On Tuesday, the events industry came together up and down the UK to highlight the extent of the difficulties our industry finds itself in. Thousands of people came together (in a socially…
Summer 2020
It’s the middle of July. Things are not as they should be. I’ve lost track of the number of places I should have been that I haven’t been. Late nights are now…
The elephant in the room
I shouldn’t have time to write this. May bank holiday weekend is fast approaching; the weekend I consider the outdoor summer season really gets underway. The idea of spending a bank holiday…
Case Study: The Epsom Derby
With the sun shining, and just over two weeks to go until the 2019 Investec Derby Festival, what better time to reflect on the time we’ve spent working with the team at…
Learning Lessons: Fyre Festival
Like everyone else, we’ve been transfixed this week by the Netflix documentary on Fyre Festival. We watched the furore around the festival unfold as it lit up social media back in 2017…
The next generation
A couple of weeks ago, we had the pleasure of being asked to talk to first year students at Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies in Nottingham (part of Nottingham Trent University). The…
Roaming Entertainment
We’re lucky enough to work with some incredible entertainment at our events; from the musical to the visual and everything in between, we know they can make such a massive difference to customer…
Force Majeure
We’ve all come across Force Majeure clauses in contracts and probably not really given them a second thought. Earlier this year the ‘beast from the east’ gave many people a bit of…
Case study: Grand National Festival (Aintree Racecourse)
“Accept have the skill of buying in to your vision and then making it happen; they are very much an extension of the team” – John Baker, Regional Director North West, The…
“Experience”
Anyone involved with live events has heard the word ‘experience’ more times than they can count over the past few years. As people have become more circumspect around how they spend their…
