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: Technology 3 Comments
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 [...]
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
The city of Liverpool and host venue BT Convention Centre, part of ACC Liverpool, last week hosted the prestigious Association of British Professional Conference Organisers Annual Conference, 21-23 January 2010.
Titled ‘Change Matters’, the three-day conference which drew over 50 high-profile conference and event organisers looked at how professional organisers [...]
Thursday, January 7, 2010
A year round governmental campaign, ‘Keep Britain Talking’, aims to raise the profile of the UK meetings and events industry to encourage business in the UK to keep communicating through such means. As part of this initiative, Rose McDonald from Wyboston Lakes conference and training centres recently spoke at Thames Valley University to help promote [...]
Monday, January 4, 2010
DR M aka Adrian Silas of Masquerade UK joined twitter towards the end of 2009 and he admits he was a little sceptical about it all.
Adrian explains to Event Industry News how it has helped him engage the events industry on a larger scale than he could imagine and the impact its had on him [...]
Friday, November 27, 2009
Edinburgh Napier University Business School’s Institute for Festival and Event Management (IFEM) will be welcoming back to the capital the Edinburgh Festival Fringe’s renowned Director to present the university’s highly successful Executive Certificate in Event Management. For those in the know Paul Gudgin is the events industry having worked with The Edinburgh Fringe – [...]
Friday, November 20, 2009
Once a model of independence, sale of Big Chill to Festival Republic may presage further consolidation in market
At the UK Festivals awards at the O2 Arena in London tonight, the great and good of the festival world will gather to celebrate the successes of 2009 and to mourn its losses.
One story that is guaranteed to [...]
Monday, November 16, 2009
Commonwealth Games organisers have confirmed that the cost of staging the 2014 event in Glasgow has risen by £81 million to £454 million.
The Scottish Government, Glasgow City Council and the Games Organising Committee have been forced to plug a funding gap caused by an increase in broadcasting and staffing costs.
Initial costs were put at £373 [...]
Friday, November 13, 2009
A course exploring eco-friendly and sustainable event management has been developed by Event Cornwall and University College Falmouth.
The equivalent to MA-level pilot module in Sustainable Event Management examines the impacts of live music and events on the environment, ethical processes and carbon footprints of large projects.
It also looks beyond the environmental impact by exploring market [...]
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Leading events organiser and former private secretary to the First Minister, Joan Serafini, will be the guest speaker at a lecture this month to the first group of 40 Stevenson College students to study the HNC Events course.
An audience of 60 students from the Events and Administration courses will be given an insight into Ms [...]
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
SHE may not have been running but Jean Summerhayes finished the Cardiff Half Marathon in style yesterday.
The 64-year-old event organiser will retire in July after working for Barnardo’s Cymru for more than 30 years.
She will be taking a back seat at next year’s event as she hands the phenomenal task of organising the event to [...]
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
One of the busiest years on record for business tourism in Sheffield has boosted the city’s economy by more than £12m.
New research carried out by Sheffield International Venues (SIV) shows the economic benefit of events hosted across its portfolio of 14 facilities in the city in the last financial year equates to £12.7m.
The figures are [...]
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Those involved in the events industry will soon be the star players on their own stage – instead of being involved in planning someone else’s big day.
‘In Any Event’ is being held at the Europa Hotel, Belfast, on October 6 and will be a showcase, demonstrating that NI now has the services, venues and expertise [...]
Friday, September 11, 2009
Square Meal will bring a social networking element to its award-winning exhibition by hosting an event industry ‘Tweetup’ (a drinks reception exclusive to Twitter users) at its fifth annual ‘Square Meal’s Venues & Events’ show.
The networking event, hosted by Venues & Events editor Annica Wainwright and her team, will be held as part of the [...]
Friday, September 11, 2009
A leading IT consulting company, has today announced that stress-free events are now only a click away thanks to its partnership with on-demand event management provider, EventElephant. Kainos‘s Web delivery team provided the technical and project management skills to oversee and build the EventElephant site which went live in January this year.
Since then the site [...]
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
A NEW online resource developed by Edinburgh Napier University will allow festival organisers to analyse the impact their events have on local communities.
The tool is designed to help festival operators ensure they cater for the needs of local people when they are planning events.
It is also expected that the resource will be useful to local [...]
Monday, June 22, 2009
Michael Eavis, the Glastonbury founder, will stand down as the music festival’s organiser in 2011 to make way for a “new generation”
The 73-year-old Somerset farmer, who launched the festival 39 years ago, said he plans to hand over the reins to his daughter Emily and her fiance.
Previously, he said he would keep going until his [...]
Monday, June 1, 2009
TAKING a break from organising East Anglia’s biggest music festival, the man behind Latitude visited north Suffolk last week to open a new play area.
Melvin Benn
Melvin Benn, managing director of Festival Republic, opened the new outdoor activity area at Brambles nursery in Reydon, near Southwold, which has been part-funded by the Latitude festival.
The play area, [...]
