Conference Venues
Archive for October, 2007
What's happening at our Central London Conference Venues
Mayfair Cavendish & ICO Conference Centres: Possibly London’s greenest, most socially responsible venues.
A recent article in Conference News (Oct 07) lauds one of our competitors green credentials. These are all initiatives we introduced some years ago i.e. amongst other things: Catering Supplies We use locally sourced mineral water, in fully recycled bottles Every endeavour is made to source food locally, certainly all-catering supplies purchased under fair trade principals as per our understanding of the FINE definition. We are about to introduce a ...
Read moreThe Client is Always Right
The eternal dilemma, when to say no. Someone here recently greeted a speaker, only to be meet with a stream of complaints, all of them on issues wholly outside her control. What on earth do we think we are doing laying up the room boardroom when for his particular use ‘island’ was the only way. This despite the fact his office had requested a boardroom layout etc etc. He then ...
Read moreTrials and Tribulations
The battle is on; the end is not yet in sight. We are now running at just short of full capacity. Today is a case in point, breakfast meeting followed by a full day discussing fraud in the public sector and finishing with an evening event for an advertising company. Sometimes working in this industry it feels that you are something akin to a marathon runner with three big events ...
Read moreEven Greener
The tidal wave of ‘Green’ events continues, on Monday it’s 200 odd government officials talking about ‘The Countdown to Zero Carbon’. Were doing our best to keep abreast of things, today we signed up with a firm who will compost all our kitchen waste. This is a logistical nightmare; hopefully the end justifies the means.  On a related note we are still trying to think of a way where ...
Read moreGOING GREEN
After many years of lonely battle it seems that finally our credentials as London’s greenest conference venue have finally been recognised. We are inundated with green conferences, and happy to be so. For the next two days we have Green Power Conferences and 150 of their delegates talking about the Carbon Markets. In addition to this yesterday we had a government sponsored event entitled the Low Carbon Vehicle and tomorrow ...
Read moreCloudy Skies
The GOOD news is that we are getting lots of enquiries from lots of publishing companies. The BAD news is their foot warriors, the ever-growing legions of salesmen who attempt to bamboozle our miniscule advertising budget away from us. They all sound convincing, they all have products which A) sound very similar B) sound fantastic. Which to go for we never know. The end result is that we either just ...
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