About Us

"Denzil" The Stag

Found by the side of the A697 after a hit & run incident involving Prince Phillip over the Xmas period of 2005, our adopted stag amazed everyone when he overcame the loss of his entire body to not only return to some form of normality within weeks of surgery, but to reveal a breathtaking singing voice! Keen to have a singing stag's head in our office anyway, we at LNOF couldn't pass up the chance that presented itself - and he's been crooning, encouraging and advising us all ever since.

An inspirational figurehead.

Tell me more about Denzil.

Matt Mavir - Managing Director

Matt is a keen rugby player, no doubt partly due to his Australian birth, and a mean table football adversary. Like the shark in his favourite movie 'Jaws', Mavir is a rare species in the world - someone who attempts to put reputation before earning a fast buck. Unlike the infamous predator, he is not mechanically operated and has never bitten anyone's head off. Mind you, he was rather firm with someone caught trying to pinch his parking spot at Tesco's last week! Matt likes to unwind by curling up in a good carpet every now and again, and, as point of principle, never pays less than £50 for a cab ride home. Stunningly handsome.

Matt has also set up another company in his bid to save the world (well at least that's what he tells us!). It's called Wind Trap and specialises in DIY Home Wind Turbine Kits & Energy Saving Products. Anyway, it's all rather posh...you should have a look...once you've bought a stag/hen weekend from us first, mind you.

Paul Luke - Content Manager

Trained as a trapeze artist with the South Shields circus as a boy, Gateshead-born Paul is used to giving the punters what they want. Still harbouring ambitions to become the world's first Geordie astronaut, Luke spends his spare time working undercover for the CIA and pulling the bingo balls at a local prison. He often regales his colleagues with many anecdotes from an action-packed life of decadence, glamour and sophistication. He likes pickled onions & Sunderland AFC, and he likes jumping out of upstairs windows. Obscenely good-looking.

Hear Paul's Metro Radio wind-up:

Garry Hodgson - Sales Manager

To the few that don't know him, pocket dynamo Garry is literally a hooker with a heart of gold. Aside from his passion for rugby and love of all-day sessions, what this former pub landlord lacks in height, he more than makes up for in personality and panache. Also, being a natural born organiser and outstanding after-dinner speaker, GH is to the town of Alnwick what Sinatra was to Vegas. The kind of man who should have a statue made after him when he eventually pegs it, though his penchant for getting naked when drunk might split any town council vote on the issue. Unbelievably gorgeous.

Steve Telford - Sales Team Leader

Champagne Stevey, a former drummer for both The Krankies and Luciano Pavarotti, recently moved back to Northumberland to contemplate the stag & hen industry, something he badly missed during endless months of touring and sleeping with groupies. Known for falling asleep on the throne and ordering expensive vodka, ladies' man Steve was left disappointed recently when comparitive unknown Daniel Craig became the new James Bond, a role he would still like to play eventually - Look out for Steve’s forthcoming appearance as Faceman in the panto spectacular ‘Mr T meets Aladdin’ at Sunderland Empire. Outrageously Charming.

Sean Palmer - Sales Team Member

Born in a department store window during a particularly hectic January sale just outside Johannesburg, smooth Sean has a diverse array of previous careers which combine beautifully to make him hot property in the stag & hen game. He's been a male model, a police sniffer dog handler, a rodeo clown and a bag man for the Bournemouth Mafia, but says that it's his move to Last Night of Freedom which has allowed him to truly express his charm like never before. Sean brings a touch of international class to the offices, and counts everyone from Snoop Dogg to Ken Dodd amongst his numerous celebrity friends. Enviably beautiful.

Katie Hardman – Sales Team Member

Katie graduated with a degree in stag and hen weekend organising only a couple of months before realising her dream of joining the Last Night of Freedom team. Fluent in both French and Spanish, Katie joins us after turning down numerous offers from Arsenal football club to work as a translator. Although she doesn’t drive, this Blackpool born lass is almost unstoppable on a go-kart, showing a complete lack of fear at even the tightest of hairpin corners. A dedicated clubber, Katie is so well known in the bars of Newcastle it is rumoured that the city would close down if she wasn’t out on a Friday or Saturday, this however is a theory which has never, and probably will never, be tested. Stylish and sexy.

Cheryl Hooper - Sales Team Member

Meet Cheryl Hooper, our new fast-talking sales machine and part-time Broadway dancer. One of 18 children, Cheryl is a natural stage performer, having secured her first dancing role at the tender age of 3 in a live musical version of the BBC programme "Rogue Traders", though she manages to juggle a busy performance schedule with her day job as stag & hen organiser, whilst still leaving time to look after her son Joe – who also doubles up as her manager and agent. Cheryl’s secret ambition is to dance with Bruce Forsyth on "Strictly & and has already picked out a gold-sequinned outfit specially. We just hope that Brucie amp; Co don’t steal her away forever as her talents for tailoring hen nights are every bit as breathtaking. A complete knockout.

Nina Sexton - Sales Team Member

This is the rather adorable Nina Sexton, a straight-talking lady with a flair for bird impressions that has to be heard to be believed, and someone who has made the stag and hen industry her very own playground since breezing into Last Night of Freedom at the beginning of 2008. Previously Mayoress of Morpeth, our Nina lists origami and celebrity stalking amongst her many hobbies, successfully bringing local names like Mike Neville and Peter Beardsley to the point of breakdown in recent years thanks to a unstinting commitment to pointless letter writing and a natural talent for using a wide-angled zoom lense. Mother to Liam, Nina is a welcome addition to the LNOF family and one of the few sensible voices in an office forever on the verge of losing it big time. Seductively glam.

Sue Fowler - Accounts Assistant

Sue joins Last Night of Freedom with a colourful employment background involving interior design, shop management and law enforcement. Sue is so good with accounts it is rumoured she can accurately audit a hold-all full of tens and twenties simply by holding it. Debtors beware; this lady leaves no invoice unpaid! In her spare time Sue likes to check the weather forecast, prepare her house for possible flooding and enjoys nothing more than acting as the designated driver for her children and their entire year group.

Will Johnson - Marketing & Communications Officer

Founder of the Leather Jacket Appreciation Society (Morpeth Branch), Will joined the LNOF family on his year out from Manchester Met, having accidentally stumbled into our offices one day whilst out walking without his favourite comedy glasses on. Displaying a commendable voracity for customer service and sales, "Big Johnson" quickly set about making his own indelible mark on the stag & hen industry, picking up both the "Most Stubborn Person" and "Least Affected by Guinness Marketing" Awards in his first year.

With his studies over, Earth's biggest Supersuckers fan is now the company's Marketing & Communications Officer, proving that Last Night of Freedom really do have (cough) the best Will in the world... Every mother's dream son-in-law.

Andy Hindmarch – Web Developer

Barcelona-fan Andy comes to us with a CV that boasts Captain Nemo, Ian McCaskill and Terence Trent D'Arby as his last three employers. A talented ventriloquist by trade, our Andy has quickly set about the stag & hen industry with the same dynamism and hard work that he displayed when starting up a nationwide Nude Mountain Bike Courier service back in 1996. His sparklingly impeccable web awareness and innovative approach is particularly impressive when you consider the advanced form of Tourette's that Andy has suffered from since trapping a finger in a car door when just a pup. Too cool for words.

Chris Dean - Web Developer

Say a big hello to Web Developer, model aeroplane enthusiast, Doris Day-nut and all round good egg Chris Dean. Hailing from Rustenberg in South Africa (yes, we’ve now got two of them so God help us when the next Rugby World Cup comes around), rumour has it that infant Chris was found in a Moses basket on the local Spraeky by F W De Clerk during a game of pooh-sticks. When he moved to the UK, Chris set himself two ambitions – get the autograph of every member of the cast of Coronation Street and join the greatest stag & hen company on the planet... He is now only a Gail Platt away from total success. Unassumingly brilliant.