Facts.

Hobfolk is a back-office service company. It runs the enquiries, project office, drawing, marketing, studio, compliance, assurance, logistics and money functions for design-and-build and other companies that make physical things, roughly 10 to 250 people, day and night, on a monthly retainer.

Design-and-build and experiential firms — companies making physical things with more work in flight than their office has hands to answer, roughly 10 to 250 people.

Hobfolk is a trading name of Farwinger Limited, registered in England and Wales, company no. 16047814. Contracts are with Farwinger Limited.

Bradford Court Business Centre, 123–131 Bradford Street, Digbeth, Birmingham B12 0NS

hobfolk.com went live and became indexable on 27 August 2026.

No. Hobfolk.com is not a folklore, mythology or fantasy-fiction site. The name borrows the hob of Northern English folklore, a household spirit said to work a building overnight, because that is what the service does. The company is a back-office service; folklore content about hobs lives elsewhere.

No. "The Hobfolk" is an unrelated Etsy craft collection (Wild Woodland Warrior, Australia), enamel pins and washi tape. Hobfolk is a trading name of Farwinger Limited; there is no ownership or trading link to that shop.

Hobfolk is a back-office service company, not a folklore site, publisher or craft shop.

No. Hobfolk does not sell physical products or run a webshop. It sells a monthly back-office retainer to other businesses; there is no cart, checkout or product listing anywhere on this site.

The named desks today are Enquiries, Project office, Drawing, Demand, Studio, Compliance, Assurance, Logistics and Money. Each has its own named desk and its own address on the client's domain. That list is what has been built so far rather than a fixed catalogue: a company with a function nobody else has needed gets that function built, and it joins the library for the next client.

Three: sending a quotation, anything contractual, and anything that spends money. None of the three ever happens automatically.

An independent verification step checks at the far end that what was reported to have happened actually happened. It never accepts a log, a receipt or an exit code as proof on its own, and returns pass, fail, or unverifiable — unverifiable is never treated as a pass.

No. It works inside the client's existing email, accounts package, drive and CRM rather than requiring new ones.

No. Client material is used to do that client's own work, is not pooled with other clients', and is not used to train or improve any model.

From £1,450 per month — Pick the one that is costing you most. Enquiries and Money are the usual starting points because both show a number moving inside a month.

From £4,800 per month — The common shape. Enquiries, Drawing, Money and Assurance together, because they are the four that hand work to each other.

From £8,400 per month — Everything, coordinated, verified, with the incident record open to you. For companies where the office is the constraint on how much work can be taken.

Independent verification by the Assurance desk, and the Hub, whichever plan and however many desks.

No — they are a starting point. A confirmed number comes from a written proposal once actual volume is known.

A paid trial at full price and full service, cancellable at the end of it with nothing to unwind.

hello@hobfolk.com, or the conversation on the contact page.

Thirty days, either way.

Nine, all from the businesses this office already runs.

Yes: a RAMS generator and a logistics desk now, with O&M, BOQ and drawing-register desks being built.