Issue 50
The UK's outdoor hospitality business magazine for function venues, glamping, festivals and outdoor events
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GLAMPSITES<br />
MEET THE SUPPLIER<br />
Get to Know…<br />
Time to make some professional friendships – get to know the people behind the products!<br />
Mike and Michelle<br />
Halliwell<br />
Owners, Bond Fabrications<br />
01453 767171,<br />
enquiries@bondfabrications.co.uk,<br />
www.bondfabrications.co.uk<br />
What does your company do?<br />
British manufacturer of luxury safari<br />
tents and bespoke canvas structures.<br />
What makes your company's<br />
services special?<br />
Family owned business championing<br />
traditional British design and<br />
manufacture... for over 30 years!<br />
Describe yourself in 10 words<br />
Family centred, love the Cotswolds<br />
and passionate about our business.<br />
How would your co-workers<br />
describe you?<br />
Hard working but fun and fair... we<br />
hope!<br />
Craziest thing you have done<br />
We moved to the USA a week after we<br />
married and stayed for eight years!<br />
We're in a bar – what do you order?<br />
Mike: craft beer, Michelle: G&T.<br />
Favourite animal and why?<br />
Mike: dogs (why wouldn't you love<br />
them?), Michelle: horses (always been<br />
in my life).<br />
Favourite TV show?<br />
Ozark... We visited the Ozarks a lot<br />
while living in Kansas so it feels<br />
familiar, apart from the mob and<br />
murder elements of course!<br />
Simon Fisher<br />
Business development<br />
manager, Further Space<br />
info@further.space,<br />
www.further.space<br />
What does your company do?<br />
Partners with landowners to make<br />
glamping more accessible for them.<br />
What makes your company's<br />
services special?<br />
We work with landowners, invest<br />
in sites, look after advertising,<br />
reservations and customer service, so<br />
landowners can run the rest of their<br />
business.<br />
Describe yourself in 10 words<br />
Someone completely unable to<br />
answer this question in 10 words!<br />
How would your co-workers<br />
describe you?<br />
Helpful and approachable, a mine of<br />
useful and useless information.<br />
Craziest thing you have done<br />
Mountaineering across the world<br />
including a very remote 6000m peak<br />
in the Andes.<br />
We're in a bar - what do you order?<br />
Gin and Fever Tree tonic.<br />
Favourite animal and why?<br />
Our dogs... all three of them. In fact,<br />
any dog.<br />
Favourite current telly?<br />
Formula 1 – I’m enjoying the changes<br />
this season has brought about.<br />
Peter Brooke-<br />
Houghton<br />
Operations manager,<br />
FIRST BASE Ground Screws UK<br />
01548 859879,<br />
info@firstbasegroundscrews.co.uk,<br />
www.firstbasegroundscrews.co.uk<br />
What does your company do?<br />
We supply high quality ground screw<br />
foundations and project support.<br />
What makes your company's services<br />
special?<br />
We look after our customers! From<br />
garden rooms to eco-hotels, we help<br />
people looking to quickly install<br />
low-impact, high-stability screw<br />
foundations.<br />
Describe yourself in 10 words<br />
Committed and hard-working, but<br />
enjoy my family time.<br />
How would your co-workers describe<br />
you?<br />
Conscientious, slightly obsessive about<br />
the details(!), goes the extra mile.<br />
Craziest thing you have done?<br />
I have sailed across the Atlantic... twice!<br />
We're in a bar – what do you order?<br />
Pint of Tribute or Doom Bar<br />
Favourite animal and why?<br />
My daughters have told me to write<br />
unicorns...<br />
Favourite film and why?<br />
Snatch – mainly for the one-liners. I get<br />
made to watch lots of Disney too...<br />
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