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Published on: 23rd June 2020
The sustainability of our environment has not gone away during the COVID crisis. Livvy Drake (Sustainable Sidekicks) guest blog on Vision: 2025 discusses whether "We can say cheers to plant-based plastic yet?"...
Published on: 21st June 2020
With the devastating effect of COVID-19 destroying the 2020 festival season it does give organisers an opportunity to reflect on how they will recover in 2021. More on that in another place. However, it also gives us all the...
Published on: 18th June 2020
Steve Heap, General Secretary of the Association of Festival Organisers (AFO), says the impact of cancelled festivals will be strongly felt by local businesses in a recent article published in the Access All Areas publication...
Published on: 9th June 2020
Draft Guidance for Insurance Companies - As part of its investigation into Coronavirus related business interruption insurance, the FCA have published draft guidance on their expectations for insurers and insurance intermedia...
Published on: 8th June 2020
BIG DIFFERENCE COMPANY seeks new CEO, for the Leicester Comedy Festival and more. This could be a new role and direction for a festival organiser (and this is not a joke )...
Published on: 5th June 2020
In a recent survey conducted by NMTF with regard to the effect of COVID-19 and its impact on the market traders, it was revealed that approximately 9000 market traders carry out business at festivals and events in the UK. Th...
Published on: 5th June 2020
Melvin Benn, Managing Director of Festival Republic, has called for the increase of COVID-19 testing in the UK because entertainment and sport cannot operate fully with social distancing measures in place....
Published on: 4th June 2020
Over three quarters of 110,000 music fans surveyed by Festicket would buy tickets to 2021 festivals in the next two months, as demand for live events remains high...
Published on: 27th May 2020
Tell me, why did I get up at 5:30am to drive to the station for an early train that would get me to a meeting in London for 11am? I usually did 3 meetings and caught a train back to be home in time for the 10 o’clock news ...
Published on: 18th May 2020
A new website with listings of livestream events...
Published on: 14th May 2020
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has created a survey to understand the impact of the Coronavirus outbreak on organisations...
Published on: 28th April 2020
The 2.6 Challenge begins on Sunday 26 April...
Published on: 21st April 2020
Currently the UK is short of around 90,000 people to pick the crops that are growing ripe across the country....
Published on: 16th April 2020
... and promotes APPG on Music and DCMS Select Member Jo Stevens MP to the role of Shadow Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport....
Published on: 16th April 2020
Some 60% of the UK’s event industry’s supplier base is facing collapse within three months, unless event businesses receive further support from the Government, according to an on-line survey carried out by the Events Ind...
Published on: 16th April 2020
Do you put on fantastic festival events for families last year? Are you inclusive and welcoming to all ages? Or perhaps you've been delivering new projects for your older visitors?...
Published on: 6th April 2020
Enjoy your very own festival of music in the safety of your own home...
Published on: 30th March 2020
The 50th festival would have been a blistering good event with lots of very special plans in place. But it wasn’t to be thanx to this …….. virus....
Published on: 20th March 2020
Running Festivals in a Climate Crisis...
Published on: 9th March 2020
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