School and Youth groups

The number one choice for schools and youth groups – more organisers choose Paintball Birmingham to host events for their pupils than choose all other paintball operators combined.

Organising any kind of outdoor event for school-children is a potential nightmare for anyone charged with the task – how can you be sure that the venue you have in mind is safe, well equipped, well managed and properly insured? The answer is simple – choose Paintball Birmingham.

We regularly host special paintball events for young people from the age of ten years old upwards. Paintball games are also very popular with schools and youth organisations. Young people will simply love the action and excitement of it all!

Ideal for school outings, birthday parties and activity days, Paintball Birmingham has specially designed Young Guns game packages for children as young as 10 years old. Specially trained adult marshalling staff will supervise players, as they are put through their paces and experience the excitement of paintball.

Safety is paramount at all our paintball centres. Every Paintball Birmingham customer must pay full attention to the compulsory safety brief given at the start of the day and every customer is given a full goggle touch-test before games commence. We adhere to the strict Paintball Birmingham safety guidelines as laid out by the government and UKPBA (United Kingdom Paintball Association).

Paintball Games are designed to develop teamwork, communication skills and leadership qualities in an entertaining, exciting and fun atmosphere. Furthermore, an activity day with Paintball Birmingham forges closer relationships between students and staff, as groups and birthday parties are our speciality!

A 20 year record of high achievement:

Delta Force Paintball operates close to 30 paintball centres throughout the UK, Ireland and Australia.  It has a 100% safety record, and has documented health and safety practices and procedures firmly in place to maintain that position.  It’s reputation speaks for itself – to read more please see the testimonials section.

Paintball games are great fun, wonderful exercise and a great ‘leveller’ (in that no previous experience or pre-existing sporting ability is needed).  Men and women, girls and boys can participate on an entirely equal footing.  The equipment provided by Paintball Birmingham - from the full head goggles, to the body-armour, to the padded ninja-suit - provides an equalled level of comfort and protection, and fully succeeds in taking the ‘pain’ out of paintball!

Inside tips for the organisers of school groups:

Always ensure the venue you have in mind:

Provides FULL HEAD GOGGLES (completely covering the top, back and sides of the head).  These goggle systems not only protect the head from painful impacts, they also make it impossible for the goggles to slip down the face – something that has led to injuries elsewhere.

Performs a physical touch-check on the goggles of every player, prior to every game (to ensure the safety strap under the chin is properly fastened, and the goggle-system is thus securely attached to the player’s head).

Pays all it’s marshalling and other personnel properly through an HMRC approved PAYE system (accounting for tax and NI).  This might seem as though it’s unimportant but nothing could be further from the truth.  Insurance premiums are calculated and based upon a paintball operators declared turnover and payroll; if these are understated due to takings being diverted to pay staff in cash – then the insurance will be invalid.  A paintball operator may be able to show you a certificate of insurance – but if he diverts his takings then that policy may well be voided by the insurance company in the event of a large claim. 

Paintball Birmingham does not prepare food on the premises.  Safely preparing food for 100’s of people in the outdoors is a specialist skill – something best done by the Army Catering Corps or similar.  A home-made ‘Jungle Burger’ might sound delicious, but when prepared outdoors, by amateurs, it is a recipe for disaster. Food poisoning is probably the greatest danger faced by paintballers on a day-to-day basis.  Food should be imported to the paintball centre from a reputable outside catering company operating from properly managed and regulated commercial premises.

Absolutely prohibits the removal of goggles when outside the netted safe-zone.  This probation must be complete.  It is simply not safe to allow goggles to be removed (eg: for cleaning/for players to rest) when outside the netted safe-zone.  It is not enough that ‘all players have lain their guns on the ground’ – the only way to fully ensure a safe environment is to keep paintball guns and unprotected faces 100% apart.

Incredibly, Delta Force Paintball is to the best of our knowledge the ONLY paintball operator in the UK to comply with all five of the above ‘essentials’.  Paintballing is a very safe activity (statistically safer than golf, and this is reflected in the fact that it is exempt from AALA registration), but doubly so when conducted in expert hands.

For further information please feel free to contact one of our friendly event co-ordinators at any time on 0844 477 5050.