Senior figures from the UK event industry will attend campaign group Britain for Events‘ annual celebration of the industry at The Mermaid conference and events centre, in the heart of the City of London, 19 October.
For the second year, Middle Temple will partner with The Nomad Cinema to host outdoor pop-up cinema experiences, following an inaugural event last summer (August 2014). Hosted within Middle Temple’s beautiful secluded gardens, screenings will run over three nights in September featuring two of Baz Luhrmann’s colourful masterpieces: Moulin Rouge! and The Great Gatsby as well as Bernstein’s musical classic West Side Story. Follow @middletemple1 and #MiddleNomad for news and updates on Twitter.
Sodexo Prestige has launched a vintage summer pop up café at Churchill War Rooms for the month of August. The pop up café will be taking over the Harmsworth Room, ordinarily an event space for corporate and private hire, and will run each week from 12pm – 4pm, Wednesday - Sunday. Featuring period decorations and furnishings, and a range of vintage tea sets, the café includes a selection of food and drink options alongside a retro sweet shop and ice cream stand.
HMS Belfast’s open-air terraced bar, the Upper Deck, played host to 30 Yelpers, members of the Yelp London digital blogging community, this past weekend. The group were greeted with rays of sunshine, the choice of a complimentary glass of champagne or Bloody Mary cocktail, and invited to take in the views from the alfresco roof- top bar.
Education is an important focus for The Venue Expo 2015 and this year’s event will have a vast array of professionals from different disciplines providing invaluable tailored education opportunities which are CPD accredited. “This year we have put in significant effort to provide attendees with a good mix of talks which will provide valuable insights into the industry and skills they can take away and adopt in their own careers and businesses. A wealth of knowledge is available in our industry and at The Venue Expo 2015 we have various locations set up where this can be shared” – Costa Fillis, Marketing Executive UKFE
Your Annual Company Christmas Party is the perfect opportunity to thank your employees for their hard-work throughout the year and to strengthen the relationship with your key business partners and clients for the year to come.
Hospitality experts are advising businesses to have the foresight to book their Christmas Party this summer, before the inevitable autumn rush. Sodexo Prestige Venue & Events, who run the festive hospitality programme at multipleexclusive venues across Scotland, including The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE), Hampden Park and Hamilton Park Racecourse, are offering a variety of Christmas packages this year.
Beaumont Estate, part of the PH Hotels Collection, in Old Windsor has been awarded Wedding Venue of the Year 2015 (Berkshire region) by leading international wedding publication Weddings & Services.
Birmingham and partners from across the city’s business tourism sector will be showcasing its boosted meetings offer to events professionals on the 7th - 9th of July 2015 at the industry’s flagship exhibition, The Meetings Show at London’s Olympia. The City's growing accommodation sector welcomes nine new establishments totaling 1,700 rooms to Birmingham’s booming hospitality sector in the next 2 years including the 4* Park Regis, Resorts World Birmingham’s boutique hotel boasting 4* and 5* rooms, suites and spa, and the launch of the landmark Grand Hotel, currently undergoing a multi-million pound refurbishment. Mid-week stays saw a marked increase of 3.7% year on year in the final quarter of 2014, as a result of the city’s busy events and conferencing schedule.
The Venues team will be exhibiting at The Meetings Show 7-9 July , Olympia , London . It will be the second year that we have taken a stand at the show, which is the must attend event for those involved in the UK’s meeting industry. Our stand number is E40, which is in the UK Hotels and Venues section of Olympia 2. The team will be demonstrating how the Venues site can help to generate event bookings and get your venue noticed with meeting and event organisers.
