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To coincide with this year’s Drowning Prevention Week Buckinghamshire venue, Stoke Mandeville Stadium, is offering a free children’s taster session in lifeguarding and rescue techniques and incorporating elements of the water safety code into the whole of its Swim School.

The UK is a nation of chocolate lovers, eating an estimated 660,900 tonnes of chocolate a year. While milk chocolate isn’t good in large quantities increasing evidence suggests that dark chocolate has a range of health benefits. Aside from releasing endorphins which give people that feel good factor chocolate can also help fight fatigue and is good for the brain helping to boost concentration and alertness. Armed with this knowledge THORPE PARK has teamed up with Hartleys Events to produce a brand new chocolate based teambuilding activity: the ‘Chocolate Coaster Challenge’.

Capita travel and events has released new data showing the key trends in internal meeting space usage. The information follows analysis of more than 1 million customer internal meeting room bookings.

An industry first, Westminster venue, RSA House has teamed up with C&IT to broadcast live the versatility of hybrid events, from RSA House on Thursday 6th June directly into C&IT TV.

Central London event venue, ICETANK, are pleased to announce the appointment of Seasoned Events as a new preferred caterer. Seasoned Events has over 30 years experience in the events industry and can create a tailor-made menu for any event.

One of London’s most stylish and unique event venues has marked an important milestone. LSO St Luke’s is celebrating 10 years since its transformation from a former church to a thriving events venue.

Alexandra Palace has joined the growing list of venues to formally adopt the eGuide, a common regulative policy for major UK exhibition venues created by the Association of Event Venues (AEV).

A survey conducted by Church House Conference Centre, a Westminster conference and event venue, has revealed that when looking for AV services 42.3% of event organisers said they would prefer to use an in-house AV team in comparison to just 15.3% preferring to source an external company. The remaining 42.3% revealed that their decision would be driven by price.

The first Principals Agent Hosted Dinner from the meetings industry association (mia), took place at the Emirates Stadium’s Diamond Club. Leading venue finding agents were brought together with venue general managers and principals for open discussion and networking during a Raymond Blanc created dinner.

Kew the Movies 2013

May 22, 2013

Popcorn, picnics and Pimms will be on the menu at Kew Gardens open air cinema. The Richmond venue will be showing classic films in outstanding surroundings, in partnership with Luna Cinema, the UK's most exciting pop up cinema.