Issue 57
The UK's outdoor hospitality business magazine for function venues, glamping, festivals and outdoor events
The UK's outdoor hospitality business magazine for function venues, glamping, festivals and outdoor events
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GLAMPSITES<br />
SUPPLIER PROFILE<br />
Design-led off-grid and on-grid toilets<br />
and showers, made in Britain<br />
What does your company do?<br />
Sheep Shed Creations manufactures<br />
good looking outdoor showers and<br />
toilets (including an accessible unit)<br />
for use in challenging or unusual<br />
locations.<br />
How do you do it so well?<br />
We run our own glamping and<br />
camping site so over time we have<br />
developed a good idea of what<br />
products and features site owners<br />
and guests need. We believe that<br />
something needs to work well but<br />
in glamping it should also have a<br />
charm or provide an unusual or interesting<br />
experience to the user.<br />
Please give us a potted company history<br />
We started by hand-making composting<br />
toilets for our own glamping site. We kept<br />
getting unprompted positive feedback<br />
from our guests and noticed people taking<br />
Instagram photos of our toilets, so we<br />
thought about<br />
making them<br />
available for sale.<br />
Then following<br />
the launch of our<br />
outside toilets,<br />
we started getting<br />
requests for an<br />
outdoor shower based on the same shape,<br />
so we developed our second product.<br />
We’ve gone on to make other products<br />
including outdoor signs and also contract<br />
design and cutting for other companies.<br />
Describe your brand proposition<br />
Interesting design-led solutions for the<br />
glamping and outdoor events industries.<br />
What is your ‘hero’ product?<br />
I love our toilets and love seeing them<br />
going out in different colour combinations,<br />
but I’m really excited about our latest<br />
product – the outdoor hot shower. I guess<br />
the hero is our gothic arch shape as so<br />
many competitor products are just cut<br />
square.<br />
Any extra special people?<br />
My wife is special as she first suggested we<br />
started selling these units. This then was<br />
the start of many challenges as our units<br />
feature complex flowing curves and tight<br />
joints cut from large pieces of wood. To<br />
produce accurate and consistent results<br />
efficiently, we had to invest in large-scale<br />
digitally controlled machinery plus learn<br />
plenty of new 3D design skills. It’s taken<br />
time and been hard but at this time in my<br />
life, it’s been a brilliant and interesting<br />
journey so far.<br />
What are you most proud of?<br />
Developing new products and then<br />
receiving positive feedback from our<br />
customers and users.<br />
Why should a customer get in touch?<br />
I’ve got a couple of units in stock and can<br />
get them out quickly if anyone is caught<br />
short for a toilet (or shower) for the start of<br />
the season.<br />
DETAILS<br />
Sheep Shed Creations<br />
01865 600400<br />
hello@sheepshed.co.uk<br />
www.sheepshed.co.uk<br />
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