HULLABALOO Studios, which provides the sound effects for children's characters including Bob the Builder, Postman Pat and Roary the Racing Car, has moved to new £300,000 headquarters in south Manchester.

The company, established in 1996 by Darren Cox and Simon Hall, has switched from Chorlton-cum-Hardy in Manchester to a larger base on Altrincham Business Park.

It has enabled award-winning Hullabaloo to add facilities to carry out picture editing and the firmhas recruited Danny Brown and Claire Richardson for the new service.

It now has nine employees.

The move was made possible after Hullabaloo secured funding from Lombard, the asset finance arm of the Royal Bank of Scotland.

Lombard's Jackie Grundy said: "Hullabaloo Studios is a real success story and has achieved a great deal in a competitive market.

"The new base will allow the company to continue with its ambitious plans for growth."

Mr Cox said: "The new production facilities are a great step forward for us and ensure that we have the capability to handle increased volumes of work from both the sound and picture editing markets.

"We were struggling for space at our old base and for the business to keep growing it was essential to find a new site." Tweet