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 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 is our in house carpenter 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 and....eating cake! 

Jules is our amazing pattern cutter and seamstress. She has a rich background in industrial pattern making and sewing and even had her own sewing shop and business. 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 Jules relating to new orders, new developments and quality issues which may need addressing.

Jules lists amongst her hobbies lace making, walking her pooch Rufus and eating cake!

Holly is our effervescent, happy, energetic Creative Assistant. She has recently graduated with a BA Hons in Graphic Communication. Amongst her passions are everything Disney, eating cake, weight lifting and boxing! Holly brings creative flair and new ideas to everything marketing and social media as well as delivering a great customer experience. Holly loves assisting you to choose your perfect sleepover play tents.