Archive for January, 2009
Funding search launched for Ilkley Summer Festival
Five weekends of events are pencilled in for this year’s Ilkley Summer Festival, but bosses are searching for funding. Festival directors are pressing ahead with their plans for the sixth month-long festival this August, but have yet to secure the money they need. Since the first event in 2003, the annual festival has come to [...]
Confident predictions from Out There Events
The boss of Manchester’s Out There Events believes that the current economic down-turn will prove to be good news for the events industry. Marcia Incarico’s comments come as the company wins four new contracts to be delivered before the end of the year. “We are experiencing one of our busiest times in terms of pitching, [...]
Community events will weather financial storm
Community events will be more ‘recession-proof’ than other fundraising techniques, according to the chief executive of the Prostate Cancer Charity, John Neate. The charity, which has recently launched a four-year strategy, is celebrating unexpectedly high returns from its Movember event, where men are sponsored to grow moustaches to raise money and awareness of prostate cancer. [...]
Donington confident of green light
Organisers of the 2010 British Grand Prix at Donington are confident they will receive the necessary permission to upgrade the circuit at Thursday’s district council planning hearing. To gain planning permission the circuit’s £100 million development proposal must meet an environmental impact assessment that will focus on noise levels on race weekends and traffic flow [...]
‘Lapland event’ refunds tickets
People who paid £25 each to get into a cancelled Lapland-style attraction have been given their money back. Lapland West Midlands, near Essington, Staffordshire, was called off following safety concerns from Trading Standards officials. A few days previously, a similar event in the New Forest was shut down after criticisms from visitors. The organisers of [...]
Folk Festival ticket fiasco
FOLK Festival organisers are taking a ticket company to court after it failed to hand over £618,000 from internet sales. Cambridge City Council has launched a High Court bid to get hold of the cash from SecureTicket UK, which was contracted to sell tickets online for last year’s event headlined by kd Lang, Joan Armatrading [...]
£1m festival ‘fraudsters’
A gang selling fake entry wristbands for music festivals could have netted more than £1million, a court heard yesterday. The scam was uncovered by police at the 2007 Isle of Wight Festival, which was the worst-hit event that year. Around 5,000 counterfeit wristbands were produced for that event alone, Portsmouth crown court heard yesterday. Sherrell [...]
Cowley Road Carnival ‘at risk’
THE team behind Oxford’s Cowley Road Carnival has issued a “use or lose it” warning as the economic slowdown threatens to affect the county’s biggest free public event. New organisers are at the helm of this year’s carnival, but have admitted they may struggle to match last July’s show, which attracted a record 35,000 people. [...]
New plans to rescue jazz festival
Two businessmen are among those who have submitted proposals to save the Brecon Jazz Festival. Ben Jones, of the Celtic Spirit Group, and corporate events organiser John Ellson are the fourth party to express an interest. The company behind Brecon jazz ceased trading last month after suffering a “substantial loss”. A decision on who will [...]
Merlien launches website for the B2B conference industry
Merlien, a leading market research and conference production house for the B2B events industry launched its new company website. The website, www.merlien.com, is designed in response to a shift in demand for outsourced conference production services in the B2B conference industry. Jasper Lim, the Conference Production Director, commented “The new website provides essential information about [...]
Festivals bowing to fan pressure
The organisers of the Download and Wireless music festivals say they are giving fans more say in how the events are being run. Live Nation is to introduce a range of new measures at this year’s Download, set for Donington Park on 12-14 June, after feedback from online forums. They include cutting the distance between [...]
Bid to open prison doors for music event
Organisers of one of the stages at the Glastonbury Festival will be taking their blend of music and political campaigning to the heart of redneck Texas to stage an event in March. People behind the Left Field area of Glastonbury have been invited to become involved in the South By South West music event in [...]
Arabian Fashion World to take place in London, April 6th 2009
Arabian Fashion World showcasing Arabian fashion and culture will be launched on 6th April 2009 at InterContinental London Park Lane. The aims of this event are to promote Arabian fashion and accessories designers to the world and to the Western buying market. The organisers of the event, the company behind the Gulf Luxury Fair (which [...]
Musical Festival needs IT help
The popular Hastings Musical Festival is looking for someone with an interest in IT to help with this year’s event. Organisers are looking for someone with some basic IT know-how to help with the festival’s website and results database. The current IT advisor is retiring at the end of the 2009 event having spent the [...]
Olympics legacy ‘boost for Lincolnshire’
The legacy of the Olympics in Lincolnshire will stretch beyond the 2012 Games, project organisers claim. Cultural events that could help regenerate east coast towns and bring Olympic fever to the county are currently being planned. An initial cash boost of £150,000 from organisations, including the East Midlands Development Agency, could be made available to [...]
Beverley, East Yorkshire, folk festival to play on
TICKETS have already gone on sale for the 2009 Beverley and East Riding Folk Festival, which is going ahead despite fears that last year’s event – the 25th – could have been the last. Organisers had warned the future of the festival could be in jeopardy unless they could plug a funding gap. They were [...]
Edinburgh Festival Fringe is facing the axe after almost 30 years
THE biggest event of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is facing the axe after almost 30 years due to a major funding crisis. Organisers are considering pulling the plug on the hugely popular Fringe Sunday event because of soaring running costs, the lack of a headline sponsor and the effects of the cash crisis triggered by [...]
Villagers object to Tribfest festival
RESIDENTS are fighting plans to stage a major music festival in an East Riding village. Organisers want to hold the Tribfest event at Beverley Polo Club in Tickton. Complaints about noise has led to the concert being relocated from Driffield Showground, where it has been staged in previous years. But the move has sparked a [...]
Hard times hit Christ in the Centre procession
A religious procession is set to go ahead after organisers reluctantly accepted having to halve its £50,000 budget. Church officials had feared they would be forced to cancel Christ in the Centre, which attracts more than 10,000 people to Leicester each year, after a lack of donations so far. Now organisers have decided to accept [...]
Edinburghs New Year’s Day Triathlon event placed on ice
ORGANISERS of the traditional New Year’s Day Triathlon in Edinburgh are confident the event still has a future, even though this afternoon’s race may be the last for three years. The Holyrood Park event, which has attracted a record entry, starts with a swim in the Royal Commonwealth Pool, which is scheduled to close in [...]
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