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CONTENTS
15 DRUMS AND DRONES
23 MAKING A SPLASH
28 RAISING THE BAR
47 BLOSSOMING COMMUNITY
56 MAKING WAVES
10 BE IN IT TO WIN IT
40 CLICK AND CONNECT
Discover news of the latest contract wins and recent event tenders
15 DRUMS AND DRONES
An army of event professionals delivered the 75th anniversary of the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo
19 ON TRACK
With less than one year to go before Glasgow 2026, CEO Phil Batty discusses delivery models and freelance opportunities
23 MAKING A SPLASH
LS Events’ Meg John on SailGP Portsmouth and delivering an event site fit for the hottest sailing action
28 RAISING THE BAR
StandOut looks at the innovative and creative use of temporary structures and grandstand seating
StandOut reveals the first speakers set for Event Buyers Live 2025 and details on how to apply for this year’s event
47 BLOSSOMING COMMUNITY
Victoria Park Events’ Alan Adams on how he and his team are ensuring Southport Flower Show is uniting a community after being rocked by tragedy
56 MAKING WAVES
StandOut goes behind the scenes with Labyrinth’s Michael Dicks and Nick Castleman, who chat Labyrinth on the Thames, the new live music series at London’s Old Royal Naval College
60 TAPPING INTO THE MARKET
WeCraft Events’ Mike Bromfield talks Lazydays, the independent festival hoping to put craft drinks and good music on the map in Southend
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EDITOR’S LETTER
SEPTEMBER 2025 are you? Have you survived the summer? Or are you in a puddle somewhere H ow because it’s been too hot? Let’s face it. Delivering events in extreme heat is hard
work. But having spoken to so many ops professionals over the summer, I think some of you would have preferred a bit of rain. This issue is not going away. In fact, it’s been a hot topic (no pun intended) because what some are referring to as an “extreme” really isn’t. Shouldn’t incredibly hot temperatures followed by freakish storms now simply be considered the norm? Should contingency for additional shade or trackway be scrapped and just be factored into the budget because one way or another, either of these weather events need to be planned for, and accepted? It’s certainly an interesting topic and one that event insurance companies are keen to help with, as organisers look to make a claim on their policies. The view being that it’s better to ask for additional funds that will pay for solutions to help keep an event open rather than cancel altogether. If you turn to page 42, you can discover what’s new in the world of event insurance, and how insurers are working with event professionals to keep their worlds turning. But this issue is packed with more than insurance advice. You’ll find great insight from the teams behind SailGP, Labyrinth on the Thames, Southport Flower Show, and Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. Plus, there’s news on the speaker programme that awaits guests at this year’s Event Buyers Live. Things certainly are hotting up for the “Rolls Royce” of business events. It’s the perfect platform if you wish to expand your network and connect with suppliers for events in 2026 and beyond. On September 1, applications for the event open but in the meantime, if you’re looking for a reason to attend, please heed the advice of Phil Batty, CEO of Glasgow 2026, on page 19: “You never stop learning in the events industry.” Happy reading, Caroline
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CONTRIBUTORS
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PHIL BATTY
Phil is chief executive officer of the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Phil joined Glasgow 2026 with a strong and impressive track record in major event delivery having previously been director of ceremonies, culture and Queen’s Baton Relay for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. In his role as CEO of SKYMAGIC, Phil has also worked internationally to deliver a programme of global shows and events. He brings significant experience of realising the social impact from events, having held senior positions for the UK City of Culture programme and as board member of Spirit of 2012, the London Olympic and Paralympic Legacy Funder. In this issue, Phil talks about plans for Glasgow 2026, including delivery models and the central role that event professionals, including freelancers, can and will play in the sporting spectacle.
JAN RANKOU
Jan is ops account director at We Are OPS and joined the team in October 2019. She supports the production team with all its operational needs, including everything from security, traffic, and egress planning to stakeholder and community engagement strategy, licensing and local authority liaison. As well as supporting the production team, Jan also manages all the company’s back-end operations. This includes calendar management, supplier relations, event insurance, implementing company procedures, and always looking for partnerships to help young people starting out in the events industry. In this September edition, Jan talks about her role on Labyrinth on the Thames at Old Royal Naval College and how she assisted the live event’s promoter with operational and licensing support.
ALAN ADAMS
Alan is general manager of Southport Flower Show, which attracts more than 55,000 visitors over four days, and Victoria Park Events, an outdoor event space and community parkland adjacent to Southport town centre. Alan started volunteering at the show in 2005 but now leads the team, responsible for its delivery. In this edition, Alan – who is also a member of Liverpool City Region Local Visitor Economy Partnership Board – discusses event developments after Sefton Council granted permission to increase capacity on the show site. But more importantly, he talks of the show’s role in bringing a community together after the tragic events in Southport more than a year ago.
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INDUSTRY UPDATES APPOINTMENTS OF THE MONTH
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Jane Brown is operations director at Invictus Games Birmingham 2027. Rowan Kitching is group operations director at The Jockey Club. Wigtown Festival Company has appointed Isla Rosser-Owen as CEO.
LS Events has expanded its senior leadership team. Jen-e Jones is now vice president of operations and Grace Noest is vice president of strategy and engagement.
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Life-sized puppet animals crossed London’s Tower Bridge at the end of June. The Herds, a public art project produced by The Walk Productions in association with Factory International as part of Manchester International Festival, took to the capital’s streets on a 20,000 kilometre journey from the Congo Basin to highlight and “dramatise” climate crisis. The Herds journey will come to an end at the Arctic Circle with one big finale performance.
LINKEDIN POST OF THE MONTH
Purple Guide Lite, aimed at helping small community event organisers, has been updated and relaunched.
Olympia Events has appointed Thalia Day as sustainability lead and Carly Gibbs as head of guest experience.
Sterling Event Group has appointed Jack Sayer as project director. James Hunter also joins the tech event production company’s board of directors. Adjjima Na Patalung is festival director of Edinburgh International Children’s Festival.
Joe Milner has joined Steer as a consultant. Mark Draper is now director of operations at SailGP.
NEWS IN BRIEF
Chris Carter, founder and CEO, Eventwise Tomorrowland’s main stage burned down yesterday. Four weeks of work, gone in 30 minutes! My heart goes out to everyone involved – the crew who watched their work disappear. The organisers scrambling to save the festival and, the finance team who are probably having the worst week of their careers right now. But here’s what this teaches us about event financial planning. When disaster strikes, it’s not just about rebuilding – it’s about surviving the cash flow crisis that follows. Think about it: • Stage build costs (already paid to suppliers) • Insurance claims (can take 6+ months to settle) • Emergency contractors (charging premium rates) • Artist contracts that need renegotiating • Refund requests starting to roll in The brutal reality? Most events budget 10-15 per cent for contingencies. Now this right here is a complete financial restart with 48-hours’ notice. What really impresses me is their decision to continue. That takes serious financial backbone! The lesson for all of us: scenario planning isn’t just about, “what if ticket sales are down 20 per cent?” Sometimes it’s, “what if our main revenue driver literally goes up in smoke?”
Halo has published a Pocket Legislation Guide for UK Venues and Events, designed to provide information to help with protest activity. Events Apprenticeships launched the Events Apprenticeships Good Employer Guide to help businesses to take the first – or next – step to hire and support apprentices. Steve Heap, chairman of EIF, has published a book – You Call That a Career – full of memories from his time in the live music and festival industry.
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Looking for new business opportunities? Discover news of the latest contract wins and recently published tenders Freemans Event Partners and Silverstone have signed a new multi-year contract. Recently Freemans Event Partners delivered a record-breaking Formula 1 British Grand Prix working with the circuit to elevate the fan experience during the event. Under the renewed agreement, the company will remain the exclusive public food and beverage provider at Silverstone, delivering food and drink concessions to major annual events.
White Light will provide Culture Creative with lighting services for 2025, illuminating the company’s Halloween and festive light trails at numerous locations across the UK.
The Growth Company is preparing to host an enterprise festival, designed to inspire, connect and celebrate business growth and entrepreneurship across Greater Manchester. It is looking to appoint a lead contractor who can deliver full event management services. Interested? Email bassel.akkad@growthco.uk – the deadline is 1pm on September 12.
Carlow County Council is inviting submissions for the curation and management of a food, music, dance, and comedy festival to be hosted primarily in Carlow Town, with opportunities for wider county collaboration. The deadline is 12pm on September 9. Email Kieran Comerford – etenders@carlowcoco.ie
In September, Abertay University will host the upcoming Association of Researchers in Construction Management Conference. The university has issued a prior information notice as it seeks to engage a professional catering supplier to deliver a high-quality, fine dining experience to delegates. Interested? Email procurement@abertay.ac.uk
Ware Town Council requires security provision – including event security – for Ware Priory Estate. The deadline is 9am on September 21. Email Kerry Mavris – kerry@warepriory.co.uk
Derry City and Strabane District Council is seeking a suitably qualified organisation to provide bar facilities at the Foyle Maritime Festival 2026. The deadline for this tender – worth £36,000 – is 12pm on September 5. Email tenders@derrystrabane.com IceBlue Marketing and Design has won the tender to deliver West Midlands Business Festival.
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Show of strength Determined event professionals ensured Tomorrowland rose from the ashes when fire engulfed the festival’s main stage
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16, event professionals watched in horror. The fire completely destroyed the electronic dance music festival’s main stage, leaving organisers with two options; cancel or come up with a last-minute solution. The majority of #Eventprofs looking on assumed that the organiser would be left with no choice but to cancel. But despite the damage, in less than
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48 hours, Tomorrowland – with the help of an army of contractors – rebuilt an entirely new stage on the original site. In what is being described as a “feat of resilience” and pure show of strength, Tomorrowland opened its gates on July 18 as planned and welcomed 400,000 attendees from more than 200 countries. Stageco, PRG, Noizboyz, Pixelscreen, Phlippo Productions, and Prismax worked
together to deliver Tomorrowland’s makeshift main stage, a feat that was achieved in less than 24 hours. Thanks to the determination of an industry and the mobilisation of experienced and knowledgeable crew, festivalgoers were still able to enjoy the festival. Perhaps not how the organising team originally planned but the fire did not alter the audience’s experience. Moreso, it defined and solidified its spirit.
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ROYAL EDINBURGH MILITARY TATTOO
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Drums and drones An army of event professionals delivered the 75th anniversary of the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, which took on a fresh approach to storytelling
since Alan Lane was 18 years old, E ver it’s been his dream to work on the
Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. Having spent more than 20 years running his own theatre company, producing an array of outdoor spectaculars, and an Army Reservist too, Lane was the perfect candidate to take on the role of Tattoo creative director when the post became available just over a year ago. With 12 months to “plan and plot” the 75th anniversary of the annual spectacle featuring military bands and cultural performers from around the world, Lane has taken his time to get under the skin of the Tattoo production and globally-recognised brand. “I started this job as a fan and what I want is for the Tattoo to be as successful as it’s ever been,” he says, mid-way through the Tattoo’s run of 20+ shows. “I don’t feel the need to put my identity on it. On the other hand, I’ve been hired for a reason, and I think the reason is because the Tattoo wanted a greater emphasis on storytelling and theatricality and I’m a theatre director.”
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This year, the event wished to mark 75 years of tradition, supporting British Military, Scottish heritage, and international culture. As a result, the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo – a registered charity – has produced a huge celebration.
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“One of the things that we take really seriously here is that we’re the largest and best supported platform for Pipes and Drums and Shetland fiddles and if we do not play our part then those art forms will be damaged so I take that responsibility seriously,” Lane adds. “We are the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. We have stakeholders in Royalty, in this great city, in the military, and our cultural art forms, and we need to make sure they’re all getting what they need. But we also need to make sure that the tail doesn’t wag the dog and that we’re making the show that the organisation wants and the audience demand. “When I took on the role, I wasn’t nervous, because if you’re not ready for professional football, don’t ask for the ball,” he continues. “I’ve done my prep, worked hard and trust my team. But, yeah, if you’re not waking up in the morning, spending every single second trying to make the best show you can, then you should get out of professional show business.”
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Lane is firm in his opinions and equally strong in character. When we chat, he exclaims how happy he is with each audience’s response to the 90-minute show (9,000 capacity) featuring 950 performers, projection, lasers, and, for the first time, drones and narration. Lane continues: “The main ingredients of the show haven’t change very much at all
this year; narration and drones being the exception. But we looked at the recipe, the order, and how we emphasise the things we want to do because those things make a big difference to how the show is perceived.” This year’s Tattoo features a storyteller, played by Terence Rae. The character guides audiences through the show, providing a cohesive narrative thread. At one point during the evening, in a choreographed moment, Rae interacts with a ball of light (a drone) – nicknamed “Tinkerbell” by production – which hovers in his hand before shooting off into the night sky. Lane continues: “I think the important thing with any show is you’ve got to have a story. If you’re using fireworks, for example, and if they’re only there to be spectacular, then they’re nothing more than really lovely wallpaper. Whereas I think what’s brilliant about the creative team on the Tattoo is, they’re constantly asking, what is the central story? And our central story is really clear. We’re celebrating 75 years of the Tattoo, and we’re celebrating the people who make our communities what they are. “Every single decision we have made, whether it be fireworks, drones, flyovers, anything, we are constantly pointing back to, what is the central story? If you ask those questions, even of a large-scale event, you’ll get an emotional return.”
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PUSHING BOUNDARIES
Tom Rees, managing director of AeroAVA, the drone specialist, points out that the use of drones in the Tattoo does not make the event a drone show. It’s a show enhanced by drone effects. For example, for the show’s climax, 100 drones form a number “75” – 40 metres in height – which fly approximately 50-60 metres above Edinburgh Castle’s North Tower, synchronised with pyrotechnics. Beginning with a young female piper pointing an illuminated torch skyward, the drones – triggered by timecode – respond by revealing the anniversary motif, then rotate 360 degrees so the entire city can see the “wow” moment. “We have been working closely with Harry Guthrie [production director] and Alan,” Rees explains. “It’s been a joy to hear his freshness in approach and his enthusiasm and keenness to break and push boundaries.”
SAFETY MANAGEMENT
Flying drones above Edinburgh Castle presents unique challenges. The team operates in one of Scotland’s most restrictive environments, with cast and audience in close proximity, in changeable weather conditions,
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while maintaining split-second timing with live performance elements. Rees, alongside Chris Bradbury, AeroAVA’s technical director and chief drone pilot, have liaised with Historic Environment Scotland, Police, counter terrorism, and emergency services to ensure they can deliver a safe, reliable display every night within a Restricted Area (Temporary) – or RA(T) for short. “We coordinate with the police and production if anyone encroaches on the RA(T) so it’s more than flying drones, it’s safety management and operational management,” Rees continues. “I am display manager and Chris is chief pilot and he’s the guy who makes the final decision if we can fly or not whilst I connect with production, police and other interested parties.”
– coordinate to produce something that celebrates 75 years of the Tattoo and gives something to the city as part of Edinburgh’s 900-year celebrations. Ethan Curry, audio specialist at Auditoria, is responsible for the Tattoo’s sound design with its 72 channels of radio mics. One of his main goals is to reinforce the acoustic sound you get from instruments being played outside, in an open area, tracking the movement of the performers, matching the timing of the amplified sound to be in time with the acoustic arrival from their instrument. But for 2025, Curry and his team have also had to create a musical moment with enough impact to disguise the fact that all of the drones have flown in the air to get ready to make the “75” – a move that takes 50 seconds.
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If AeroAVA cannot fly, there is a contingency plan. Instead of drones, the production team use lasers to create other effects that continue to tell the Tattoo story, which this year is called The Heroes Who Made Us. Since the very beginning, Rees has liaised with Lane and Guthrie, on all aspects of the show, ensuring AeroAVA and all other departments – lighting, sound, and projection
Guthrie describes the addition of drones, coordinated with big sound moments as just another layer that required some additional coordination from production, operations, and the supply chain, which includes Solotech, Creative Technology, and Neg Earth. Kate Dawkins, video designer and director of Kate Dawkins Studios, concurs and says that this year’s show was more “interwoven”.
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The addition of the narrator, and those big “theatrical spoken word moments” mixed with video sequences “lifted the emotions”, taking the audience on a journey. It’s Dawkins job to work with the castle’s tricky, non-flat surfaces where nothing is centred nor symmetrical. It’s a challenge, she admits, but one she “leans into” to ensure every ticketholder gets a great view and sees the story being told. However, Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo is not limited to just using the stage and castle as its stage space and creative canvas. For example, at this year’s Tattoo, the show starts with someone playing the piano in Waverley Station, which is about a mile away from the castle. Then, as you walk up to the venue, ticketholders meet a number of buskers, all of whom work for Lane. Finally, at the very end of the show, a choir of 270 floods the auditorium. So there are ways in which the Tattoo team can apply the show to other parts of the venue and city.
SMALL CHANGES = BIG IMPACT
Ed Fenton, head of operations at the Tattoo, agrees with Lane. Whilst the confines of the castle – with only one way in and one way out – can limit the production in some ways,
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the event’s success hinges on a collaborative approach to making sure all processes, procedures, and production elements run as efficiently as possible. Fenton says that having a creative director, like Lane, who has taken the time to fully understand the venue and what the team can add to enhance the show, means the worldrenowned show remains contemporary and is taken to the next level. Sometimes, when an event is so well established, and the venue dictates what you can and cannot do, it’s the small tweaks that add up and make a big difference. Fenton concurs and says it’s by no means stopped him and the operations team from making a big change at this year’s event. For instance, he has worked with Buro Happold to look at code dynamics, applying that to the venue, modelling the venue, to know where to place signage. This has resulted in the Tattoo colour coding tickets and signs to reflect different sections within the grandstand seating to try and alleviate “choke points” when ticketholders stop to work out where their seats are located. “It’s those small, incremental changes that help us to keep things moving in such a tight space,” he explains. “But I also think that this
year, there’s been a real meeting of minds. We have introduced drones to the show and like Alan and Tom have said, we’ve worked with Police Scotland and Historic Environment Scotland, who I think – perhaps in years gone by – have been concerned about drones and drone technology flying over an ancient monument. But this year, there’s been a real acceptance of the opportunity that the drones present.” The entire Tattoo company has recognised the creative opportunity that the drones bring and what could potentially be done with them in the future, even if it’s not at the same scale. But for now, what has stood out for Lane in his first year at the helm? “I think the thing that I’m most proud of is all the incredible people – 950 of the most extraordinary creative team, performers over a mile away from the stage – coming together to create a single, unified emotional impact. There is a moment at the end of the show that every single technician, every single supplier, every single designer, every single performer, every single element of the show points towards at all times and that’s the business we’re in. And everybody who makes the show, buys into it and I’m really proud of them for doing that.”
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With less than one year to go before Glasgow hosts the Commonwealth Games, CEO Phil Batty discusses delivery models, freelance opportunities, and the secret to capturing the hearts and minds of an audience July 23, 2026, Glasgow will once “There will be over 200 in Glasgow. It’s the O nagain throw open its doors to the world biggest swimming programme that there’s
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and welcome thousands of visitors to the Commonwealth Games. Sports fans will travel from across the globe to watch 3,000 athletes from 74 nations and territories compete across ten sports and six Para sports. Phil Batty is CEO of Glasgow 2026 and is charged with delivering the sporting event, last held in the city in 2014. As only the third city in Games history to host the event twice, all eyes will be on Batty and his team to produce a spectacle after Glasgow offered to host the Commonwealth Games when the Australian state of Victoria pulled out citing financial concerns. Batty is keen to quash the “media narrative” that says that Glasgow 2026 – with its concentrated programme – is not a “watered down” version of the sporting competition because the event has had to be slightly scaled back. With vast experience of the Games – Batty was previously director of ceremonies, culture and Queen’s Baton Relay for Birmingham 2022 – he is best placed to address any negative vibes. “There were 281 medal events in Birmingham,” he said.
ever been in Commonwealth Games history, it has a bigger track cycling programme than there’s ever been in Games history, and a bigger Para sport programme than there’s ever been. Athletics will see the return of the Commonwealth mile, track cycling has got the elimination race back, and there’s Para powerlifting on day one of the Games. “If you love sport, this is in no way a watered down sport competition. It’s ten days of packed medal events from start to finish, taking place in four incredible venues, within an eight-mile corridor. It will be electric and you’ll feel closer to the action than ever before.”
CENTRAL DELIVERY VEHICLE
Glasgow 2026 will deliver more than £100 million of inward investment into the city and is projected to support more than £150 million of economic value, thanks to a delivery model that has been specially designed to not require public funding. When Victoria withdrew from hosting the Games, the state put some funding
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GLASGOW 2026 EXECUTIVE TEAM on the table and made it available to any Commonwealth country that was prepared to step in. Further funding will come from broadcast rights, commercial revenue, ticket sales, and sponsorship but Batty is keen to point out that Glasgow 2026’s new “model” is firmly based on a partnership approach. Batty continued: “For Birmingham 2022, the organising committee had around 2,000 people. Our organising company will be 200 people. In Birmingham, we delivered a lot of stuff in-house, whereas here, we’re partnering with the supply chain – whether that’s Games management systems, venue event delivery, all of those key supply chain partners are more an embedded extension of the team. That’s where the new model really comes into its own because there is no reason to build a central delivery vehicle when the events industry itself is best placed with the skills and talent to put on a major, major event.”
previous position at Birmingham 2022, he has a “broader lens” on how the event is being managed and delivered. For Glasgow 2026 to be delivered on time and on budget, it ultimately comes down to partnerships, the supply chain, and engaging a wider “ecosystem”. But what did he learn in Birmingham that will benefit the event in 2026? “One of the things that we saw in Birmingham was, if you can unlock the excitement and anticipation of a city and its people, and if you can joyfully portray that story on the global stage, that is what creates the hearts and minds moments. “Glasgow is a city that loves to party. It loves events. It knows how to come out and enjoy itself. So I think the thing I learned in Birmingham was, if you really celebrate the people of a place, that’s where the joy exists.”
BIG SIGH OF RELIEF
As CEO, Batty believes his role is ensuring there’s a clear vision for the event and that best practice from previous editions is being taken forward. “We’re ensuring that in the time that we’ve got, we are bringing everybody with us on the journey to next year. “The UK has been really lucky. We’ve hosted London 2012, Glasgow 2014, the World Championships, UCI Cycling, Birmingham 2022; we have a huge number of talented people and freelancers with transferable skills and so there will be hundreds of jobs, freelance contracts, and opportunities to get involved. “We’re embracing the modern events industry and so they’ll be flexible and hybrid working opportunities and there’ll also be some commodity infrastructure contracts that we’ll need. “That said, with a year to go, 70 per cent of the procurement is done and in a good place,
Events will take place in four of Scotland’s most iconic venues, the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome and Arena, Scotstoun Stadium, Tollcross International Swimming Pool and the Scottish Exhibition Campus (SEC) and Glasgow 2026 has appointed Trivandi as its official event delivery partner. Over the last six months, since Batty was appointed, the Glasgow 2026 team has been hard at work ensuring the venues are good to go, the right talent is being hired, and the city is ready to welcome 3,000 athletes. “We’re really fortunate that within Glasgow, there are some amazing venues, a number of which had major investment 12 years ago for 2014,” Batty added. “You definitely feel like you’re working in a city that’s ready to step up and step up with high quality venues and high quality infrastructure.” Not having to build anything is “a big sigh of relief”, said Batty. Compared to his
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which is hopefully a sign of confidence that the event is on time, on track and on budget.”
CONNECTING PEOPLE
Over the next few months, Glasgow 2026 will launch volunteer applications; ticket sales will soon follow and then the focus turns to ensuring thousands of people have an amazing event experience. But Batty is also keen to acknowledge the legacy of Glasgow 2014. Talented professionals, who started as coordinators in 2014, are now working on the event years later, in more experienced and specialist roles, and leading teams. Batty explained: “You are the culmination of all the experiences you’ve had, every event you’ve worked on, from the big events to the small events. Each gives you a moment or a connection that you can take some skill or learning from. “You never stop learning in the events industry. Whether that’s the work that I did in Birmingham, or whether that’s closing Abu Dhabi International Airport for a drone show [Batty is also CEO of SKYMAGIC], you’re always learning, and sometimes it’s the small events that you learn the most from.” Batty concluded: “I remember there was this beautiful commission in Hull – when I worked on Hull 2017 – called I Wish To Communicate With You. We took two tower blocks, a lighting rig, and lit the public areas in each tower block. It was the first time that neighbours in the same block of flats had spoken to each other before. That is something so small and so simple that proves that events can bring people together. That’s just as exciting as putting Ozzy Osbourne on stage at a closing ceremony of a Commonwealth Games. Those two things connect people in a city on completely different scales, but with the same level of impact and that’s what we hope to achieve next summer.”
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Making a splash LS Events’ Meg John on SailGP and delivering an event site fit for the hottest sailing action 20,000 ticketed fans flocked to to get it. Personally, I’ve worked on the Volvo A round Southsea Common, Portsmouth, in July Ocean Race before, and l really like working
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for two days of race action. Yet, the racing action did not take place on dry land. Instead, thousands descended on the city to watch “the most exciting racing on water” when Emirates Great Britain Sail Grand Prix (SailGP) made its Portsmouth debut (July 19-20). Prior to the race weekend, Sir Ben Ainslie, CEO and co-owner of Emirates GBR, Great Britain’s SailGP team, said that he welcomed the pressure to perform in front of a home crowd. He described the feeling – when tens of thousands of people watch you and want you to win – as a little bit intimidating but at the same time, pressure is a privilege, he said. Meg John, project director at LS Events, can relate to that pressure. Because when StandOut met her during the build of the sailing event, it was not only boiling hot but the event would officially become SailGP’s largest event in the Northern Hemisphere. No pressure, right. “We’ve been appointed as local operator,” John said, as she sipped a cool drink in some welcome shade. “We won the contract at the end of September, beginning of October, and we were absolutely stoked. I was desperate
on sporting events.”
BIG IMAGINATION
LS Events is no stranger to sport. It is the local operator for the Formula E London E-Prix and responsible for the planning, delivery and management of the motorsport event. In fact, John explained that after SailGP, she was heading straight to London’s ExCeL to help the team deliver the race’s fan village and operations. “We have amazing teams that love to work on sporting events, which is great because SailGP has a very big imagination,” John continued. Originally, the SailGP tender asked for a local operator to create an event site and fan village with a grandstand for 3,000 people. But SailGP’s ambition and imagination kicked in. Soon after, it asked LS Events to look at how feasible it would be to increase grandstand capacity to 20,000. Not a couple of hundred additional seats. Not a couple of thousand; 17,000. A huge jump. “We looked at increasing capacity to 20,000 but with another event before us [on the same
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SAILGP footprint], it was not possible to build the bigger grandstand within the timeframe we had,” John explained. Instead, John and the team worked hard with Arena and GL events to maximise the space to enable as many people as possible to enjoy the event on the waterfront. In 2026, that may change. But more on that later.
TRUST AND COMMON GOALS
Over two action-packed days, near sellout crowds packed the SailGP Waterfront Grandstand and Waterfront Premium Lounge to watch New Zealand claim top honours, beating Emirates GBR and Switzerland in a winner-takes-all final. Fans were treated to a front-row view of SailGP’s F50 catamarans as they flew across the Solent at near 100 km/h, with fast, furious and physical racing made even more exciting by challenging wind conditions and a pictureperfect Portsmouth backdrop. Chris Ball, overlay manager, Aly Ball, project manager, an eight-strong site management team, John, and an army of event contractors worked tirelessly in the heat to deliver six sites, including the race stadium, tech and team bases, and additional hospitality facilities such as VIP guest chaser boats. “It’s not like BST Hyde Park where we operate in one massive field,” John commented. “There’s a lot going on. Here, we’re on land, sea and in the air. We have a heavy broadcast presence with four helicopters filming live content and there’s the on-water operations team (headed up by Harry Spedding) that work for us, too. We
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have to deal with permissions and permits out in the sea, working with the King’s Harbour Master and vessel traffic services for Southampton and Portsmouth because of the ferries and cruise ships that come in.” John added: “Having teams I can trust and get on with jobs has been vital. Also, I’m really passionate about trying to show people how you can do things easier. I like being able to transfer knowledge, having a common goal, and working together; that makes things a much more enjoyable experience for everyone.”
VITAL INFORMATION
LS Events has worked closely with the SailGP team to support it as much as possible. That’s a given, you may think. But the SailGP
calendar is so packed – there’s a race every month – that you can easily see how it would be difficult for the team to come up for air. Hence, John and the project team have supported SailGP as best they can in terms of understanding what they want, what their standards are, and then “reproducing that”. Reproducing? John explained further: “One of the main things we’ve done to support SailGP is to produce a space and quantities list, detailing quantities and commodities for the event. It’s basically an index of every single structure and service that’s on-site. Every single structure is given a code, including fence lines and toilets, and then we’ve detailed what are globally or locally sourced structures, so that SailGP has the exact specifications for each structure, for example.
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SAILGP “I’m really excited to be able to give that information to SailGP because it’s just such a vital piece of information. I’ve done a lot of work with other local teams with Formula E, in countries where the local teams may struggle to understand what a global championship requires. Being able to have that experience and offer it to SailGP so that I can help them onboard other local teams, and make their lives easier, has been really, really important.”
LEARNINGS AND THE FUTURE
John kindly walked StandOut through the site, as event contractors busily got on with bringing the event vision to life. When we talk, there’s a lot of big, heavy scaffolding structures being erected in the midday sun for hospitality, grandstands, and screen supports. John described the supply chain on-site as great. She welcomed the support of the “big” guns – Arena Group, GL events UK, Mar-key Group, WH Silverbacks, and Triton Project Solutions – and gave a big shout out to the Safety Geeks team and Davis Track Hire, which answered John’s call to install some emergency trackway when extreme temperatures and heavy plant equipment led recently laid tarmac to give way. But it was not the only solution that John and the LS Events team had to find when the gates opened. “There’s always something you can learn from the first year of an event,” John explained during a post-event catch up. “We had no data to go on so we had some big queues to get in on the Saturday which meant we tweaked some things overnight for the Sunday. With our changes, the queues moved much quicker. We learned that hard core racing fans turn up really early so we had queues form at 11am when the gates didn’t
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open until 2pm. It was totally fine because we had quite a lot of space so thankfully, we were able to queue people. As for other learnings, there was no allocated seating in the grandstands but we’ll definitely be recommending to do that in the future.” John will meet SailGP at the end of August to conduct a big debrief. However, thoughts have already turned to 2026. LS Events has a multi-year contract to deliver the event, which returns to Portsmouth next year. “SailGP will be happening in Portsmouth in 2026,” John concluded. “SailGP wants to go bigger with the grandstands so there are lots of things for us to really look at. I always think the second year is such a great opportunity to be able to build on what you’ve learned and then look at all the other things you need to do. The first year is so much about learning everything, especially when it’s a new sport, or it hasn’t been in that location before. So, yeah, me and the team have lots to look at and process before we pull forward but we’re really excited to be working on it again.”
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MORE PERSONALITY
A couple of years ago, Knipe looked at changing some of the structures used for regular feature areas like The Author Stage and the Chef Demo Stage. However, the new solutions she contracted did not work as well. She took the decision to revert back to the old structures but that did not stop her from refreshing other content-led areas that required something a little different. Knipe explained: “Every year, I create a master spreadsheet with things like, what purpose the structure needs to serve, what the capacity needs to be, and does it need to be light. “This year, we took a step back and said, actually, what area of the event is the structure going to be in? So if it’s in KidsFest, it has to be a colourful big top. If it’s in SpaFest, it needs to be a wood frame, because it needs to fit with that earthy, natural look. If it’s in RetroFest it has to look retro. That approach has actually worked really well and I’m hoping it will give the festival a bit more personality.”
NICE CHALLENGE
CarFest’s temporary structure requirement is huge. In total, the festival utilises a blend of tipis, stretch tents, Sperry tents and big tops, or – to be more precise – 60 structures, 44 clearspan structures, 42 chalet huts, and 200 gazebos. “I searched high and low for some structures,” Knipe added. “When I rang people and told them the CarFest dates (August 22-24), I always got the same response: ‘What weekend? That’s the busiest weekend of the year’. So, for example, we’ve had to get Sperry Tents from 10 x 15, Sperry Tents Padstow, and White Bison. Because we were looking for something very specific, we had to cast the net quite wide but that’s been a nice challenge for 2025, managing all those suppliers, including about eight new ones.”
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TEMPORARY STRUCTURES AND GRANDSTAND SEATING Hire, Instant Marquees, Tents and Events, Gigtent, White Bison, Sperry Tents Padstow, Yes Tents, Cruck Tent, Event in a Tent, Stunning Tents including 10x15 and The Sail Tent Company, The Travelling Barn, Buffalo Tipi, Shades Canvas, Meerkat Marquees, Smiddereens, and House of Hud/Arabian Tents to supply tents, structures, and marquees to the much-loved event. But how did Knipe manage that tender process? Knipe has a temporary structures budget and previously, has allocated the budget between different areas of the event by deciding what needs to be spent in a defined area. But this year was different. Knipe commented: “I took every line that had a structure value next to it, and I had one big pot to play with. That gave me a lot more freedom at the very beginning to say, well, actually, I’m going to overspend here because we’ve booked this amazing 20-metre dome for SpaFest because it’s way more suited to wellbeing. “For that, I know I’ve triple spent on the budget line because I really wanted that type of structure but then in another area, I’ve underspent. The nice thing about the budget is having a pot with a bit of wiggle room and a bit of flexibility in it. And I will tell you, there isn’t a line in that budget, I don’t know,” Knipe laughed. “Honestly, I’m like a sniffer dog if someone makes a change.”
EXCITED
When we chat, Knipe and her team are about to go on-site and deliver the event. She is excited to see what the new structures will look like and the impact that their presence will have on the overall look and feel of the event and like many savvy event professionals, she knows that they will make a big difference. Katie Hart, director of Chord Event, concurred. Like Knipe, event agencies and organisers are striving to achieve more unique finishes, taking into account both sustainability and cost efficiencies, Hart said. “Our product offers this flexibility to achieve a creative and ‘bespoke’ finish from an essentially ‘off the shelf’ product,” Hart explained. “With our large inventory of kit, combined with our technical knowledge and close working relationship with the manufacturer and structural engineer, we can produce structures that are unique in look and feel from the next.” At Goodwood Festival of Speed, for instance, Chord Event delivered structures for Hyundai, Lamborghini, and Lotus. Each car marque used the same Chord Event system but each structure was designed to give guests a completely different brand experience. For example, Chord Event worked with Collaborate on the Hyundai N booth, which celebrated the global debut of Hyundai’s IONIQ 6 N.
The structure measured 20m x 35m on a 7m leg with a 20m x 10m double deck element within that footprint. But Chord Event also incorporated a grandstand into the activation, which seated more than 160 people. “This element required a lot of additional engineering to move the structure uprights 5m back to offer unobstructed views of the track,” Hart continued.
CREATIVE AMBITION
Like Chord Event, Showblock – an Arena company – worked with several event agencies at Goodwood FOS. For example, it delivered a three-storey structure for Honda in collaboration with Jack Morton Worldwide. The space featured multiple zones, including a film studio with a ceiling-mounted LED screen, and dedicated product display areas on the second floor showcasing both cars and motorbikes. Showblock’s new product called Volume, which offers more than five metres of internal height, compared to the standard 2.54 metres found in other structures from the Showblock family, provided the additional internal height needed to suspend the horizontal LED screen, something that would not have been possible with standard modular structures. Nick Cole, founder and managing director of Showblock, said of the project: “Because the build was based on our modular Showblock system, it could be delivered
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FEWS AT SAILGP at speed without compromising on safety, structural integrity, or design detail. It’s a perfect example of how creative ambition and smart engineering can come together to deliver a truly memorable space.” He continued: “We also supported TRO on a multi-level activation for BMW at the same event. BMW is another bold and immersive build that took full advantage of the Showblock system’s scalability and clean architectural lines. The BMW space is always a standout: it features vehicles displayed across all levels, including on the roof of the three-storey structure. This requires precise engineering and structural flexibility, all made possible by our robust steel framework.”
vinyl allowing maximum internal impact while allowing lots of natural light. However, Fews was not the only temporary structure specialist on-site, providing vital infrastructure to the event’s organising team. GL events UK, Arena Group, Triton Project Solutions, Mar-key Group, and WH Silverbacks worked with SailGP and LS Events, contracted to the event as local operator, to deliver a range of structures for the mega sailing event. Will Janes, business development manager at GL events UK, which recently provided structures to the Scottish Open (see front cover photo), Sandringham Flower Show, and Hay Festival, explained: “Customers
increasingly seek premium locations and value for money, they want the best seat in the house. This demand for quality and experience was perfectly demonstrated in our work at SailGP in Portsmouth this July. “Following months of meticulous planning with LS Events, we successfully delivered an extraordinary temporary grandstand (one of the tallest we’ve ever built) that didn’t just meet expectations, it exceeded them. The project was completed on time, following a rigorous and safety-first approach throughout. This achievement showcases the flexible, technically excellent capabilities of our seating team – qualities that truly set GL events apart in a competitive market.”
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Volume was also used in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for the WWE Night of Champions to create a retail space, marking the first global deployment of the new product. The structure included a separate mezzanine level, clearspan glazing, and large-format vertical graphics, which are highly desired by sporting event organisers. Similarly, SailGP required a “highperformance, visually striking, and weather-resilient solution” to be used for the official merchandise outlet at SailGP Portsmouth in July. It contracted Fews to supply its new Avantgarde marquee to the sailing championship. Fews’ Avantgarde structure – a 110m x 15m black framed marquee – provided the ideal solution. The company made a sixfigure investment in Avantgarde and took delivery of the new product in June, just in time for SailGP. The structure’s horizontal windows were branded using contra-vision
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MAXIMISING SPACE
GL events UK worked alongside Arena, which installed SailGP’s main grandstand with more than 4,750 seats. According to Dave Withey, sales and marketing director of Arena UK and Europe, the prime objective was to maximise space and to enable as many fans as possible the opportunity to get closer to the action and enjoy every moment of foiling drama on the Solent. Sarah Hodson, project director at WH Silverbacks, was also approached by SailGP and LS Events to assist with some trussing structures for the event, including a covered terrace area, which was to run alongside another structure called the Adrenalin Lounge. Hodson explained: “This space allowed people to come out from the main marquee into a fantastic viewing area for the race. The space was a 4.5 x 70m long truss box with white stretch tent roofs. We used angular brackets, enabling it to look like an extension to the marquee. This area was dictated to us by the available space on the promenade. The structure fit like a glove, which is the nicety of trussing because you can create the shapes you need.” WH Silverbacks also created the Premium Waterfront Terrace. Hodson continued: “These were individual structures used as a viewing area where people could relax, eat, enjoy the racing, and party at the same time. These consisted of three different truss boxes, which curved around the contour of the promenade, with grey stretch tent roofs. “We worked quite closely with Triton on this one, as there were no ground fixing
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According to Hodson, the on-site build was quite tight in regards to build time and space, particularly with the amount of suppliers onsite. However, everyone worked together to deliver the event and make it a success. Withey concurred. The project, he said, required “experience” to get it over the line, given the “tricky” site, which was open to the elements. SailGP wanted the grandstand – which was 44 rows deep – to be as close to the water and racing action as possible, which
from a structural perspective required a lot of work, considerable engineering expertise, and a collaborative approach with all key contractors working side by side.
COLLABORATION
Janes believes that there is a growing trend for collaboration and open channels of communication, guided by well-defined criteria. This kind of approach delivers the best outcomes, he said. With organisers and suppliers working together to ensure any tendering processes result in the right solution for the event. This is pertinent as SailGP is looking to grow the size of grandstand at the 2026 event
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DIVERSE SPACES
Yet the concept of collaboration and partnership working is no stranger to largescale overlay providers that work on major event sites. For example, Arena worked alongside Neptunus to deliver the South Pavilion and centre court seating bowl at HSBC Championships at the Queen’s Club in June. The Lawn Tennis Association wished to give customers a better viewing experience, better sight lines, and a better hospitality experience. But how the seating bowl linked to the South Pavilion required some head scratching and honest and open conversations between the two companies. This is not the only example this summer, where event suppliers have had to work together to deliver events that are remembered for the right reasons. For instance, Field and Lawn recently delivered a large temporary venue for Manchester Samagam, a four-day Sikh spiritual festival at Heaton Park from August 7-10. The word Samagam comes from Sanskrit roots, “sam” (together) and “agam” (coming) meaning a coming together or
confluence. Therefore, it was the organising team’s wish to create a space that its congregation simply did not want to leave once they were there. Manchester Samagam, a registered charity which organises the event, required a diverse range of structures. In fact, more than 7,400 square metres of structures. But with Parklife Festival and two Oasis concerts also being held in the park over the summer months, managing the overlap between the de-rig and install of these events was “tricky”, said Tom Goodman, the event’s project manager. “Installing for the Samagam was a unique departure from our usual work in festivals and large-scale events,” said Goodman. “This project required deep cultural sensitivity where every structure and finish had to reflect its purpose. With thoughtful guidance from the organisers, we adapted our methods and installation programme to honour Sikh traditions creating functional, respectful spaces that supported worship, service, and unity.”
CONTINGENCY
Heaton Park became Goodman’s second home over the summer months. Thankfully, Manchester Samagam used different entrances to Oasis so getting the right kit to the right location was not a problem, especially as the
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specifications for the event were received by Field and Lawn in early January. “As the event grew closer, there was a significant amount of rainfall which put the site location at risk,” Goodman continued. “We were actively exploring a contingency location, adjacent to Heaton Hall. Right up to the Thursday before the installation on Monday the actual build location was up in the air. We created a plan for each option but thankfully, the original location cleared in time to install to the original plan.”
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It’s true; temporary structures really do have the ability to significantly enhance the visitor experience and raise the bar. But according to Hart and Ashley Austin, managing director of Evolution Dome, which recently launched the Quiet Qube and installed structures at Battersea Power Station for Lego’s Build the Thrill event, great things can only be achieved if agencies and organisers allow enough time to plan ahead. This is a point that Matt Porter, head of sales at Fews, also agrees with. A nervous market in Q1 of 2025 – thanks to Trump and his tariffs – resulted in cautious brand spend. Furthermore, it all comes down to that age old adage, Porter said: book early to secure the best price and the best kit, and let’s do away with an almost adopted Amazon Prime mindset to ordering equipment. Austin concurred and concluded: “The trend towards compressed project timelines continues, driven by an air of caution in the uncertain economic climate. We recently had a project confirmed less than 24 hours before the event, and while we can facilitate rapid deployment, this still requires time to organise transport and crew. Ultimately, these shortened lead times reduce the effectiveness of the collaborative process, preventing clients from gaining the maximum benefit from the final structures.”
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Click and connect StandOut reveals the first speakers set for Event Buyers Live 2025 and details on how to apply for this year’s event Ex, site management, adverse Z one weather planning, and power.
These are just a handful of the topics to be discussed at this year’s Event Buyers Live (EBL) when the annual hosted buyer event returns to Carden Park, Cheshire, from November 10-12. StandOut Multimedia, organiser of EBL, can exclusively unveil details of the event’s respected content programme, alongside a number of experienced industry professionals who will facilitate the intimate sessions. Taking place at Carden Park, the luxury estate near Cheshire, EBL prides itself on delivering relatable and relevant content that enables organisers to openly share best practice, key concerns, and the realities of life on-site. Zone Ex is one of five roundtables taking place at EBL, providing organisers with practical guidance and knowledge. It will be facilitated by Emma Stuart, an operations manager, specialising in crowd management, C3, and Zone Ex, and director of Gentian Events. Joining Stuart are Russell Pate, freelance production and event manager, Louise Hutchinson, customer service and accessibility manager at DF Concerts and Events, Jacob Gough, director at Deryncoch, and Andy Fryers, Hay Festival’s sustainability director. They will also be facilitating their respective roundtable sessions on site management, accessibility, adverse weather planning, and sustainability, bringing a wealth of experience to the respected event. But that’s not all. In a new move for the event, EBL – which facilitates pre-arranged
procurement meetings between organisers and suppliers – will host a series of “How to…” sessions; sessions that specifically focus on the amazing things that happen when organisers and suppliers collaborate. For example, Tiff Gaskell, head of operations at Victorious Festival and Alistair Gregson, employed by the festival team as head of power, will discuss how Victorious Festival reduced its fuel costs by almost a third this year. And with more “How to…” sessions to be revealed, the event is shaping up to be the most targeted yet, providing hosted buyers with food for thought, inspiration, and practical information. Including what it’s like to step into the shoes of a neurodivergent event attendee. In an immersive and eye-opening session, Helen Moon, co-founder of EventWell, will explore with attendees what it really feels like to plan for, travel to, and attend a live event as a neurodivergent guest. From pre-event overwhelm to on-site sensory triggers, this session will unpack the hidden barriers that often go unnoticed by organisers – and the simple, powerful shifts that make a world of difference. It’s the perfect session for anyone who wants to move beyond tick-box inclusion and design events that genuinely welcome everyone. Caroline Clift, content manager at Event Buyers Live, said: “We say it all the time but EBL really does just keep getting better and better.
“Every year, we analyse event feedback and talk to #Eventprofs on a daily basis to find out the key concerns on everyone’s mind; what are the key topics that they want to learn more about, what training would they like, and what skills do they want to learn more of. “After spending many hours on event sites, picking the brains of the very people that we’re appealing to, I’m really chuffed to reveal some of the great speakers we have lined up and to give everyone a peek into what they can expect from this year’s event.” Clift continued: “By no means is this it. There are many more speakers, brilliant training sessions, and insightful How to workshops to be announced, but I hope organisers are inspired to block out November 10-12 in your diaries because you can’t miss #EBL25. “The window to apply for one of only 100 places will open on September 1, so if you don’t want to miss amazing content like this, unrivalled networking, and valuable prearranged procurement meetings, and more, set your alarms now.” If you would like to attend Event Buyers Live 2025, the application window opens on September 1. For more information, visit www.eventbuyerslive.com or if you have a specific question about how to apply for your place, email info@eventbuyerslive.com
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Take cover What type of events and incidents would you like to insure your event against? Insurance experts discuss new products, market trends, and things to consider, including extreme weather, civil commotion, and parametric cover… the last few years, extreme weather O ver events have forced event organisers
to cancel their events and lean on additional resources to get them out of the mud – in some cases, quite literally. But when most people think of extreme weather, they think of rain and wind. Now, as the UK gets to grips with its fourth heatwave of the summer, there is a growing consensus that considerably hot weather is no longer a rare occurrence but something the live events industry should get used to. Event insurance experts agree, especially given the number of organisers they have worked with recently to keep the event gates open and avoid cancelling an event altogether. “When people think of extreme weather, they think of wind and rain, but I
think heat should now be taken into account,” explains Tim Rudland, client director at Tysers Live. “A couple of weeks ago, we worked on a 20,000-capacity show and the festival’s health and safety team and local authority were concerned that the audience were going to be exposed to the intense sun. There was going to be no cloud, little shade, and they were worried that the medical tent might get overwhelmed. “We talked to the team on the Monday and discussed ideas; things they could use to mitigate the heat, such as gazebos to shelter security staff, misting stations so people could cool down and additional shade for customers. Then, we went down to site on the Tuesday and got all the additional measures signed off. Within 24 hours of that first call, the funds were given the green light.” Rudland continues: “Yes, event cancellation insurance
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policies cover things like cancellation, abandonment, curtailment and interruption but they also cover additional costs, and an insurer would rather you spend X amount on some extra measures if it’s going to be cheaper than cancelling the whole show.”
ALL REASONABLE STEPS
Rudland is not alone his view. Matthew Meredith, CEO of LMP Group, Simon Nicholson, client director of 1783 Group, and Gary Brooks, client director of Specialist Risk Group, concur. Cancellation insurance is at the forefront of any organiser’s mind and the topic is as important as it’s ever been. The earlier people put a policy in place, you more value you get from it. “We meet so many people who go on sale and see how things are going before deciding whether or not they purchase cancellation insurance,” says Brooks. “People really do need to
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EVENT INSURANCE be thinking things through and document everything. What are the contingency plans if you have to cancel because if you’re an organiser and you have to cancel, what you’ve done and what you haven’t done gets recorded. Cancellation is the necessary cancellation, but in that word necessary, it’s assumed that you’ve done everything you possibly can at all stages.” Brooks advises organisers to plan for everything and ensure risk assessments, wet weather and hot weather management plans are written and available. Claims move a lot quicker if the above is evidenced and an organiser can clearly show that they have taken all reasonable steps, he comments. Nicholson agrees. Underwriters are more receptive to organisers who are able to provide event management plans upfront and organisers who are able to provide thorough detail, immediately, or early on in the process, are getting “more favourable rates”.
FIRST LOSS
Charlie Austen, a broker at Vento, advises that as Martyn’s Law has received Royal Assent, some insurers are starting to require organisers to adhere to the UK Government counter-terrorism guidelines: CONTEST. He warns that insurers are looking for organisers to evidence this in event management plans, and clearly cover off the four P’s: Prevent, Pursue, Protect, and Prepare, otherwise some insurers are removing Terrorism cover under the Public Liability Insurance section of a policy, he adds. Austen also suggests event professionals should consider First Loss insurance. It’s a type of cover geared towards organisers with multiple events. The First Loss option is essentially a “floating” amount of cover across multiple events. For example, if an organiser has ten events and each event takes £1,000,000 in revenue (£10m total revenue), then a first-loss option could be £4,000,000 of revenue. You are essentially covering yourself for no more than four of the events to suffer a full loss. If there is a full loss on event one and £1,000,000 is paid, then £3,000,000 is left for the remaining nine events. This also has benefits for National Mourning for King Charles (an extension that can be purchased to the policy), as this can only be triggered once then, using the same example, the insured party can have a sub-limit
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of £1,000,000 for National Mourning, rather than purchasing it for each event (resulting in significant savings).
WEIGHING UP THE COSTS
Vento has recently launched Rainy Day Insurance because rain at an event can impact on-the-day revenue by up to 40 per cent. With the number of named storms in the UK trending upward, there’s never been more need for this product, argues Austen. “When the weather isn’t bad enough to cause a cancellation and trigger an event cancellation policy, organisers and vendors are still exposed to significant losses due to poor weather,” Austen explains. “Ticketholders arrive early, leave late, or don’t turn up at all, and walk in sales drop. How does it work? Set specific times and choose the amount of money to safeguard (For example, £20,000 at 1cm of rain from 5pm8pm). If it rains as much as the threshold set during those times, the full amount is paid out.” Austen says that this type of insurance is a fraction of the price of an event cancellation policy whilst still providing meaningful cover. You might hear insurers also refer to this type of cover as parametric weather cover, which is becoming more prevalent in the market, says both Meredith and Nicholson. But Nicholson argues that parametric cover is expensive so it’s perhaps not ideal for organisers on a tight budget. Therefore, you need to weigh up the cost of the cover versus what you might lose in revenue if it does rain, for instance.
THINGS TO CONSIDER
Parametric cover is not the only type of policy that might need to be considered given the current climate. Specialist Risk Group is working on a new product specifically for event industry freelancers, 1783 Group is advising promoters to consider cyber extensions, which will cover bar sales and failure of POS through Wi-Fi failure or cyber-attack. Protectivity says that it and insurance partners have seen more of an interest in covering a wider breadth of cover under event cancellation, covering things that are not usually covered, such as civil commotion or acts of terrorism that lead to a public event being cancelled. Similarly, Rudland believes disgrace cover should be
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another consideration because of the rising number of artists and performers pulling out of events and festivals because they are being “cancelled”. But that’s not all. Vento warns against underinsuring, a rising practice because business owners are keen to save on their insurance premium. Austen comments: “When the full value of the property/equipment that the insured is responsible for is not declared then rule of ‘averages’ applies to claims, whereby the claim amount is reduced in proportion to the level of underinsurance. “For example, if the full value of hired-in equipment is £1,000,000 and the insured takes out a policy for £100,000, then they are only insuring 10 per cent of the full value (underinsurance). If a claim occurs and the insured claims for £100,000, the claims teams will identify the level of underinsurance and reduce the claim. In this example, 10 per cent of the claim amount would be paid out, so the insured would receive £10,000 (provided that there is no excess/deductible).”
ENGAGE THE COVER
Rudland says that the insurance market has settled and there is better value to be had. Organisers should not accept the same price on your insurance premiums that you got last year. Event professionals should be able to either get a slightly better rate or slightly better terms. “The absolute key is, as soon as you’re spending money, you should engage the cover,” concludes Meredith. “If you’ve got profit cover in there, for example, you can make a claim at any point for cancellation. If it’s just costs cover then you get paid for what you’ve incurred. The policy costs the same for 12 months as it does for 12 weeks, so you really want to get as much value out of it as possible. A lot of providers, us included, will offer instalment schemes so you can get 100 per cent of the cover with just a small deposit. “But buy it now. Circumstances can change. There is a weakened appetite for festivals and outdoor events because the claims are just never ending. You’re at the mercy of a good year or a bad year, with storms and hurricanes and so my main advice is just always bind as soon as you can.”
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Blossoming community Victoria Park Events’ Alan Adams on how Southport Flower Show is uniting a community after being rocked by tragedy
TOYAH WILCOX (she/her) AT SOUTHPORT FLOWER SHOW a beautiful, sunny day when I t’sStandOut visits Victoria Park, Southport,
to meet Alan Adams, general manager of Victoria Park Events and Southport Flower Show. When StandOut arrives, there are just two weeks to go until the established flower show opens its gates to thousands of horticultural fans and extended families looking for a great day out. The show office is a hive of activity. Show gardens are starting to take shape, marquees are going up, and toilets are being painted. Suppliers – such as GL events UK, Sunbelt Rentals, DCRS, Childwall Table and Chair Hire, and Logica Security – are on-site. It’s a busy time but Adams hands StandOut a brew. He makes a point that it’s Lancashire Tea, clearly proud of the area’s heritage. Twenty years ago, Adams walked through the same show gates. He was a volunteer, answering visitor queries in the Amateur Growers Marquee from 2005. Now, 20 years on and Adams is at the helm, shaping the event’s future and ensuring the show – and the park – sit at the heart of the community.
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ALAN ADAMS (he/him) “I’ve never really been the normal volunteer,” Adams says, recalling his volunteering experiences. “I’ve been one of those people where I’ve always helped more than perhaps I should have done. I’ve always given 100 hours rather than one hour because if people invest in me, you get me 150 per cent – that’s what I do.”
Adams says volunteering is sometimes a thankless task; something you do for love and not for the thanks. Much like the world of events. No one signs up to long, unsociable hours and sleepless nights for the money, but when a show delivers, there’s a great sense of achievement and satisfaction, not just personally, but because of a team effort and that’s when it all means so much. “What a lot of people don’t see is what really goes into an event and managing an event,” Adams continues. “I get approached by a lot of people on the park who want to come and do their own event, and that’s happened a lot, especially over the last year.”
PAUSE AND REFLECT
Adams is referring to the significant number of enquiries he has had from people who want to organise tribute and fundraising events in Victoria Park following the tragic events of last summer. On July 29, 2024, Bebe King, Elsie Dot Stancombe, and Alice da Silva Aguiar were killed by Axel Rudakubana at a summer holiday dance event held in
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BUSY AISLES the town. That awful incident happened two weeks prior to Southport Flower Show 2024. It resulted in the show – which was set to mark its 100th anniversary with a huge fanfare – pausing all marketing and it became a place for the local community to reflect and unite.
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Naturally, in 2024, when news broke of the of the tragic incident, Adams, his team and anything show related fell silent. Southport Flower Show did nothing for a week out of respect. All eyes of the world were on Southport and the support for the town was evident. A decision to proceed with the event was taken and Adams says, the sad events of July 29, 2024, inspired him and his team to do better. “We had to continue,” he explains. “We had to continue for the town; it was vitally important. There were lots of phone calls and daily meetings with the police, and it showed that in the events industry, you don’t know the week before the event or two days before the event, what’s going to be thrown at you. This was a massive curveball. Fortunately, we rode it. It did smash all the plates and windows behind us but we were respectful. “So, yeah, the lesson I think for me is never take anything for granted.”
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As general manager of the park, and not just the show, Adams and his team must be mindful of the events that take place at the venue. “People don’t realise how hard it is to put on any kind of event; to consider traffic, to consider first aid, security, staging, audio, infrastructure, fencing, you name it. “I remember getting approached on the evening that the atrocities took place. A group of people wanted to do something and I told them to go away. It was a totally inappropriate time to ask and I’ve maintained that we will not do anything unless it has the approval of everyone affected by that awful day because anything in the girls’ names has to be so sensitively handled.” Adams continues: “I don’t think people appreciate what goes into an event. I think
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EDUCATION SESSIONS AT THE SHOW people think that Joe from down the road’s cousin can DJ and Auntie Maureen’s a cleaner so she can clean the loos but as event people, we know it doesn’t work like that. “I’m responsible for this park which has a great team and a supportive board of directors but 51 per cent of my mindset is thinking about what we do in the park and 49 per cent of my brain is thinking about the town and what’s great for the town. “ For Adams, this is a particularly important point, especially after the events of 2024. He desperately wants people to remember Southport as a place to come and have a great experience, not a place to be remembered for the atrocities that took place. But he is also aware that he, his team, and anyone associated with the event must be respectful of everything that happened and all the families involved. Adams continues: “For instance, just before you arrived, I was chatting to Alice’s mum because we are supporting each of the charities that have been set up in the girls’ names. They are selling merchandise at the show so again, we’re very much about supporting our community.”
VALUABLE ASSET
Victoria Park Events is a £1.5 million company, with £1.4 million linked to Southport Flower Show. The show receives no council funding, directly contributes £5 million to the local economy, and its value to the town exceeds £20 million, Adams explains. That’s why it’s so
important that the show delivers on all levels and is seen as a valuable asset. Moreover, Adams believes that Victoria Park Events’ ability to “constantly deliver” is what sets the space apart from other green spaces in the area. Sefton Council recently granted Victoria Park permission to raise licence numbers from 9,999 to 14,999. This will enable Adams and the Victoria Park team to attract larger events into the area that they have not been able to engage with before. Revenue from events is reinvested into the upkeep, operations, and infrastructure of the 34-acre park, ensuring it remains a free and vibrant space for the community. But right now, Adams is looking at a scarecrow, which will form part of a scarecrow trail and festival within the show’s fence line. It has boobs and a dog collar because the scarecrow is modelled on a local female vicar. It’s all in a day’s work for Adams and his team, who are currently conducting a strategic review of Southport Flower Show in its entirety with the aim of cementing its future. “The council has recognised that we’re fundamental to the area and they recognise us as being the premier outdoor event space in Southport. Hopefully, we might get some future investment and we’d love a grant or some funding. We’ll take anything we can get because obviously, we want to continue delivering a successful show that evolves but doesn’t lose its focus.”
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Best Barcode, bar none LS Events successfully delivered GroceryAid’s Barcode Festival at a new location GroceryAid launched Barcode W hen Festival in 2018, the charity aimed
to raise vital funds for industry colleagues in the grocery sector. Little did it know, but eight years later and the 2025 edition of the
fundraising event would not only raise more than £1.4 million for people facing a tough time but it would also move to a new home, capable of handling any future expansion plans.
Barcode Festival 2025 got a facelift and moved from Magazine London to Kenwood House where it welcomed more than 5,000 attendees and featured more than 100 brand activations. GroceryAid – which supports grocery industry professionals with free and confidential support, financial grants, and a 24/7 helpline managed by qualified counsellors – contracted LS Events to deliver this year’s Barcode Festival. The event production specialist provided a turn-key solution: from venue sourcing and creative site design to event production, staging, branding, technical delivery, and artist and partner liaison. Plus, its specialist division, LS Bites also curated VIP and artist catering, alongside ten top-tier front-of-house food traders.
TRANSITION
LS Events’ Mel Archer, Barcode’s operations director, worked with GroceryAid to reimagine Barcode as a contemporary fundraising event, blending live music, food,
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entertainment, and community in the stunning grounds of the stately home. “Our expertise in delivering large-scale festivals supported GroceryAid’s ambitions for Barcode Festival,” said Archer. “We took our client on a journey that transitioned the event from a corporate ‘festibition’ to an immersive outdoor festival environment.”
PREMIUM EXPERIENCE
LS Events led on the scoping of a new venue that would futureproof the ambitions of Barcode Festival, allowing it to grow into its new identity. The event featured 127 brand activations, two stages, a wellness area, and complimentary food and drink provided by sponsors. LS Events’ expertise in site design focused on creating dwell spaces to prevent sensory overload and ensure a consistent flow of visitors to all sponsor stands. Kenwood House allowed for a more thoughtfully curated guest journey, where sponsors could be strategically placed based on their offerings, such as wellness brands near the wellness area and “louder” activations near the main stage. Carefully considered site design prevented overcrowding and enhanced the overall guest experience, ensuring visitors could easily
navigate and engage with different areas, facilitating natural interactions with sponsor partners to make it feel less like work and more like a premium festival experience. Archer continued: “LS Events’ high standards of operational excellence were central to delivering a premium Barcode guest experience from the moment of arrival to exiting the site and returning safely to central London and beyond. For example, there was meticulous site design for efficient entry lanes, sufficient staffing to prevent queues, and successful taxi marshalling which saw 186 black cab pickups.”
A STEP FORWARD
LS Events’ expanded services for Barcode to include artist liaison, hospitality, and stage production, which involved managing content changes from DJs to larger acts like B*Witched. “We also offered extensive support on health and safety, site design, and structural elements, ensuring proposals were safe, and involved A&D Health and Safety in the consultation process,” Archer added. “Our lead on technical production required careful stage design, artist advance work, and securing necessary permissions for creative elements like haze and lasers due to the presence of a Henry Moore sculpture.”
A collaborative approach alongside GroceryAid’s sponsorship team helped sponsors adapt their activations – in some cases exhibition-style stands – to be more suited to the outdoor setting. Furthermore, LS Bites curated a diverse group of premium food traders to ensure Barcode ticketholders enjoyed diverse culinary options. The aim: to deliver variety, quality, and creativity in every bite so that guests felt considered and included. “By working with traders we know and trust, LS Bites guarantees consistency, professionalism, and flavour,” Archer explained further. “These strong relationships allow us to deliver premium, flexible offerings that meet the needs of both the client and the crowd.” LS Bites partnered with traders who could deliver multiple high-quality food and beverage options without compromising on quality or taste. Plus, the team also provided F&B hospitality for VIP, artists and crew. Reducing the need for multiple food production areas because space was at a premium. Archer concluded: “Our experience in delivering large-scale outdoor festivals has allowed us to help Barcode Festival take an exciting step forward in 2025. The move to Kenwood House not only elevated the setting, but also offered brands a unique platform to showcase their summer activations.”
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Making waves Labyrinth’s Michael Dicks and Nick Castleman discuss Labyrinth on the Thames on a historical site is probably W orking one of the hardest things you can do,”
says Michael Dicks, co-founder of Labyrinth, the independent promoter. Yet, here he is, standing in front of StandOut at Old Royal Naval College (ORNC), one of London’s most beautiful heritage buildings. In just a few days’ time, Dicks and his business partner Nick Castleman will open the gates to Labyrinth on the Thames. They will welcome thousands of music fans across six nights, who are all excited to watch a host of contemporary dance music artists. It’s the perfect convergence of old and new. “When it comes to putting on festivals in venues like this, there’s no tolerance for damage, there’s no tolerance for taking shortcuts, and everything needs to be done properly,” Dicks continues.
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Together, Castleman and Dicks are ushering in a new area. Labyrinth on the Thames launched in January. It’s described as a “ground-breaking” open air live music series with a 10,000 capacity, and it’s an ambitious concept uniting culturally relevant talent on a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Over the years, ORNC has hosted classical concerts and even equestrian and shooting events as part of London 2012. But it’s the first
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MICHAEL DICKS (he/him) NICK CASTLEMAN (he/him) time that the venue will have been used quite like it is being used today. “We were looking for a venue to host a party called Lost In A Moment, which was all about going to unique spaces,” explains Dicks. “We ended up taking that somewhere else, but we saw ORNC and thought what a
great place it would be to do a festival, not really thinking that it would ever happen. Nick emailed the events team, and it just so happened that the timing was right. We’re fortunate that the Old Royal Naval College team could see what we wanted to do, so we’re incredibly lucky.”
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LABYRINTH ON THE THAMES BEAST OF A BUDGET
Castleman says younger audiences buy into the location and therefore, he believes it’s as much about the space as it is the artist. Marketing the show has been a dream, he adds. But Labyrinth “got lucky” with the bookings, too. Castleman and Dicks’ choice of artists resonated with a demographic looking for mesmerising experiences. Tickets soon sold out. But not only that, high-end and highpriced VIP experiences – including backstage tickets and on-stage tables with waitress service – also sold out. It freed Castleman and Dicks to focus on delivery with a “moving beast” of a budget.
COMPLEX SITE
Dicks is busy unpacking boxes. Everyone is working hard to ensure Labyrinth on the Thames is a huge success but Dicks is realistic. He knows there might be challenges, he knows that things will crop up that he hasn’t even thought about, and he knows that people might not move across the site how he expects them to. Castleman agrees. He recognises the site is complex and because it’s Labyrinth’s first year, things are changing. The team is figuring out how it works and that needs patience. That’s why We Are Ops and The Fair, both part of We Group, are there to hold their hands with production, site, and operations and health and safety services. Millie Devereux, senior production director at The Fair and Jan Rankou, account director at We Are Ops, are busy on-site, loading in production, siting equipment, and managing contractors. For example, there’s a big pedestrian route through the middle of the site, which is different to most greenfield sites, so Rankou has worked with the venue on access, safety, and build schedules.
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“We’ve had to think a lot about how production teams and contractors move around the site,” Rankou explains. “It’s been more of an operational-led schedule compared to other events that we usually do. “We don’t have loads of space where we can unload infrastructure so suppliers need to come in one by one because we need to make sure we don’t clog up traffic in the local area. Also, we don’t have many turning circles so everything’s all coming in based on time. How long is it going to load? What’s the weight restriction? Where can they go? When can’t they go? So we’ve had to bring in CSAS traffic management team to help with the traffic and have additional security and stewards in place to help support everyone.”
SOMETHING DIFFERENT
Rankou worked with Castleman and Dicks and applied for Labyrinth on the Thames’ premises licence. She has been working on the project since 2024 and knows it inside out. “It’s not been an easy site to work on,” she adds. “I’m used to being in a green field with a fence around it but here, we’ve had some challenges during the build but nothing that we haven’t been able to overcome.” For example, there’s a small cruise ship docked in the Thames with cruise passengers using Greenwich Pier to get off the boat and go on day trips. It’s a detail that Rankou and the team were unaware of so they are now working with the cruise company to ensure its coaches can pick up and drop off passengers. And the coaches need to use the site’s turning circles to turn around, which impacts production traffic. “You never know what’s going to pop up,” Rankou continues. “Sometimes some plans may not exactly work exactly how you’ve
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LAZYDAYS
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Tapping into the market WeCraft Events’ Mike Bromfield on lessons learned at Lazydays, the independent festival hoping to put craft drinks and good music on the map in Southend to play in this park when I was a I used kid,” says Mike Bromfield, director and
co-founder of WeCraft Events. Bromfield is giving StandOut the grand tour of Priory Park in Southend-on-Sea, the location of Lazydays Festival, an independent craft drink and music festival in its second year. Bromfield is keen to shout about developments and his vision for the festival, which is all about celebrating independent craft drink producers and great music. “Lazydays started as a pub conversation between me and some friends,” Bromfield explains. “If we were to have an event, what would we want that to feel like, and what would be the ethos. We wanted to create a community around an event. Celebrating independent businesses was really central to that.” Lazydays launched in 2024 after that initial pub conversation in December 2022. “In year one, we learned how much of an emphasis in the marketing we put on craft beer,” Bromfield continues. “Last year, we created a sessional event, again that tie-in with the craft beer world, and ran two sessions on the Saturday and one on the Sunday but that has changed for 2025.”
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Lazydays Festival runs over three days and each day is tailored to a slightly different genre of music. When the team originally booked the artists for this year’s festival, it ensured there was a synergy between the
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artists that would play the afternoon and evening sessions. The festival went on sale with its sessional model but in May, Bromfield, Elliott Waters, and Andy Williamson, also directors of WeCraft Events, decided to merge the two Saturday sessions into one. Those who had tickets to both sessions were upgraded to a weekend ticket. This move was something he and the team planned to do for 2026 – sell day and weekend tickets – but the data they had suggested the mid-sale pivot would benefit all involved, including ticketholders.
Customers were sent really clear and segmented comms, which were well received across the board. So well received, it’s a format that WeCraft Events plans to carry into next year. But first, more on learnings from 2024. Bromfield adds: “One of the things that bit us last year was because of the sessional nature of the Saturday, people essentially had five or six hours to come to an event, so they all wanted to turn up right at the very start. Therefore, ingress was a tiny bit slow and we didn’t put enough crew on.
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LAZYDAYS “Now, our ticketholders have a 12-hour day, and I think, a combination of more staff, a better queuing system, and a longer day, we’ll have a more staggered nature to ingress. “Also, I learned work smarter, not harder, and try not to take on too much ourselves. You know, work with really good suppliers that save you time. “Last year, we employed all our staff directly. That was a really big challenge, and so now we’re working with an agency to do that. We found that vetting and finding a load of good staff, rotating them ourselves, and individually paying everybody is an awful lot of hard work. I guess, especially as we’re such a young business, when we’re doing it all ourselves, it’s important to choose where to prioritise your time.”
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It’s not the only lesson learned by Bromfield, Waters, and Williamson. For 2025, the second stage has been moved and the main stage has increased in size because the team struggled to fit some of the artists on it last year. There’s a bigger main bar, and a bigger kids area, more toilets; all the things you’d naturally expect to see with an increase in attendance. According to Bromfield, 35 per cent of ticket sales have come in the last month, a fact he describes as a “horrible barrel to be staring down” and very stressful.” So did Lazydays break-even in 2024? StandOut asks. “We made an investment,” Bromfield says, smiling. He’s still smiling when he says he’s made more of an investment in 2025, too. Yet, he does believe Lazydays will break-even in 2026. That’s because the team are acknowledging their mistakes and are prepared to learn and adapt to make things better. “A lot of investment goes into digital marketing but we’ve realised we need to
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stagger the ad budget,” he adds. “What we’ve been trying to do this year is pull those ticket sales earlier, which means you’re going against the tide when you’re trying to change consumer buying habits.”
FINDING THE SWEET SPOT
Roughly 25 per cent of the Lazydays audience comes from outside of an SS (Southend-onSea) postcode. The team is looking to grow that figure but a lack of camping does make that a challenge, Bromfield says. That said, when we chat, Bromfield already knows that attendance for Lazydays 2025 is up 150 per cent and the team has sold 9,000 tickets. What’s more, there’s serious demand for Lazydays’ newly-introduced VIP area. “We surveyed our guests last year and they asked for a VIP area. We’ve gone for a test and learn approach to keep it small and manageable and make sure people have a really great experience but if it works well, we’ll bring it back and improve it for 2026.” So, what plans do Bromfield, Waters, and Williamson have for the future? “It’s about finding that sweet spot,” Bromfield explains. “There’s music, beer, and great food and if you had this Venn diagram, the sweet spot would be in the middle.” Bromfield is determined to get Lazydays right and ensure the product is right for the Southend-on-Sea market. However, he does not want Lazydays to stray too far from its origins, otherwise it won’t be the event that he and his friends set out to create. Bromfield concludes: “We have started planning 2026 already, which will probably look and feel similar to 2025 and beyond that, I think that’s something that we’re probably still nailing.” Lazydays Festival 2026 will take place from July 24-26.
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Ben Cruise, managing director of PTL, which also provided toilets to RHS’ new show at Wentworth Woodhouse, explained: “We worked in partnership with MTD to add another pump to make sure the water extended all the way to the end of the run of vanity units. It meant everybody could wash their hands thoroughly and had the same water pressure throughout. “The challenges that would normally come with increasing numbers were completely negated by LS Events’ Suzanne [Johnson] speaking to us and to MTD to ensure all the services were there – power and water – to make sure that everything worked. We put an extra pump and tank in and it worked really well and the throughput was much greater.” Cruise concluded: “At PTL, we thrive on complex, high-profile projects like this. It’s where our consultative and professional approach truly shines. We believe in a partnership approach, working closely with event organisers to deliver seamless solutions that make a difference.” * Did you know, 1,000 litres of urine can fertilise enough wheat to produce around 195 loaves of bread!
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When ESP sports took on the challenge of delivering the UCI Mountain Bike World Championship at Glentress Forest, Scotland, it opted for a low-carbon solution. Working closely with them during the lead up, we supplied and installed a wide range of equipment across multiple product areas to meet the event’s sustainability goals. From battery storage units and eco tower units through to temporary accommodation, showers and toilets, our teams delivered welfare, office and compound facilities in this remote location, on time. The logistical challenge of coordinating the deliveries to an uneven and isolated site was no small feat, but with meticulous planning, we made it happen. We were proud to see that our solutions delivered real results by reducing generator run time by 84 per cent, saving thousands in fuel and operating costs. Temporary infrastructure is more than a backdrop, it's the foundation of operational success. With demand growing for sustainable, flexible solutions, these structures are more important than ever.
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BAR
Eventwell T: 0800 470 0958 E: bookings@eventwell.org W: EventWell.org
Bar Live Events Unit D215, Parkhall Studios, London, SE21 8DE T: 0208 761 8424 E: nick@barlive.co.uk W: www.barlive.co.uk
Opal Temporary Access Ltd Norfolk Road, Gravesend, Kent, DA12 2PS E: info@opaltemporaryaccess.com W: www.oplatemporaryaccess.com T: 01474 568100 : www.linkedin.com/company/opal-temporaryaccess-ltd/posts/?feedView=all
Cambridge Event Bars T: 01223 785401 M: 07837 707057 E: Info@cambridgeeventbars.co.uk W: www.cambridgeeventbars.co.uk
ACCREDITATION GOAllAreas E: goallareas@gingerowl.co.uk W: www.gingerowl.co.uk
Innovative Hire Unit N, Lion Works Estate, 543 Wallisdown Road Bournemouth BH12 5AD T: 01202 941 068 W: http://innovativehire.co.uk Peppermint Events Ltd Lower Ground 04, Edinburgh House, 154-182 Kennington Lane, London, SE11 5DP T: 0333 043 7845 E: Standout@peppermintevents.co.uk W: https://peppermintbars.co.uk/
ASSOCIATION MUTA 10B Red House Yard, Gislingham Road, Thornham Magna, Eye, Suffolk IP23 8HH T: 01379 788673 E: info@muta.org.uk W: www.muta.org.uk
Pop-up-Pubs T: +44(0)1993 832155 E: info@pop-up-pubs.com W: www.pop-up-pubs.com
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Event Production Services The Pack House, Drayton St. Leonard, Oxford, OX10 7BG T: 01844 278446 E: info@epsoxford.com
Symonds Event Bars Drakewell, Stoke Lacy, Bromyard, Herefordshire, HR7 4HG T: 01885 490267 E: info@eventbars.co.uk W: www.eventbars.co.uk
Hire Frequencies T: 0203 3026947 E: enquiries@hirefrequencies.co.uk W: www.hirefrequencies.co.uk Lighthouse Events Reading, UK T: 0333 335 6353 E: info@lighthouse-events.co.uk W: https://www.lighthouse-events.co.uk/ : https://www.instagram.com/ lighthouseeventsuk/ : https://www.linkedin.com/company/lighthouseevents/
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BALLOONS, BUNTING & FLAGS B-Loony Ltd Cape House, 105 Bellingdon Road, Chesham, Buckinghamshire, HP5 2HQ T: 01494 774376 E: sales@b-loony.co.uk W: www.b-loony.co.uk
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Instant Marquees T: 01840 213063 www.instantmarquees.co.uk
Bradshaw Event Vehicles New Lane, Stibbington, Peterborough, PE8 6LW T: 01780 782621 E: rentals@bradshawev.com W: www.bradshawev.com : @Bradshaw_EV Event Buggy Hire T: 0113 393 4100 E: info@eventbuggyhire.co.uk W: www.eventbuggyhire.co.uk Hopkins Machinery T: 01633 680754 E: hire@hopkinsmachinery.co.uk W: www.hopkinsmachinery.co.uk
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CONNECTIONS CABINS
CORPORATE CREW Qdos Event Hire Ltd Fernside Place, 179 Queens Road, Weybridge, Surrey, KT13 0AH T: 0845 862 0952 E: enquiries@qdoseventhire.co.uk W: www.qdoseventhire.co.uk : @QdosEventHire : www.facebook.com/pages/Qdos-Event-Hire/ : @qdoseventhire Wernick Events Joseph House, Northgate Way, Aldridge, Walsall, WS9 8ST T: 01922 472 900 E: events@wernick.co.uk W: www.wernick.co.uk/events : @WernickEvents : @WernickEvents
CAR PARKING Event Traffic Control Limited Baldersby Gardens, Ripon Road, Baldersby, Thirsk, North Yorkshire, YO7 4PS T: 08000 246 800 E: info@eventtc.com W: www.eventtc.com CATERING 55 Event Catering Solutions T: 07734 889638 E: sam@55eventcateringsolutions.co.uk W: https://www.55eventcateringsolutions.co.uk CLEANING & SUPPORT SERVICES Falcon Cleaning The Falcon Nest, Unit 10 & 11, Lower Gower Road, Royston SG8 5EA E: admin@falconteam.co.uk W: www.falconteam.co.uk Top Mops Ltd 7 Bell Yard, London WC2A 2JR T: 0800 970 4035 E: info@topmops.net W: https://topmops.net COFFEE BARS Markey Ltd 39b Park Farm Ind Estate, Buntingford, Hertfordshire, SG9 9AZ T: 01763 271110 E: info@markey.co.uk W: www.markey.co.uk CONTROL ROOM MANAGEMENT MinT Command E: neil@mintcommand.com W: www.mintcommand.com : https://uk.linkedin.com/in/neilminter : @MinTcommand : www.facebook.com/MinTcommand/
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Rodeo Crew 128 Wey House, 15 Church Street, Weybridge, Surrey, KT13 8NA T: 020 8075 7799 E: bookcrew@rodeocrew.uk W: www.rodeocrew.uk CREW SERVICES Falcon Festival Services The Falcon Nest, Unit 10 & 11, Lower Gower Road, Royston SG8 5EA E: info@falconteam.co.uk W: www.falconteam.co.uk MLD Event Group T: 01903372773 E: info@mld.events W: www.mld.events Olympus Crew T: 07904 903452 E: info@olympuscrew.co.uk W: www.olympuscrew.co.uk Optimal Events Group Ltd / Trading as Optimal Crew Marsh Mill Village, 5A, Fleetwood Rd N, Thornton-Cleveleys FY5 4JZ T: 07375 843976 E: Enquiries@optimalcrew.co.uk W: https://optimalcrew.co.uk PS Events Crew Suite 117-119 Lovell House, Birchwood Park, Warrington, WA3 6FW T: 0151 319 8888 E: Operations@pseventscrew.co.uk W: www.pseventscrew.co.uk S3K Group The Old Mill Building, Rookery Farm, Bognor Regis, West Sussex, PO22 6EP T: 0845 299 7991 E: office@s3kgroup.com W: www.s3kgroup.com : @s3kgroup YOUR Group - A global workforce T: +44 (0) 203 576 2330 E: connect@your-group.co.uk W: www.your-group.co.uk : https://www.instagram.com/your.comp.group : https://www.linkedin.com/company/yourcompanies-group Video: https://vimeo.com/yourvid/ presentationuk DRONE DISPLAYS FlightShows T: 020 3151 6891 E: Hello@FlightShows.com W: www.FlightShows.com : www.facebook.com/FlightShows/ : www.linkedin.com/company/flightshows/ : www.instagram.com/flightshows/ : www.tiktok.com/@flightshows_drones
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CONNECTIONS EQUIPMENT & INFRASTRUCTURE
Special Projects Suite 3/10, King James VI Business Centre Friarton Road, Perth, PH2 8DY T: 01738 505747 E: info@specialprojects-uk.com W: www.specialprojects-uk.com
Falcon Site Equipment The Falcon Nest, Unit 10 & 11, Lower Gower Road, Royston SG8 5EA E: admin@falconteam.co.uk W: www.falconteam.co.uk
Victorious Events T: 07869 701 616 E: info@victoriousevents.co.uk W: victoriousevents.co.uk
EQUIPMENT HIRE GAP Event Services Carrick House, 40 Carrick Street Glasgow G2 8DA T: 0333 202 0712 E: events@gap-group.co.uk W: www.gap-group.co.uk
EVENT PASS PRINTING Eyecatchers T: 01772 681000 E: sales@eyecatchers.co.uk W: www.eyecatchers.co.uk / www.myeventpass.co.uk
EVENT ACCOMMODATION Bunkabin Tweedale Way, Oldham, OL9 7LD T: 0345 456 7899 E: hires@bunkabin.co.uk W: www.bunkabin.co.uk
EVENT PRODUCTION b2 Live Events T: 01708 344668 E: info@thisisb2.com W: www.thisisb2.com
Zoo Events Group Ltd Stockton Dairy, Stockton, Warminster, BA12 OSQ T: 01258 840233 E: info@zooeventsgroup.co.uk W: www.zooeventsgroup.co.uk
Culture Creative T: 01665 798 007 E: info@culturecreative.co.uk W: www.culturecreative.co.uk
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Visions Live Unit 2 Thames Valley Connect, Western Road Bracknell, Berkshire RG12 1QP T: 01189 358121 E: info@visionsgroup.co.uk W: www.visionsgroup.co.uk
Setstage Ltd T: 01274 265217 E: info@setstage.co.uk : linkedin.com/in/kate-greenwood-82315223/ EVENT MANAGEMENT Bright Events Ltd T: 07856588815 W: www.brighteventsltd.com : linkedin.com/in/karen-edwards-events/ CM Production Management Ltd T: 020 8056465 E: hello@cmpm.co.uk W: www.cmpm.co.uk : facebook.com/cmpmlive : @cmpmlive LFX Events Unit 10 Merchants House, Market Place, Stockport, SK1 1EU E: enquiries@lfxevents.co.uk W: www.lfxevents.co.uk MNPE Ltd T: +44 (0)203 146 6844 E: info@mnpe.co.uk W: www.mnpe.co.uk SC Productions Ltd T: 02921 850 650 E: admin@scproductionsltd.com W: www.scproductionsltd.com
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EVENT SAFETY Eep Safety Team Unit 42, Dunsfold Park, Guildford, Surrey, GU6 8TB T: 01483 266486 E: tom@eepteam.com W: www.eepsafety.com LFX Safety Unit 10 Merchants House, Market Place, Stockport, SK1 1EU E: enquiries@lfxsafety.co.uk W: www.lfxsafety.co.uk Radius Desklodge House, Redcliffe Way, Bristol, England, BS1 6NL E: info@radius-events.com W: www.radius-events.com : linkedin.com/company/radiuseventsltd SafetyDocs Conect Ltd 483 Green Lanes, London, N13 4BS T: 0208 242 4942 E: info@safetydocs.org W: https://safetydocs.org/
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CONNECTIONS EVENT SERVICES Number 8 Events Ltd The Hay Shed, Sparrows Lane, Matching Green, CM17 0RP T: 0203 7437292 E: info@number8events.co.uk W: www.number8events.com EVENT STAFFING AGENCY Event People : https://www.linkedin.com/company/eventpeople/ : weareeventpeople E: hello@weareeventpeople.co.uk EXHIBITION STAND CONTRACTORS Access Displays Unit 38, Whitehill Industrial Estate, Whitehill Lane, Royal Wootton Bassett, Swindon, SN4 7DB sales@accessdisplays.co.uk www.accessdisplays.co.uk 01793 613088 EXHIBITION TRAILERS & MOBILE UNITS DWT Exhibitions Trailer Hire, Sales & Management Jubilee Park, Honeypot Lane, Colsterworth, Lincolnshire, NG33 5LZ T: 01476 860833 E: pip@dwt-exhibitions.co.uk W: www.dwt-exhibitions.co.uk Inchmere Event Design Ltd Swan Close Studios, Swan Close Road, Banbury, OX16 5TE T: 01295 661000 E: alastair@inchmere.co.uk W: www.inchmere.co.uk TCM Trailers Ltd Watery Lane, Lichfield, Staffordshire, WS13 7SE E: emily@tcmtrailers.co.uk W: www.tcmtrailers.co.uk FENCING & BARRIERS Augusta Event Support Ltd Cadeby, CV13 0BD E: Sarah@aesteam.co.uk W: https://augustaeventsupport.com/ FESTIVAL GAS Festival Gas Priors Revel, Church lane, Middleton, Nr Tamworth, B78 2AL T: 07930 758893 E: simon@festivalgas.co.uk W: www.festivalgas.co.uk
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FIRE COVER Red Rose Fire Solutions Ltd 6 Brissenden Close, New Romney Kent TN28 8JD T: 01995 503504 E: info@redrosefiresolutions.co.uk FLAGS
Instant Marquees T: 01840 213063 www.instantmarquees.co.uk FLOORING & FLOOR COVERINGS Coir Store 8-9 Yelverton Road, Brislington, Bristol BS4 5HP E: info@coirstore.co.uk T: 07983 614410 W: https://coirstore.co.uk Event Flooring Solutions Ltd T: 01509 768 252 E: sales@efseurope.co.uk W: www.efseurope.co.uk Gigtent UK Sonas House, Button End Harston, Cambridge, CB22 7NX T: 01223 870935 E: info@gigtent.co.uk W: www.gigtent.co.uk FURNITURE HIRE / SALES Furniture On The Move Unit B, Canada Warehouse, Chittening Industrial Estate, Worthy Road, Avonmouth, Bristol, BS11 0YB T: 0845 459 9875 E: info@furnitureonthemove.co.uk W: www.furnitureonthemove.co.uk HEATING & COOLING SYSTEMS
BiemmedueUK & Arcotherm Unit 12, Wilson Road, South Wigston, Leicester LE18 4TP T: 01773 836999 | E: sales@biemmedueuk.com W: www.biemmedueuk.com Spica Temperature Control Solutions Ltd 20 Crowsport, Hamble, Hampshire, SO31 4HG T: 02380 453841 M: 07780 638976 E: kay@spicasolutions.com W: www.spicasolutions.com
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LIGHTING TOWERS
Dawsongroup tcs Export Drive, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Dawsongroup | tcs Nottinghamshire NG17 6AF T: 01623 518538 E: info@dgtcs.co.uk W: https://dgtcs.co.uk/inflatable-cold-rooms/
Boels Rental T: 01245 208031 E: dale.fletcher@boels.co.uk W: www.boels.com Events Crew Limited T: 01963 364399 E: info@eventscrew.com W: www.eventscrew.com
INSURANCE London Market Partners Group (Entertainment Insurance) T: +44 (0) 204 540 5056 E: enquiries@Imp-insurance.com W: https://lmp-insurance.com/ Tysers Insurance Brokers 71 Fenchurch Street, London, EC3M 4BS T: 0203 037 8000 E: tim.rudland@tysers.com W: www.tysers.com LASER & FX Laser Grafix Unit 4A Stratton Park, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, SG18 8QS E: info@lgfx.co.uk W: www.lgfx.co.uk UK office: 01767 315948 Dubai office: +971 4887 9808 LED SCREENS EMF Technology Ltd Unit 27 Freemantle House, Kingsclere Business Park, Kingsclere, Hants, RG20 4SW T: 020 8003 3344 E: info@emftechnology.co.uk W: www.emftechnology.co.uk Lightmedia Displays Mobile & Modular LED Screen Hire T: 0333 600 6000 - 24 hour response E: sales@lightmedia.co.uk W: www.lightmedia.co.uk Tech AV Ltd London, Essex, Birmingham T: 0345 257 9969 E: lee@techav.events W: www.techav.events YSLV London & York T: 0800 080 3310 E: hire@yslv.co.uk W: www.yslv.co.uk LEGAL Azorra Limited T: +44 [0] 7457 404054 E: hello@azorra.co.uk W: www.azorra.co.uk
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MARQUEES Alternative Stretch Tents Building 15, Gateway 1000, A1 (M) jct 7, Stevenage, SG1 2FP T: 01920 830256 E: info@alternative-stretch.co.uk Fews Marquees Chessgrove Park, Ditchford Bank Road, Hanbury, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, B60 4HS T: 01527 821789 E: info@fews.co.uk W: www.fewsmarquees.co.uk Gigtent UK Sonas House, Button End Harston, Cambridge, CB22 7NX E: info@gigtent.co.uk W: www.gigtent.co.uk
Instant Marquees T: 01840 213063 www.instantmarquees.co.uk Mahood Marquees Ltd 8 Lords Fold, Rainford, Saint Helens WA11 8HP T: 01744 882 079 W: https://mahoodmarquees.com/ TT Tents Ltd North Waltham Business Centre, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG25 2DJ T: 01256 397 551 E: sales@tttents.co.uk Tentickle Stretch Tents UK Ltd Langley Brook Business Park, Unit 3B London Rd, Tamworth, B78 2BP T: 0121 7401385 M: 07826 843099 E: jorg@tentickle-stretchtents.co.uk W: www.tentickle-stretchtents.co.uk
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CONNECTIONS Tentstyle T: 01403 333135 E: enquiries@tentstyle.co.uk W: www.tentstyle.co.uk Top Cat Big Tops Tents & Marquees Ltd The Old Stable Yard, Gasworks Ln, Achynlleth, SY20 8BY T: 01654 700030 E: info@topcatbigtops.co.uk W: www.topcatbigtops.co.uk Ziggu Marquees Dutton Green, Little Stanney, Chester, CH2 4SA T: 01244722739 W: www.ziggumarquees.com E: hello@ziggumarquees.com MEDICAL SERVICES Codeblue Medical UK Head Office – Codeblue, Grove Farm, Lane End Road, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, HP14 3NR T: 0203 835 8486 W: http://www.codebluemedical.co.uk : https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeblue-uk/ : https://www.facebook.com/CodeblueUK Enhanced Care Services Unit H9, Adanac Park, Adanac Dr, Nursling, Southampton SO16 0BT T: 02380 201561 E: admin@enhancedcareservices.co.uk W: www.enhancedcareservices.co.uk First Aid Cover Ltd T: 020 8875 5758 E: enquiries@firstaidcover.co.uk W: www.firstaidcover.co.uk Location Medical Services Ltd The Medical Centre, Shepperton Studios, Studio Road, Shepperton, Middx, TW17 0QD T: 0870 750 9898 E: mail@locationmedical.com W: www.locationmedical.com Medirek 8 Primrose Place, Portsmouth Road, Godalming Surrey, GU7 2JW T: 07776 128 409 safety and medical E: ryan.soper@medirek.co.uk W: www.medirek.co.uk MET Medical Ltd T: 0203 627 9042 E: info@met-medical.co.uk W: www.met-medical.co.uk NOISE MANAGEMENT Siderise Group Forge Industrial Estate CF34 0AH T: 01656 730833 E: enquiries@siderise.com W: www.siderise.com
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PARKING Wise Parking T: 03301 334522 E: info@wiseparking.co.uk W: www.wiseparking.co.uk PLANT HIRE Charles Wilson 86 High Street, Harpenden, AL5 2SP T: 0800 458 5701 E: instanthire@cwplant.co.uk W: www.cwplant.co.uk Hopkins Machinery T: 01633 680754 E: hire@hopkinsmachinery.co.uk W: www.hopkinsmachinery.co.uk PORTABLE TOILET HIRE Excloosive Event Hire Field House, Bromley Park, Abbots Bromley Rugeley, Staffordshire WS15 3AH T: 01283 575 749 M: 07778 473 064 Email: info@excloosive.co.uk Four Jays Group Barling Farm, East Sutton, Maidstone, Kent ME17 3DX T: 01622 843135 E: enquiries@fourjays. co.uk W: www.fourjays.co.uk LOOS FOR DOs Ltd Bakers Court, Forge Road, Kingsley, Hampshire GU35 9NZ T: 01420 588 355 E: info@loos.co.uk W: www.loos.co.uk Just Loos Paddock Barn, Manor Farm, Itchen Stoke, Hampshire, SO24 0QT T: 01962 867808 E: office@justloos.com W: www.JustLoos.com Ontrax Rentals Elmwood Farm, Bampton OX18 2PL, England E: hello@ontraxrentals.com W: www.ontraxrentals.com Site Event The Depot, The Avenue, Lasham, Hampshire GU34 5SU T: 01256 384 134 E: event@site-equip.co.uk W: www.site-equip.co.uk Vacant Event Hire Unit C White Oak Technology Park, London Road, Swanley, Kent BR8 7AG T: 01322 761 117 M: 07960 301178 E: info@vacant.events W: https://vacant.events/
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CONNECTIONS Zoo Events Group Ltd Stockton Dairy, Stockton, Warminster, BA12 OSQ T: 01258 840233 E: info@zooeventsgroup.co.uk W: www.zooeventsgroup.co.uk
Stuart Power Stuart House, Hargham Road, Shropham, Norfolk, NR17 1DT T: 01953 454540 E: enquiries@stuartpower.co.uk W: www.stuartpower.co.uk
POWER & GENERATORS
Tempower T: 0845 6066049 E: hire@tempower.co.uk W: www.tempower.co.uk
ATD Electrical Unit 93, Greenway Business Centre, Greenway, Harlow, Essex, CM19 5QE T: 01279 507890 E: office@atdelectrical.com W: www.atdelectrical.com
Wernick Power Solutions Joseph House, Northgate Way, Aldridge, Walsall, WS9 8ST T: 03334 001 247 E: power@wernick.co.uk W: www.wernick.co.uk/power : twitter.com/WernickGroup : www.linkedin.com/company/wernickgroup
Energy Management Services Ltd T: 0333 305 5144 E: admin@energyms.co.uk W: www.energyms.co.uk Festival Power Ltd Unit 2, Temple Bridge Business Park, Bristol, BS39 5AA E: info@festivalpower.co.uk W: www.festivalpower.co.uk Gofer Ltd Unit 7 Arkwright Road, Hadleigh Road Ind. Est, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP2 0UB T: 01473 282530 E: info@gofer.co.uk W: www.gofer.co.uk IDE Systems T: 01543 574 111 E: enquiries@idesystems.co.uk W: www.idesystems.co.uk Head Office & Manufacturing Centre Unit 3, Swaffield Park Hyssop Close, Cannock Staffordshire, WS11 7FU United Kingdom Midas Productions (UK) Ltd Unit 20, Clopton Commercial Park, Clopton, Ipswich, IP13 6QT T: 0333 772 0772 M: 07949 007 603 E: info@midas-uk.co.uk Newburn Power Rental Limited Unit 36 Lidgate Crescent, Langthwaite Business Park, South Kirkby, Pontefract, WF9 3NR T: 0845 077 6693 E: info@npr-uk.com Power Revolution 23C Shepherds Grove Ind Est, Stanton, Bury St Edmunds, IP31 2AR T: 01359 256 265 E: info@power-revolution.co.uk W: www.power-revolution.co.uk Robert Blezard Electrical Contractor Ltd T: 01200 777666 E: hello@robertblezard.co.uk W: www.robertblezard.co.uk
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XLE Event Services T: 01789 224227 E: info@xle.co.uk W: www.xle.co.uk : XLeventservices : @xle_events : www.linkedin.com/company/xleeventservices/ PRINTERS UK Flyers Suite 210, Victory House, Somers Road, North Portsmouth, Hampshire PO1 1PJ T: 023 9229 3050 E: sales@ukflyers.com W: www.ukflyers.com PROJECTION EMF Technology LTD Projection Mapping, Water Screens, Flame Effects, Lighting, Mains Distribution T: 020 8003 3344 E: info@emftechnology.co.uk W: www.emftechnology.co.uk RADIO COMMUNICATIONS 2CL Communications Ltd Unit C, Woodside Trade Centre, Parnham Drive, Eastleigh, Hampshire, SO50 4NU T: 0800 389 2278 E: contact@2cl.co.uk W: www.2cl.co.uk Audiolink T: 020 8955 1100 E: info@audiolink.co.uk / hire@audiolink.co.uk W: www.audiolink.co.uk DCRS Edison Road, St.Ives, Cambs, PE27 3LH T: 0800 043 2688 E: sales@dcrs.co.uk W: www.dcrs.co.uk
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CONNECTIONS Marathon Communications Ltd Oakhurst Business Park, Wilberforce Way, Southwater, Horsham, West Sussex, RH13 9RT T: 01403 473 858 E: info@marathoncomms.co.uk W: www.marathoncomms.co.uk : uk.linkedin.com/company/marathoncomms : www.facebook.com/marathoncomms : instagram.com/marathoncomms : x.com/marathoncomms REFRIGERATED STRUCTURES Dawsongroup tcs Export Drive, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Dawsongroup | tcs Nottinghamshire NG17 6AF T: 01623 518538 E: info@dgtcs.co.uk W: https://dgtcs.co.uk/inflatable-cold-rooms/ RENTAL EQUIPMENT Sunbelt Rentals T: 0330 053 2348 E: events@sunbeltrentals.co.uk W: www.sunbeltrentals.co.uk/sectors/events REUSABLE CUPS Re-uz UK Less is now Limited Unit 1A Walrow Industrial Estate, Commerce Way, Highbridge TA9 4AG T: 01278 238390 E: info.uk@reuz.com W: www.re-uz.com & www.green-goblet.com SAFEGUARDING X2Consult Safeguarding & Child Protection T: 01622 278702 E: Tom@x2consult.co.uk W: www.x2consult.co.uk SCAFFOLD SYSTEM & TRUSS STRUCTURES Overlay Events Ltd 54 Oxford Road, Uxbridge UB9 4DN T: 01895 813627 E: info@overlayevents.com W: www.overlayevents.com SRG Structures Oldbury Lane, Bristol, BS35 1RE T: 0117 911 4034 E: info@srg-structures.com W: www.srg-structures.com SEATING Ace Seating Hire T: 01832 279333 E: info@aceseating.co.uk W: www.aceseating.co.uk
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SECURITY Alliance Events Ltd Ventura Park Road, Tamworth, England, B78 3HL T: 02034 885480 E: admin@alliancemanagementgroup.co.uk W: www.alliancemanagementgroup.co.uk Anubis Group T: 0800 121 6576 E: sales@anubis-security.com/ recruitment@anubis-security.com W: www.anubis-security.com DBD Group Services T: 01934 286000 and 07955314124 E: info@dbdgroupservices.co.uk W: www.dbdgroupservices.co.uk Manchett Security The Tack Room, Lorkins Farm, Conway’s Road, Orsett, Grays, Essex, RM16 3E T: 01375 470 022 E: info@manchett-security.com W: www.manchett-security.com : @ManchettSec – : @ManchettSec – : ManchettGroup Ministry Protective T: 0800 2335518 E: info@ministryprotective.com W: www.ministryprotective.com New Dawn Security and Training Unit 10 Dunley Hill Court, Ranmore Common Effingham RH5 6SX T: 01306779436 E: Events@ndst.ltd W: www.ndst.ltd Newman Event Services Ltd Crowd Management, Festival & Event Security/Stewarding. Bloxham Mill, Barford Road, Bloxham, Oxfordshire, OX15 4FF T: 01295 722844 E: enquiries@newmanevents.co.uk W: www.newmanevents.co.uk Right Guard Security Experts in Crowd Management and Event Security T: 01227 464588 E: info@rightguard.co.uk W: www.rightguard.co.uk Trojan Security Unit B7 Loughton Seedbed Centre Langston Road Loughton IG10 3TQ T: 0330 113 9966 E: info@trojansecurityuk.co.uk W: www.trojansecurityuk.co.uk : @trojan-security-uk-ltd : @TrojanLondon :@trojan_security_UK
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CONNECTIONS SET & SCENERY CONSTRUCTION Staged Events Ltd Meadow View, Newnham Lane, Old Basing, Hampshire, RG24 7AU T: 01256578055 E: info@stagedevents.com W: www.stagedevents.com SHOWERS Zoo Events Group Ltd Stockton Dairy, Stockton, Warminster, BA12 OSQ T: 01258 840233 E: info@zooeventsgroup.co.uk W: www.zooeventsgroup.co.uk STAND DESIGN & BUILD Saward Marketing and Events T: 07788 660996 E: admin@saward-me.com W: https://saward-me.com/ SITE SUPPLIES Concept Products Ltd 10 Cary Court, Somerton Business Park, Somerton, TA11 6SB T: 01458 274020 E: ben@conceptproductsltd.co.uk W: www.conceptproductsltd.co.uk STAGING & RIGGING IPS (Impact Production Services) 29 Mount Avenue, Bletchley, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LS T: 01908 657950 E: enquiries@ips.co.uk W: www.ips.co.uk Rigger.co.uk T: 0333 772 0120 E: contact@rigger.co.uk W: www.rigger.co.uk The Stage Bus 19 Prestwood Road, Birmingham, B29 5EB T: 0121 585 9264 E: info@thestagebus.com W: www.thestagebus.com SRG Structures Oldbury Lane, Bristol, BS35 1RE T: 0117 911 4034 E: info@srg-structures.com W: www.srg-structures.com Steeldeck Rentals Unit 58, T. Marchant Estate, 42 - 72 Verney Rd, London SE16 3DH T: +44 (0)207 833 2031 E: rentals@steeldeck.co.uk W: www.steeldeck.co.uk
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TEMPORARY BRIDGES Mitchell Bridges Limited London Road, Kings Worthy, Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 7QN T: 01962 885040 M: 07768630373 E: chris@mitchellbridges.com W: www.mitchellbridges.com TEMPORARY ROADWAYS Cap Trac Limited The Stables, Loke Farm, Weston Longville, Norwich, NR9 5LG T: 01603 880448 E: info@captrac.co.uk W: www.captrac.co.uk TEMPORARY STRUCTURES Fews Marquees Chessgrove Park, Ditchford Bank Road, Hanbury, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, B60 4HS T: 01527 821789 E: info@fews.co.uk W: www.fewsmarquees.co.uk Gigtent UK Sonas House, Button End Harston, Cambridge, CB22 7NX E: info@gigtent.co.uk W: www.gigtent.co.uk LH Woodhouse Wolds Farm, The Fosse, Cotgrave, Nottingham, NG12 3HG Delivering successful events T: 01159 899 899 E: sales@lhwoodhouse.co.uk W: www.lhwoodhouse.co.uk Losberger De Boer Castle Park, Boundary Road, Brackley, Northamptonshire, NN13 7ES T: 01280 846500 E: sales.uk@losbergerdeboer.com W: www.losbergerdeboer.com/uk NEPTUNUS Ltd Cob Drive, Swan Valley, Northampton NN4 9BB T: 01604 593820 E: sales@neptunus.co.uk W: www.neptunus.co.uk Stunning Tents Creative House, Station Road, Theale RG7 4PD T: 0118 380 5590 E: team@stunningtents.co.uk W: www.Stunningtents.co.uk Technical Overlay by Visions Unit 2 Thames Valley Connect, Western Road, Bracknell, Berkshire RG12 1QP T: 01189 358121 E: info@visionsgroup.co.uk W: www.technicaloverlay.co.uk
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CONNECTIONS Tentickle Stretch Tents UK Ltd Langley Brook Business Park, Unit 3B London Rd, Tamworth, B78 2BP T: 0121 7401385 M: 07826 843099 E: jorg@tentickle-stretchtents.co.uk W: www.tentickle-stretchtents.co.uk
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The Dome Company T: 07876673354 E: info@thedomecompany.co.uk W: www.thedomecompany.co.uk
VEHICLE HIRE
TT Tents Ltd North Waltham Business Centre, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG25 2DJ T: 01256 397 551 E: sales@tttents.co.uk W: www.tttents.co.uk WH Silverbacks Unit 26, Oakfield Road, Woolsbridge Industrial Park, Dorset BH21 6FE T: 01202 096957 E: info@silverbacks.co.uk W: https://whsilverbacks.co.uk/
TRACKWAY TRACKWAY
Worldwide Structures Ltd Ayrshire Farm, Sharcott, Pewsey, SN9 5PA T: 01672 565 060 / +44 (0) 7875 027369 E: enquiries@w-sl.com W: www.worldwidestructures.com
All Weather Access Ltd County Farm, High Roding, Dunmow, Essex CM6 1NQ T: 01371 700510 M: 07801 751137 E: henry@all-weatheraccess.co.uk W: www.all-weatheraccess.co.uk GT Trax T: 01487 823344 E: info@gttrax.co.uk W: www.gttrax.co.uk TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT Event Traffic Control Ltd Baldersby Gardens, Ripon Road, Baldersby, Thirsk, North Yorkshire, YO7 4PS T: 08000 246 800 E: info@eventtc.com W: www.eventtc.com
Les Jones Transport 329 Cyncoed Road, Cardiff, CF23 6PD T: 0292 1851300 E: Alexander.dodd-jones@dojoservices.co.uk W: www.lesjonestransport.co.uk
Bradshaw Event Vehicles New Lane, Stibbington, Peterborough, PE8 6LW T: 01780 782621 E: rentals@bradshawev.com W: www.bradshawev.com : @Bradshaw_EV VENUES Farnborough International Exhibition and Conference centre T: +44 (0) 1252 532800 E: event-enquiries@farnborough.com W: www.farnborough.com/ : @farnborough-international-ltd : @Farnborough_Int : @farnborough_int : @farnboroughinternational/ : @farnboroughinternationalex4694 WASTE MANAGEMENT Falcon Cleaning The Falcon Nest, Unit 10 & 11, Lower Gower Road, Royston SG8 5EA E: admin@falconteam.co.uk W: www.falconteam.co.uk WATER & PLUMBING SERVICES MTD (UK & Ireland) Ltd Unit 1 Westerngate, Hillmead Enterprise Park, Langley Road, Swindon, SN5 5WN T: 01264 773 818 E: sales.uk@mtd.net W: www.mtd.net Temporary Water Solutions Water supplies for festivals and events T: 0800 001 6041 E: info@temporarywatersolutions.co.uk Wicked Event Water Services Kevin: 07909 771996 E: info@wickedeventwaterservices.com W: www.wews.biz WIFI, INTERNET & STREAMING
Carbonite Traffic Solutions T: 020 3567 1479 E: enquiries@carbonitetraffic.co.uk W: www.carbonitetraffic.co.uk
attend2IT Unit 6-8 Park Farm Industrial Estate, Buntingford T: 01763 877 477 W: https://attend2it.co.uk/
Right Guard Traffic Management Event Traffic Management CSAS Accredited Traffic Officers Car Parking • Event Signage T: 01227 464588 E: info@rightguard.co.uk W: www.rightguard.co.uk
Fli-Fi Ltd UK Wide T: 020 3778 0454 E: enquiries@fli-fi.com W: www.fli-fi.com
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SimpliWifi Unit 13, Leominster Enterprise Park, Leominster, Herefordshire HR6 0LX T: 0800 298 9434 E: hello@simpliwifi.agency W: https://simpliwifi.agency
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