Archive for November, 2007
Environmental Check List
November 15th, 2007
We are trying to encourage the conference organisers who use us to take more notice of the environmental impact of their events. One initiative we would like to introduce is to send out to all those event planners who use us an Environmental Check List. Â We have drawn up the attached document as a starting point, if anyone has any suggestions as to how this can or should be improved please email me on tom@mayfaircavendish.com.
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Finally an event I can understand
November 13th, 2007
Most of the events we host here are esoteric in the extreme; tomorrow for example we have the annual Quant event. Last night was different; an event run by the Royal Television Society www.rts.org.uk was all about the masses of new reality TV shows focusing on how to bring up children. The event developed into a right ding dong with two middle aged female child rearing experts castigating two much younger female TV producers accusing them really of exploiting children for their own gain. Goodness knows what the rights or wrongs are, all I know is that on the night the antis seemed to have the upper hand.
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Green Green Green
November 12th, 2007
We are building up for our Green Mark audit at the end of November. All major waste streams are now actively monitored, recycling systems are in place wherever possible. Energy consumption is falling quite dramatically. We would like to go one stet further; as such we need some other venues to benchmark ourselves against. If anyone knows of any conference venues taking active measures to lighten their environmental footprint please do let us know at tom@mayfaircavendish.com
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Delegates just keep getting lost
November 6th, 2007
Arrived this morning, not first thing thank goodness, to find a stream of delegates arriving for a conference, which was not and never had, been at any of our venues. We were hosting a few events; one to do with lifts the other Maritime Pollution etc. The delegates were adamant there was a Pensions Conference being hosted by the Institute of Chartered Accountants at our venue, we searched their website, nothing listed, called them, switchboard closed until 9.30am. Eventually one of the delegates got hold of another colleague who had been sent an update saying the event was being held at a completely different venue. We then packed them all of in taxis to the new place. The whole process took perhaps an hour. Such is the life of a venue manager, every day different, always the unexpected
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How to Carbon Offset
November 5th, 2007
We already offset the very limited amount of carbon that we cause to be created, that’s the easy part. Now we would like to go one step further and offer a programme whereby we can offset all the CO2 created as a result of delegates / exhibitors etc etc coming to us. Were struggling with the practicalities, on a particular day up to 250 delegates 10 exhibition stands, where do they all come from? / How do they get to us? If anyone has any suggestions as to how we can organise this, other venues that already do etc please do let me know tom@mayfaircavendish.com
On that note we really would like to be considered one of the Greenest Venues in London, not just for the sake of being Green but also because the quest to get there has thrown up wrote a lot of interesting insights into our own business, i.e. our electricity consumption had been increasing almost 9% faster than our turnover until we instigated a programme of monthly checks for waste (coffee machines being left on etc)
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Computers Computers
November 1st, 2007
We our on the cutting edge of technology, the white heat burns brightly here. Havening signed up for with mimecast recently as a secure spooler of our emails, plus a more sophisticated spam filtering system, I thought I should get some training as to how its other functionalities work. Two hours spent this morning; total additional knowledge zero, all I have is a big fat manual to prove he was here. Back to the quill!
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