One of twelve winners at the recent, prestigious AFI Awards held at Mercedes-Benz World, Rob Bell described feeling ‘proud as punch’ after being named as the Agricultural and Equine Contractor of the year. Based at Kendal in the glorious hills of the southern Lake District, Rob started out in Business in 1988 as sole trader […]Read More

Charlie Wright of Market Rasen firm Front Row Fencing is well used to taking up challenges that take him out of the comfort zone but even he was a bit surprised by his latest ‘brief’. He took up the story: “I have done a number of fencing projects at the park with this latest job […]Read More

Here’s a fascinating travelogue from John Morgan who recently travelled to the other side of the globe with Si Gibbs to compete in one of New Zealand’s top fencing competitions… “At the beginning of June, Si Gibbs and I met up at Manchester Airport to fly to New Zealand to compete in the infamous Silver […]Read More

Steady progress has been the hallmark of Dorset-based Davis Fencing since their inception in 2015. The business, which now employs three, operates across southern England with a growing customer base encompassing the agricultural sector as well as a number of notable civil engineering clients and projects including the Southern and Wessex water companies and the […]Read More

Finland isn’t known for tornadoes but Tornado is now known in Finland! It’s all thanks to a husband and wife duo who are making their mark on the world of fencing in this fascinating corner of Scandinavia. Based in Jokioinen, a 90-minute drive north from the capital Helsinki, Markus and Maisa Paakkalinen are drawing on […]Read More

James Taylor of Leicestershirebased JMT Services has achieved an impressive amount in just three short years. At only 21 years old, James launched his own business in 2021. Since then, he has built up a steadily growing client base from his location near Melton Mowbray and even constructed his very own tracked post knocker machine. […]Read More

Jamie Campbell, owner of West Sussex-based Tattersall Groundworks, has always had a love of the great outdoors. After studying for a degree in Farm Management at the Royal Agricultural University in Cirencester, it was almost inevitable that he’d end up in a role where he’d be helping to shape the countryside around Fittleworth where he […]Read More

Matt Cooper’s route into fencing has been a far from conventional one despite a very outdoors focused life in his younger days. An Army veteran, Matt grew up in Herefordshire and now runs East Kent Yard & Paddock Maintenance based near Faversham. “At 16 I decided that my career path was to be in the […]Read More

POSITIVE VIBES WITH M & J OAKLEY! No challenge seems insurmountable for this family-owned business with strong agricultural roots. Founded in 1991 and still owned by Mark and Jenny Oakley, the business went limited in 2012. Harry Oakley, nephew of Mark and Jenny, took up the story: “We are a family run farm that specialises […]Read More