After 15 years as Managing Director of Howletts and Port Lympne I have decided to go it alone as a consultant / Mentor.
I believe the knowledge I have built up after 29 years in the leisure industry will be of benefit to numerous small and medium-sized operations.
Having been at the forefront of short stay vacations for many years, I am in a unique position to advise those businesses wanting to go into the short-break sector or indeed expand their existing business.
My time at Howletts and Port Lympne, Brighton Pier and Butlins means I have considerable experience of Catering , Retail and Bar operations, not to mention Rides and Medway games.
If you would like to discuss how we can work together, see more information about my career and how I might be able to help your business to date please go to my website
www.boboconnor.co.uk or email me at bob@boboconnor.co.uk

Booker, the UK’s leading Food Wholesaler is delighted to be an NFAN Trade Member and to announce a 5% retrospective discount scheme for all NFAN members, payable twice annually on all Non-Tobacco purchases excluding VAT.
Over the last 6 months Booker has paid over ¬£18,000 in rebates to NFAN members helping them save money and operate their businesses more profitably. To ensure you’re amongst those benefiting from the scheme please speak to your local Booker Manager. Membership is free and without obligation. Our local management teams are looking forward to hearing how they can help you and our field based Catering Development Managers are on hand to offer advise, information and assistance whenever you need it .
If you’ve not visited a Booker branch for a while we’re certain you’ll be impressed by the changes we’ve made. We’ve a wide range of products, great prices and fantastic quality on offer throughout our 172 branches in England, Scotland and Wales. Alongside the big brands you’ll discover our Industry Leading Own Label ranges including Lichfield and Chef’s Larder which can save you money without compromising on quality, in fact they regularly top blind-taste tests against household names.

Independent Consultant and provider of First Data Merchant Solutions for visitor attractions. Merchant Acquiring for Chip and Pin, Virtual Terminal and e-Commerce, a proven track record at Farm Parks. Competitive Rates, high levels of customer service and customer care, PCI Compliance taken care of, terminals installed and tested, and VT’s/Websites switched over. Full back-up service, Account Manager and single point of contact.

Creating Adventurous Places – we are CAP.CO
As a team, we have been working with all sorts of outdoor attractions (and a few indoor ones) for many years. We have developed skills throughout the team with some amazing results in delivering beautiful play spaces and profitable attractions.

We design, build and maintain adventure play spaces for organisations and individuals around the world.

Charcoal Communications is a marketing & PR agency specialising in tourism related businesses and visitor attractions. We provide a full range of marketing services including; marketing plans, PR, TV & Radio advertising, web and social media. Client experience covers museums, visitor attractions, hotels, destinations, restaurants, festivals and events. We have extensive Farm Park and rural based attraction experience and manage the National Farm Attractions Network (NFAN) FARMA/FRA, and the Maize Maze Association (MMA). Attraction client experience includes; Adventure Valley, English Heritage, The National Forest Adventure Farm, Tulleys Farm, Skylark Garden Centre, Treak Cliff Cavern, York Maze and others. For a free no obligation discussion and find out how we can give your marketing & PR a boost contact David Leon.

Charnwood Food Safety Limited provide a bespoke service to fit your requirements.

Services range from providing a one off solution to completely managing your compliance system.

The services available include:

• Complete compliance contracts
• Food safety compliance contracts
• One off bespoke assistance and solutions

All of the team are suitably qualified to ensure quick, accurate information and assistance is provided.

Charnwood Food Safety Limited pride themselves on giving a friendly professional service to all clients large or small and see their role as being your food safety partner.

Instead of being a ‘you could do this or you could do that’ type of service Charnwood Food Safety Limited become part of your team and use a ‘Can Do Approach’ which focuses on a solution.

If you feel some assistance with your food safety or health & safety systems would be helpful, please contact Charnwood Food Safety Limited.

Chocolate gifts handmade by Chocolate Lodge
Handcrafted chocolate gifts and treats don’t get much more delicious than the unique and sumptuous ranges at Chocolate Lodge.

Lovingly made in East Grinstead, their products have been delighting chocolate lovers up and down the country. The Chocolate Lodge farm animal range has been hugely popular with shoppers at Godstone Farm, so much so that stock requests just keep on coming from attractions all over the South East.

Chocolate Lodge guarantees:

~ High quality chocolate products made to order by hand

~ Affordable stock that customers can’t help but fall in love with

~ Flexibility, customisation options and guidance on your stock from our master chocolatier ~ Fast turnaround with every order

Rachel Holding at Godstone Farm says:

 “We’ve been working with Chocolate Lodge for two years, during which time their delicious, handmade chocolate lollies have become one of our best-selling confectionery lines. Catherine and Robert are easy to work with and continue to develop their farm-themed and seasonal chocolate lollies for us which always go down a treat with our visitors.”

In the 12 years Clear Sky have been in business, we have become the ‘go to’ company for safari tents and it’s not hard to see why.

We specialise in supplying stunning safari tents, made to the very highest quality, but due to the fact we specialise in safari tents and manufacture in large numbers we are 30-40% lower in price than our competitors.

Not only that, we run our own glamping site in Kent, which means from planning permission to creating a website we have done it all and we are happy to share our knowledge!

Colour Heroes have spent almost 20 years learning about what families want from visitor experiences. We can help you to create inspiring, educational, high-quality, and affordable children’s activity books, sheets, packs, menus, maps, trails, and guides. A beautiful, tailored resource will improve your family visitor experiences, increase revenue streams, and encourage return trips and valuable recommendations. We have the skills, and more importantly, the time to enhance visits to your attraction at a time when first impressions really do count.

Based near York, our highly creative, flexible, and innovative team have a wealth of fun ideas to bring your farm attraction to life, in exciting formats, with hand-drawn illustrations. We provide solutions in print and digital formats, and all of our work is easy to adapt for your website and social media channels, capturing every opportunity to promote your business. We work with you to develop opportunities for your farm attraction to make lasting, family memories to inspire your younger visitors.

We are very proud to tell you that everything Colour Heroes make is created here in Britain and lovingly developed from concept through to completion by our friendly, in-house team.

For nearly 30 years Creative Play have been designing, manufacturing, installing and maintaining play and sports equipment and surfacing across the UK, providing a one-stop shop solution to what can be an in-depth development. Based in Chester, we manufacture all our own equipment right here in our factories, with installation teams across the UK – in-fact we have more than 75 employees in product design, sales, marketing, production and installation roles! Our sole objective is to create exciting, innovative, durable and value for money outdoor play and sports spaces.
We create more than 500 outdoor facilities every year with budgets ranging from £3,000 to £250,000. This experience allows us to deliver any development project; on brief, on budget and on time.
Our products are innovative, durable, high quality and produced to the highest standards in line with our ISO 9001 quality management systems.
With over 550 products within our range, from play towers and climbing frames to ships and musical playboards, we are sure we can assist you and your business to creating a real wow factor, generating better footfall and a longer duration of stay from your visitors!