BVEP - Business Visits and Events Partnership

Survey - Events Supply Chain Business Support Impacts

DEADLINE 7th APRIL at 17:00 - Please encourage your members who are supply chain services providers to complete this survey looking at measuring the impact of government and other support mechanisms on the events supply chain. The questions have been designed to give DCMS the data needed to help get the support needed.

BVEP Pushes for Further Support for the UK's £70bn Events Industry

The Business Visits and Events Partnership (BVEP) has held an online meeting of its partners and representatives from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sports (DCMS) to share feedback and issues surrounding COVID-19 and to look at practical ways in which the government can continue to support the UK’s £70bn business events sector during the current COVID-19 pandemic, and help aid its recovery.

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EIA COVID-19 Industry Letter to the Prime Minister

Please see below copy of the letter sent by EIA to the Prime Minister in relation to the annoucement on 24th March 2020 that ExCeL London is to become 'The NHS Nightingale Hospital' next week, and our indutries plea to be specifically referenced in support packages and measures. 

EVCOM - COVID-19 and the freelance community

As measures are being announced to support businesses, freelancers and self-employed people are still fighting to have their livelihoods protected during this crisis. Given that our industry is reliant on freelance creatives, it is vital that we fight for the same rights and support for our freelance community as our employed community are being offered at this time.

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COVID-19 tourism industry impact survey DEADLINE 30 March at 17:00

VisitBritain/VisitEngland has modified and reopened their tracker survey (here), they will be conducting it regularly to monitor the impact on all aspects of the UK tourism industry. The results will provide impact data to brief Ministers, the Government and COBR to help support the industry through these challenging times.

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HBAA is fighting for agencies as Government plans distribution of support for leisure and hospitality sector

“We’re fighting for the many agencies whose businesses have recently been obliterated to be included as the Government plans the distribution of financial support for the leisure and hospitality sector,” says HBAA Chair Lex Butler.

“We’re also going to be announcing a series of highly practical initiatives to provide straightforward assistance for all our members to help them through the cash flow nightmare and the mental health pressures that they are all facing.”

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UFI releases updated global assessment of the escalating economic impact that COVID-19 is having on trade shows and exhibitions

Please click here for the press release from UFI, the Global Association of the Exhibition Industry. 

BVEP Statement - The BVEP will do 'whatever it takes' to represent the Events Industry

In the really fast moving crisis that is COVID-19, we thought that it would be good to provide a short update to all our partners. We know that all of you are working really hard to support your members in these unprecedented times. Hopefully the latest blog that we posted yesterday captures the range of work being undertaken by partners and in turn how BVEP is assimilating the information and requests coming from the event industry and putting them directly to officials in key departments. (See: https://www.businessvisitsandeventspartnership.com/)

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eia COVID-19 Industry Letter to Chancellor

The Letter sent to the Chancellor of Exchequer on 18th March 2020 can be downloaded below.

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UK Music Calls for “Urgent Clarity” on the impact of Coronavirus on Music Events

UK Music Acting CEO Tom Kiehl called on the Prime Minister to deliver “urgent clarity” over the impact of the coronavirus clampdown on music events. Please see article at https://www.ukmusic.org/news/uk-music-calls-for-urgent-clarity-on-the-impact-of-coronavirus-on-music-eve

Testing Time

Author – Simon Hughes

“We have a simple message to all countries – test, test, test,” WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a news conference in Geneva. He described the pandemic as “the defining global health crisis of our time.” There is no doubt that we are all being tested – tested to the limits across the global event industry. In the UK however we are not all being tested for the virus (unless you are already ill or in hospital, a care home or prison). But from a business continuity point of view the test that we are being subjected to is unprecedented. Across every sector in our diverse industry, our trade associations are working flat out to provide advice, share best practice and information and support their members as best they can in a really fast moving and dynamic crisis.

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IMPORTANT NOTICE - POSTPONED: The Business of Events Senior Leadership Forum

As you are aware, the situation around COVID-19 has been evolving rapidly over recent days, and we are conscious that delegates and speakers are preparing to travel from across the UK to attend The Business of Events Senior Leadership Forum on Tuesday. We are also very mindful that we have a number of government officials and Ministers due to attend, at a time when their focus and resources are urgently needed elsewhere.

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NOEA Encourages Industry to Support Petition for Government Economic Assistance

The National Outdoor Events Association (NOEA) is encouraging event professionals across the industry to support a government petition concerned with offering economic assistance to the events community during the COVID-19 issue.

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BBC Worklife - Chris Skeith's interview

Chris Skeith, CEO of the Association of Event Organisers, was on Worklife on 10th March 2020, speaking about the impact of Coronavirus on the Event industry.

You can watch the interview (from 6:00) at https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000g9j3/worklife-10032020