Events

A complete 360 solution was provided for Great British Festivals for the North West’s new summer event, the Brit Fest. Sunbelt Rentals provided virtually all of the temporary event infrastructure equipment required, as well as providing a full project management and on-site service throughout the duration of the three-day festival.

The 2024 Grand Prix at Silverstone was a resounding success with record-breaking attendance. As part of an event infrastructure solution supporting the safe, secure and reliable delivery of one of the world’s biggest Formula 1 events, we supplied thousands of Barriers and Fencing, as well as Plant, Powered Access and Accommodation Units for use during the build, the event itself and the derig.

ESO Sports handled the delivery of UCI Mountain Bike World Championships events which were held at Glentress Forest, Peebles, Scotland. For this cycling event Sunbelt Rentals provided and installed a vast range of equipment across several different product areas to ensure a sustainable solution for the customer.

A major investment group significantly reduced the environmental impact of running their annual summer celebrations by opting for sustainable power solutions, with 78% of the power generated using greener Battery Storage Units, and burning just 54 litres of fuel across the entire 4-day event.

In April 2023, US President Joe Biden made a four-day trip to Ireland, timed to coincide with the 25^th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement which brought an end to 30 years of conflict in Northern Ireland. The trip also marked a personal milestone, as Joe Biden has Irish ancestry and it was the first time he had returned to Ireland since becoming President of the United States.

Chesterfield Pride is a one-day event hosted at Stand Road Park recreation ground every year to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community. 2023 marked the biggest Chesterfield Pride in the seven-year history of the event, with two stages packed with entertainment, market stalls, food vendors and more.

The TSC London Marathon is one of the most prestigious and celebrated sporting events in the UK and worldwide. Millions people watch the marathon in the UK on television and it is also broadcast in 195 countries around the world.

The 2022 New Year’s Eve celebrations in London marked the biggest ever fireworks display in the capital. Organised on behalf of the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, over 12,000 fireworks were blasted into the night sky on the stroke of midnight. More than 100,000 tickets were sold for the celebration along the bank of the River Thames with millions more watching it online and on TV. 

The Senior Open is a prestigious golf tournament which was played for the first time this year, 2022, at The King’s Course, Gleneagles, Scotland. The King’s Course which is set on the vast 850 acre Perthshire estate hosted the 35th edition of the tournament, which took place 21st-24th July 2022.

The UK hosted the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, otherwise known as COP26, at the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) in the heart of Glasgow. Over 120 world leaders attended the event, including US President Joe Biden, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, French President Emmanuel Macron and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

Temporarily constructed for 4 days of fun, just how do you make a festival like this happen? You choose expert partners who specialise in defining, designing, and delivering event solutions.

Lee Victory Festival is a 3-day event to commemorate and celebrate the 75^th & 76^th anniversary of both VE & VJ days. With a Spitfire display, military parade, musical performances and more this family event is held to remember the enormous sacrifice, courage and determination of people both at home and abroad and to celebrate the end of WWII.

The Tour of Britain is the UK's largest professional bike race, featuring some of the biggest teams and top level athletes from around the world. The eight stage men's road cycling race took place between 5th -12th September 2021. The race took the peloton from Cornwall, through Wales and North East England before finishing in Scotland, covering a total of 1320km.

Since the London Olympics, Sunbelt Rentals has provided temporary infrastructure solutions for Stadium Management. Our 360 Solutions team is now supporting Stadium Management’s three-year program to provide major events for the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO). The 47^th G7 Summit was the first of these high-profile projects, based in St. Ives in Cornwall, UK.

The Download Pilot test festival was part of the second phase of the Government Event Research Programme and was held on 18^th-20^th June at Donington Park, Derbyshire. This 10,000-capacity event was a scaled down version of the usual 100,000 capacity. It was held as a three-day camping pilot for part of the ongoing research into the safe return of live music events.

The Liverpool Pilot Event was the UK's first post-lockdown outdoor gig. Hosted on 2^nd May 2021 at Liverpool's Sefton Park under a huge Big Top tent, the event formed part of a scientific experiment to help get the live music industry back up and running in a safe and secure way.

The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle took place on 19^th May 2018 in St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle. Almost 18 million people in the UK watched the Royal Wedding on TV, making it the most watched event of 2018. Almost 30 million were reported to have watched it in the United States and the global audience was estimated to be in the hundreds of millions. The wedding triggered a tourism boom in the UK and boosted the economy by hundreds of million pounds. Following the ceremony, the titles of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were bestowed by the Queen on Harry and Meghan.

More than 100,000 people lined the streets of Windsor and the grounds of its famous castle to celebrate the wedding and people had flown from across the world especially for the event. The event required meticulous planning with a huge requirement for temporary accommodation for the media compound and toilet facilities for the general public.

The historic National Ploughing Championships have been running annually in Ireland since 1931. Made up of an agricultural show and a ploughing contest, it is Europe’s largest outdoor exhibition, attracting 1,700 exhibitors and just under 300,000 attendees. The three-day event sees an average of over 35 million euros being spent.

As the largest greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world, Glastonbury was established in 1970, becoming an annual fixture in the 1980’s and growing to become the major event in British culture it is today.

Glastonbury does have fallow years. These are taken mostly at five-year intervals and are intended to give the land and local population a break as the festival attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors each time, with the peak set at 300,000.