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what do we do? (about us)
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who makes summerhouse? (our team)
what is our experience? (our work)
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what do people say? (clients)
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where do we go from here? (contact us)
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02. our team
We’re a creative and marketing partner to some of the UK’s best-known brands. We’re also responsible for some big regional success stories and inspired start-ups. We’ve been helping our clients connect with their customers since 1988. No client is too big or too small, and every client receives our highest level of creativity and attention.
Full service, media neutral and always ready for a new challenge, we bring brighter thinking to everything we do.
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Debra Thorne
Co-founder & Design Director
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Jeremy Thorne
Co-founder & Design Director
Gary Hellier
Creative Director
Taz Dickens
Media Planner & Buyer
Paul de la Feuillade
Director of Planning & Strategy
Office & Studio
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Jeremy was one of the founders of Summerhouse in 1988. Still involved on a daily basis with the business, his time is split between working with clients, overseeing design, production and project progress.
Co-founder & Design Director
Jeremy Thorne
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Debbie was the other founder of Summerhouse. Returning after a break to bring up children, Debbie brings a flair for freehand design and illustration to the Summerhouse creative.
Co-founder & Design Director
Debra Thorne
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Paul has been with Summerhouse since 2010 and brings over 30 years' agency experience. He was elected a member of the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising in 1994.
Director of Planning & Strategy
Paul de la Feuillade
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Gary joined Summerhouse in 2001. An technical illustration background and keen eye for detail ensures high quality work. Gary ensures smooth running of projects as well as heading up the digital work.
Creative Director
Gary Hellier
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Taz has worked with Summerhouse since 2015. She’s a highly experienced media planner and buyer with a successful Agency career. Respected by media owners and clients alike, she’s an expert negotiator, an excellent planner and has a keen eye for detail.
Media Planner & Buyer
Taz Dickens
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Our purpose-built office provides a great working environment with a spectacular glass-roofed studio and comfortable, relaxed meeting and reception areas.
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The Old Pottery, Verwood, Dorset BH31 6HF
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Summerhouse really understand Sky Adsmart and know how to maximise it's potential to deliver great results for their clients. Paul Lovesy, Region Controller, Sky Adsmart In addition to our core team, we have a fantastic group of companies and individuals who work with us on a project-by-project basis. From award-winning photographers and music producers, to TV production companies, jingle writers, app developers, interior designers, printers, signage companies... It's taken more than thirty years of experience to develop our address book.
We also work with a huge and diverse group of media owners, from the smallest local magazines and newspapers to the UK's biggest TV, radio and outdoor media companies.
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03. our work
We’re a group of advertising enthusiasts who love a challenge. We’ve worked together for many years and have honed our skills working for a huge variety of clients. You’ll find us honest, friendly and easy to work with. Above all, you’ll find that we have the confidence and experience to keep it simple.
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LeasePlan are an international car leasing company established in 1932. We are custodians of their brand in the UK. Our work for them covers customer engagement on and offline, including print, digital, video, interior design and a successful podcast series.
Our work for AutoTrader included a programme of dealer communications designed to increase subscription takeup. For CarWow, we were involved in proposition development and dealer engagement. We have also worked with The AA, Motability, HPI and BCA.
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LeasePlan, AutoTrader and CarWow have all involved us in their journey.
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Arthur J. Gallagher are the world’s biggest insurance broking firm. We work with a variety of specialist brands within the group, and also produce a long-running quarterly employee newsletter that is distributed across the UK and India.
For Zoopla, we ran campaigns designed to engage and incentivise estate agents to choose Zoopla over their competitors. We also produced ‘The Little Book of Zoopla’, a publication designed to encapsulate their ethos and vision.
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Winning customers and engaging employees for Arthur J. Gallagher and Zoopla.
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We launched HobbyCraft in 1995. Now with 85 stores across the UK, they are the UK’s arts and crafts specialist. Our involvement covered brand development, store design, seasonal POS, advertising on and offline, TV advertising, demonstration videos and employee engagement.
Haskins Garden Centres were one of our first clients and we’re immensely proud to still be working with them. We cover all aspects of marketing communications from on and offline seasonal campaigns to TV advertising.
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Driving footfall for household names including Hobbycraft and Haskins.
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We’ve been working in the grey market since 1994, launching Churchill Retirement Living and helping them grow to become the UK’s second-largest retirement living company. Since 2016, we’ve worked with Barchester Healthcare, managing media strategy and implementation. Barchester have over 250 care homes across the UK. We also work with Tapper Funeral Service, a south coast based chain of funeral directors and Harbour View, a woodland crematorium and funeral home.
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Engaging the grey market for Barchester Healthcare and Churchill Retirement.
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keyboard_arrow_leftswipe screen for more keyboard_arrow_rightJust a few of our specialist sectors...
An online marketplace for buying and selling new and used cars.
Specialists in automobile leasing and fleet management.
The Complete Digital Solution for hospitality and corporate catering.
A specialist property construction, restoration and refurbishment company.
Providers of lifting equipment, industrial doors, height safety and rigging equipment around the world.
Operators of eight holiday parks in some of the most beautiful and unspoilt locations in the UK.
Manitou is one of the world leaders in materials handling for construction, industrial and agricultural applications.
One of the UK’s largest driver training organisations with over 2 million training hours delivered annually.
The UK's leading resource for property purchase, rental and values.
One of the largest remaining tracts of unenclosed pasture land, heathland and forest in Southern England.
The UK's largest and most successful arts and crafts superstore chain.
Serving the South and South West of England, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra has been a cultural beacon since its foundation in 1893.
The UK's only family-owned Ferrari dealer and biggest supplier of Ferrari Approved cars in the country.
Operators of 200 retirement developments across the UK.
A family-owned and operated funeral business with its origins from the turn of the 20th Century.
A purpouse-built crematorium, funeral home and woodland burial ground with stunning views over Poole Harbour and the Purbeck Hills. The official #1 site to buy and sell new and used cars.
Global insurance brokerage and risk management services. An independent care provider running over 250 care homes and seven registered hospitals across the UK. The Haskins Group operates five of the largest destination garden centres in the south of England.
A property maintenance company with a difference.
From humble beginnings in 1990, when founder and CEO Fried Vancraen bought his first 3D printer, Materialise has become an industry standard.
The UK's largest used vehicle business.
Bird park and gardens with over 1,000 birds and 180 species from around the world.
I have always been impressed by both the quality and service. Anthony Brown, Marketing Director, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Great creative work and good service!
Jan Goodchild, Marketing Manager, Arthur J. Gallagher Very responsive to our needs.
Verity Wood, Marketing Manager, Materialise
Really helped to move us forwards.
Will Davies, Managing Director, Aspect.co.uk
A pleasure to work with.
Eleanor Dibossian, Marketing Executive, Haskins
Really very good.
Keith Hopkins, Head of Manufacturer Accounts, HPI
A seamless extension to our marketing team.
Spencer McCarthy, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Churchill Retirement Living
They consistently produce great work.
Lisa Looker, Brand Director, Hobbycraft
They are always creative and very easy to work with.
Danielle Gauci, Head of Marketing, Zoopla
05. contact us
A few kind words from our clients past and present…
what do our clients say?
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01202 826629We'd love to hear from you. We're available 9:00am until 5:00pm, Monday - Friday
