About John

Over 2,000 children's parties to date, and still loving it!

Juggling John (aka John Hayns) is an accomplished physical-comedy-circus type performer, never happier than when doing clever, funny, stupid and/or dangerous things with people watching. His recent engagements have included a medieval banquet, an 18th birthday at the (very posh) Benenden Girls School, a group of Norwegian businessmen in an Indian restaurant in Soho amd teaching a group of nuns how to mime... to say he is highly adaptable is an understatement!

He was taught to juggle at the age of twelve by a friend of the family. He went on to enjoy free entrance to many a May ball when studying for an Engineering degree at St John's College, Oxford. This was also where John received his grounding in fire eating, street performance and children's entertainment.

After university he was a professional children's worker for four years before leaving to take formal mime training at the Desmond Jones School, one of the top three mime schools in the world, where he was a star pupil.

As well as being Juggling John, he does grown-up walkabout magic as magician Johnny Oxford (www.johnnyoxford.co.uk) and runs the entertainment agency Jugglers Etc (www.jugglersetc.com) for children's entertainment and children's parties in and around London and Oxford with his wife Clare.

Past clients include Universal Pictures, The Conran Family, Jack Dee, Disney Channel, Children's ITV, Carlton Kids, Discover Card, IBM, BMW, Cambridge Consultants, Hewlett Packard and Pretty Polly to name but a few.

John is married with three boys under the age of ten. He is fully police checked, is a member of Equity and has full public liability insurance