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Catching up with Ed Hawker!

Posted on Wednesday, June 17, 2020

In previous weeks we’ve caught up with DC regulars Dan and Summer, and then Dave and Jane. This week we’re catching up with Ed Hawker who you may know as DC’s Operations Manager at the Office, or as the shouty person on the radio onsite at Glastonbury or Leeds festival.

Ed has used his time to focus on his family by home-schooling and going for bike rides with his son, Harrison, and by stretching those green thumbs of his to lend his dad a hand in the family gardening business. Not only has he revamped their website, but many a bushel and shrub have fallen victim to his strimmer. No hedge, plant pot or lawn is safe.

We’d love to know what you’ve been up to. Have you picked up any new skills or discovered any new hobbies? (though simply getting by under these trying circumstances is an achievement in itself.)

If you’d like to share how you’ve made the most of your time, please get in touch with the office and we’ll help you to give a virtual wave to the rest of the crew we know you’re missing!

Keep safe and be well.

I just wanted to send out a big thank you to you and your team for all the work you and the team put into helping make the traffic and transport operation work so well this year.

As it was a pleasure having DC site services as part of our team. I think the GFEL team of contractors is the envy of a lot of events in the way we all support each other and it was noted by some observers that stated the following :- 

"simply put, GFEL’s off-site traffic management plan was delivered and managed in a totally consistent and defensible manner that sought to promote good practice, collaboration and road safety to the benefit of all road users."

The DC are big part of that delivery and should take some of the credit for that delivery.

Steve Russell-Yarde, Off-site Traffic Manager
Glastonbury Festival