TESS adapts to Covid 19 pandemic

Covid 19 has extended beyond being a health crisis to be a socio-economic disaster. With a blanket shutdown on live events and all of our team working from home, in isolation, like all of our colleagues in the industry, our primary priority has been everyone’s wellbeing.

As a supporter of music mental welfare charity Music Support, we are helping them in any way we can at a time when many in the music industry are suffering in many ways. Anyone who needs to talk can visit their website and call their confidential helpline to talk to a trained industry peer.

Expecting an extremely quiet lockdown period we were very happy to receive a call from long-term colleague Adrian Coombs, with an opportunity to support the NHS response to Covid-19. Better known as the Head of Event Operations at Glastonbury Festival, where we have worked with Adrian for many years, he took on a new role as Programme Director on behalf of North Bristol NHS Trust, for the build of the temporary Nightingale Hospital in Bristol. With Glastonbury 2020, along with other festivals and events, cancelled we all used our experience installing temporary infrastructure to support the rapid creation of the new hospital.

TESS director Simon James states:

“We were pleased to be able to play our small part supporting the NHS in their epic efforts to overcome Covid 19. We wish everyone our best wishes at this difficult time, from our many international colleagues within the events industry to wider society, as we all come to terms with and try to adapt to an uncertain future.”