Exhibition with Marquee Flooring

One of the things that puts off exhibition organisers from exhibiting in an outdoor venue such as one of our SaddleSpan Exhibition Marquees is the worry that exhibitors and visitors will get muddy shoes!

Well don’t worry. We’ve got it covered! Or rather we have the grass covered as we work closely with Autotrak, a temporary roadway hire company that provide marquee flooring.

Autotrak’s products allow your exhibitors and visitors to get to and from your exhibition if temporary roadway is needed and once they are inside the exhibition marquee the marquee flooring will continue to keep their feet dry and free from mud.

Please call us now if you would like more information about hiring our exhibition marquees.

Exhibition with Marquee Flooring

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Crowd Funding Festivals

In the April edition of Stand Out Magazine there is an interesting article titled Show me your money (pp12-14) that looks at crowd funding as a way of raising money to organise an event.

Crowd funding has been around for while now, made possible on a global scale due to websites such as Kickstarter and the Stand Out article predicts that it will become big news in the events industry in 2013.

Finding festival funding is always a difficult business – so asking the potential audience or businesses to show their support by crowd funding the event makes sense as a financial model although as the article points out there are pitfalls as well as advantages.

A crowd funding success story is Alt Fest due to take place in 2014.  Using Kickstarter they asked for funding to the tune of £30,000 and so far have received over £61,000 from 593 separate backers!

We wish Alt Fest all the best for the future. All they need now is a SaddleSpan!


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Corporate Marquees and Creative Design Teams

When you are planning a corporate event you are looking for a venue that can wow your guests.  That’s why many event organisers contact The Amazing Tent Company because they know that they are getting a corporate marquee that has style and “amazability” in its own right.

That’s only half the story.  Add a talented, innovative and imaginative creative team to the mix and the wow factor is raised to a totally different level.

SaddleSpans are large, curvaceous, semi-tensile structures that are the perfect blank canvas for décor experts like Planet Gold Décor.  We have worked with Planet Gold on several events including the stunning Cardiff Castle project for a corporate client.

As you can see from the photos, mix a fantastic temporary structure with a talented décor company and you end up with a corporate event that is visually stunning.

Please contact us now if you would like more information about our SaddleSpans and your corporate event.

The marquee being dressed

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National Outdoor Events Association

The National Outdoor Events Association is the UK’s leading outdoor events trade association.

The association is dedicated to enhancing professionalism in the outdoor events industry through education, networking, lobbying, advice and creating business opportunities.

The NOEA membership is comprised of event suppliers, event production professionals, event and festival organisers, entertainment agencies, local authority events departments, venues, universities and freelancers.  

The Amazing Tent Company are members.  By becoming a member of NOEA, ATC has become part of a specialist ‘club’ of outdoor event professionals. The ethos of the association is to bring together like-minded people for business to business networking, education, the sharing of problems and ideas and to enhance professionalism.


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SaddleSpans Light up a Conference

The best conference organisers are proactively looking for fresh, new ideas.  They are not satisfied with creating ordinary, mundane conference experiences.

There is a need to shatter the status quo to create a conference that is experiential, participatory and socially constructed not passive and static.

Why be confined to the four square walls of meeting rooms and lecture halls?

More Exciting than Four Walls

A TriSpan or larger configuration of SaddleSpans gives a flexible venue that can be transformed with lights and GOBOs to give the delegates a high-quality learning experience that they’ll take away with them.

You can see from the photos how our SaddleSpans have lit up conferences.

Stunning Effects

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S5000 TriSpan for Exhibitions

There are purpose built exhibition spaces around the country – The National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, London’s Earl’s Court, the The Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre in Glasgow to name but a few  – but however practical they are, exhibiting in or visiting an exhibition in one of these vast edifices can be a tiring experience.

To create a unique and refreshingly different event experience, why not use an S5000 TriSpan or other large configuration of SaddleSpans?

There are many advantages of using a SaddleSpan structure; the ability to be creative and atypical is one but perhaps the main advantage is that you can stage your exhibition in any location you desire.

Imagine the added attraction and interest there will be if you hold your exhibition outside Wembley Stadium, Battersea Power Station, a desert or where ever you want.

Being able to stage exhibitions in any location gives you freedom of choice and of course the ability to take your exhibition to your audience instead of making your audience come to you.

Please call us now if you would like to know how a SaddleSpan structure


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Festivals? We’ve got you covered.

What’s the summer going to be like?

That’s the question on everyone’s lips as we move from winter into spring and the answer at the moment is that we just don’t know.

What we do know is that more and more production managers are thinking about audience cover to keep the crowds in front of the stage whatever the weather.

Rain or shine, it’s important that your ticket buying customers are looked after.  We don’t want them getting wet, or getting too hot, which is why our SaddleSpans are such a popular option.

SaddleSpan canopies are high so they don’t affect sight-lines and they are semi-tensile which means no flapping canvas. They are in fact the perfect festival audience cover.

If looking after your customers is important to you please give us a call.  Our SaddleSpans make a difference.


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