Monday, February 15, 2010
The HSE has announced it is to revise its guidance for the events industry to reflect legislative changes and improvements in industry practices.Filed Under: Event Health & Saftey 2 Comments
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
EVENT ORGANISERS have pulled the plug on the Tour of Mull rally, one of the biggest money-spinning events in the Hebrides.
The car rally has given the island a huge economic boost – believed to be worth several million pounds in recent years – every October for the past four decades.
The [...]
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Facebook appears to be testing a way of selling tickets for Facebook events. A page suggesting a partnership between events site Eventbrite and Facebook was briefly spotted but has now disappeared. Could Facebook start selling tickets to gigs and other events soon?
Facebook is selling tickets for its forthcoming F8 developer conference using Eventbrite but it [...]
Monday, March 8, 2010
Event management company WorldEvents has changed its senior management line up after opening offices in Germany, Switzerland and Hong Kong.
Graham Keene moves from executive chairman to group chairman and Martin Parry steps up from UK managing director to group chief executive officer.
Mr Keene maintains responsibility for the overall group vision and specifically for the group’s [...]
Monday, March 8, 2010
A new ‘toolkit’ aimed at anyone organising events in the UK has been created by a group of leading event industry experts, including UK Sport, Event Scotland, the London Development Agency, the North West Development Agency.
The eventIMPACTS toolkit is a website which tells how to measure the impact of an event [...]
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
The Northern Ireland International Airshow will go ahead this year.
Councillors in Coleraine last night voted at a special meeting to go ahead with the show which had been under threat because of funding difficulties.
The event has been saved following a funding intervention from the Coleraine Borough [...]
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
The Main Event 2010, Scotland’s only event dedicated to corporate events, hospitality and entertainment, is back to showcase the finest of Scotland’s events suppliers at the SECC Glasgow on Thursday 11 March from 9:30am – 5:30pm.
Last year The Main Event attracted over 1,000 visitors when it opened its doors with the aim to [...]
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
The Association of Independent Festivals has launched a new initiative, AIF Twin Festivals: A Cultural Exchange, which partners the UK’s leading independent festivals with their counterparts abroad.
Based on the twin towns concept, festivals will be paired with likeminded and similarly structured festivals from countries from [...]
Friday, February 26, 2010
The UK’s Liverpool Convention Bureau has rebranded and launched a new marketing strategy.
“Liverpool has undergone so much change in the last few years, we needed to develop our services and branding to match,” said Carol O’Reilly, Liverpool Convention Bureau manager.
“We are in a fantastic position to open up the city and its [...]
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Worthy Farm in Somerset, home to the annual music festival Glastonbury, is set to house 1,500 square meters of solar panels for this year’s event, in what would be the UK’s largest private solar electricity system.
Festival organiser Michael Eavis hopes to place 1,100 solar panels on cow sheds during Glastonbury 2010. [...]
Monday, February 15, 2010
The HSE has announced it is to revise its guidance for the events industry to reflect legislative changes and improvements in industry practices.
The Executive intends to collaborate with the industry itself and other key stakeholders to produce new material for The Event Safety Guide (HSG195), to give greater emphasis to risk assessment [...]
Friday, February 12, 2010
SHEFFIELD’S conference and events offer will be showcased to thousands of delegates at Europe’s leading industry show.
Sheffield International Venues (SIV) Conferencing and Events has once again teamed up with Yorkshire South Tourism to profile the city’s diverse portfolio of facilities at the Confex 2010 exhibition.
City Hall Sheffield, Ponds Forge [...]
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
The Bloomsbury Big Top is a multi-purpose events space, based at Coram’s Fields in the heart of Central London. The arena is perfect for any event, from conferences and award dinners to boxing matches, fashion shows, concerts and Christmas parties and is a truly unforgettable venue for Weddings and Barmitzvahs.
The Big Top can accommodate 600 [...]
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Download is to follow other festivals such as Reading and Leeds in banning flags from their main arena after an “overwhelming number of complaints”.
Announcing the decision to impose the ban, the festival’s director John Probyn said: “I hope you all understand that this is to ensure that everyone can enjoy what’s onstage.”
Last August Reading and [...]
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Leading events organiser and former private secretary to the First Minister, Joan Serafini, will be the guest speaker at a lecture on 5th February to HNC Events students as they plan major events at Stevenson College Edinburgh to celebrate their 40th anniversary.
An audience of 60 students from the Events and Administration courses [...]
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Sustainable Event Management: A Practical Guide by Newcastle’s Meegan Jones has been launched offering event organisers information on how events can be managed with a lighter carbon footprint and impact on the environment.
Jones, who’s returned to Australia after working for the past three years in the UK as Sustainability Manager for [...]
Monday, February 1, 2010
Beach Break Live organisers have announced a new venue for 2010 after licensing issues forced the event from its original Cornwall home.
The festival will now take place at Pembrey Country Park in Carmarthenshire in South Wales.
The new site, which is next to the award winning dunes of Cefn Sidan Sands beach, [...]
Friday, January 29, 2010
Firefly have announced that they are to be the exclusive technical production partner for the Brighton Festival Fringe in 2010. Firefly will be with the festival to ensure internal productions are delivered sustainably.
Brighton Festival Fringe is one of the largest and fastest-growing open access arts festival in the world and [...]
Thursday, January 28, 2010
The BBC’s governing body was under fire tonight for lavishing thousands of pounds on hospitality and expenses.
Despite the painful economic climate, BBC Trust officials spent £11,000 on lunches with MPs and hosting boxes at the Proms over a six-month period.
This came even though a number of them also received Proms hospitality [...]
