Hotbox Events is a company that recruits and manages staff and volunteers for UK festivals such as the Leeds Festival, Reading Festival, Latitude Festival and . Run by Mark Hatchard and Rob Smith as a trading name of animation and design company Hotbox Studios, Hotbox Events works closely with Festival Republic to provide CAT (Campsite Assistant Teams) and HAT (Helpful Arena Teams), staff and volunteers to UK music festivals and events.
History
After working at festivals in various roles since the early 1990s with DC Site Services Ltd (DCSS), Mark Hatchard essentially started Hotbox Events in 2003 when he was recruited by senior members of Festival Republic to supervise a small group of volunteers at the Leeds Festival in Yorkshire. Hatchard’s volunteers became known as CATs (Campsite Assistance Teams) and HATs (Helpful Arena Teams) and, after the success of Leeds Festival 2003, Hatchard was appointed as the festival’s Deputy Campsite Manager and asked to develop his staffing programme further.
In 2006, Hatchard was asked to supply staff and volunteers for Reading Festival and in 2008 Latitude Festival was also added to the list. By 2009, the venture had become so large that Hatchard’s existing company, Hotbox Studios, decided to officially launch Hotbox Events as a sister company.
For a number of years Hotbox Studios supplied Chillfest Limited - the company responsible for running The Big Chill festival - with recruitment software programme PAAM (see below). Hotbox Events was brought in to supply staff and volunteers to the event in 2010. The Big Chill brand was purchased by Festival Republic, which chose to work with Hotbox, after the festival branch of Chillfest Limited went into liquidation following poor ticket sales in 2009.
At present, thousands of volunteers give their time at UK music festivals every year as either CATs or HATs in return for a free entry ticket.
PAAM
As Hotbox became more involved with staffing events, the increasing admin demands of everything from recruitment to timetabling inspired Hotbox Studios to create a software programme to help manage the task. Beginning as a simple online application form in 2001, the PAAM (Personnel Application, Administration and Management) programme is now used to recruit and organise thousands of staff and volunteers over more than 30 of the biggest events and festivals in the UK.
The programme, which is based on Cloud computing and runs entirely over S/SL programming language, consolidates pre-event, onsite and post-event admin. It was officially launched in 2007 and is now used by its clients to supply staff and volunteers at events including:
• Glastonbury Festival
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• Wireless Festival
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• Latitude Festival
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• Download Festival
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• Leeds Festival
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• Reading Festival
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• Red Bull Air Race
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• T in the Park
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• Taste Festivals
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• NASS
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• Isle of Wight Festival
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• Global Gathering
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• The Big Chill
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• The Green Man Festival
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• BBC Proms in the Park
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Sponsorship and charity
Hotbox Events often joins with its sister company Hotbox Studios to offer sponsorship for charity events. In December 2010 the two companies sponsored an unpaid helper at the Global Volunteer Network in Panama. Working in the western highlands of the country, the volunteer assisted children in need by lending a hand with the daily activities and duties in orphanages, working with teenage mothers and teaching English, among other things.
Hotbox Events sponsored cyclists in the Gore Bike Wear TransWales Mountain Bike Event in Wales in 2009 and the Nightrider12 event at Plymouth in 2007. The latter event helped raise money for the Force Cancer Charity.
In 2007, Hotbox Studios and Hotbox Events supplied online services to a two-person team which raised money for the Laksmi Ashram School in North India by trekking to the Everest Base Camp. The pair walked across Nepal Himalaya for two weeks from Lukla (the highest point that vehicles can access at 2,800m) until reaching the camp at 5,300m. After the trek, an ongoing pen-friend link was established between Ashram School and Holt School in Wokingham.
The company has also provided sponsorship for the Camping Club Youth (CCY) National Youth Rally. The not-for-profit organisation encourages young people to meet new friends and take part in a variety of challenges and sporting activities.
History
After working at festivals in various roles since the early 1990s with DC Site Services Ltd (DCSS), Mark Hatchard essentially started Hotbox Events in 2003 when he was recruited by senior members of Festival Republic to supervise a small group of volunteers at the Leeds Festival in Yorkshire. Hatchard’s volunteers became known as CATs (Campsite Assistance Teams) and HATs (Helpful Arena Teams) and, after the success of Leeds Festival 2003, Hatchard was appointed as the festival’s Deputy Campsite Manager and asked to develop his staffing programme further.
In 2006, Hatchard was asked to supply staff and volunteers for Reading Festival and in 2008 Latitude Festival was also added to the list. By 2009, the venture had become so large that Hatchard’s existing company, Hotbox Studios, decided to officially launch Hotbox Events as a sister company.
For a number of years Hotbox Studios supplied Chillfest Limited - the company responsible for running The Big Chill festival - with recruitment software programme PAAM (see below). Hotbox Events was brought in to supply staff and volunteers to the event in 2010. The Big Chill brand was purchased by Festival Republic, which chose to work with Hotbox, after the festival branch of Chillfest Limited went into liquidation following poor ticket sales in 2009.
At present, thousands of volunteers give their time at UK music festivals every year as either CATs or HATs in return for a free entry ticket.
PAAM
As Hotbox became more involved with staffing events, the increasing admin demands of everything from recruitment to timetabling inspired Hotbox Studios to create a software programme to help manage the task. Beginning as a simple online application form in 2001, the PAAM (Personnel Application, Administration and Management) programme is now used to recruit and organise thousands of staff and volunteers over more than 30 of the biggest events and festivals in the UK.
The programme, which is based on Cloud computing and runs entirely over S/SL programming language, consolidates pre-event, onsite and post-event admin. It was officially launched in 2007 and is now used by its clients to supply staff and volunteers at events including:
• Glastonbury Festival
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• Wireless Festival
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• Latitude Festival
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• Download Festival
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• Leeds Festival
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• Reading Festival
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• Red Bull Air Race
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• T in the Park
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• Taste Festivals
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• NASS
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• Isle of Wight Festival
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• Global Gathering
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• The Big Chill
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• The Green Man Festival
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• BBC Proms in the Park
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Sponsorship and charity
Hotbox Events often joins with its sister company Hotbox Studios to offer sponsorship for charity events. In December 2010 the two companies sponsored an unpaid helper at the Global Volunteer Network in Panama. Working in the western highlands of the country, the volunteer assisted children in need by lending a hand with the daily activities and duties in orphanages, working with teenage mothers and teaching English, among other things.
Hotbox Events sponsored cyclists in the Gore Bike Wear TransWales Mountain Bike Event in Wales in 2009 and the Nightrider12 event at Plymouth in 2007. The latter event helped raise money for the Force Cancer Charity.
In 2007, Hotbox Studios and Hotbox Events supplied online services to a two-person team which raised money for the Laksmi Ashram School in North India by trekking to the Everest Base Camp. The pair walked across Nepal Himalaya for two weeks from Lukla (the highest point that vehicles can access at 2,800m) until reaching the camp at 5,300m. After the trek, an ongoing pen-friend link was established between Ashram School and Holt School in Wokingham.
The company has also provided sponsorship for the Camping Club Youth (CCY) National Youth Rally. The not-for-profit organisation encourages young people to meet new friends and take part in a variety of challenges and sporting activities.
On March 16 2012, the Turkish Army suffered it's largest loss of life in the ongoing war in Afghanistan, when a Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk came down in a suburb of Kabul, killing all 12 Turkish soldiers onboard. Total fatalities was brought to 14, with 2 people on the ground killed. No insurgent force was reported in the area, and the crash is being treated as an accident.
Crash details
Hürriyet reported that the aircraft suffered a technical fault and tried an emergency landing, attempting to avoid nearby housing, unfortunately the aircraft hit a house and 4 civilians were also killed, along with the 12 soldiers.
The helicopter was destroyed in the accident, the house it clipped was partially destroyed. <ref name=bbc1 />
Crash details
Hürriyet reported that the aircraft suffered a technical fault and tried an emergency landing, attempting to avoid nearby housing, unfortunately the aircraft hit a house and 4 civilians were also killed, along with the 12 soldiers.
The helicopter was destroyed in the accident, the house it clipped was partially destroyed. <ref name=bbc1 />
Nanushka Television is a Swedish television production company based in Stockholm.
Nanushka has made several film and TV series, among them the talked-about "Klubben" (the club) who aired on Sweden's public service Channel, SVT.
Nanushka was founded by TV producer Nathanel Goldman Amirav.
The company is one of the new production companies in the "new television wave" that produces WebTV in sync with Social media.
The company has been written about for its new production methods, producing TV in faster production methods and yet bringing the same quality to the big Swedish TV channels.
Links
www.nanushka.se
www.svt.se/klubben
http://www.dagensmedia.se/nyheter/dig/article3351123.ece
Nanushka has made several film and TV series, among them the talked-about "Klubben" (the club) who aired on Sweden's public service Channel, SVT.
Nanushka was founded by TV producer Nathanel Goldman Amirav.
The company is one of the new production companies in the "new television wave" that produces WebTV in sync with Social media.
The company has been written about for its new production methods, producing TV in faster production methods and yet bringing the same quality to the big Swedish TV channels.
Links
www.nanushka.se
www.svt.se/klubben
http://www.dagensmedia.se/nyheter/dig/article3351123.ece
Southtree is a privately held digital media company founded in 2009 in the state of Tennessee serving to digitize analog media such a videotape, movie film, and photos to DVD and DataDVD.
The company primarily works with consumer home movies as a send-in service, available online and through authorized retail partners. They provide digitizing to various corporations and individuals. The company’s headquarters are in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
In 2009 Southtree was recognized in Chattanooga's Business Trend magazine (a publication from the Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce) noting their 60% growth sustained in 2009.
Southtree is an accredited member of the BBB with a B rating (with 20 logged customer complaints).
Services
Southtree digitizes consumer camcorder tapes as well as home movies on film. Formats include; VHS, MiniDV, 8mm, Betamax, 16mm Film and 8mm (also known as "Regular 8" and "Super 8") Film. The company provides two options for digitized media, standard DVD or digital files for use on computers and hard drives.
In 2009 Southtree added photo digitizing services converting photo prints, Kodachrome slides, and negatives as well as Kodak "Digital ICE" scanning with color-correction.
History
Southtree was founded in 2001 by Adam Boeselager and originally named AMB Video Transfer after the founder. The company originally offered digitizing for consumer videotapes and expended into digitizing vintage film and photo scanning. In 2009, Southtree relocated its media processing facilities to Chattanooga, Tennessee.
In 2010, Southtree owner's Nick Macco and Adam Boeselager made the "Thirty Under Thirty" list of entrepreneurs and professionals headquartered in Tennessee.
The company primarily works with consumer home movies as a send-in service, available online and through authorized retail partners. They provide digitizing to various corporations and individuals. The company’s headquarters are in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
In 2009 Southtree was recognized in Chattanooga's Business Trend magazine (a publication from the Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce) noting their 60% growth sustained in 2009.
Southtree is an accredited member of the BBB with a B rating (with 20 logged customer complaints).
Services
Southtree digitizes consumer camcorder tapes as well as home movies on film. Formats include; VHS, MiniDV, 8mm, Betamax, 16mm Film and 8mm (also known as "Regular 8" and "Super 8") Film. The company provides two options for digitized media, standard DVD or digital files for use on computers and hard drives.
In 2009 Southtree added photo digitizing services converting photo prints, Kodachrome slides, and negatives as well as Kodak "Digital ICE" scanning with color-correction.
History
Southtree was founded in 2001 by Adam Boeselager and originally named AMB Video Transfer after the founder. The company originally offered digitizing for consumer videotapes and expended into digitizing vintage film and photo scanning. In 2009, Southtree relocated its media processing facilities to Chattanooga, Tennessee.
In 2010, Southtree owner's Nick Macco and Adam Boeselager made the "Thirty Under Thirty" list of entrepreneurs and professionals headquartered in Tennessee.