Event CVBlack Country 'Open for Business' Launch Event Delegates: 150 Client: Sandwell, Wolverhampton, Dudley and Walsall Councils, the Black Country Consortium Venue: The Public, West Bromwich Date: 29th September 2011 Overview We were contracted by the Event Steering Group including representatives from Sandwell, Wolverhampton, Dudley and Walsall Councils to provide event administration support services for the Black Country Open for Business breakfast launch event. We managed all aspects of the event support including:
Midlands Media Awards 2011 Delegates: 350 Venue: Edgbaston Cricket Ground Client: Birmingham Press Club Date: 11th March 2011 (Delivered in association with Ed James PR) Overview The Midlands Media Awards are run each year by Birmingham Press Club and are designed to award excellence in the media world of newspapers, radio and television. The Awards attract over 200 entries from across the East and West Midlands and the event is always well attended. As event managers we had the following responsibilities:
After the event we had to have a debrief with the Birmingham Press Club, produce a final budget and contact all sponsors to ensure they felt they had gained good exposure from their sponsorship. All sponsors were delighted with the event. We have now been running this event for the past three years and the feedback consistently tells us that we have delivered well organised and successful events. Business and Traders Consultation for Bewdley Development Trust Number of Delegates: 40 Venue: The Guildhall, Bewdley Client: Bewdley Development Trust Date: 17th June 2010 Overview We were asked by BDT to produce a consultation event to engage businesses and traders in Bewdley with a view to creating a Business Marketing Partnership for the town. We worked alongside them to do the following:
The event was attended by a cross section of those who own and/or run businesses in the small market town of Bewdley and the brief was to canvass opinion on whether a formal partnership would be an attractive option to them. The event took place at 5.30pm and finished around 7pm. Consultation Lunch for the Royal Television Society (RTS) Midlands Centre Number of Delegates: 30 Client: Royal Television Society Midlands Centre Venue: Malmaison, Birmingham Date: 27th February 2009 Overview We were asked by the Royal Television Society (with whom I have worked for a number of years) to design and produce a consultation event for those working within the television industry in the East and West Midlands. The RTS wished to get feedback from the individuals attending as to how it was viewed as a Society, whether it was still deemed relevant and how in particular it could adapt its Annual Awards to reflect the changing nature of media within the region. I was asked to cover the following:
I was not asked to provide a formal evaluation of the event but I did contact all those who attended afterwards to ask for their feedback on the different element s of the event e.g. venue, content, how useful they felt it was, whether they felt they had been able to fully consult with the RTS. Feedback was overwhelmingly positive with both the RTS and the delegates delighted with the outcome. Much of the feedback was then used by the RTS to influence changes to the content and format of their Annual Awards Ceremony which took place in October last year. Business Lunch and Exhibition to promote 2012 opportunities to regional businesses Number of delegates: 120 Venue: Ramada Hotel, Kidderminster Client: Ramada Hotel Group Date: 18th September 2008 Overview This event was formulated alongside the team at the Ramada Kidderminster to coincide with a visit from Lord Sebastian Coe to the hotel’s leisure club. In order to make the most impact locally and regionally from his visit, IJM Media worked alongside the hotel to devise a wider reaching event which would potentially help business from across the West Midlands start to understand more about the process for getting involved with the 2012 Olympics as a supplier. Having support from Advantage West Midlands (the RDA) and Hereford and Worcester Chamber of Commerce, we decided to produce a Business Exhibition and a special lunch at which David Moorcroft OBE would be our speaker and Lord Sebastian Coe would be the special guest. The Exhibition element was held in marquee in the grounds of the hotel and we contacted local and regional businesses and invited them to attend. There was no charge for those attending the exhibition as the hotel covered costs and we wanted to make the event as accessible as possible. The lunch was run more commercially with small charge for those attending to hear David Moorcroft speak about the business opportunities available around 2012 and then to do a more lighthearted Q &A session with Lord Coe afterwards. There were around 60 companies exhibiting and around 120 attending the lunch. As event managers for the event we carried the following responsibilities:
We were asked to attend a debrief session after the event where we had excellent feedback from the client (the Ramada) and their regional management in particular. We also contacted all those who attended to ask for feedback on their experiences of the event and provided this anecdotally to the hotel. This was also overwhelmingly positive. We did not have to go through a competitive tender for this process as the Ramada is an existing client of IJM Media. |