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Should need no introduction.... The nation's favourite music station. Thank you for your support in our early days and we look forward to seeing you all again in 2007. 'podpads' is pleased to have provided onsite Festival accommodation to some of the biggest names on National Radio and their management team and Radio1 prizewinners.
2007 saw Mark and Emma Sutton launch boutiquecamping.net. Using their combined experience and love of Festivals, and pulling together some of the leading suppliers, The Boutique Camping Roadshow will soon be rolling into a Festival near you. Expect the best alternative accommodation available today and added value facilities such as security, 'posh' toilets and showers as well as as other services where available.
Tangerine Fields are the industry's most established providers of pre-erected tents, catering for those who really don't want to carry, tents, find space, battle with guy-ropes, floppy poles and bent pegs. it's easy - let these guys do it for you...
As the TF brand grows into CampSite management at selected festivals, they can be the providers of tipis, yurts as well as their own 3 different sizes of dome tents.
The longest serving Festival Survival Supplier, stiil going after all those years...... A legend within the World of Festivals, starting with their famous £5-a-Blanket Stall and now getting right up to date with their NASA tested TravelJohn. Everything you need for camping - from torches to sleeping bags, camping packs to batteries. They've got it all and even better - you simply order it online and pick it up when you arrive onsite.
The Bell, Walcot Street, Bath. Every group has its own "The Cavern" and I guess this is ours. Bath's premier pub/music venue serving the finest ales in the coolest atmosphere. It was here that the 'podpad' was hatched and developed and continues to be the unofficial 'podpads' HQ. It is also the home of the Bath Fringe Festival and the Bandstand Stage at Glastonbury Festival. If you are ever in Bath, don't walk past...
Every group/company has its own preferred charity and for 2007, we have chosen GREENPEACE. Well known for its relentless work to save our planet and all who live on it, we will be donating any unwanted damages deposits to this most worthy cause.
As an alternative to Greenpeace, we have selected the NSPCC as our second charity of choice. The things that people can do to children defies belief and as they say "Cruelty to children must stop. FULL STOP". Similarly, unwanted damages deposit can be donated to this worthy organisation.
Leyshon Limited, based in Bath. Designers of Exhibition stands and Point of Purchase Displays, owned by Tim Leyshon, 'podpad' designer.
www.podpads.com website mark 1: The original website put together and launched in 2004 when the 'podpad' was just an idea that may work. How things have moved on...... Put together, struggling thro' hyperlinks and html - the launch site was replaced during 2006 and condemned to the internet archives