Archive for June, 2011

Hearing Concern LINK

Last Saturday,Hearing Concern LINK had a conference at the ICO. It’s a voluntary organisation with the aim to connect people affected by hearing loss and their families. It’s obvious that these group of people really care a great deal about improving communication,not only throughout the sound but also through all other forms of communication. It was an amazing conference and a pleasure to look after them.

While the rest of you are enjoying the Trooping of the Colour and two GB’S   in the Tennis Semi-final, here at America Square we are all working hard.    Yes we have a conference on, quite strange for the City, which is like a ghost town on Saturdays.  We are very lucky it is Valeria, Catering Managers birthday – yes she shares it with the Queen, only she is many ...

The Rise and Fall of all things great

It is great when things go well and smoothly like everything in life there are ups and downs and thankfully for most of us we all manage to keep oursleves in a state of “upness” if there is such a  word! As in business there are ups and downs and thankfully the last few Years have been reall “downers” in the life of Cavendish Conference Venues but thankfully we are ...

Dilema

Dilemma: On one hand you have the just about everyone saying things are getting distinctly busier, the Informa’s of this world. On the other hand delegate rates don’t seem to be going up much (if at all). One explanation could be that there is more supply coming onto the market. Definitely there has been a tremendous building programme leading up to the Olympics next year. However when you consider that ...