About Lotus Belle Tents Uk
Lotus Belle is a UK based company specialising in innovative canvas structure design.
Lotus Belle Tents Uk Description
About Hari
Harriet Seddon was born on midsummers day in Oxford, [UK] 1983 and grew up in the south-west of England. She spent large parts of her childhood camping with her family and with Forest School Camps.
Resonating with the gypsy lifestyle, as a young teenager, she went to live in a tent throughout the summer months. Hari’s mum would often wake her in the mornings from her ‘tent bedroom’ so she wouldn’t be late for school. At 19 Harriet commenced the first year of her design degree where she first drew the initial ideas for the ‘onion dome’ that later became known as the Lotus Belle tent.
“I always wanted to be a tent designer from about 5 years old. I spent my early childhood making camping furniture out of Meccano or bits of wood I found around the place, but I couldn’t work out what qualifications I would need to get a job with one of the big tent companies. I designed the Lotus Belle, but then put it on the backburner for a few years while I had my kids. I thought I should get a ‘sensible job’ and worked as a textiles teacher in a secondary school in Weymouth. My passion for tent making started to creep back into my mind and I found myself encouraging students in my class to design and prototype one-man tents. I decided to bite the bullet, left teaching and showed my designs to a tent manufacturer who imported bell tents. He introduced me to an excellent factory where we made the first Lotus Belle prototype. ”
In 2012 Lotus Belle went in to its first year of commercial production.
In August of that year, New Zealander, Jessica Walsh, was working on the UK festival circuit. She came across one of the first models of Lotus Belle at Green Man festival. As a passionate environmentalist, Jessica recognised the potential for the product to combat the throwaway culture associated with nylon tents. Jess became Hari’s first international distributor and quickly grew an impressive social media presence. Following huge success in her native New Zealand Jess went on to head up Lotus Belle Australia and Lotus Belle USA. She now hops hemispheres to catch the summer seasons.
Hari’s partner, Ben Igoe sold his festival production company in 2015 looking to move in a new direction. His experience in sales and marketing, as well as a first hand knowledge of the events industry, gave him a skill set that seemed an excellent fit for the rapidly expanding Lotus Belle. He’s also very strong which comes in handy because Hari is tiny and the tents don’t move themselves!
In 2016 Hari and Ben made the brave decision to start working together as partners in business as well as in love. Ben is now ‘round the clock’ tent lifter, delivery man, child minder, chauffer, cook, domestician, mental health support worker! , spreadsheet ninja, website manager, photographer, social media content creator, salesman and general doer of things.
Hari and Ben live and work together in Bristol with their kids Mani age 10, Lola age 9 and George and Jago age 7. Together they run Lotus Belle UK and oversee the worldwide operation.
Lotus Belle now has licensed distributorships in Canada, USA, Australia, New Zealand, China, Taiwan, South Korea, UK, France and the Netherlands.
Reviews
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Here is our winner, keen LARP enthusiast Rex, AKA Christoph, an (Ancalame) 'Questing Knight' of the Lorien Trust, Unicorn Faction.
Thank you for coming to meet us Rex - our interest has certainly been piqued, LARPing sounds like so much fun.
Well done Questing Knights ! we trust your new Lotus Belle will help to promote your belief in unity among all, provide refuge during battle and shelter you from the blazing Erdrejan sun.
... https://www.lorientrust.com/in-game/facti ons-of-erdreja/
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Oh Look 😳 ...we were featured in the Financial Times this weekend! 🤓 ...shrewd investment ? 😜
WE HAVE PICKED A WINNER
Well done Rex Craig and Questing Knights with this entry: ----------------------------------------- ------
... You appear to have stolen our tent; please return it.
Yours sincerely
Questing Knights
Ps post shared :)
PPS we would use this as our group tent, as a base of operations and more awesome photos.
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Sometimes a tent chooses its owner!
Rex has decided to come and collect his tent next Wednesday the 13th - we will post a picture of us meeting to show the handover.
Thank you to everyone who entered this years 'win a tent' competition. Some hilarious entries, brilliant poetry and some very worthy causes. In the end there was no contest.
We have been mega busy working on our brand new website.
www.lotusbelle.co.uk
>>> check out the 'Help me Choose' feature and let us know if you think it picked the right tent for you.
If anyone has any comments or suggestions pleaae let us know.
x Lotus Belle x
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🎪 WIN a Lotus Belle!! 👍 Be our friend :) 🙌 Sharing is caring >>> 🗣 Best comment wins.... we have had a fantastic response so far and have shortlisted some brilliant comments, but we need more :)
2018 Win a Tent Competition - watch video for your chance to win!
Spring has sprung... hurray! Check these out for some 'interior inspiration'. with thanks to; Munday's Meadow, Wardley Hill Campsite, Brambells Glamping and our New Zealand and USA branches. >>> look out for our 2018 competition launching tomorrow <<<
{[NEWS FLASH]} ‘Cool Camping’ are offering a chance to win a Lotus Belle 🙂 >>> Stay tuned for our competition🤞launching 🔜 Thursday! https://coolcamping.com/…/190-subscribe -to-win-an-incredibl…
Just some atmospheric 'Tent Porn' - Also >>> 2018 COMPETITION COMING NEXT WEEK to WIN a TOTALLY UNIQUE Lotus Belle Tent (ie. there's only one of it) intrigued? - [watch this space]
Workaway volunteers in Spain pitching a lotus belle tent straight out of the box for the first time. This requires installing the curved metal wall poles, tying on all guy lines and staking out pegs. Thanks to Jane Cooney, Casa de la Luz - SPAIN.
Check out Golden Cap holiday park in West Dorset to experience sleeping under the stars in one of our unique Stargazer tents >>> http://goldencapholidaypark.co.uk/glampin g-in-d…/bell-tents/
Nice little review and pics here from Hanna E. Marcussen.
The snow is falling outside my window here in Oslo, and I'm dreaming about summer and camping in my excelent Lotus tent. So I thought I should send you some pictures of the tent and the platform I built for it last summer. I'm so satisfied with the tent and it worked perfectly! I look so much forward to warmer weather so I can move back into my new summer home.
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Amazing!
We’re here now! grab a bargain at the NEC caravan, camping and motor home show all weekend. Back of Hall 4 Bushcraft, Workshops and Glamping zone, right next to the big climbing wall - we’d love to see you x
Lotus Belle has been selected to feature as part of the glamping showcase at this years Caravan, Camping and Motorhome show at the NEC later this month! - come to meet us and our tent ... find us in Hall 4, Stand 4190 follow this Link for discounted tickets https://caravancampingshow.seetickets.com /…/the-caravan-cam…
this looks like an ideal tent for festivals .working on the disabled camp site at leeds fest itv would be perfect .i have seen some nice ones but this tops them .
We hired one to try before buying and it was amazing! Easy to assemble and put down great space. Everyone had tent envy!
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The peerless of luxury and comfort, when it comes to outdoor tents. Lotus belle tents is the best!
Out of this world! This company literally moved mountains for my friends & me! In the same week as having a beautiful new baby & sadly having one of their tents stolen � They STILL put up two huge Lotus Belle tents for us at Thistledown Organic campsite in Gloucestershire. Very spacious, I could do my yoga in there. It was like sleeping inside a giant pumpkin! A once in a lifetime experience. Thank you Lotus Belle ��������
My Lotus Belle is wonderful. I use mine as a Herbal Tea Stall for festivals in the uk. It's the perfect place to run a shop and relax at the same time. It's perfectly designed and made with great care. The quality of this tent is outstanding.
Just got home from my first camping trip in my new Lotus Belle, it's absolutely fab! A little harder than a normal bell tent to put up, but totally worth the effort. Quality is excellent and it stood up to a very heavy rain storm no problem at all!
My only criticism is the 'interior stuff' (rugs, floor cushions etc.) that I use for my bell tent are a little lost inside it and now I have to buy more to add to the collection... But then again is an excuse for a shopping trip really criticism ;-)
Lots of jealous friends now!
I love my tents, I think they're great!
Great for glamping :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
Changed our world! Love lotus belle! 😍
BEST TENT ERECTION EVER
Morning glory every day admiring the genius design! I absolutely LOVE � this tent
Easy to erect/pack down, it took us (2) 25 mins first time
We pitched on top of a windy cliff in North Devon and the Lotus stood strong against the winds. The canvas is silent so a peaceful nights sleep was had by all
We decorated with loads of bunting and fairy lights it was really magical to stay in such an awesome tent for the week
Needless to say I’m starting a fund for my own tent and looking forward to many more camping holidays
ThANkYoU
Siân & Rob �
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