Tag: Event Management
Dungannon Event Manager Scoops Award
An Events Manager from Dungannon has helped her public relations firm scoop a top award for organising a glittering event to honour unsung heroes from across Northern Ireland. Sarah Weir, originally from Moy, picked up the gold PRide award for Best Event at the Chartered Institute of Public Relations Awards on behalf of the company [...]
Smart Badges from Group Dynamics: a unique contactless attendance management system
Group Dynamics, Europe’s most innovative interactive voting system manufacturer, unveils a pioneering contactless interactive attendance management system. The correct identification of delegates is a vital part of any event. While many events still use simple cardboard badges showing only basic information on them, Smart Badges from Group Dynamics give Event Organisers a new dimension, allowing [...]
Event Management and the Cloud
This article looks at event management and the cloud and highlights two popular event software solutions that can be deployed via the cloud. Cloud computing is the delivery of shared resources, software and information over the Internet. It is a relatively new delivery model for IT services and provides users with a completely different way [...]
How Self Service Portals Can Add Value to Events
Improving your levels of efficiency and increasing the value of your events are two key drivers that help distinguish a successful events company from one that might be struggling in our current economic climate. Whether you’re a company specialising in events only, or whether your business happens to hold regular internal and external events, you [...]
Top tips for booking your Christmas entertainment
If you are amongst the thousands of Christmas party organisers who still have to book their entertainment, then you might want to check out these top ten tips!…… Tip 1 – Just because it’s Christmas, doesn’t mean you have to act like ‘Scrooge’. Don’t underestimate how much you should set aside for the entertainment, as [...]
Amber and Green Saves Historic Kiln
Leading live events, project management and design consultancy, Amber and Green, has purchased an historic building, saving it for future generations. The Kiln in in Tongham, nr Farnham in Surrey, had been in a considerable state of disrepair for many years, until Amber and Green invested a six-figure sum in sympathetically converting it into a [...]
Sellafield Ltd appoint Glasgows for 3 year events contract
Glasgows Event Management has secured a three year contract with Sellafield Ltd to deliver events for their project management staff across sites in Cumbria and Cheshire. Sellafield Ltd is the company responsible for safely delivering decommissioning, reprocessing, nuclear waste management and fuel manufacturing activities on behalf of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. The company operates from [...]
71 Degrees North for Mountain Leap
Specialist event management company Mountain Leap has seen a sudden surge in enquires for its corporate ski packages following the start of ITV’s adventure show ‘71 Degrees North’. An adrenaline-fuelled mix of mountain based experiences and terrifying situations, the eight-part series, now in its second season, is set in the snowy glaciers of Scandinavia. The [...]
New Service Helps Event Managers Supercharge Sponsors’ ROI
New London based start-up, BOOSTR, has launched to help managers of endurance events supercharge their sponsors’ ROI through an innovative, socially powered e-commerce platform. Large endurance events, such as the London Triathlon, often provide their sponsors with promotional space at “Expos” on the day of their events. This provides sponsors with an opportunity to showcase [...]
LarMac LIVE Event Manages Rockness & LED Festivals
UK production company LarMac LIVE (LML) continued an exceptionally busy summer providing full technical production and event management services for two major festivals the same weekend – Rockness in Inverness, on the shores of Scotland’s most famous Loch, and the new LED Festival at Victoria Park, London. Simultaneously, the design division of LarMac LIVE created [...]
Event Management students raise over £1800 for Barnardo’s, the children’s charity
Two teams of Event Management students raised over £1800 for the children’s charity Barnardo’s by organising two end of semester events at London Metropolitan University. Not only did the events raise a record amount of money but also attracted some of the largest crowds of the year to the Rocket complex. The students were taking [...]
Crephoria Events UK Opens New Office in India
The Business Standard measures the current size of the event management industry in India at about USD 18 Billion and growing over 30% per annum. This industry caters to events in four broad categories: Leisure, cultural, personal and organisational. At present, the industry is at a nascent stage and extremely disorganised, comprising mainly home-makers and [...]
SK Events Go GAGA Over Food & Drink At BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend
/caption]Event management and publicity consultancy SK Events have won an impressive contract to promote Cumbrian food and drink to the world’s biggest musicians including Lady Gaga and The Black Eyed Peas at Radio One’s Big Weekend. SK Events, who are organisers of the annual Taste Cumbria Food Festival, will be serving up the very best [...]
360° Appoints Business Development Manager
360 Creative Event Services has appointed Lucy Wells as Business Development Manager. Wells joins 360 with extensive experience in events and new business and a track record that includes experiential agency RPM, new business consultancy RSW and trade show organiser UBM. Wells will be responsible for the development of customised “packages” of key event services [...]
Showsec Strengthen Management Team
Showsec’s continuing growth within the live event sector has been aided by the recently announced next phase of their operational restructure. The award winning event and venue security specialists’ ongoing expansion, across England, Scotland and Wales, has meant that the internal structure has progressed from two to three regions. Breaking these down to Northern, Midlands [...]
SK Events welcomes news clients and three new members of staff.
Event management and publicity consultancy SK Events has marked the first quarter of 2011 by securing a number of high calibre clients and welcoming three new members of staff. Headed by Director Denise Harris, the Liverpool-based agency has expanded its portfolio considerably in recent months to include the first ever Taste Cumbria Food Tourism Summit [...]
Pennine Events begin preparations for a ride set to take them over 220 miles.
Pennine Events are now involved with the organisation of a new fundraising challenge, with the hope of creating the northern equivalent of the famous London to Paris bike ride, and raising funds for Barnardo’s along the way Harrogate to Holyrood sets off on June 15th and riders will cover 220miles over 4 days – certainly [...]
Event Management Students Travel To Las Vegas To Learn About International Event Management
A GROUP of students from Queen Margaret University have travelled to Las Vegas to learn about international events and help lead a discussion of what “generation X” expect from the global events industry. The four event management students are taking part in the Professional Convention Management Association conference until Wednesday. The visit was instigated by [...]
Understanding Event Risk Management
Dr Rob Harris, an innovative leader in international events education, co-author of ‘Event Management’, one of the most widely used texts dealing with the area in the UK, will be visiting London in January to lead a short course on event management at the University of Westminster. Ahead of the festive party season, with many [...]
New MD For Team Spirit Event Managment
Team Spirit are extremely excited to announce the promotion of Laura Derbyshire to the role of Managing Director. Laura, 31, a media graduate of StirlingUniversity and previously Events & Revenue Director at Team Spirit, has been with the business working across all departments since 1998. Previous MD and founder Ian Taylor takes the role of [...]
New event consultancy launches – eVent Advisors
Former Cavendish Hospitality Managing Director, Simon Gillespie, has recently launched ‘eVent Advisors’ a specialist independent consultancy providing event management , consultancy and marketing services to the events industry. Simon has over 20 years experience in the events sector with extensive experience of strategic planning and front line event management . The company also provides access [...]
Loughton Festival launch appeal urging local residents to help next years event
THE organisers of the annual Loughton Festival have launched an appeal urging residents and community groups to sign up and help at next year’s event. Although the six-week spectacle of music, arts and other activities will not be held until April, plans are already well underway for what is hoped will be the biggest festival [...]
Crick Boat Show Gets New Event Organiser
The Crick Boat Show 2011 will once again take place on the May bank holiday weekend (28-30 May). Returning to Crick Marina on the Grand Union Canal in Northamptonshire, next year’s event will be managed by publisher and event organiser Waterways World. Simon Salem, marketing director at British Waterways, comments: “The Crick Boat Show is [...]
Where the sporting and business elite meet
Keith Prowse, the UK’s hospitality leader, has announced the availability of a number of exclusive places for the Players’ Lounge during the upcoming Investec Internationals at Twickenham Stadium. Fresh from taking on the world’s best on the field, a group of leading England rugby players will interact in a series of unique Questions and Answer [...]
Andrew Cowlishaw gives us a view on smartphone apps and their future impact on the Live Events Industry
With the rapid growth of smartphones, mobile is playing an increasingly important role in any marketing and communication campaign. Nowadays over a quarter of the UK population are using a mobile device to access data they would previously view on a computer, this figure is expected to rise to nearly 50% by 2015. The rapid [...]
Home Office preparing to scrap The Security Industry Authority (SIA)
The Home Office is preparing to scrap the body which regulates bouncers and other security workers across the UK. The Security Industry Authority has been placed under the axe as part of a wider plan to cut the number and cost of public bodies. Abolishing the SIA will not save taxpayers money because it is [...]
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