Archive for April, 2010
Has the world completely given up on the general election, the conference perspective.
April 29th, 2010
Over the years it’s been an unwritten rule that no sane conference organiser would choose to run an event during the two or three week build up to a general election. The logic, the world or at least the UK cared who was elected, they put making an informed decision first. If they cared then they don’t now, we are fully booked next week.
The army of political and media analysts here have produced a mass of reports analysing this. The conclusion is inconclusive. 24hour news means that the possibilities to stay informed and misinformed have mushroomed. Perhaps the conference attendees do consider themselves informed but just don’t care. Maybe they think all politicians or at least all the ones of the moment are either to similar they don’t trust / believe them so they feel disfranchised, if you have no influence why bother!
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generate your own
April 23rd, 2010
We are running out of ideas as how to further reduce our environmental footprint. One idea being actively investigated by our green group is the possibility of installing some excise bikes at our Hallam Conference Centre, the aim being to link them up to a small generator and help power the place, who knows maybe we could even sell some of the stuff back to the grid. I am not sure how many delegates would use it even we have installed delegate showers etc. Our better bet might be the staff, our most flatulent of chefs recently completed a marathon, virtually a one man power source.
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Act of God – the sequel
April 22nd, 2010
Reason has returned to the world, the airlines are flying again. Though why the airlines think they are entitled to some sort of compensation for this divine intervention is unclear to me. They have obviously fallen foul of the divinity thanks to their appalling desecration of the Garden of Eden. Yet us mere mortals who are hit by the falling angels suffer the financial loss of a wave of cancellations and demand no so human given support. Call that justice!
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Act of God?
April 20th, 2010
One of our clients has declared that the supreme body has intervened in the form of the ash volcanoes of Iceland. For reasons which aren’t really clear to me this means that the client believes they have the right to void the contract they have with us. This places us in a dilemma i.e.:
- Should we seek to verify if the attendees of this conference really can’t attend the conference, in much the same way as an insurance company would seek verification?
- What level of verification should we seek, we simply aren’t geared up for this
- Why should we bear the cost of this cancellation?
- From now on should we charge organisers of events for international events more, commiserate to the increased risk
- Should we try to segment clients according to the likelihood of god intervening in a detrimental way to them and hence to us.
The whole thing is a recipe for madness, we would rather leave god out of it and stick with the untranslatable French ‘ Force Majeure’
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Spring Greens
April 17th, 2010
We at Cavendish Conference Venues are very into our Green(s) long before it was popular we were serving filtered water to our delegates and we still do. At that time it was frowned upon in many restaurants as you were charges for the privilege we do not, have not and will not!
If you have not taken the opportunity to look at our credentials take a look at the section on the website and you can see what we have done, are doing and are planning.
But we have not stopped at just on the inside, last year when we opened the Hallam Conference Centre* we got involved in the local tree planting initiative and sponsored a tree.
Despite our concerns of it surviving, it is well as are its siblings they are in fact striving. It is beginning to be blooming on Hallam Street and they have just extended the project to Weymouth Street and plans are afoot to extend even further.
So you could say that we are green in and out. When it comes to your greens it’s not just eating them that’s good for our health and wellbeing.
* The Hallam Conference Centre is just one of the family our group includes 4 other venues – America Square, Cavendish Conference Centre, ICO Conference Centre and the Mayfair Conference Centre
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