EIF - Events industry welcomes guidance for restarting
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- Friday, 10 July 2020
The Event Industry Forum (EIF) and the Department of Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) have today agreed guidance for restarting some elements of the UK’s £30.4 billion outdoor events industry.
New guidance, compiled by EIF in consultation with Government departments, sets out how event organisers can restart some outdoor events this summer.
Events Industry Senior Leaders Panel - Meeting Note of 23rd June 2020 Meeting
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- Tuesday, 07 July 2020
Please click here for the notes of the meeting which took place via tele/video conference on 23rd June 2020.
BVEP welcomes three new members
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- Friday, 03 July 2020
The Business Visits & Events Partnership (BVEP) has welcomed a number of new partners to the organisation including Unique Venues of London (UVL), International Association of Speakers Bureaus (IASB) and Professional Lighting and Sound Association (PLASA).
PLASA launches #WeMakeEvents campaign to support the industry
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- Friday, 03 July 2020
PLASA has launched #WeMakeEvents, a new campaign with the aim of amplifying the industry’s voice and gaining meaningful Government support. Central to the campaign is a video highlighting the vital role of supply chain companies along with the freelance community and the devastating impact of the pandemic upon the live events sector.
EIB - Industry leaders express urgency about naming a reopening date to Minister
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- Wednesday, 01 July 2020
At the most recent Senior Events Industry Leaders Panel held with the Minister of Tourism, Nigel Huddleston MP, industry leaders voiced their concerns, about the critical importance of a date for reopening to be given, if further damage to an already fragile Industry was to be avoided. Industry leaders said a go date was essential as for many events, at least eight to twelve weeks, was necessary for planning purposes.
EIA - Open letter to Chancellor
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- Tuesday, 30 June 2020
Please download below the open letter sent to the Chancellor on 30th June 2020.
‘Project Confidence’ introduced as new cross association working group
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- Friday, 26 June 2020
The Event Industry Alliance (EIA) – the collective associations of AEO, AEV and ESSA, is pleased to introduce its latest cross association working group initiative – ‘Project Confidence’.
HBAA report and survey show over 30 per cent of business events and accommodation and meetings agency staff in danger of being made redundant from July 2020
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- Thursday, 25 June 2020
“A lack of a clear independent identity has left the industry fighting for its life after being ignored and unappreciated by government” says HBAA.
Association sends report to government departments and MPs highlighting need for extended and further financial support after debate in a Parliament.
BVEP welcomes change to physical distancing rules but calls lack of specific reference to events in statement from PM ‘shameful’ and continues to push for support for the UK events industry
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- Tuesday, 23 June 2020
The Business Visits & Events Partnership (BVEP), the advocacy group for the UK’s £70 billion events industry, has today welcomed the relaxation of the current two metre physical distancing rule and the planned opening of parts of the sector, but has called ‘shameful’ the fact that events were not specifically referred to in the Prime Ministers statement in the House of Commons today.
BVEP Blog by Simon Hughes - Go Large, Go Local
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- Tuesday, 23 June 2020
This Thursday 25th June 2020, a petition calling for the UK government to provide economic assistance to businesses and staff employed by the UK events industry will finally be debated in the House of Commons. The BVEP encouraged all our partners to sign the petition and in the end 153,152 people from across the industry did so. So far, so good.
Event Industry Support Debate
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- Monday, 22 June 2020
The Petitions Committee, which is the group of MPs who oversee the petitions system, is to debate a petition, signed by many in the industry, on “Government to offer economic assistance to the events industry during COVID-19”.
BVEP warns of catastrophic and irreversible consequences for the UK events industry without immediate practical opening guidelines being provided by the UK Government
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- Friday, 12 June 2020
Further delay could cost over £53 billion of GDP and the loss of over 500,000 jobs
The Business Visits & Events Partnership, the advocacy group for the UK’s £70 billion events industry, has today warned of ‘a catastrophic and irreversible’ impact to the industry if the government further delay publishing clear and practical guidelines on the opening of the UK’s vital events sector and relax the current two metre physical distancing rule.
DCMS COVID-19 Survey
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- Friday, 12 June 2020
You may remember that DCMS ran a Coronavirus Impact Business Survey that closed last month - thanks to those who participated. The survey captured the impact so far of the Coronavirus outbreak on respondents, as well as their experience of and eligibility for government support packages. Headline results have been published as well as more detailed results.
The Fortnight In Review Episode 4
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- Friday, 12 June 2020
In the 4th episode of the Hire Space's Fortnight In Review Virtual Event, you can listen to Simon Hughes, Chair of BVEP, and Carina Bauer, CEO of IMEX Group, discussing how the negotiations with the government have developed over the last fortnight and how prepared we are as an industry for the return to work.
https://hirespace.com/blog/the-fortnight-in-review-episode-4/
Events Supply Chain Business Support Impacts - follow-up survey
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- Friday, 05 June 2020
DEADLINE - 11th June. In early April, industry associations joined together to research and present evidence on the impact of Coronavirus and the effectiveness of Government support on the Events Supply Sector. The survey we carried out together had over 1400 responses, the report it produced was delivered to treasury and along with other activity from across the wider creative sector, we’re certain it led to further support measures being announced soon after.
It is now time to ask once more for your input, taking into account measures introduced since the last report and the more recently announced tapering and removal of support packages. Please help us by completing the survey (https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/JWLCSWN). We have until Thursday 11th June to collect responses and start building our report.
EIB continues to press for sustained support
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- Friday, 05 June 2020
At the last meeting of the Events Industry Board (EIB), members continued to press for more support as they reviewed measures for the longer term recovery of the Industry.
Whilst welcoming the extension to the furlough scheme, members urged the government to extend the scheme further and offer help to many of the Industry’s smaller businesses that were often struggling to access government programmes.
Simon Hughes Elected as New Chair of the BVEP
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- Friday, 22 May 2020
The Business Visits & Events Partnership (BVEP) the umbrella body and advocacy group for the UK’s £70 billion events industry, has today approved Simon Hughes to be its new Chair.
Simon, previously Vice Chair of the BVEP, replaces Michael Hirst OBE, who has served as its Chair since the partnerships formation in 1999 and who will continue to Chair the UK Events Industry Board and will join the partnership’s new Executive Committee.
MPI and MIA Rejoin BVEP to Strengthen Industry Voice & Collaboration
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- Wednesday, 20 May 2020
The Business Visits & Events Partnership (BVEP) has announced that both the Meetings Industry Association (mia) and Meetings Professionals International UK & Ireland (MPI) have re-joined the partnership as full members. This takes the number of full partners in the BVEP, which is the umbrella body and advocacy group for the UK’s £70 billion events industry, to 28.
HBAA's comments on the Chancellor's announcement 12 May
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- Tuesday, 12 May 2020
“The job retention scheme extension has prevented thousands of redundancies in this industry at the end of June - but further support is essential for the sector’s survival”
“The extension of the job retention scheme to the end of October, without change until the end of July, will save thousands of jobs in the events, hospitality and travel industry as many staff would have been made redundant at the end of June. The industry would have been decimated.
Business Travel Association Unveils Plan to Get Business Travelling again
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- Monday, 11 May 2020
Action needed now to re-ignite business travel which contributes £220 billion to UK GDP annually.
The Business Travel Association (BTA) is today calling on the Government to support the five step plan it has developed to get British business travelling again.
BVEP launches report focused on £70bn events industry
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- Tuesday, 05 May 2020
The Business Visits & Events Partnership (BVEP) has today launched its latest report titled ‘The UK Events Report’, which provides an in-depth examination into the £70bn industry, providing jobs for 700,000 people and how it will deliver the Government’s Industrial Strategy, which was launched last year.
VB Paper - Helping the tourism industry recover from COVID-19
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- Thursday, 07 May 2020
On behalf of the tourism industry, VisitBritain have sent a paper to the Cabinet Office detailing how government can help the tourism industry recover from COVID-19.
