A proud supporter of Teddy Rocks Festival

Hall & Woodhouse (‘H&W’) has supported Teddy Rocks Festival from the beginning. That support has grown as Teddy Rocks Festival has grown, but it took a step change in 2019 when H&W became lead sponsor and started running (and importantly donating all the profits from!) the bars at the festival. In 2024, it made a record total contribution of around £145,000.

Hall & Who?

H&W is a 7th going into 8th generation family business based in Blandford, Dorset. It owns and operates 150 beautiful pubs across Southern England, from Woolacombe down to Teignmouth in Devon, across to London down to Brighton in the East, and it brews the multi award winning Badger and Outland ranges of ales, stouts and lagers. To find an H&W pub near you, visit the H&W website, and to explore the Badger and Outland ranges of beers, visit the badger beers website.

H&W purpose

H&W exists to ‘Make People’s Day and Enrich our Communities from Generation to Generation’. Its teams seek to deliver on this purpose day in day out not just by operating fantastic pubs that sit at the heart of their communities and brewing delicious beer, but also by giving back directly to the communities in which it operates.

This is so important to H&W that it has set itself a target of donating and raising £1m per year for local good causes by its 250 th birthday in 2027 – a target it is well on the way to achieving having donated and raised over £800,000 in 2024. It does this in a broad range of ways (for more details, their charity page, but Teddy Rocks Festival is a cornerstone of its activities.

The Story so far...

Teddy Rocks Festival was created in The Greyhound, Blandford (a Hall & Woodhouse Tenanted Pub) and driven by Jan & Gary Boyd. Over the years, their support for the festival was key to its success and they completed a year at Charisworth Farm before Covid hit the country and put Teddy Rocks Festival out of action for almost 2 years.

At that point, something drastic had to be done in order to survive the lockdowns and to be in a position to grow and prosper into the future. Teddy Rocks Festival decided to register as a Limited Company by Guarantee (basically a company that is run without shareholders and the Directors are legally not allowed to take remuneration). This required a big level of support and financial backing to get it off the ground.

H&W threw its weight behind the new look Teddy Rocks Festival:

• Agreed a three year £30,000 per year sponsorship (renewed in 2025 for a further three years);
• Agreed to run the bars at the Festival with every penny of profit going to Teddy Rocks. Profits are maximised by: H&W team volunteering their time and expertise for free (in 2024, around 120 team members, family and friends doing anywhere from 4 hours to 100 hours each); Badger and Outland beers supplied at a price equivalent to external costs only (all of the overheads and people cost of making that beer not included); free logistical and other support (bar builds, 4 lorries worth of deliveries, 20 taps and coolers, marketing assets, etc); and great support from H&W suppliers including Thatchers Cider, Heineken & Monaco Marquees.
• Anthony Woodhouse (Chairman of H&W) and Ben Holden (Regional Manager) both came on as Directors of the company alongside Founder Tom Newton and 3 other long term Teddy Rocks Festival stalwarts (Owen Newton, Matt Wilkey & Adie Mee), giving access to H&W expertise across a number of areas.