Festival Marquees – Marquee and Tent Hire Manchester

All about Festival Marquees

Festival Marquees was started 10 years ago, and initially traded as Green Event Services. The founder, Matt Favier, has a background of working in the environmental, community and voluntary sector, but alongside this ran one of the North Wests best loved party sound systems, and spent a lot of time creating events from scratch in fields, forests and festivals.

From these underground beginnings, a love of building spaces for parties and events was born, along with a passion for interesting tents and interiors. We looked long and hard at the existing market for marquee hire, and were struck by the fact that 90% of the companies out there offer pretty much the same range of structures, furniture and accessories, so we set out to do something different: We love attractive, earthy, colourful and themed tents, and use a pretty unique range of structures, interiors, and furniture, most of which you won’t find elsewhere. At the same time, we offer a wide range of plain white tents for events looking for functional / standard structures. We have been VAT registered since 2023. VAT registration number: 435 2149 12

Reasons to choose Festival Marquees:

  • We are a small, passionate, professional and ethical outfit.  
  • We stock pretty much everything you might need for an event in house, and can offer a huge range of different styles and sizes of tents, as well as a wide selection of furniture and accessories.
  • We believe we provide great value, and a unique range of option in terms of sizes and styles
  • Our standard hire period is two or three days, a weekend basically. We don’t charge by the day like some companies.
  • We work hard to ensure the safety and integrity of our marquees and equipment, following industry standards for anchorage, electrical and fire safety.
  • Every marquee and interior photo on this website are of our tents, and our tents only, not catalogue, photoshopped or image bank photos
  • We pay all our crew and workers at least the Living Wage  
  • We are strongly committed to keeping our environmental impact as low as possible, and are investigating carbon offsetting for our unavoidable energy use.  We love to work with community and campaign groups.
Previous client list (not including private events or weddings)

 

What a wedding!!! Right from our very first no-obligation meeting to waving goodbye after the best weekend of our lives, we were overwhelmed by Matt’s energy, creativity and enthusiasm, not to mention patience! One of the most down-to-earth event organisers you will ever come across, his dedication to helping us develop and realise our festival-wedding dream was outstanding. Having had no previous experience of planning anything even remotely like it, we were a little anxious about the sheer scale of the event we were envisaging, not to mention the cost. Matt put us completely at ease, constantly looking for ways to help us keep costs down, as well as giving expert advice on everything from toilets to tea. He worked closely with us and the venue owners to overcome the (many) practical obstacles and challenges to turning a muddy field into a mini-festival. But more than that, Matt was completely on board with the vibe and atmosphere we wanted to create and made the whole process enjoyable and exciting, not to mention relatively stress-free. He was super supportive through some pretty difficult periods, loads of fun to have around and has become a proper friend. Literally cannot thank him (and his exceptional crew) enough for an event that celebrated our marriage in such a fitting way! S.Hallett – 2018
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