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If you want to get good attendance get a room with a view. Here’s our pick of some of the best venues with views in London. For venues with views in London get in touch E enquiries@cl-events.com T 020 8432 4320
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Large conference venue – London County Hall Large conference venues in London do not have to mean big cavernous spaces, devoid of character and natural daylight. etc County Hall on the Southbank is testimony to that. January 2017 will see the opening of a new large conference venue – London County Hall. A new etc conference centre with large meeting rooms, which is housed in the former Greater London Council (GLC) offices. The offices were last in use in 1986, before Margaret Thatcher abolished the GLC. The six story building, made of Portland stone, dates back to 1922, when is was opened by George V. The multi million pound
Read more →America’s Got Talent Winner personifies… Talents show like Britain’s Got Talent make interesting viewing and often show acts that are on the rise and ones who have been on the entertainment circuit for a while. Some are brilliant, but a lot aren’t. In the brilliant category, right up at the top, comes Paul Zerdin. It is certainly no surprise he won this year’s America’s Got Talent, securing his own Las Vegas show and a very large cheque. Spot Rising Talent It was over 10 years when we first came across Paul, working with him on a large fundraiser for the
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Guide to Presenting at a Conference Category: Guides| Conferences | Are your speakers well versed in presenting? Regardless of their expertise, it may help to go through this checklist for making a conference presentation, if only for reassurance. Presenting Tips for Conference Organisers Conference audience Getting conference delegates attention and presenting in a reasoned way will help the audience focus and retain what is said. Brief speakers on who is attending and what delegates need to hear/learn. what they are expecting and how much they may know already. There are presentation companies who can assist with this, but if it is down to you
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Award Ceremony Planners Hints 12 Ways to Make Awards Ceremonies Better… or Just Different More on Award Ceremony Planners
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Checklist Award Ceremony Organisers At the frontline as award ceremony organisers you take more of an interest in how they are orchestrated then you did at school prize giving or watching the Oscars. The relevance of this checklist will depend on the scale, style and format of an awards ceremony and what is appropriate to include and work up. More on Award Ceremony Organisers
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Meeting Rooms at The Vox Conference Centre The NEC is expanding its portfolio by adding a new large Conference venue in Birmingham. Meeting rooms at The Vox Conference Centre will be one of the largest in the city and slap bang in the centre of the UK; with excellent motorway, rail and air access. Latin students will be familiar with “Vox Populi”, meaning “voice of the people”, where The Vox gets its name from. This large meeting space is part of much bigger complex, Resorts World Birmingham, which is another new entity in its own right. More on that later.
Read more →How to compare meeting venues Is there a meeting venue rating system? If you are looking for a one stop shop to compare meeting space using a meeting venue rating system you are going to be disappointed. There is no universally acknowledged system of rating meeting rooms. If it is a hotel meeting room, you can get an insight using the below suggestions. Even then it is an overview, rather than a focus on a venue’s aptitude for hosting a successful meeting. Attempts to try and bring hotel ratings together for international recognition have largely failed. Systems widely recognised in the UK
Read more →How to Increase Attendance at Corporate Events 20+ ways to get people to an event A half empty room is a fear of all corporate event organisers. These tips, including celebrity endorsements and reducing no shows, will alleviate the worry. Most of them can be applied to planning a meeting, as well as organising a social event. They provide a guide to put a strategy together. Prompting on aspects you might not have previously thought of, or have overlooked. Corporate Event Organising for Business Events
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London – The world’s top travel destination London has topped the 2015 MasterCard Global Destinations Cities Index, beating 131 other cities on the list. This is no ‘one off’; London was also world beater last year and has been the number one destination for five out of the last seven years. The Index reflects people’s movements around the globe and the prominence of London as a destination and area of growth. The UK Capital dominates as an international business hub. 2014 saw more international visits than ever before, with meetings and events increasing London’s business trips to a record level.
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