A perfectly formed team with a shared passion for cake!

Ness ran a successful sleepover business before giving it up in 2018 to become a full time manufacturer of commercial play tents for sleepover businesses in the UK and Europe. 

Vanessa also founded the popular Facebook Support Group For UK Sleepover Party And Play Tent Hire Professionals.

 She retired from 25 years in policing in 2015 durin

Ness ran a successful sleepover business before giving it up in 2018 to become a full time manufacturer of commercial play tents for sleepover businesses in the UK and Europe. 

Vanessa also founded the popular Facebook Support Group For UK Sleepover Party And Play Tent Hire Professionals.

 She retired from 25 years in policing in 2015 during which she worked in safeguarding and sat on a number of multi agency critical incident and serious case review panels. 

She is also a member of the British Toy and Hobby Association and works to promote safer toys in the commercial marketplace and is currently working on plans to create a UK Federation for Sleepover & Play Tent hire Businesses with the help of Trading Standards, Environmental Health and the Fire Service UK.

She is the author of the Guide to Risk Management and Risk Assessments for Sleepover Parties.

Ness is always listening to her customers and welcomes feedback in order to improve products and services and she put's the customer experience as her number 1 priority.

She' has 3 grown up children and lives with her hubby Ian and two pooches Chester and Hadleigh in rural Northamptonshire.  Ness's downtime is spent reading, undertaking body resistance exercise and eating fine cakes!

Ian aka 'Rambo' is one of our amazing in house woodworkers designing and creating our wooden frames. He's also husband to Ness and recently joined the company after retiring from his own business which he ran for 26 years. 

His past experience as a tool maker means Ian has an eye for quality and precision when it comes to constructing the 

Ian aka 'Rambo' is one of our amazing in house woodworkers designing and creating our wooden frames. He's also husband to Ness and recently joined the company after retiring from his own business which he ran for 26 years. 

His past experience as a tool maker means Ian has an eye for quality and precision when it comes to constructing the tent frames. 

Creating our frames in house means the team are able to identify emerging issues whether its a new trend or a quality issue and respond quickly.  

Ian lists amongst his hobbies, calligraphy, listening to music, watching Chelsea FC play football and....eating cake! 

Karl nicknamed 'Karlos' is one of our very talented woodworkers. His speciality is attention to detail and creating quality play tent frames.

In his spare time Karl is a very talented and keen musician playing guitar, singing and is also a composer spending much of his time mixing his own compositions.

In his spare time he enjoys a pint wit

Karl nicknamed 'Karlos' is one of our very talented woodworkers. His speciality is attention to detail and creating quality play tent frames.

In his spare time Karl is a very talented and keen musician playing guitar, singing and is also a composer spending much of his time mixing his own compositions.

In his spare time he enjoys a pint with his friends,  making wooden craft and  he never ever says 'no' to cake and a cuppa!

Gemma is one of our very talented in house seamstresses. 

She studied for her BA  in Fashion Design specialising in leather and chiffon. She went on to become a finalist in the Wedding Buyers Awards in the category of Best Student Designer and won a work placement in a highly regarded wedding dress company.

Gem came to us from a career in t

Gemma is one of our very talented in house seamstresses. 

She studied for her BA  in Fashion Design specialising in leather and chiffon. She went on to become a finalist in the Wedding Buyers Awards in the category of Best Student Designer and won a work placement in a highly regarded wedding dress company.

Gem came to us from a career in the wedding dress industry where she made quite complex alterations to wedding dresses. 

She creates our tents in house on our state of art industrial flat bed and 5 thread overlocking machines. 

Being in house,  Ness is able to brief Gem relating to new orders, new developments and quality issues which may need addressing.

She is also amazing at crochet and crafting, making toys and decorative items which she sells in her own Etsy shop. Gem understands toy safety and  compliance marking which she has to apply to her own makes. She lives with her partner and counts cake baking and decorating amongst her hobbies .....this clinched her the job!