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VisitBritain to Start Promoting The UKickstart Event 2020

Be part of the LIVE Event to inspire our nation – Visit Britain supports The UKickstart Event 2020 (8th September 2-4pm) FREE to attend opportunity for meeting professionals to demonstrate the power of events. Don’t miss out. Register for The UKickstart Event 2020 here and share as much as possible.

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One Industry, One Voice Campaign Update

Over the last couple of weeks the news from government continues to hold large scale activation across our industry back, although small steps have been taken in some areas. Both the deep frustration being felt has increased, as has the focus on the need to reassure our teams, suppliers, stakeholders and, above all, our clients that we can deliver Covid-19 secure meetings and events of all types and that we are ready to do so. Yet so much lies outside our direct control that it was inevitable that any number of campaigns to support the event industry would spring up.

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HBAA survey finds Venues will be more flexible on cancellation terms but are adding more robust contract clauses after Covid-19 experience

Venues will be more flexible on cancellation terms but are adding more robust contract clauses to cover potentially similar issues, according an HBAA survey on venue attitudes to commercial terms following the Covid-19 crisis.

The survey of 35 member venues, including 18 venue groups and 17 independent venues, also revealed that nearly all are still planning how to handle the additional costs resulting from social distancing and extra cleaning at present.

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BVEP Launches Events Reopening Survey Ahead of October Go Date

The Business Visits & Events Partnership (BVEP), the umbrella body and advocacy group for the UK’s £70 billion events industry, has today launched its BVEP Partner Events Reopening Survey, which will provide an insight into how organisations and venues across England are preparing ahead of the industry’s go date.

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PLASA - Watch and share the latest #WeMakeEvents campaign video

While the world re-opens, the events industry is still left in the shadows without the support we urgently need.

The £1.57bn arts rescue package and the re-opening of outdoor events only addresses the tip of the iceberg and will do little to support the weakening supply chain.

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AEO, AEV, and ESSA Launch the All Secure Standard

A combined group of members from the Association of Event Organisers (AEO), the Association Event Venues (AEV) and the Event Supplier and Services Association (ESSA), led by the associations, has today launched the All Secure Standard, a risk assessment based framework of Covid-19 secure industry best practice and guidance for business events and consumer shows which take place in meetings, conferencing and exhibition centres.

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NOEA - Events Festival Industry Left on the Shelf

- Industry will lose major festival brands
- Half of event businesses face losses of £100,000+
- Job Losses could reach tens of thousands.

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Business events and conferences given go ahead to resume from 1 October

• Government to begin pilots to help plan how best to restart indoor business events.
• New guidance outlines how the nation’s conference venues can get back up and running safely.

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MeetEngland preparing to welcome back international business events following UK Government announcement

MeetEngland today welcomed the news of a timeline for the business events sector reopening in England.

English destinations, venues and business event suppliers are preparing to welcome conferences and other business events from October.

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Media Statement from Simon Hughes, Chair Business Visits & Events Partnership

“After several months of lobbying, and providing significant amounts of evidence and research to government, and working closely in partnership with our colleagues at DCMS, we are delighted that today the Prime Minister has finally announced a Go Date of October 1st for the recommencement of business events and exhibitions, subject to the successful completion of some pilot events.

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Small steps are not big enough or bold enough for the UK Event Industry

The Business Visits & Events Partnership (BVEP) the umbrella body and advocacy group for the UK’s £70 billion events industry, is now calling on the Government to save the industry from complete collapse by providing further targeted and long-term support for the sector.

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30,000 UK job losses if UK Government fails to provide a clear date for reopening of exhibitions sector from COVID-19 lockdown

30,000 direct jobs in exhibitions sector currently at risk.

Estimated £8bn loss to the UK economy if remaining exhibitions are cancelled in 2020, and 60% of supply chain companies will not reopen in October as furlough comes to an end.

Sector is able to deliver safe events using ‘controlled’ environments and can play a vital role in getting the UK economy moving again.

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EIF - Events industry welcomes guidance for restarting

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.

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Events Industry Senior Leaders Panel - Meeting Note of 23rd June 2020 Meeting

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

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).

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PLASA launches #WeMakeEvents campaign to support the industry

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.

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EIB - Industry leaders express urgency about naming a reopening date to Minister

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.

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EIA - Open letter to Chancellor

Please download below the open letter sent to the Chancellor on 30th June 2020.

‘Project Confidence’ introduced as new cross association working group

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’.

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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

“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.

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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

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.

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BVEP Blog by Simon Hughes - Go Large, Go Local

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.

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Event Industry Support Debate

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”.

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BVEP warns of catastrophic and irreversible consequences for the UK events industry without immediate practical opening guidelines being provided by the UK Government

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.

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