I probably see myself as more of a facilitator than a Cupid.

It’s just about bringing people together in the same room.

Clients: We attract a late-twenties to late-thirties crowd.

We do straight and gay events, and there’s been a huge demand for an over-forties one so I’m just finalising the details on that event as well.

If your date’s spending more time looking at their phone than your face, that’s probably not a great sign.

But then they also may have just found a really great Insta-puppy... If you find you’re not interested, get the bartender on your side and work out an infallible escape plan.

We throw in different conversation challenges at our event so you usually can’t ask people what they do for work or where they live or where they grew up – it’s designed so we don’t sit down and put someone in a box. You don’t really get to talk to each other and you’re not even facing each other, it’s just kind of weird.Unless the person is very immediately and clearly a jerk. Wait for a person who is your 100-per-cent-perfect person, and you’ll not only be embarking on a thankless search, but you’ll be robbing yourself of genuine connections with interesting, surprising, occasionally crazy but amazing people.And that’s not settling, it’s just accepting relationships take work and sometimes you’ll want to strangle the person.Before a dating night, I often get asked how it works, what they should wear and, usually with an undertone of urgency, if there’ll be alcohol.My answers are: you’ll find out, wear anything so long as it’s not a suit, and who do you think we are?