Who we are

The marketing partner
built for MDs and owners like you

We kept seeing the same problem: business owners spending money on marketing with no strategy, no way to measure it, and nobody to ask. That’s the gap we set FairHall up to fill.

Our story

Not consultants.
Partners.

Most small businesses have a financial plan and an operations plan. Marketing, the thing that actually drives growth, gets treated as an afterthought: a bit of social media here, a flyer there, money spent on gut feel.

We built FairHall to fix that. Sometimes that means going in deep: audit, a plan for the year, then fixing the foundations. Sometimes it means being on hand every month while you do it yourself. Either way, the same starting point: work out what’s really going on before anyone spends another pound.

Between us we’ve spent most of our careers alongside small businesses, and it’s nearly always the same three things: no time, no plan, and no way of telling what’s working.

No inflated fees. No jargon. No strategy that sits in a drawer.

70%
of small business owners spend under five hours a week on their marketing, and most name it as one of their biggest worries.
Fiverr, survey of 6,000 small businesses, 2025

Not because they don’t care. Because there isn’t the time. That’s the gap we set FairHall up to fill.

The team

Two people. Decades of experience.

FairHall is run by James and Sarah, two marketing professionals who've spent their careers working alongside MDs and business owners. We've spent much of those careers alongside small business customers, so we know their challenges first-hand.

Sarah Lilleyman Hall
Sarah Lilleyman Hall
Co-Director

Sarah has 20+ years in marketing, project management and events, across the public, private and higher education sectors. She’s the one who takes a plan and makes it happen: managing the moving parts, keeping things on track, making sure nothing falls through the gaps.

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James Fairbank
James Fairbank
Co-Director

James is a marketer with a strategic mindset and a commercial edge, across both digital and traditional marketing. He takes the time to understand your business and your customers before building anything. No jargon, no off-the-shelf solutions.

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Client story

From a business like yours

They took the time to get to know our business and our industry properly before suggesting anything. We now know what was foundationally wrong, and what’s going to drive our growth from here. Our marketing strategy now has an easy-to-follow, actionable plan.

James Proctor, Managing Director of WJPS
James Proctor
Managing Director, WJPS
WJPS
What people say

Trusted by the people we've worked with

We've built our reputation over years of working alongside some great people. Here's what a few of them have to say about us.

A free 30 minutes to work out what’s right for you.

We’ll look at where you are, where you want to get to, and what’s standing in the way. Then we’ll tell you honestly what we’d do next.

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