Bodyguard Service in West Sussex

Events and Engagements Across West Sussex

West Sussex hosts some of the highest-profile events in the South East. Goodwood alone draws royalty, celebrities, senior executives, and international visitors across the Festival of Speed, Revival, and the racecourse calendar. Beyond that, the county sees charity galas, private estate functions, corporate conferences, live performances, award ceremonies, and VIP hospitality events throughout the year.

Close protection at this level means planning around the venue, the crowd, the media presence, and the principal's schedule. Our officers manage arrivals and departures, maintain positioning around the principal, coordinate with event organisers and PR teams, and ensure transitions between engagements are handled cleanly. If you need a bodyguard service in West Sussex for a red carpet arrival, a VIP appearance, a private function, or a concert, the planning starts well before the day itself.

Who We Work With

Our clients include people who are based in West Sussex and need close protection as part of how their week runs, travelling to meetings in London, attending engagements across the South East, or simply maintaining a professional security presence at home. Equally, we work with clients arriving into the county from overseas or elsewhere in the UK for events, private visits, conferences, or performances.

That includes senior executives and corporate leaders, public figures and celebrities attending premieres, launches, and red carpet events, diplomats and visiting dignitaries on official or private schedules, touring artists with concerts or festival dates, and high-net-worth families who maintain close protection as standard wherever they are.

Whether you're leaving West Sussex for the day or arriving into the county for the first time, the protection is built around your schedule, your profile, and what the day involves.

Airport Arrivals

Gatwick sits inside West Sussex, which makes the county a natural first point of contact for international clients arriving into the UK. We can have a close protection officer at the terminal before you land, ready to meet you, handle the transition to your vehicle, and accompany you to your destination, whether that's a private residence in the county, a hotel ahead of an event, or directly into London.

For clients arriving through Heathrow, we coordinate protection at the airport and manage the onward journey south into West Sussex or across to wherever the schedule starts.

A bodyguard service in West Sussex often begins at the arrivals gate. For visiting dignitaries, overseas executives, touring artists, and anyone whose profile makes a discreet, managed airport arrival a priority, having protection in place from the moment you land sets the tone for the rest of the visit.

Travelling Through West Sussex

West Sussex connects the south coast to London and sits on the main routes from Hampshire, Portsmouth, Southampton, and the west country. Our clients use all of these corridors, and close protection during travel is often as important as protection at the destination itself.

This works in every direction. Clients based in West Sussex who travel into London for meetings, press, or events. Clients arriving from London for engagements across the South East. And clients moving through the county between the coast and the capital, sometimes covering multiple venues in a single day. We handle advance route planning, secure vehicle movement, and on-foot escorting at each location so that every transition is covered, on time, and without gaps.

How We Put It Together

Every assignment is built around the principal and the brief. We select officers based on the client, the environment, and what the day demands, not whoever happens to be available. Every officer holds a valid SIA licence in close protection, and many come from military, policing, or emergency service backgrounds.

Where the brief calls for more than a close protection officer, your bodyguard service in West Sussex can draw on WHMG's wider specialist capability, including security chauffeuring, surveillance and counter-surveillance, Super Recognisers, and canine detection. We scale the operation to match the job, and we do it internally.