Wherever there is a British Embassy or High Commission there will be a hard working Residence nearby regularly hosting a full range of events including receptions, dinners, corporate promotions and not-for-profit, weddings, royal visits to name but a few! An international group of 15 Residence & Events Managers met in York to participate in a residential course focusing on the organisation of income generating corporate events. We invited Chris Powell, The Events Expert, to join us and deliver a full-day masterclass on the subject. I had never met or spoken… [Read More]
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Rees Leisure: On-going Event Safety Consultancy support
Rees Leisure Rees Leisure is an event management company who specialise in sports events. They get to do lots of interesting events such a running, cycling, sailing and swimming events. Within each of events there are a number of other categories of races or activities. Rees Leisure provides an end to end event management service. They operate in the public events space where life is complex, ‘live’ (there are no second chances) and where the need to provide high quality and importantly safe events is ever present. In the… [Read More]
Commonwealth War Graves Commission: Event training
The Event Expert: Bespoke Event Management Training Course Commonwealth War Graves Commission The Commonwealth War Graves Commission is responsible for the commemoration of almost 1,700,000 members of the commonwealth forces who gave their lives in the two world wars. The war graves and memorials are found around the world in some 150 countries. 2014 saw the beginning of five years of commemorative events marking 100 years since the start of the First World War. With such an important few years ahead of them the Commissions events team wanted to make… [Read More]
EMO Unlimited and This Unlimited – Event Safety workshop
The Event Expert: Bespoke Event and Health and Safety Management Workshop EMO Unlimited and This Unlimited EMO Unlimited and This Unlimited are experiential marketing and communication companies. They get to do a lot of interesting stuff: such as running events, fan zones, sampling activities, creating and building client stands and delivering a range of bespoke customer brand experiences – some pretty amazing things and in some great venues. While they had no concerns over their ability to do the job, they did feel they needed to make sure the team… [Read More]
OC Sport – Major events management: on-going consultancy
Event Management Coaching case study OC Sport is a sports marketing company specialising in delivering extreme sports events. One of their flagship events The Extreme Sailing Series brings together the world’s best sailors – Olympians, world champions, record holders and round the world sailors – racing against each other on identical 40-foot high-speed catamarans on a global circuit spanning 3 continents. Its popularity and appeal has grown year on year. It’s big news. The Cardiff Bay event now attracts over 100,000 people. With this sort of numbers attending a free… [Read More]
Events Training in the Education Sector
Event Training Companies, Colleges, Schools and Universities Since I started training events managers (accidental – not the day job, professional and students) some 17 years ago I have worked with a wide range of organisations to deliver event training programmes. The objective in all cases has been to give the next generation of event planners the skills and confidence to run all types of events. So how have I helped? I have created 24 week courses right down to 90 minute bite sized sessions. I have also written 30 minute event… [Read More]