Clare King

Clare has long experience of feeding demanding mouths, including running one of the country’s first vegetarian nurseries, innovating an accredited farmer’s market cafe, to several years of masterminding the Green Man Cafe at events such as WOMAD, Two Thousand Trees, The Big Green Gathering, Tewkesbury Medieval Festival, Nailstock, Berkeley Castle Joust (for five years running!), The Rainbow Festival and many more!

In her time of providing quality, responsibly-sourced food in a range of locations, she has learnt to adapt, and didn’t even let two feet of flood water at one event dampen her enthusiasm, energy and professionalism.

Clare has also been instrumental in ensuring that our staff are trained to the highest standards of food hygiene, our organisation adheres to the “Safer Food, Better Business” system of the Food Standards Agency, and that we qualify for membership of recognised trade bodies such as NCASS.

Clare says, “We should give people a good experience, including a memorable ambience. I get a real buzz out of seeing people enjoy our food. I strongly believe in working with festival organisers. It’s no good being one-sided and inflexible, if we’re both happy then we, you and our customers win.”

Frank Gilbert

Frank has been cooking since he was a small boy, and in his time, has served food to stars from Tommy Cooper to the Rolling Stones!

He qualified as a professional caterer and hotel manager in his teens, and by the age of 20, was managing a large restaurant at the end of North Pier, Blackpool!

Since then, he has worked for Grand Metropolitan Hotels, Cunard, Trusthouse Forte and as a partner in an early ‘Hard Rock’ style restaurant.

Later, he specialised in helping hotel and catering businesses to provide what their customers want. And he still believes this is the key to success.

He is also a music enthusiast, was a DJ for many years, and is learning to play bass guitar!

Frank and Clare are a solid team whose skills and experience dovetail to ensure high quality, professional, exciting food with a conscience for your festival. .