About Us

Here are a few basic things you need to know about Eclipse Leisure:

Our office hours are 9-6:00 p.m. Monday to Friday 10-4 p.m. Saturday
Often we work later and you can find people in the office up to 8:00 p.m. many nights although not all.
We have been trading since 1999
We have 13 staff

Director / Sales: Alasdair Adam alasdair@eclipseleisure.co.uk
Sales: Tom Patrick tom@eclipseleisure.co.uk
Sales: Sam Edden sam@eclipseleisure.co.uk
Sales: Karen Wood karen@eclipseleisure.co.uk
Group Organiser: Sally Thomas sally@eclipseleisure.co.uk
Group Organiser: Michele Costa michele@eclipseleisure.co.uk
Group Organiser: Gemma Nelson gemma@eclipseleisure.co.uk
IT: Jezz Goodwin jezz@eclipseleisure.co.uk
Accounts: Austin Mowat austin@eclipseleisure.co.uk
Acorn Activities: Robert Gorman robert@eclipseleisure.co.uk
Chistmas: Mikaela Fenton-Jones mikaela@eclipseleisure.co.uk
Web Developer: Simon Fryer simon@eclipseleisure.co.uk
Design: Laylah Driscoll laylah@eclipseleisure.co.uk

Alasdair Adam
Alasdair started the company in 1999 and his background is in IT and sales. Hence you get the most sophisticated electronic solution in the industry. Including your own website, on line group payments and a fast and efficient service.(achieving business excellence in three out of five catergories in the e-commerce awards 2004)

Tom Patrick
Tom has been a radio presenter; he also arranged events and a promotion team for the station. Tom is also a professional photographer and has spent most of his working life in sales.

Sally Thomas
Sally worked for British Airways as flight sales exec. Sally also took a year out to travel the World. She has a degree in travel and tourism and relishes the challenges that event organising brings.

Robert Gorman
Robert Joins us from Cinnamon Adventures and has much experience with corporate events and the voucher market, Robert is in charge of Acorn Activities one of our recent aquisitions. For adventure activities and gift experiences Rob is the person to speak to.

Jezz Goodwin
Jezz in our in house boffin, he has done set ups for major events, written numerous databases, currently writing a new computer game for our website. Jezz is overseeing a major databse design which will revelotionise the way corporate events are booked and organised, quite frankly the whole things makes our heads spin. He is still only 20 but doesn't like us telling anyone--- so we wont.

Laylah Driscoll
Laylah is to be credited for the design for all Eclipse sites brochures and anything else we have designed. She has been with Eclipse now 4 years and is also a well known DJ and producer. With new updates coming to the site soon you will see some of her best work.

Austin Mowat
Austin who is finalist ACCA to those of you who know about that sort of thing. He has 15 years experience including for AMEX. Austin is a valuable member of team and probably one of the busiest.

Sam Edden
Sam joins us from Neilsons an activity holiday company specialising in sailing and winter breaks, Sam was corporate account manager and brings valuable experience into Eclipse Leisure. Sam is also helping the launch of our exciting new brand from Great Escapades.

Simon Fryer
Another young prodigy joins us to develop the 6 websites Eclipse owns. Simon knows his stuff when it comes to internet strategy and most importantly getting information across to you the customer. For Web related questions please ask Simon.

Well that is the team but what about the rest of it.
Eclipse Leisure is the parent company for four different companies. We own six websites dedicated to different areas of the business. They are:

www.eclipseleisure.co.uk
www.officechristmas.co.uk
www.officeevents.co.uk
www.acornactivities.co.uk
www.monsterweekends.co.uk
www.greatescapades.co.uk

To come
www.officeincentives.co.uk

As you can imagine we work very hard here Eclipse has also bought out Acorn Activities which is a company many of you will have heard of; Acorn started the whole stag and hen business in 1989 and was very much a prominent company in the business of gift experiences and activity weekends up until 2002. Eclipse has combined Acorns long standing structure with our innovative way of doing things and can now offer a complete corporate solution.
Eclipse has some exclusive deals with many hotels across the country. This means that we can offer packages that many others cannot. You benefit from this with a break that is excellent value for money.

We try and look at the problems you face when organising large groups and look to over come your problems not just ours. For instance we don't benefit from the on line payment system and actually pay a little more for it. We think though that this is a service which you will find valuable and useful. You of course have your own website available which is a fully comprehensive itinerary and has links to useful things such as transport to and from the town or city. Minibus services should you need transfers, and of course pub and club guides.

Another valuable service is that you don't get stung when group numbers drop. If you are having to put down a per person deposit who is paying that? Yes it's generally you, and after you have chosen a company to organise your group who loses out when people mess around? Yes it is you. We value your custom and value the fact that you don't want to lose money for picking us to organise your group. So we don't charge for number changes as long as they come four weeks prior to the event. We were the first company to introduce this and there are other companies that will do this now, but not all so check.
So in a nutshell, we provide a personalised service, you will have one point of contact within Eclipse when you book and we will help you arrange the rest of your group whatever the size and whatever the occasion. We are looking into services that you can use like on line invitations, group discounts for travel and of course better and better customer service.

We have many blue chip clients and many smaller customers all of whom are valuable, here are the ones you may have heard of Microsoft, AMEX, ABN Amro, Sky, BBC, Lloyds TSB, Vodafone, ANC corp, Dunn and Bradstreet, IBM, KPMG, PWC, phones 4 u, Equifax, blue diamond group, Pfizer, Shell, GlaxoSmithkline, Barclays to name but a few.