Friday, August 20, 2010
Event managers and company directors are risking prosecution and heavy fines because they do not allow for their many liabilities when organising an event warns Alison McDougall, managing director of Relevant Risk.Filed Under: Technology 3 Comments
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
THE flooding of Cockermouth has failed to swamp organisers of the town’s annual real ale festival. Determined members of the Cockermouth Round Table say the seventh Beer Festival will go on. The event will be held at the Kirkgate which escaped the ravages of last week’s devastation. All money raised will go to helping those [...]
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Former event rider Tissie Reason has taken over as director of Chatsworth International Horse Trials. Ms Reason has competed up to advanced level and has been an event organiser and entries secretary for more than 30 years. She takes over the reins from Mike and Sue Etherington-Smith with immediate effect, saying she is “looking forward [...]
Friday, July 3, 2009
THE Royal Agricultural Society of England (RASE) is consulting livestock breed societies to assess support for a event to succeed the Royal Show. The concept is for a livestock event at Stoneleigh which is run by the industry, for the industry, facilitated by the RASE. In a letter to societies, RASE chief executive Brian Warren [...]
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
ORGANISERS of one of the county’s most well-known country shows have announced it will go ahead this year after they managed to raise £50,000 to stage the event. The Alresford Show was almost scrapped after last year’s event was abandoned due to torrential rain making Tichbourne Park dangerously impassable hours before it opened. Bosses were [...]
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Managing director puts positive spin on ticket sales for the meeting next March being 18 per cent down on the corresponding time a year ago In these financially challenged times, getting people through the gate is an initiative test for every racecourse. Sandown last Saturday solved it with sleigh rides from the station and an [...]
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Public health inspectors were called in after the cyclists fell ill with food poisoning after an event in the Welsh countryside. The cyclists tested positive for the bacterium campylobacter – usually caused by uncooked meat and poultry. But following an investigation by health experts, the muddy mountain cycle course was found to be heavily contaminated [...]
