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o one does pomp and pageantry better than the British, and I throw down a red, white and blue gauntlet to anyone who thinks they can. The Diamond Jubilee celebrations have indeed celebrated all that is great and good about our country, and I don’t believe that any other country or, indeed, industry could deliver such a magnificent display fit for a Queen.

As Stand Out waited patiently on the River Thames to watch 1,000 boats pass by, the public gathered in their thousands to catch a brief glimpse of the Royal family. The rain failed to dampen spirits. In fact, British resilience shone through, and a sea of Union Jacks has never been waved with quite such determination.

I waited over two hours to see the Royal Barge in all of its glory – yet; it provided ideal thinking time for quiet reflection. What was it that made so many people turn out along the Thames? A love for the Monarchy or was the UK acknowledging what we as an industry already know – nobody throws a better celebration than the British.

During the build of the BBC Diamond Jubilee concert, I bumped into sound designer Derrick Zieba, who along with Britannia Row, worked on the momentous gig. He too acknowledged the huge task that lay ahead of him and his team, and questioned whether an “easy” job would make history. And yes, events professionals, you have just helped create history.

It’s the sheer hard work of our industry, and the ability to laugh through testing load ins, that has delivered an event that will be remembered by so, so many. Another generation has witnessed a jubilee and developed an obsession for flags and bunting that will be revered for years to come. Now, in what can only be described as a momentous year for Britain, our attention turns to London 2012.

In this, our last issue before the Olympics begin, we look at the brands that will be touring campaigns during the summer months, we bring you interviews with the key individuals involved in the Diamond Jubilee weekend and we go behind the scenes of the Olympic Torch Relay. And if that isn’t enough, turn to page 50 and enter the Airstar competition to win two VIP tickets to the British Grand Prix.

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Millions lined the streets of London to catch a glimpse of the Queen, as the UK celebrated her 6oth year on the throne. The epic Diamond Jubilee celebrations surpassed expectations and it was the UK events industry that delivered such an amazing spectacle of pomp and ceremony that everyone wanted an invitation to – it is now being heralded as a taste of what’s to come when London 2012 officially welcomes the world. Stand Out caught up with those responsible for the epic Diamond Jubilee celebrations and a weekend that Great Britain will never forget

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RoaD awaReness Are you a savvy road user? Stand Out looks at the latest roadshow campaigns and discovers which brands are touring what, where and why

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in season Christmas trends, festive theming and seasonal party packages are put under the spotlight – what’s hot?

The Olympic torch arrived in Cheltenham on day 5 of its momentous journey across Britain. At Cheltenham Racecourse, Zara Phillips carried the torch upon her horse Toytown. Craig Mortiboys, Olympic lead officer, Cheltenham Borough Council, talks

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BRanD attack Are Olympic sponsors on track with their brand campaigns? Event agencies Innovision and Carat voice their opinions

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6 Event industry news 8 New business opportunities and which

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20 Legacy – what legacy? Rob Allen, chairman, Eventia, talks the “L” word

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UK Event Awards are open for entry

Danny Boyle, artistic director of the London 2012 opening and closing ceremonies, has unveiled details of the opening ceremony to take place on July 27. The Olympic stadium will be transformed into the British countryside complete with 12 horses, three cows, two goats, 10 chickens, 10 ducks, nine geese, 70 sheep and three sheep dogs.

Under the theme of Green and Pleasant, the field of play will emulate the British countryside and will come complete with meadows, fields and rivers.

The opening ceremony will officially begin at 20.12 on July 27 and the worldwide broadcast will begin at 9pm. Titled the Isle of Wonder and inspired by Shakespeare’s The Tempest, the opening ceremony will feature 15,000 square metres of staging, a flying system that lifts 25 tonnes, services and products supplied by 93 different companies, 900 school children and volunteer performers from the NHS. The ceremonies will also feature 12,956 props and 23,000 costumes.

New home for Jamie’s Big Feastival

UKEMTS survey shows signs of positive outlook

Jamie Oliver’s The Big Feastival has a new home. The food and music event is moving from Clapham Common and will take place at Alex James’ farm in Kingham, Oxfordshire, which last year hosted Alex James presents Harvest – an event that left many contractors out of pocket, as its organiser Big Wheel Promotions ceased trading.

The Big Feastival will take place on September 1 and 2 and will be run by Brand Events, under the watchful eye of event manager Vicky Bodhani.

The news comes as Jimmy’s Farm has confirmed that there are no plans for its Harvest festival this summer but it says it will be making a comeback for 2013. The organisers have cited events such as the Olympics and the Queen’s Jubilee as the key focus for 2012. Hence, the organising team has taken the decision to cancel but is adamant that the event will return next year.

Innocent has also confirmed that it has cancelled its Fruit Sports Day, also citing the Olympics and poor weather as reasons for disappointing ticket sales.

Eventia has published findings from the 2012 UK Events Market Trends Survey (UKEMTS) and it shows that 89 per cent of venue managers are expecting business in 2012 to be better than 2011. On the back of this, one in five venues are planning capital investment projects worth upwards of £100,000 in 2012.

The 2012 report is compiled from data supplied by a representative sample of 302 venues from across the UK, and reveals that there were an estimated 103 million delegate attendances at events in 2011 (an estimated 1.3 million events with an average attendance of 80 people, slightly higher than the average of 76 delegates in 2010).

According to the results, there was an average of 369 events per venue in 2011, with conference and training centres, university venues and hotels typically hosting more events than other types of venue.

The study also recorded a resurgence in corporate sector events, which accounted for 57 per cent of all events staged, and a substantial fall in public sector events.

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The UK Event Awards, organised by Carnyx, are now accepting entries. Organisers are being encouraged to enter their events in categories such as Best Marketing Strategy, Best Conference, Best Experiential Event and new for 2012 – Best Use of Budget.

Stand Out has been named as the event’s industry partner and the judging panel for this year’s awards has begun to take shape with five names already in the frame with more to be confirmed. They include: Rob Leach, managing director, Line-Up, Lynn Lester, managing director, events, The Drum, Dirk Mischendahl, founder and joint managing director, Logistik Group, Peter Kerwood, marketing director, Altitude 360 London, and Paul Ephremsen, chief executive, ID Experiential. To enter, visit www.ukeventawards.com by June 29.

The Nave of York Minster turned green on June 8, as almost 1,500 square metres of real grass were rolled out, transforming York Minster’s charity fundraising Rose Dinner – 900 guests attended the evening, dining on Lindum Turf’s Wow!Grass!

Lindum donated the turf as part of this major event to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee and the York Minster Rose, launched at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show last year, as well as raising as much money as possible for the York Minster Fund, which raises money for the conservation and restoration of the fabric of York Minster.

Industry could wave goodbye to ticket fraud thanks to a new bid by ILMC contributor Steve Machin and Andy Lenthall, general manager, Production Services Association.

The duo has been working on new initiative The Dot Tickets Organisation, an independent company supported by some of the biggest players in the UK ticketing business, and has revealed plans to create a new top-level .tickets domain to help consumers buy tickets safely and securely.

The opportunity to create the .tickets top-level domain arises out of a plan by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to create new domains to sit alongside the existing .com and .co.uk designations.

Dot Tickets Organisation had passed the first hurdle in establishing the new domain but the organisation has some competition with other parties also showing an interest.

If Dot Tickets Organisation is successful, Accent Media, of which Lenthall is a director, will operate the .tickets domain name.

Dot Tickets proposes that new .tickets domain names should only be available to ticket websites which meet high standards of consumer protection to give consumers peace of mind when purchasing tickets.

Backed by a significant consumerawareness campaign, the intention is that .tickets will become a gold standard of trust for consumers. With entertainment tickets, for instance, fans could look for www.festival.tickets, www.venue.tickets or www.band.tickets for trusted ticket sales.

Steve Machin, founder, Dot Tickets Organisation, said: “Ticket fraud is the scourge of the live entertainment business, and causes great distress and hardship to the consumers who are caught out. We believe that our unique .tickets proposal, which is already attracting widespread industry support, is an independent and open structural solution that can be controlled, trusted and communicated simply and consistently to ticket buyers worldwide.”

Sea Odyssey named Liverpool’s most successful event Sea Odyssey Giant Spectacular, the three-day event which saw a giant girl, giant uncle and her giant dog roam the streets of Liverpool has been named in an independent report as Liverpool’s most successful event.

Vector Research discovered that 800,000 people took part in the event from April 2022 which resulted in an economic benefit of £32 million – nearly three times as much as originally estimated.

The report found that the average spend by visitors was £40.74 per person, with those staying overnight spending £34.55 each on accommodation. Of the £32 million spent in the city, nearly £10.5 million was on accommodation and £20 million was on other expenditure.

The research also found that the event attracted a higher number of people falling between the 35-44 age bracket. Around 81

per cent of those interviewed said they had specifically come to Liverpool to enjoy the spectacular, and more than three quarters of respondents made the decision to attend in the week running up to the event.

Liverpool City Council’s Cabinet Member for Culture and Tourism, Councillor Wendy Simon, said: ““The figures in this report are phenomenal and the £32 million has exceeded all our expectations. It really will go down in history as one of the most unforgettable events to take place in Liverpool and I’m delighted that hundreds and thousands of people came to the city to experience this beautiful piece of theatre.

“I’m already being asked what’s next, and although we may have to wait a few years for another event of this scale, there’s a programme of free events taking place during 2012 which will show how this city excels in putting on outdoor experiences!”

The International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) will take over the British Library’s conference centre, St Pancras, from July 22 to August 13.

Perfect Motion Sports Marketing has launched a festival of cycling – the E.ON Cycle Nottingham will take place from July 13-15.

ICHF Events has joined forces with Woman’s Weekly magazine to create – Woman’s Weekly Live! Creative Stitches and Hobbycrafts Show.

Fiat Group, Armani, Kinder and Banca Intesa will be official sponsors of Casa Italia, the Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI) at The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre.

A Little Bird has appointed Mike Kettles as head of creative and strategy.

Neptunus has opened a dedicated UK office – the 11,000 square metre site is based at the Swan Valley development, Northampton.

Speedo will be taking over London’s Covent Garden from July 27 until August 12 – a nine-metre fully-customised Showplace trailer will host the brand as it looks to change consumer perception by introducing audiences to the swimwear.

Oxfam is looking to expand its stewarding programme beyond the UK weekend festival market. Emma Parkinson, Oxfam’s stewarding manager, has been appointed to double the size of its operation by moving into day festivals, music, sporting and community events.

Richard Vincent has joined Jack Morton as VP, head of consumer.

River Island will be getting involved at Reading Festival this year with a festival Swap Shop – festivalgoers will be able to exchange their dirty clothes for brand new River Island clothing.

An extra £19 million has been allocated to London 2012 to improve crowd management and public information.

The additional funding will provide more stewards and crowd flow measures.

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Tenders and conTracT wins

Contracts finder Discover details of the latest business opportunities and learn which companies have won new event contracts Grass Roots Live has been appointed

by Jaguar to run its experiential programme for the next three years.

The programme, which covers some 350 events in total, gives the brand time with its core AB target audience. The mix of events include track experiences at venues such as Thruxton, Rockingham and Oulton Park, and Dealer Ride and Drive days, covering a national network of 90 dealers.

It also includes Salon Prive at Syon Park in September and the Motorexpo at Canary Wharf and Cholmondeley Pageant of Power, both of which took place earlier this month.

Portsmouth City Council is seeking a supplier to operate its 2012 Bavarianstyle Christmas market. The initial contract will be for a period of three years with the option to extend for another two years one year at a time. Contact Barry Walker on 07961 334529. The deadline for this tender is June 29. mcm Creative Group is to produce two awards events for the British Franchise Association (Bfa) – The Bfa/HSBC Franchisor and Franchisee of the Year.

Hampshire County Council is inviting organisations to tender for the sale and organisation of exhibition space at conferences and exhibitions. The contract will commence on September 1, 2012, for one year with the provision to extend for a further one or two years. The deadline is 2pm on July 11. Interested? For more details, email julie.price@hants.gov.uk

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Love Luton 2012 Festival has appointed Visions to handle its live video production. Visions will be providing LED screens for the event, all the camera equipment and full camera direction during the three-day festival.

De Boer and Dubai-based Wicked Tents have been appointed to supply temporary structures to the DP World Tour Championship Dubai, which takes place in November.

de Boer is no stranger to supplying structures to golf tournaments

Square for three years commencing 2013.

This provision is at the sole cost of the contractor(s) and must include all transport, infrastructure, marketing, entertainment and security costs. The deadline is 12pm on June 29. Want more information? Email katja.barron@nottinghamcity.gov.uk

InterTradeIreland wishes to appoint an event management company to assist in the planning and delivery of events across Ireland. The events will be primarily in the area of business and economic competitiveness and will include but are not restricted to networking events, conferences and seminars. The deadline for this tender is 3pm on July 4.

University of West London is looking for a venue in which to stage its graduation ceremonies. The ceremonies usually take place over two or three consecutive working days with two or three ceremonies taking place on each day. Up to 1,800 delegates will attend each ceremony. An auditorium is required for at least 2,000 delegates and the chosen venue must also be able to assist with support staff, set-up and break-down, AV, security, ticketing and catering staff. Interested parties should note that the deadline for this tender is noon on June 29.

Nottingham City Council is seeking one or more providers to organise, deliver and promote its summer and Christmas offer in the Old Market

For the sixth year, Piggotts supplied marquees to the Suffolk Agricultural Association’s Suffolk Show in a contract worth over £100,000.

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Diamond seal Millions lined the streets of London to catch a glimpse of the Queen, as the UK celebrated her 60th year on the throne.

Stand Out caught up with those responsible for the epic Diamond Jubilee celebrations and a weekend that Great Britain will never forget

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t was a scene reminiscent of 1942 – friends and family gathered round their television sets to witness a momentous occasion: Only this time it was in colour and some 60 years had passed. Once again, neighbours gathered in the street to throw a party. And in true British style a nation celebrated.

The epic Diamond Jubilee celebrations surpassed expectations and it was the UK events industry that delivered such an amazing spectacle of pomp and ceremony that everyone wanted an invitation to – it is now being heralded as a taste of what’s to come on July 27 when London 2012 officially welcomes the world.

According to Ipsos MORI Social Media Practice, the festivities not only sparked a party along the Thames and down The Mall. The buzz of the Diamond Jubilee peaked on Twitter too (#DiamondJubilee) and at two particular points over the elongated weekend – at 2pm on June 3, the day of the Thames Diamond Jubilee River Pageant, and at 10pm on June 4, the day of the Diamond Jubilee Concert.

Between 10pm and 11pm on June 4, 71,780 jubilee tweets were sent and over 17 million watched the concert on TV.

Precision planning The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations comprised an exhausting list of events –

the Diamond Jubilee Pageant at Windsor Castle, the Armed Forces Parade and Muster also at Windsor, the Investec Derby Festival at Epsom Racecourse, the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant, The Big Lunch, the BBC’s Diamond Jubilee concert at Buckingham Palace and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee carriage procession.

The Royal Windsor Horse Show, which incorporated the Diamond Jubilee Pageant that replaced the annual Windsor Castle Royal Tattoo, was one of the Queen’s first official engagements. Taking place in May, the pageant was organised by HPower Group and featured over 550 horses and 1,000 dancers and performers.

David Mayo, general manager, HPower Group, and technical director of the pageant, explained: “We normally organise the Royal Windsor Horse Show and for the past four years the tattoo, which involves 500 military personnel – it’s manageable.

“The Diamond Jubilee Pageant replaced the tattoo and was dominated by groups from all the world, and if that wasn’t enough we also accommodated 600 on-site, creating a fully functioning town for 12 days.”

The pageant was broadcast on ITV and the Armed Forces Parade Muster, organised by the Ministry of Defence, was televised by the BBC. The muster saw 2,500 troops from the Royal Navy, the Army and the Royal Air Force parade through Windsor Castle

The Spirit of Chartwell carried the Queen and senior members of the Royal family

and the town and also featured a tri-service flypast of current and historic aircraft.

HPower supplied the site infrastructure for the muster, providing a scaled down operation on-site once the horse show and pageant had finished.

“The horse show, pageant, ITV, accommodation, BBC and the muster were each a project within a project, and it rained, and it rained and it rained. Our biggest challenge was the weather and because of the rain we could not go off trackway on the 125-acre site,” continued Mayo.

“It’s debilitating when you work long days and are permanently covered in mud and are cold. We laid 100 tonnes of straw and 120 tonnes of bark on top before the visitors arrived. It meant the ground was not cut and we had a network of paths, and as a result we were not left with a quagmire.”

For the muster, HPower dismantled the horse show’s village and accommodation – the show’s stage, supplied by Star Events, remained and HPower reconfigured the sound, removed the lighting and re-jigged the screens.

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Pageant power Weeks later and a loyal crowd of Royal supporters gathered along the Thames, flanking both sides of the river to catch a glimpse of the Queen and the Royal family.

Two years in the planning, the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant saw 1,000 boats navigate London’s famous waterway to the cheers of an estimated 1.2 million visitors. A seven-mile flotilla sailed between Battersea and Tower Bridge, taking its inspiration from a Canaletto painting that is currently displayed in the Maritime Museum, Greenwich. But in circa 1750, the artist’s subject was not lined with visitors that had camped overnight with stoves and Union Jacks. Undeterred by the bad weather, the crowds turned up in their droves, wielding a host of branded goodies. TV network Gold stuck with the nautical theme and gave out branded periscopes whilst The Sun chose to distribute flags with the paper. experiential agency TRo helped four household name brands capture the nation’s patriotic spirit during a weekend of celebration at the Sainsbury’s Jubilee Family Festival in Hyde Park.

For Kellogg’s the agency created a 50s-themed stand, featuring film footage illustrating how Rice Krispies has been providing family breakfast from the time of the Coronation to the present day. The stand offered parents and children the chance to have fun decorating Kellogg’s Rice Krispies cakes together.

TRo also staged a football challenge on behalf of energy drinks brand lucozade Sport, created a Berry Fort for Ribena and recruited brand ambassadors for allergy relief brand Piri, which gave visitors seeded leaflets to plant.

Those brave enough to stand and patiently wait eight and ten-deep in the rain were rewarded by rowed boats, working boats and leisure vessels as well as a specially commissioned row barge and the Royal Barge, the Spirit of Chartwell, decorated with over 10,000 flowers, designed by TV gardener Rachel de Thame.

Rosanna Machado was project director on the flotilla and worked alongside Adrian Evans, pageant master. Since April 2011, Machado has lived and breathed the watery behemoth, something she explained to Stand Out: “The project’s biggest challenge was its scale – it had such a huge footprint.

We had to deal with a number of London boroughs and agencies involved with both the land and water-side of the project.

“It’s not something that’s been done before and so we had no template – no one had a background document to refer to, so it was exciting to start from scratch.”

Machado’s role encompassed much people management – she oversaw all departments from broadcast to PR, to delivery and production. Her challenge was to keep a core team of 30 spread across many offices motivated, a task she hailed as fun and challenging.

“I’ve worked on big projects,” she continued. “But nothing quite as big as this.”

Team effort On the day, Machado positioned herself deep within the basement of silver control, and watched the entire event unfold via CCTV footage and TV coverage. She

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Communications were just some of the suppliers to work on the Diamond Jubilee Pageant – over four weeks, 1,000 40-foot truck movements took place and 100,000 litres of water were needed on-site because the mains supply was not sufficient to satisfy the demand.

According to Mayo, horses and people create a lively cocktail but the horse show, pageant, Armed Forces parade and muster were organised in an orderly manner, a testament to the logistical brains behind the first of many events to celebrate Her Majesty’s 60 years of reign.

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described her experience as surreal and realised from an early point that she had to let her team on the ground, and on the water, make the event happen.

In total, 66 stage managers and a team of 20 logistics experts ensured smooth running – a stage manager was required on either side of each bridge and upon each music barge, boats with distinguished guests and on the piers upon which the Queen embarked and disembarked.

Evans worked hard alongside the Port of London Authority and it was his vision that was set in stone at the end of December.

Machado made Evans’ vision an operational reality – Lindsay Barrowclough and Jonathan Bartlett production managed the flotilla and were vital components of a vast team effort.

“It would have been lovely if it was sunny and so I was amazed to see crowds on the bridges and lining the banks. It was a proud thing to see,” said Machado. “When I saw the manpowered vessels and row boats at the beginning, it looked like a picture postcard, and I can say that I don’t think I would have changed anything. I am happy with what was achieved. There are always areas that could have been improved but then it wouldn’t have been the same.”

Eve, ADI, PTL and Delta Sound worked on the event, ensuring as smooth a load in and out as possible.

Continued Machado: “The flotilla gave me good stress – it was a challenge to try and get everything working as a coherent schedule, and it was a challenge to have to deal with people who didn’t want you to

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load in early but the site was so big that we had to work in a sensible fashion. It was a long route and a big site and because of that you’re never going to please everyone.”

a clear view The BBC’s coverage of the flotilla drove almost 4,500 people to complain – viewers disliked the broadcasters informal presenting style. But it was also the BBC that was responsible for broadcasting the Diamond Jubilee concert at Buckingham Palace, which had been orchestrated by singer/ songwriter Gary Barlow.

Robbie Williams Productions had been drafted in to produce the mammoth gig that would see some of Britain’s biggest names in music perform to a crowd of millions. Sir Tom Jones, Sir Elton John, Sir Paul McCartney and Dame Shirley Bassey performed. Tickets to the concert were distributed through a national ballot, which saw 10,000 members of the public selected to attend the event and a Jubilee Picnic in the gardens of Buckingham Palace.

Malcolm Birkett was responsible for the event’s design and Mark Fisher designed the stage that enveloped the Queen

Hello! Crowds stood eight and tendeep to catch sight of the Queen

Victoria Monument. Kenny Underwood was the concert’s production manager with pyrotechnics the responsibility of Michael Lakin. Stageco was responsible for creating the concert stage and Arena Group and Media Structures created the grandstands and media studios.

Stageco’s Ollie Green project managed the installation of 1,000 square metres of decking around the Grade I listed Queen Victoria Monument in front of Buckingham Palace. The main platform build took eight days, beginning by installing the ring beam around the statue to support the roof structure. The substructure was constructed using 70 tonnes of modular Layher scaff system, with the sub-structure and production underworld based in the monument’s fountains.

Stageco also worked with Arena Group to install ancillary site structures such as the Royal Box, which linked into Arena’s grandstand seating system – this element was plotted and installed to within millimetre accuracy. The build was testing, as each

berry marquees was proud to assist Royal caterers mosimann’s at Westminster Hall – 750 guests attended a celebratory lunch at the venue with berry’s creating additional space for the vast kitchen arrangements required for the banquet.

The company’s teams were also busy at lancaster House on The mall were they created an event space incorporating a run of Chinese hats along the terraces. berry’s supplied 525 square metres of temporary structures for 320 international dignitaries who were invited to a special event to enjoy the celebrations.

Stephen Hulme, director of sales and marketing, said: “as you can imagine all of our teams had to undergo very thorough security vetting to be able to work at any of these extremely sensitive and historically significant sites, but coupled with the logistical issues of the jubilee we felt we might be able to teach the regiments a thing or two for this one.”

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battersea Park hosted a jubilee festival, which was co-curated by designer Wayne Hemingway

day work stopped between 10.45am and 1pm to accommodate official Changing the Guard ceremonies.

Arena supplied its new Clearview demountable seating, which made its London debut in front of the palace, allowing audiences to enjoy clear sightlines from the temporary grandstands.

Arena’s Martin Clark and Robert Green managed a project team of 60 that adhered to strict guidelines and responded to the sensitive nature of the site.

With the enormous interest of the world’s media focused on London, the management of the international media was undertaken by EC Harris, working with the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, which contracted Arena to manage all event overlay for the media compound.

David Moynes, project manager, Arena, said: “Arena’s responsibilities extended to all elements of the media compound, ranging from ground protection trackway to drinking water and toilet cabins to building all of the temporary media structures.”

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Arena supplied extensive scaffold platforms to raise media studios and broadcast camera positions above the rear of the two Clearview seating grandstands using a new scaffolding system.

Showforce played an integral part, working alongside both Arena Seating and Innovision to deliver the event.

A team of crew, averaging 18 per day, spent 19 days on-site at Buckingham Palace, and assisted Arena Seating with building the two main grandstands.

Showforce also supplied crew across three different sites for Innovision; The Mall, St. James Park and Trafalgar Square. Along The Mall, the crews installed Heras fencing, laid out cabling and assisted with the installation of large screens, and in St James Park, they helped lay temporary flooring to protect the grass, installed sound towers and laid out furniture.

Palace projection Durham Marenghi was appointed lighting designer on the concert – he worked closely with XL Events, D3 Technologies, Neg Earth and Third Studio/Treatment to create the projection mapping onto Buckingham Palace that was so warmly received. XL Events’ project manager, Steve Greetham, worked for several weeks to specify and supply equipment and crew, both for the projection and on-stage wraparound LED screens and cameras for the concert stage.

XL Events supplied a total of 36 Barco FLM HD 20K projectors, 12 Barco Image Pros and two Lightware DVI matrices, all under the watchful eye of master projectionist Andy Joyes and his team.

XL Events also provided the monitoring which was utilised by D3 Technologies for the video mapping and playback of video on the palace. The animation was commissioned by Sam Pattinson, creative director for the projections, using content from a number of different animators, including Trunk Animation, which created the visuals that would underpin Madness’ performance on the roof of the palace.

Power Logistics provided Robbie Williams Productions with all power, distribution and cabling requirements. Eight 455 kva and two 300 kva generator sets supplied all the power for the stage area; including lighting, sound and video; plus all the power and lighting for the site and production area.

Electrical distribution equipment, cabling and ramps completed the installation carried out by a crew of eight, over a testing four-week period, on-site.

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Logistically, this was a challenging job for the team, deliveries and collections had to be timed perfectly, taking into account everything from the building of the stage and grandstands to Royal traditions like Changing the Guard. With generator sets situated in the front and rear of the grounds, and cabling laid over the roof of the palace, meticulous planning was essential to ensure that kit was exactly where it needed to be, at precisely the right time.

Safe streets Innovision, working on behalf of The Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) via EC Harris, engaged Showsec to deliver the crowd management strategy.

With different agencies covering different areas, Showsec covered Pall Mall, The Mall, St James’ Park, Trafalgar Square, Westminster Station, St James’ Park Station and Victoria Station.

Planning began in March, which given the complexity of the events, the site topography and contingencies to be considered, meant a relatively short lead time for concentrated deliberations and decision making between the multiple stakeholders. These included DCMS, Westminster Council Events, The Metropolitan Police, The Royal Parks, Transport For London and The Greater London Authority.

Show and Event Security assisted Showsec and ensured visitors to the capital enjoyed a safe event. Powerline, QDos Cabins, Neptunus, Britannia Row, Sevens 7, Wernick, Blackout and MRL also provided kit and services to official events, and Eve supplied over 60,000 metres of barriers and 47 lighting towers.

Sight to be seen ADI provided over 60 screens across events that included the Investec Derby at Epsom,

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the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant and the BBC Jubilee Concert, where two of ADI’s iCONIC 100+ screens were positioned at the very heart of the music extravaganza.

A team of 25 screen technicians and four project managers worked on the events – and discovered that moving around the congested capital on such a busy weekend – and in rather large trucks – was sometimes challenging! Seventeen iCONIC mobile screens made their way to the Embankment on Saturday night in preparation for the pageant, where they were greeted by gales, heavy rain and crowds camping out to secure the perfect viewing spot. From 7am on Sunday road closures were in operation, so ADI could then start moving screens into place. Once the pageant came to an end at around 6pm the screens displayed information that made sure the crowds dispersed safely, and the ADI fleet then left site, some heading towards The Mall. By 11pm all the screens were built on The Mall and powered but a 6am start was required on the morning of the concert in order to conduct video testing and colour matching.

ADI’s giant screens were located by the Buckingham Palace gates, and for those not lucky enough to be inside the ticketed concert, ADI provided screens at other key London locations, with giant iCONIC 100 screens at St James’s Park and Hyde Park, and eight further mobile LED screens positioned down The Mall, including the double-sided iCONIC 15+.

Harj Virdee, business development manager, ADI, said: “This was one of the biggest celebrations the UK has ever seen – the logistical challenge of supplying such a large number of screens to so many high profile events over the same weekend was significant, but certainly worth it!”

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The Olympic torch arrived in Cheltenham on day 5 of its momentous journey across Britain. At Cheltenham Racecourse, Zara Phillips carried the Olympic torch upon her horse Toytown. Craig Mortiboys, Olympic lead officer, Cheltenham Borough Council, talks

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hen the Olympic torch landed on British soil and began its mammoth 70-day journey, no one knew quite what to expect – how would the public react to the torch relay? How many people would turn up to catch a glimpse of the shiny gold symbol? And logistically, how much disruption would its presence create?

Organisers should not have doubted public reaction – on May 19, the public outpoured emotion and embraced the once in a lifetime opportunity to be so close to a symbol of the Olympic movement.

Gripped in the midst of a heatwave, thousands poured onto the streets to soak up the atmosphere. As torch relay presenting partners, Coca-Cola, Lloyds TSB and Samsung passed through a series of towns, villages and cities; they whipped up the crowd with their own brand of entertainment.

Day 5 saw the torch leave Bristol and head towards the Gloucestershire hills where it would rest overnight following an evening torch celebration concert.

Hosted by Cheltenham Racecourse, 25,000 visitors descended upon the racing venue to see Zara Phillips, the last torchbearer of the day, carry the iconic flame down the finishing straight of the racecourse.

She rode her horse Toytown before lighting the cauldron on the main stage at the evening gig.

Craig Mortiboys, Olympic lead officer, Cheltenham Borough Council, told Stand Out that the council was contacted by LOCOG 18 months previous and asked to host an evening concert. For the last six months, the torch relay has consumed Mortiboys workload and now that it’s all over he describes the hard work as worthwhile.

“When LOCOG approached the council, Cheltenham Racecourse was always the

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obvious choice. It made sense to host the event there and so we essentially handed the event to the racecourse.

“We fed into the venue’s operational team, which have expertise on how the site works and that’s because of the size and scale of events they handle all the time. The best policy was to stick to what worked,” Mortiboys explained.

“We knew the event would be free to attend but we did not know who would turn up, and we weren’t quite sure how big the event could be. We could have had wet and windy weather but as it happened the sun shone and so to manage the event we had to make an accurate guess.”

Under control It was decided that the evening concert would be a non-ticketed event. It was thought that this scenario would be easier to manage and gave the venue flexibility.

Mortiboys said: “We had no idea of the interest level in the torch relay until the Saturday when the relay began. Then the team looked at the weather forecast, saw

police visited the venue three days prior to the torch arriving. they checked drains and sealed them after inspection. the racecourse was also not allowed to place a litter bin within 20-metres of the torch route

sun, and we knew we had the potential to welcome 15,000 people on the day.”

Figures surpassed all expectations – 25,000 visitors turned up to cheer on the torch and watch Zara Phillips trot through the crowds.

A number of agencies and police authorities from neighbouring counties visited the Cheltenham concert in order to get a feel for the event prior to the torch’s arrival in their area. This was something that Mortiboys and his team could not do: “We would have loved to have had a look at another concert but we didn’t have time. Our

labrinth fans stood in the heat for up to three hours so that they could be at the front of the stage – racecourse staff distributed free water to the young crowd and broadcast health and safety messages over the course’s comms system

feeling was that we had a robust operation and were prepared to respond to any situation and so we ran with it.

“For LOCOG, having Zara as a torch bearer was a huge security issue but Cheltenham is used to seeing Zara and handling £50 million horses, so it made sense to use their existing expertise.

“We had a third party agreement with Cheltenham Racecourse to deliver the event and we made sure it happened. We could have done it ourselves but they know the site and they undertook a huge task.”

Mortiboys worked alongside Grahame Lewis, strategy director, Cheltenham Borough Council, who represented the council in silver control at the town’s police station. As well as a party at the racecourse, 20,000 lined the streets of Cheltenham to see the torch before it entered the venue – 150 marshals and stewards were overseen by Trevor Gladding, who led on stewarding in the town centre.

Shining moment The official celebration of the Olympic torch relay featured special guest Labrinth

who performed his chart hits including Let the Sun Shine and Earthquake. The official celebration show also included performances by Got To Dance winners Chris and Wes and Twist and Pulse, who were runners up in Britain’s Got Talent, as well as Gloucestershire Youth Jazz Orchestra and Cheltenham Youth Choir.

The event was to be a celebration of Gloucestershire as well as a celebration of the torch. A sports village with regional and county sports clubs created fitness activities and have-a-go sessions at one end of the course. The clubs worked closely with Active Gloucestershire, a county sport partnership, and Create Gloucestershire pulled together a number of dance and theatre groups that would entertain the family crowds in the parade ring after the lighting of the cauldron.

From 3pm until 9.15pm, the racecourse hosted the audience with Mortiboys responding to issues as they arose and acting as go between.

Susie Bradshaw, conference and events manager, Cheltenham Racecourse, represented the course, working tirelessly to deliver the event and was supported by a team of four – Rebecca Morgan, race

day operations, Chloe Bowkett and Heath Gunter, events managers, and Kenny MacDonald, technical manager.

Bradshaw explained that the team’s initial safety plans accommodated 10,000 people but as the event got closer it changed the plan to accommodate the needs and welfare of 20,000. With the weather on the venue’s side, being just fifth on the tour and the presence of Zara Phillips, the event had great kudos.

Octaga, Cleanevent and Event Staff were just some of the suppliers that worked on-site. Load in began two days prior to the big event and on the morning of show day, Lloyds TSB, Samsung and Coca-Cola set up their individual sponsor activations on the Members Lawn. The site was clear by midnight and so the racecourse could begin removing the hoardings that covered Tote branding, as LOCOG insisted upon it being covered up.

“We had amazing support for the event,” Bradshaw concluded. “Hopefully people who hear about the racecourse will now be encouraged to attend a raceday, and we are looking at whether we can use this event as a blueprint for future music events on nonrace days.”

Cheltenham Racecourse took the decision to leave the venue’s grandstands open to the public – the stands provided a good vantage point and vital shade from the searing heat

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lOCOG initially decided that Zara phillips would walk through the Cheltenham Racecourse crowd. this decision was changed at the last minute when it was decided that more people would see the torch if she carried the flame upon toytown. it gave more people an opportunity to see the flame and stopped the crowd surging forward to take a photo

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Legacy – what legacy?

Events professionals should not take for granted the potential benefits presented by London 2012, so says Rob Allen, executive chairman, TRO, and chairman, Eventia

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he “L” word has become so much part of London 2012 rhetoric that it’s in danger of becoming a cliché. Most of us have stopped thinking about what legacy actually means, or we interpret it from our own personal perspective. And yet legacy – the commitment to bring a range of lasting benefits – was the core proposition behind our successful Olympic bid. In addition to regenerating a particularly disadvantaged part of the capital, the legacy aimed to benefit local communities and to boost inbound tourism.

The aim to inspire a generation of young people to take part in sport has seen unprecedented focus on community facilities across the country. And the UK’s capability to host future large-scale sporting events

has already reaped benefits in the shape of the Rugby League World Cup 2013, the Commonwealth Games and Ryder Cup in 2014 and the Rugby World Cup 2015.

But the events industry specifically will benefit from a number of valuable legacy opportunities. To start, we have some fabulous new venues and attractions to propose and work with. And the focus on creating a blueprint for sustainable structures, together with unrivalled health and safety and environmental standards, will bolster our reputation.

The rise in inbound business tourism to Sydney, Barcelona and Athens in the years following their Games hosting, permits us to anticipate the same halo effect.

And let’s not forget the Cultural Olympiad.

Its culmination, the London 2012 Festival,

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sees 12,000 events and performances.

Everything from street arts, circus, carnivals and physical theatre will feature – shining the spotlight on creative teams, event producers and cutting edge digital technology.

The enthusiasm generated by such spectacles will swell the next generation of events professionals. And the skills and experience gained by those who worked on and around the Games will enhance our industry’s human capital no end.

That’s all good. But as a sector we mustn’t take this potential for granted.

The challenge will be for stakeholders to collectively develop an Olympic Legacy manifesto to keep that flame burning and to set benchmarks for future event activation in the UK. Roll on 2012, and its many legacies.

Great Britain’s Games London 2012 is not just a Games for our capital city, explains Emily Ibbotson, event manager, Dome Event Management, and National Outdoor Events Association member

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ondon 2012; the title suggests that the Olympic Games are restricted only to our capital city, however this is something I totally disagree with.

Of course, as a supporter of the Olympics, I am completely biased and have loved the idea of having them in our country since it was announced. I know I am not alone.

We have heard the spiel about the Games being good for the economy, a good advertisement for tourism; both of which I’m sure are true, but what about community? Is the whole country excited?

There will always be those against the Games, but only this week I have been out on the streets of Buxton, where the Olympic torch will arrive on June 29. I handed out leaflets to the general public to get the message out that the torch is coming. I didn’t have one person pass any negative comment. On the contrary, people were approaching me to take the leaflets – I’ve run out! People seem genuinely delighted that the torch is coming to their town.

Tamworth, host to the torch on June 30, follows the same pattern, and it appears that as the torch relay progresses enthusiasm

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for its arrival builds. This is evident with BBC news coverage, and daily reports I receive from host towns, all of whom had a greater turn out than expected.

In my opinion, the torch relay was a great move to involve the rest of the country, and exactly what was needed to make those outside London part of the Games. Our athletes come from all over Great Britain, not just London, so support your local star!

Still not convinced? With the Jubilee and Euro 2012 in the same year as the Olympic Games, how can you honestly resist getting swept away with the patriotism and pageantry of 2012? Just go with it…

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So how do event teams stand out from the crowd whether in a shopping mall, a county show, at a festival or just on the high street? Paul Hicks, head of brand experience and events, Carat Sponsorship, argues that being inclusive rather than intrusive is the key to any successful activity and it’s here that creativity comes into play.

“These days it’s probably a given that activity in these environments should be visually stunning and interactive for audiences, although not everyone does it so well,” he says. “However, once at the location the activity is in the hands of the events team managing it.

“A cliché term that staff are there to represent the brand is often used, which again should be a given. What’s important is that staff have personalities that not only suit the brand but also the activity created!

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personality, which is reflected in the number of engagements they are involved in.”

Hicks continues: “Coupled with a great creative engagement idea and the right location, staff are also the key to standing out from a crowd. Yes being attractive is helpful, however, being able to talk to audiences on their level without sounding too contrived and salesy is just as, if not more important. A trick that is often missed during selection and briefing!

Having said that it’s also important that event managers have the ability to remain positive and responsive at all times. They are there to motivate, guide and direct staff and thus need to have resilience and a fun and authoritative character. They need to strike the balance between being friendly, supportive, delivering for the brand activity and motivating staff throughout; not as easy as people believe. Blowing one’s own trumpet is a normal thing to do to sell one’s self, staff and event managers need to live up to their own hype when involved in an event in order to really stand out from the crowd and get cut through.”

Glowing results Having approachable staff is a key ingredient

if brands wish to engage consumers in busy event environments such as shopping centres. This is recognised by Logistik, which also argues that music, high level branding, impactful structures, free samples and expert advice are top of the list too.

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by PZ Cussons Beauty to create a roadshow for its St Tropez brand. Spraycation, which began on June 15, has already visited London’s Westfield White City and the Bullring, Birmingham. Manchester’s Trafford Centre, Braehead Shopping Centre, Glasgow, and the Pavilions Shopping Centre, Dublin, have also been identified as tour locations and are next on the map.

Louisa O’Connor, project manager, Logistik, is running the event – St Tropez wants consumers to experience its products and learn more about the brand benefits.

She explains: “St Tropez wanted to bring a Nikki Beach type experience to the UK and Ireland. The glamour, sophistication and exclusive appeal of a luxe beach club is translated through white washed decking, palms, large beach beds and Spraycation beach huts. Visitors can enjoy a complimentary pre-booked spray tan in one of the VIP spray-booth beach huts. Or

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“As part of the experience consumers will be offered samples – either a wash off or gradual tan so they can experience a golden glow at home. People enjoying a spray tan or VIP consultation will also get a St Tropez goody bag with vouchers, samples and key advice literature.”

St Tropez’s key goal is to raise brand awareness and attract new fans through product trial. St Tropez will be handing out money off coupons that can be redeemed against St Tropez products at key local retailers, and in terms of targets, the brand aims to engage with approximately 3,000 people a day. Whether that be a full spray tan with a St Tropez expert or a passer by receiving a leaflet and coupon.

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Milk round Crusha’s latest experiential Milkshake and Dessert Tour 2012 is being headed up by Concerto Live’s liveSPACE team and kicked off in London at Sainsbury’s Jubilee Family Festival, Hyde Park. A pop-up milkshake bar took pride of place, offering families the opportunity to taste a number of new Crusha products. The roadshow follows last year’s sampling and experiential campaign, Professor Mixology’s Mischievous Adventure, and will now head to Lakeside, Essex, Newcastle’s Metrocentre, Bristol’s Cabot Circus and the Trafford Centre, Manchester.

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brand personality that brought to mind the following buzz words – fun, maverick, crazy, flavours, sharing, experiential and heritage.

“2012 has seen the launch of Crusha Desserts Wobble Gobble Fruit Jelly Pots and Milkshake Puds along with a new Crusha Milkshake flavour Cherry and Vanilla so the brief was to drive consumers to store to buy and to drive awareness of the products.”

The roadshow’s tour locations have been chosen for their high footfall, target demographic and broad coverage.

Concerto Live and Full Circle tour with a bespoke-designed and built milkshake bar. Consumers enjoy a make your own milkshake experience, instant win scratch cards, grand prize draw competitions, Crusha pink telephones, on-screen video footage, Crusha FM and dessert sampling.

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Ice to see you This summer, Fisher Productions is working with Paratus Communications, organising the Ice Cold Costa (ICC) tour on behalf of the coffee shop giant. Costa Coffee wishes to promote its ICC range and so is reaching out to the public with free samples. From June 29 until July 27, the tour will visit Brighton, Southampton, Bristol. Milton Keynes, Cardiff, Newcastle, London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and Glasgow.

Becky Brown, project manager, Fisher Productions, is heading up the campaign, which will utilise a branded ice cream van.

Fisher looked at hiring and buying a suitable vehicle for the campaign and opted to purchase a working ice cream van. Fisher, with Inchmere Design, has modified the vehicle and wrapped the van with graphics.

Brown explains: “We started off organising the tour by sourcing venues. Costa chose 11 around the UK, all in shopping centres in busy capitals where footfall is high. The tour will start at Whitbread Court, home of Costa Coffee, and cover the UK and will run the majority of July.”

Costa wishes to reach people who wouldn’t necessarily think of Costa when wanting a cold summer drink.

“We will be keeping people up to date on the whereabouts of the ICC van via Costa’s Facebook page,” continues Brown. “People will be able to request ICC drop offs to their homes or workplaces and this will all be facilitated through a Costa Facebook app where they can contact the ICC request line.

In addition, we will be promoting the location sites through traditional PR in the regions the ICC tour is visiting.”

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Dom Robertson, managing director, RPM, strongly believes that experiences truly engage the public, capturing the public’s imagination, creating a path to participation.

RPM is currently touring an Aviva roadshow experience to showcase Aviva’s sponsorship of the Aviva GB and NI Athletics Team for the second year running. The athletics-themed experience invites the public to Back the Team. The roadshow aims to educate the public on British athletics, showcase Aviva’s long-standing sponsorship and present athletics as a fun and accessible sport. Aviva GB and NI Team athletes will be making personal appearances and shoppers have an opportunity to photograph themselves on a podium in front of an Aviva GB and NI Athletics Team image, to upload and share.

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build on last year’s success, which attracted just under 12,000 visitors.

This year, the stand is more accessible and allows for greater engagement. An 8m x 7m stand hosts interactive demonstrations and interviews with Aviva GB and NI athletes, two interactive touch screens that feature an athletics quiz and a Batak reaction test game, where the public can compare themselves to elite athletes.

Anna Cooper, senior account manager, RPM, is heading up the tour, which is visiting shopping centres with a high footfall. Last year, Aviva’s campaign visited Sheffield, Bluewater, Birmingham and Milton Keynes,

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Aviva and RPM have generated local and regional PR around each roadshow and Aviva GB and NI athletes appearing on the stand are encouraged to tweet about the activity. On the day roaming brand champions circle the stand, handing out leaflets to the public informing them of the activity and encouraging them to Back the Team. The amplified demonstrations by national high-jump coach Fuzz Ahmed and Aviva GB and NI Team athletes also draw shoppers to the activity, who leave with branded water bottles, an Aviva leaflet about athletics and are also directed to a dedicated Facebook page.

direct contact According to David Wilson, managing director, David Wilson Trailers, it’s important that brands tell visitors where to find them so that they can tell their friends where to find the activity too. He also says that brands must be eye catching and interesting in order to draw people in with samples working as a reminder of the campaign.

Sledge is currently helping BBC Learning to stand out. It is the event production company on the BBC Blue Peter Big Olympic Tour that is travelling the length and breadth of the UK. The brief has been to capitalise on the nation’s excitement about the Olympic Torch Relay and inspire an interest and enthusiasm for sport and the forthcoming Olympic Games among 6 – 12 year olds and their families. Over a nine-week period, presented

by Helen Skelton and Barney Harwood, Blue Peter is broadcasting live between 9 and 9.30am every Saturday morning from small towns and cities on the Olympic torch route.

BBC Learning is producing an exciting family event immediately after the broadcast in the same location from 10am – 4pm. The events give attendees a chance to take part in a host of interactive learning activities relating to sports science, the history of the Olympic Games and sports broadcasting as well as the chance to try out a range of Olympic sports. Put simply, the ambition is for audiences to learn more about the Olympic Games, try new sports and activities and gain an interest in London 2012.

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chosen for their proximity to the flame on the Saturday. The idea being that people are able to combine both seeing the torch and a visit to the event within the same day.

BBC Learning aim to attract 5,000 visitors to each Saturday event. The events are promoted as a great place to spend a couple of hours with the family. The event sites can cater for a peak capacity of 5,000 people at any one time, but larger numbers are expected throughout the day as evidenced in Caerphilly where 9,000 people chose to visit.

The activity is aimed at children between 6-12 years old and their families. Tour event activities are predominantly aimed at 6 -12 year olds, both boys and girls, and the events are promoted on the Thursday Blue Peter programme broadcast on CBBC at 5:45pm. Press releases have been circulated to all media outlets in each region including local and regional press, BBC network and commercial stations. BBC Learning works closely with broadcast colleagues across English regions and the nations. Radio5 Live broadcast inserts from some of the events into live network programming and other local stations may deliver outside broadcasts. Local authorities promote the events too and local Scouts and Guides groups also receive publicity material. Those who visit take home a Blue Peter Olympic “height chart” style resource, a 150cm resource packed full of sporting tips, facts and figures from Olympics through the years.

The height chart device encourages children to take the resource home and stick it on the wall. The rear of the resource functions as a booklet and features quizzes, word searches and information on nutrition and physiology and there’s a section where children are

encouraged to fill in results from London 2012, providing an additional learning resource post-event.

Karen Gregory, executive producer, BBC Learning, told Stand Out: “Finding ways to engage the widest possible audiences with the Olympics is an important part of the BBC’s marketing strategy for 2012.

“Blue Peter’s Big Olympic Tour is an important part of the BBC’s offer to families in the run up to the Olympics event itself.

The tour brings one of the BBC’s most loved children’s brands – Blue Peter – to nine communities. The event enables children to see Helen and Barney the presenters in person and for some to see a live television show being filmed for broadcast.”

She concluded: “Blue Peter’s Big Olympic Tour embodies BBC Learning’s strategy to harness the power of major BBC brands to create powerful learning opportunities and supports CBBC’s ambition to get the channel out and about the UK in direct contact with its audience.”

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Display systems and the kit that a brand chooses to tour with can have a detrimental effect – if your equipment fails to perform and is not fit for purpose then you will fail to present your proposition and offer as a reputable outfit.

Reduced marketing budgets and belt tightening is still very much at the forefront of today’s organiser. Companies that are shying away from big space only and bespoke

exhibition builds may chose to exhibit with a contemporary solution that offers multiple options, so says Mark Lamont, director, Index Group.

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The iPadDisplay system is joined on the market by Access Display’s Flip Counter – both products are completely different yet both allow a brand to communicate with consumers in a temporary environment.

The Flipcounter illuminated LED display counter is portable, weighing just 12 kilogrammes, and takes just five minutes to set up. Access Displays is the product’s sole distributor but it is looking to talk to other display professionals that wish to add to their portfolios and distribute a new system.

Peter Bowen, chief executive officer, Access Displays, also says that its Swift Promoter product is ideal for touring – it’s a relatively new item to the market, an inexpensive promotional plinth that is suited to food sampling and testing.

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ISOframe Wave, a popular and flexible exhibition system, has undergone a new update. Display Makers say that the system – a modern alternative to the panel and pole system – did have visible aluminium flexible links along the bottom of the display, which intruded into the graphic area. Now the link has been hidden behind the graphic to substantially improve the overall aesthetics.

Display Makers’ managing director, Richard Lawson says that the change was a massive technical challenge, and that additional enhancements make it easier to assemble and hang graphics, an important factor when pushing out brand messages.

Flexible options Products that offer flexibility are vital for brands that are looking to tour. When the Co-op was looking to develop a large retail set and also smaller demo spaces it turned to Tecna UK, which utilised its T3 system to create a number of options.

T3 has a patented “twist-lock” connector system, allowing display makers and exhibition builders to create virtually any space in half the time that is needed to build using traditional materials.

The booths designed for the Co-op are good examples of just how flexible the T3 system can be. The first, a large retail “set” incorporating fully working oven and sink and the second, more compact test and demo area, built using the T3 framework and clad in branded graphics. The smaller unit was designed to be easily built and dismantled at both outdoor country shows and larger stores. This unit can also be added to, in order to create larger kitchens sets, which may include an oven, sink or even fridge.

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In using the Octanorm profile there are an infinite number of options and extensions that can be added, as needed. For example, it’s easy to mount flags, banners and literature racks or even build-in counters, internal walls and doors. Optional cliptogether plastic floor tiles can be used to present a final finished look.

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Brought to life from the thoughts and ideals of various business divisions within the company, the event was an invitation for Office Depot’s customers and prospects to come together and take part in a panel debate and round table discussion, held at Vinopolis, London.

Even for Office Depot’s in-house events team, this type of event presented many logistical challenges.

The team had to create an event that would inspire people to attend. To show that Office Depot understood issues and provided practical solutions for business professionals across a wide range of industries and showcase this as an exciting and informative event.

Office Depot’s events team spent six months planning the forum event. The team, led by Sophie Christopher, head of services, events and external communications, Office Depot UK and Ireland, talked to customers directly about what they would want to see rather than what they would expect to see.

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The location of the venue was fundamental to the event’s attraction and Vinopolis provided a central London location, easily accessible for customers to get to.

Situated in close proximity to a number of customers’ head offices, the event was hosted in London to bring the event to the doorstep of Office Depot’s customers and prospects.

Considerations such as room size and layout had to be at the forefront of the planning process because Office Depot did not know exactly how many guests would attend on the day. The venue, therefore, needed to have a large yet versatile space that could cater to numbers anywhere from 50 to 200. The space needed to avoid looking too cramped or too empty.

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balance was achieved on the day. In all, 100 people attended.

The content of the day was equally a difficult challenge for Office Depot’s events team. The main focus of the event was centred on a panel debate, hosted to encourage discussion about topical business issues. The events team needed to make this attractive to potential guests and provide a platform that would effectively drive delegate engagement. To facilitate this, the events team worked to source external sponsors that could add credibility.

The team secured top broadcast journalist and presenter Kate Silverton to lead the debate, which also involved keynote speakers from Office Depot, as well as the editor of FM World and former labour peer, Lord Andrew Adonis.

The forum started at 11am, a time the events team had carefully planned to allow delegates to arrive feeling relaxed and prepared. After registration, guests were

After the panel debate, delegates were invited to eat lunch before reconvening an hour later for informative round table discussions and debates.

The formal part of the event was followed by a wine tasting session. Known for its wine tasting courses, the events team wanted to incorporate Vinopolis’ offer and give delegates a wine tasting tour around the venue to finish off the day. This was initiated to thank those who had attended by way of an interactive experience between Office Depot and its counterparts and to allow a more relaxed and informal relationship building opportunity for the Office Depot sales teams in attendance. Vinopolis fitted this brief perfectly.

Christopher said: “Implementing an event never done before can be a difficult task for any in-house events team, especially when the ideal is to communicate business matters for different divisions within the organisation.

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The events team captured the attention of those seated with state-of-the-art lighting in the company’s corporate colours as well as a bespoke stage setting and AV equipment including a large presentation screen.

The team consciously sat guests at round tables for two reasons; to drive engagement and to fill the space. It was important to establish a layout that was flexible for the entire day and required as little rearrangement as possible.

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“For an in-house team, consolidating numerous business messages and making them engaging and compelling is the norm for an internal event when culture and delegate expectations are known and understood. Here, we faced the challenge of a diverse external audience with limited understanding of their motivation to attend and general expectations of the entire event from logistics to messaging.

“The biggest challenge we were faced with was simply getting people to attend and we were extremely pleased with the result, which we believe was based on the event’s ‘easy to reach’ location, the selected keynote speakers and the unique wine tasting experience.

“We believe Vinopolis was the right venue choice for an event that needed to adapt to the numbers arriving on the day and its versatile facilities enabled us to create a visually stunning surround.”

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Following the forum, Office Depot’s inhouse events team liaised closely with the company’s sales team to ensure they were fully briefed on what had been discussed at the event. Indeed, throughout the entire process, the events team managed the expectations of all divisions within the organisation and acted as the central project management team to make sure all company expectations were met.

Christopher added: “We have had very positive feedback from the forum as an event that talked topically about key business issues with like-minded professionals across public sector, retail, utilities, finance and distribution and transport industries.

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Hire the Barman recently launched Alchemists Anonymous – a molecular mixology masterclass, which teaches small groups the art of turning a classic drink into something you’d find on a menu. Stand Out tried its hand at the experience and in just under three hours learned how to make vodka caviar, lime foam, alcoholic jellies and Mojito spaghetti using ingredients such as calcium lactate, agar agar and sodium alginate. Under the watchful eye of barman Michael Stringer, the group learned the basics to create molecular creations at home. In true Heston-style, you can discover how to make everything from alginates to jellies, infusions to foams and cocktail spaghetti. The concept is available to the corporate market and is ideal for smaller organisations that wish to celebrate a good year with something interactive and more than a dinner and dance.

Party packages If you are looking to organise a Christmas party for clients or your annual internal gathering, there are a host of venues – old, new and extraordinary – up and down the country, which are offering packages. Here’s a selection of what’s available: No.11 Cavendish Square will be throwing its doors open to the Prohibition era of the 1920’s. Guests will be transported to a roaring 20’s underground speakeasy with mood lighting and jazz. The venue’s newly-refurbished Garden Room will be transformed into Tallulah’s Lounge complete with bootleg cocktails in tea cups and guests visiting Fat Sam’s Speakeasy will also enjoy a threecourse meal from Ampersand. The Garden

Christmasworld predicts classic theming for the 2012 festive season

Room is available for exclusive hire along with the Orangery (80-200 people).

The Holiday Inn at Chessington World of Adventures Resort is offering organisers an alpine forest retreat, taking part in an animal meet and greet where guests can interact with meerkats, rhino iguanas, Amazon parrots, pythons and even skunks. Miniature potted trees, a snow-dusted sleigh and the scent of fresh pine trees are to comprise the forest setting where guests can enjoy a three-course meal.

Magna is offering organisers a fully licensed bar, unlimited rides on fullsized dodgems and a four-course dinner, and for corporates on a budget there’s even the option of a homemade Christmas curry and disco for £15 per head.

The Rotherham-based venue has three party packages on offer with private parties available. The visitor attraction, a former steelworks, caters for parties of up to 800 in its main hall.

and Christmas Baubles theme. The venue’s Showdome will be resurfaced as a giant Christmas bauble and upside down Christmas trees will hang from the roof.

Purple and pink lighting will set the mood and a three-course dinner party package starts at £37 per person.

The Point at Lancaster County Cricket Club has a variety of options on offer – a Christmas lunch disco, private hire and shared party packages from November 30 until December 21.

The National Railway Museum (NRM) in York, has devised four themed packages, suitable for all budgets, and starting from just £29.99. New for 2012 is the Come Dancing Christmas package featuring Strictly Come Dancing’s Darren Bennett and Lilia Kopylova. For one night only, the internationally award-

Christmas at Proud Cabaret will see an abundance of feathers, lanterns, peacocks and velvet drapes for five guests to 800. London City, London Camden and Brighton are all available to hire and late licences are an option too. Private hire options are available with a minimum spend, with menus from £49 a head.

Edinburgh’s visitor attraction Our Dynamic Earth is appealing to corporates with its Christmas Trees

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winning couple will entertain guests with four dances performed in between the three-course dinner service. Its Mistletoe and Dine package offers a three-course set menu served in the Station Hall, amidst the carriages and historic locomotives. And Festive Frolics returns for another year with an all yo-ho-ho can eat buffet, Hook-a-Santa and zorb balls.

Under the Bridge has joined forces with live karaoke rock band specialists Rockaoke. Guests will get the full red carpet treatment and there’s also the option of taking home a DVD of your performance on stage with the live band. The party nights run until 12am, minimum numbers apply and cost £79 per person.

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Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol will be re-created at the Heart of England Conference and Events Centre near Coventry. The venue is working with a local theatre company to design a threedimensional set that will emulate a street scene from the Victorian era. Prices start from £29,95 per head and there’s dinner, drinks, a casino, disco and Christmasthemed games.

Volante Rosso is offering Christmas parties at the Royal County of Berkshire Polo Club. Accommodating up to 600 guests in a marquee, the space can also host pre-dinner drinks, a seated dinner, dancing, live shows and bands. The venue can be hired exclusively or on a shared basis with the option to use your own production/ event management companies or staff if so desired. Tickets are priced from £35 per person upwards.

The Ultimate Experience has Christmas party packages on offer at Old Billingsgate, The Artillery Garden at the HAC and The Pavilion at the Tower of London. For 2012, it is also working with The Roundhouse offering festive parties from November 21 to December 10.

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his month, London began an extensive programme of city dressing, transforming the capital’s streets into a colourful explosion featuring bunting and banners. This summer will be like no other witnessed, as London 2012 rolls into town, bringing with it an Olympic-sized circus and a whirl of brand activity.

The next few weeks will see tier one, two and three sponsors ramping up their presence to achieve cut-through in a saturated marketplace, and already agencies and event management experts are recognising the good, the bad and the ugly of campaign creativity.

Andrew Douglass, founder, Innovision, suggests that there is already a tremendous amount of brand activity taking place, some having greater effect than others.

He has been impressed with Procter and Gamble’s Proud Sponsor of Mums campaign [advertisement created by Wieden+Kennedy Portland], describing it as both powerful and clever. And it’s such insight that will determine whether a sponsor fails or succeeds: “Brands have to have fantastic insight or have the budget to own a category,” he says. “Coca-Cola and its Move to the Beat campaign has resonance. I don’t think it’s a particularly inventive campaign but its utilisation of music to put themselves in front of consumers is good.

“Few brands are actually getting stand out and there’s a lack of imagination within a lot of campaigns. The more successful campaigns are coming from non-sponsors such as Nike, which has more of a digital focus. Nike has exclusive use of some British athletes and has achieved cut-through and it infers involvement with London 2012.”

Douglass believes that agencies are guilty of creating above the line campaigns that are all too “samey” – athletes jumping over hurdles with tag lines such as ‘fuelling the future’ and ‘lighting the way’ lack creativity

and depth. Hence, he says these brands have failed to seize the initiative.

Innovision is currently working with the Greater London Authority (GLA), Puma, UPS and the House of Brazil, and it will create the British Business Embassy at Lancaster House. As part of its Iconic Spectaculars project, it will also on behalf of the GLA deliver a large-scale projection project onto the Houses of Parliament.

“London is a great place to be at the moment. It’s a busy but exciting time,” continues Douglass. “The Olympics present great opportunities. For example, Lloyds TSB is doing some great grass roots work that you wouldn’t associate with a bank. Its use of circus and theatre as a torch relay presenting partner and its involvement with National Schools Week has shown that community is a big focus for them.”

Douglass is not so complimentary of Cadbury’s Spots v Stripes campaign and accuses the brand of leaping out of the tracks too early with a creative that failed to engage its target market.

“Cadbury has punched above its weight – it took the decision to go early out of the tracks when there is less white noise. Other sponsors have global assets and leave their campaigns late but the Spots v Stripes campaign began two years ago and the public was not ready to mentally engage with the Olympics.”

It’s a view agreed by Mike Parker, associate director of sponsorship, Carat.

While Parker admires Cadbury’s initiative he believes that consumers failed to link Spots v Stripes to the Olympics.

“You have to understand the parameters of engagement to get value from it,” Parker explains. “The Olympics present brands and agencies with a unique opportunity but a lack of experience within the marketplace is reflected in the programmes you see. If you are a marketing director then you have a four-year window of relevancy and so the

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Parker praises both Virgin and Visa for their above the line activity, arguing that Virgin has chosen its athletes and endorsements well. He describes the brand market as cluttered and suggests that the end of the year will see a polarisation and period of assessment.

“The Olympics as a platform is vast with so many stories to tell. Cut-through and association is being achieved by so few.

Coca-Cola’s campaign is as expected, it’s very clichéd.

“From a strategic point of view, Procter and Gamble has got it right. Procter and Gamble’s campaign has been very strong and it has shown an interesting way of bringing a portfolio of products under one brand. It will be interesting to see what people’s opinions are after the Games of the brands that have been involved. P&G’s campaign is robust and if you conducted market research after London 2012 then its campaign will be one you’ll remember.”

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study by BT Infinity has revealed that women are twice as dependent on social media as men – if the Internet no longer existed, almost one fifth of women would miss social networking sites compared to seven per cent of men.

And, of those questioned, 45 per cent of people use the Internet most regularly for social networking and 33 per cent would miss being able to carry out functional administrative tasks.

According to the findings, men are most likely to use video and photo sharing sites, which panders to the techie stereotype but of note are the 45 per cent of women who engage with content online.

The news comes as Thomas Cook, official provider of short breaks to London 2012, launches an Olympic Quiz Smartphone App, which allows sports fans to bid for tickets for the 200-metres final, which will take place on August 9. It is hoped that the app that costs 69p will appeal to the 4.1 million people who like online gaming.

Sociagility is currently tracking the social media success of London 2012 official sponsors, and as Stand Out writes, Procter and Gamble, Cisco, BP and Omega are winning the social media war after 30 days of data – the analysts predict with its Socialympic Tracker that BMW, with agency Synergy, has the potential to do more.

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Greenlight is monitoring social Olympic activity also as brands take things up a gear and increase their use of YouTube, Facebook and Twitter over the next 30 days.

But Datapoint argues that marketing departments are damaging the customer experience, as brands still fail to recognise social media as a communications tool.

Lithium Technologies says that consumers expect brands through social media to engage more, as more than a third say their opinions about products and services are shaped by what they see within a social media realm and online environment.

Further studies, and in particular a Lithium study, found that 35 per cent of consumers say after “liking” a brand on Facebook, they expect to hear from the company – yet 58 per cent say that they have never received a response from a company after “liking” it.

When 86 per cent of brands questioned in another recent study said that they utilised Facebook in their marketing efforts, this is a worrying statistic. The coming months will certainly be a test for Olympic sponsors – which should take advantage of an expectant and largely female audience.

With this in mind, what are you doing to communicate your event plans and brand strategies with your target market? How are you using social media to engage with your consumers and business prospects? And, do you have ample resource to dedicate to communicating through social media?

Stand Out is interested to hear your stories, so if you are an organiser and have a social media strategy that you’d like to share, get in touch. Send a tweet: @StandOutmag

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Aggreko Event Services Aggreko House, Orbital 2, Voyager Drive, Cannock, Staffordshire, WS11 8XP T: 08458 24 7 365 F: 01543 437 772 E: events@aggreko.co.uk W: www.aggreko.co.uk

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Event Assured 8 Freeport Office Village, Century Drive, Braintree, Essex, CM77 8YG T: +44 (0)1376 330624, F: +44 (0)1376 330004 W: www.event-assured.com

Eurostand Display Ltd The Barn, Coptfold Hall, Writtle Road, Margeretting, Essex, CM4 0EL T: 01277 350925 F: 01277 356732 E: enquiries@eurostanddisplay. com W: www.eurostanddisplay.com

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Event Electrix Depots in Kent, Cardiff & Bristol T: 0844 800 2833 E: sales@eventelectrix.co.uk W: www.eventelectrix.co.uk

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Phase Hire Ltd 140A Kents Hill Road, Benfleet, Essex, SS7 5PH T: 01268 792648 F: 01268 792641 E: info@phasehire.com W: www.phasehire.com

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