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It is estimated that the events industry contributes 1.2bn kilograms of CO2 emissions every year. This is why sustainability has become increasingly important due to our environmental impact as an industry. As our awareness of this problem grows, it is imperative that we are implementing and promoting eco-friendly/sustainable practices into all our events, meetings, conferences, and congresses where possible. What can we do to make our events more environmentally friendly? There are 5 easy steps that we could all be [...]

Change is often seen as a challenge, but it can also be a tremendous opportunity for personal and professional growth. Such was the case for me when I made the transition from being an in-house events manager at a large pharmaceutical company, to joining CFS Events Ltd as an events manager. This journey has been filled with unique experiences, challenges, and rewards that have broadened my horizons in ways I never expected. In this blog, I will share my journey [...]

It’s no secret that event management is one of the most stressful jobs you can have. In fact, it has been listed in the top 10 most stressful jobs almost every year for the past decade! So how do you manage your stress levels? Most people would say they take a break, have a cup of tea, or take a walk but let's be honest, it's rare that these things actually happen. In my experience, when it gets stressful, most [...]

In May, at CFS Events, we hosted a Year-10 pupil from a local school for her work experience week. We endeavoured to give her a good range of tasks that would provide an insight into working in events and what it's like to work for our small, family run company. We were really impressed with her work ethic and asked her to write a blog about her biggest take-aways from her week as an events assistant. Here is what she [...]

We’ve heard the phrase a lot. These are very much ‘unprecedented times’. From an events perspective, the global COVID-19 pandemic has turned the industry upside down. Where we were busily ensconced in booking logistics for speakers and attendees; liaising with venues about the flow of people and audio-visual requirements and running around the country on site-visits, we are suddenly working from home and all live events are being cancelled or postponed. Our jobs as we knew them just 2 months [...]

Often, when managing an event, very little or none of the event budget is allocated to marketing. Luckily, marketing doesn’t have to be expensive, in fact there are some ways you can spread the word about your event without spending a penny – and we’ve listed a few below to help get you started. Social Media It’s an obvious one, but such a powerful tool that can be used to reach your audience and completely free. Very often companies can [...]

This month’s blog will be focusing on something crucial to most of our events; the importance of event sponsorship, and the ways in which more companies could agree to sponsoring your event in 2019. Our larger events rely on securing sponsorship to help ensure the event costs are covered.  Whether it’s a small financial requirement such as a contribution towards event stationery, or a much larger fee to help cover venue costs, the ways in which sponsorship should be pitched [...]

Sorry we're slightly late to the party on this year's first blog post, but here goes any way. It’s the start of a New Year, and we’re hoping for new beginnings, fresh starts and all-round positivity for 2019. The New Year ahead of us means two exciting things; new goals and new opportunities! Many of us come up with personal new year’s resolutions, but have you ever come up with a work resolution? We spend just as much time at [...]

We’ve made it a hat trick! Our third blog post, and this is a fun one! Inspired by one of our all-time favourite family films, Toy Story, a childhood classic. We began thinking about the strong personality traits each of the characters have and how they would apply themselves to events management. Which roles would they take on? What an exciting entourage they would make as an events management team! Supplier negotiator: Woody Someone who will stick his neck out [...]

Time for our second blog post! A monthly commitment which we’re more than willing to stick to, as essentially, it’s just putting pen to paper about what we do in the office every day! This month we’re writing about organising an event overseas. One of the perks of our job is getting to visit different cities all over the world. These events put a variety of our events management skills to the test. Here’s a run through of some of [...]

Our first CFS Events blog post! Why? Because we need to start practising exactly what we are about to preach. How and why you should be marketing your events to delegates. This is our way of creating a quick & simple guide which will help you break through the noise, reach your target delegate audience and encourage them to attend your event. We have pulled together 10 simple rules which, we believe, if you follow them correctly will help you [...]