISTMAS SPORTS DAY

Set up a parade of Sports inflatables such as the soccer, basketball, football and golf shootouts; or the inflatable sports zone which comprises an inflatable indoor soccer arena with zones for volleyball, basketball and twister. It has the added challenge of doing those activities on a bouncy floor.

Alternatively we also have an inflatable Beach Volleyball arena.

6 CHRISTMAS PARTY NINJA WARRIORS CHALLENGE

You may have seen this on Channel 9’s Footy Show where we set up a challenging Ninja Warriors obstacle course which included the famous Stunt Jump! The Ninja Warrior Obstacle Course package includes challenges such as running, climbing, sliding, bouncing, jumping and stunt falling with our Toxic Water Slide, Toxic Wipeout Challenge, Toxic Radical Junior Obstacle Course and Stunt Jump! You can do the same course as Paul Vautin, Darryl Brohman and Erin Moran!

If you want a Corporate Christmas Party that no one will forget, the Ninja Warriors Challenge might be the ticket!

WHAT ABOUT YOUR OTHER CORPORATE EVENTS?

Planning a Corporate Christmas Party may not be the only event you organise. Of course, all of these ideas are not just suitable for a Christmas party. You might also find them useful for a product launch or brand activation; a valued client party; an end of financial year celebration; a team building activity; or just an occasional event to keep everyone motivated.

THE NEXT STEP

Don’t do it all yourself. Bubbling With Energy have experienced staff who are happy to help you design the very best Corporate Christmas Party event. Contact us now with your enquiry.

 

Bubbling With Energy Entertainment https://www.bubblingwithenergy.info/ , 

have been in operation for over 27 years. Talk to us now about your next event.

Contact us for more Event Ideas:

Corporate Customers Ph: (02) 9829 8653 | Private Parties Ph: (02) 9829 8929 or sales@bubblingwithenergy.com.au

Unit 6/14 Stennett Road, Ingleburn NSW 2565
Sydney, Australia