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In partnership with Bearfoot Graphics, our preffered event supplier of multimedia and graphic design, we have produced a DVD showcase which blends video footage and images from a cross-section of our past events.

The showcase is to assist clients in understanding the range of events services available, the background of CreatEvents, and  to help those involved in planning future events.

To receive a copy please submit your contact details here or call us on 01252 781178



You're Fired!
Introducing The Apprentices

A very special and exciting event has now been launched by our team building partners.  The Apprentices team building day is a fantastic mix of fun, complex and engaging activities that focus on developing the core business skills of: Selling, Negotiation, Marketing, Accountability, Leadership, Teamwork, Creativity, and Planning.

Each activity is a fulfilling live experience where delegates can sell their wares in real situations, negotiate with genuine suppliers and interact with members of the public.  Some of the tasks available include:

  • The Scent of Victory
  • Recipe for Success
  • Chocoholics Anonymous
  • Cleaning Chaos
  • Passion for Fashion
  • In a Lather
  • Toying with your Ideas

We do not believe in doing things by halves, so The Apprentices activity is as close to being on the real TV show as you can get.  Our team will research your Apprentice location to ensure that all the correct licenses, permits and market stalls are in place so that the teams can concentrate on winning their task and really getting the most out of the day.

This business focussed challenge culminates in a nail biting boardroom session, complete with Sir Alan Sweetener, and his highly experienced business coaches.

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UPCOMING EVENTS


THE BRIDAL BUYER AWARDS 2010
http://www.bridalbuyerawards.com/

The Bridal Buyer Awards are the most prestigious awards in the bridal calendar. They attract hundreds of entries and absolutely everyone who is anyone in the bridal industry attends the glittering ceremony. The 2010 event is scheduled for Monday 15 March and it will be bigger and even better than the 2009 record-breaking celebration. Entries are now closed. The deadline for completing your entry was 13 November. The 2010 finalists have now been announced! Find out who was shortlisted!


TARGETJOBS NATIONAL GRADUATE RECRUITMENT AWARDS

http://www.targetjobsawards.co.uk

These awards recognise the most popular graduate recruiters in the following twenty sectors. The winner of each award is determined by an online student poll conducted by ‘the trendence institute’ and we’re expecting over 100,000 responses. All shortlisted organisations are also eligible to enter for the Graduate Employer of the Year Award.




PAST EVENT REVIEWS


 
WINNERS ANNOUNCED!
The Negotiator Awards

The 2009 Negotiator Awards was once again a great success and the event was universakky hailed as the top awards ceremony of the residential estate agency market, with more than 400 people enjoying a brilliant evening hosted by comedian and magician Paul Zenon.

Entrants were judged by a glittering panel of industry judges and the winners (and the shortlisted finalists) all gained extensive publicity and a strong marketing advantage as a result of their success at the sector's top event.

You can view the photographs from the event here.


 
WINNERS ANNOUNCED!
UK Housing Awards

2009 celebrated the 13th year of the prestigious UK Housing Awards, delivered by CIH and Inside Housing. One of the longest running and most successful awards ceremonies in the sector, the UKHA have been at the forefront of showcasing the achievements of housing organisations across the sector.

The UK Housing Awards ceremony took place at the London Hilton, Park Lane, London, on 11 November 2009

View the photo gallery by clicking here




WINNERS ANNOUNCED!
Sustainable Housing Awards

The Sustainable Housing Awards celebrate the projects and organisations at the vanguard of housing sustainability best practice. Involvement in the awards as a winner or a finalist bring widespread recognition, masses of media exposure and could lead to further work or commissions.

The awards ceremony took place on 23 October at London’s Hilton Hotel.

Full details coming soon.

 

WINNERS ANNOUNCED!
THE Awards

The Times Higher Education Awards are now in their fifth year and are firmly established in the world of higher education.

The awards dinner and presentations took place at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London on Thursday 15 October 2009.

Full details coming soon.



TARGETjobs National Graduate
Recruitment Awards 2009

Click here to view video highlights

Top comedian Alan Carr preseneted the fifth annual TARGETjobs National Graduate Recruitment Awards, held at London's Grosvenor House. GTI's UK CEO Paul Sissons welcomed guests to "the biggest graduate recruitment awards on the planet".

To see all the winners and photos from the night please CLICK HERE.

With the presentations over, guests were treated to a song and dance stage show from CHICAGO. The festivities continued long into the night with a charity casino (in aid of Project Trust) and a disco.

CreatEvents would like to take this opportunity to congratulate all the winners and commiserations to the runners-up.





Health Investor Awards 2009

Click here to view video highlights

HealthInvestor, the leading magazine and website covering the healthcare business, is delighted to announce the winners of its 2009 awards.

The HealthInvestor Awards promote excellence and recognise innovation in the healthcare sector. The winners were announced at a black-tie dinner held on 3 June at the London Hilton Park Lane, hosted by Rt Hon Michael Portillo and attended by 750 industry movers and shakers.

The finalists were judged by a 12-strong panel of independent healthcare industry experts. The evening was sponsored by event partner Beachcroft and premier supporting partner Abbey UK Corporate Banking.

Click here to view photographs of the night






TES Schools Awards 2009

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At a glittering ceremony in central London, the TES announced the winners of its first TES Schools Awards 2009. This video on the left shows the winners together with host Rory Bremner and the great Johnny Ball.

These awards celebrate and reward the professionalism and flair of those teams making an outstanding contribution to primary and secondary schools in the maintained and independent sectors. The awards encompass new facilities, innovation in teaching, leadership and community involvement.

The Times Educational Supplement launched the TES Schools Awards last December and have been delighted by the response. The panel of distinguished judges has been impressed by the range and quality of the hundreds of entries. They wanted to recognise outstanding innovation, so they looked beyond the traditional methods of measuring success. The standard of entries was so high that they faced an extremely difficult task in deciding between those on the shortlist.

The awards were held at the London Hilton Hotel on Park Lane on 9 June 2009. We congratulate the winners and commend the shortlisted candidates.






THE Leadership & Management Awards 2009

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The winners of the inaugural Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards have been announced . The achievements of some of the sector’s top performers were rewarded on a night of glitz and glamour at the inaugural Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards, held in association with the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education.

The winners in more than a dozen categories were announced at the London Hilton Hotel in Park Lane last night, at a gala dinner hosted by comedian and impressionist Rory Bremner. The awards rewarded excellence in fields ranging from estates to finance, human resources to fundraising, with winners hailing from every corner of the sector.

The evening’s main prize, the outstanding leadership and management team award, went to Loughborough University. Ewart Wooldridge, chief executive of the Leadership Foundation and one of the judges, said he was particularly impressed with the results of a Loughborough staff poll, which found that more than 90 per cent of workers believed that Shirley Pearce, vice-chancellor of the institution, was doing a good job.

Pictures from last night’s celebration of leadership and management talent in higher education are now available to view here.




Housing Heroes Awards 2009

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The Housing Heroes awards, which are organised by Inside Housing with the Chartered Institute of Housing, recognise the commitment, passion and flair of people working in the housing sector.

This new awards scheme aims to ensure those 'unsung heroes' of the housing world are recognised and rewarded for their contribution in making housing such a vibrant and caring sector. There are 14 trophies up for grabs, recognising everyone from the best HR, customer services and finance team to the inspirational board member and the top chief executive.

The winners of awards set up to recognise the unsung heroes of the housing world were announced at a ceremony in London.

Former Conservative frontbencher Michael Portillo presented the awards, across 14 categories, at an event attended by more than 700 people from the industry.

See pictures from the event




Property Awards 09

More than 1000 property professionals gathered at the Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, London recently to celebrate the best of the property industry during the last 12 challenging months.

Hosted by ITV news presenter Katie Derham, and with a performance from comedian Michael McIntyre, the event recognised the industry's top performers and rewarded the best companies, teams and individuals from the property industry in 18 categories.

Wii games and casino kept the competitiveness going until the early hours.

Click here to view the winners, and photos/video of the event

Images courtesy of OLIVER KNIGHT. All rights reserved



The Bridal Buyer Awards 09

The Bridal Buyer Awards are the most prestigious awards in the bridal calendar. They attract hundreds of entries and absolutely everyone who is anyone in the bridal industry attends the glittering ceremony. The 2009 winners have now been announced!

More than 550 people attended the awards dinner held at Harrogate International Centre, where guests were entertained by TV presenter and comedian Fred MacAulay.

There was a champagne reception, followed by dinner provided by Kudos Hospitality, and after the awards a charity casino in aid of Breast Cancer Aid and dancing until 1.30am with The Nightjars.

Click here to view the winners, and photos/video of the event

Images courtesy of SIRASTUDIO. All rights reserved










Building Awards 09

Over 1,300 construction professionals decsended on the Grosvenor House Hotel last night to reward best practice, innovation and excellence in the building and construction industry

The awards, which celebrated its 15th anniversary rewarded people and teams in 19 categories.

Jointly hosted by actor/comedian Alexander Armstrong and muscian/tv presenter Myleene Klass who treated the audience to an extraordinary and passionate classical performance.

Click here to view the winners, and photos/video of the event.









Bechtel Annual Dinner & Dance
Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, London x 700 guests

Bechtel is one of the world’s leading engineering, construction and project management companies. They build power plants, pipelines and petroleum refineries that fuel economies; airports, roads, and railways that move people and goods; telecommunications systems that bring new technology to millions of people. All are big challenges that make a world of difference.

So as an annual thank you to their management and staff, Bechtel hosted an actioned packed dinner dance for 700 guests at Grosvenor House, London. Createvents were brought on board to source and manage the entertainment, AV and manage the venue logistics.

John Olivers LIVE ensured the dancefloor was packed throughout the evening with his amazing 12 piece function band. On the balcony we provided a variety of entertainment to keep the young at heart occupied with the ultimate indoor ski simulator machine which had a steady stream of eddie the eagle wannabies ready to take on the might of the Ski Blizzard. In addition four Nintendo Wii Stations produced a number amateur bowlers and tennis players! much to our enjoyment watching from the side lines! and of course the obligatory fun casino was kept busy to the early hours!

"thanks for all the good work and enthusiasm that you put in to our event at the Grosvenor House. The guests were ecstatic about the entertainment, and in particular raved about the Ski Blizzard and Wii machines!.....thanks for making the organising easier for us"

Images shown are from 2009 Event. All rights reserved




North West Property Awards 09

More than 600 of property's finest gathered at the Sheridan Suite last month to celebrate the best of the north-west property industry during the last 12 months.

The awards hosted by comedian Stephen K Amos, returned to Manchester for its third year, and rewarded north-west based developments, people and teams in 17 categories.

Click here to view the winners, and photos/video of the event.

Images courtesy of OLIVER KNIGHT. All rights reserved














The Green Awards
A look back on Irelands Inaugural Green Awards 2008

If you were at the wonderful Green Awards ceremony at The Burlington Hotel, Dublin in December then you don't need to read this, because you know who won, what a great night it was and what a funny man Risteárd Cooper really is (our sides are still aching!).

However, if you were not able to make it, you missed a great night, but here are the Green Award winners for you.

Congratulations to them all and good luck promoting your award-winning status in the year ahead.

We'd like to thank our wonderful sponsors, our fantastic judges, the 300 or so entrants, the 100 who made the shortlist and the 500 or so guests who came along on the night to cheer on the winners with such enthusiasm.

And now that this year's awards are over, the 2009 programme must begin, so expect to hear from us in the New Year when we'll be inviting the next wave of green champions to enter for an award.

To register your interest for the 2009 Green Awards, please email info@greenawards.ie


Image shown: KPMG, The Green Professional Services Award. All rights reserved





The Midlands Property Awards

1000 people decended on the ICC Birmingham to celebrate with the award winners at the 2008 Midlands Property Awards. Createvents were on board once again to ensure the organisation, logisitics and onsite management ran smoothly. Ballymore was breaking open the bubbly after picking up the awards for commercial development of the year, and mixed-use development of the year for its Birmingham Snowhill project.

The Event, which is in its second year, awarded Midlands-based developers and agents in 16 catergories. Click here for a full list of winners and images from the event.

Images shown from 2008 Event. All rights reserved



Architect of the Year Awards

In pictures Click here View a selection of images from this year’s glittering Architect of the Year awards, held at the London Hilton, and hosted by Marcus Brigstocke.

Video Watch the video of the Young Architect and Architect of the Year 2008 awards.






Parky wows the Property awards

Chat show legend Sir Michael Parkinson took the Property Awards by storm hosting the event in front of a sell-out 1,700 crowd at London's Grosvenor House Hotel in Europe's largest Ballroom, The Great Room.

The TV king regaled the audience with his own "awards", recounting his experiences of meeting a galaxy of stars before hosting the event.

Award-winning comedian Jason Manford, star of TV's eight out of ten cats, provided the entertainment for the awards. The audience defied the market gloom to party into the early hours with Band, Live DJ, and array of simulators and games.

Property Awards is now in its 13th year, and is hosted by Property Week. CLICK HERE for full list of winners.

Images shown are from 2008 Event. All rights reserved


Katherine moves the builders to tears

The 14th annual Building Awards, the biggest construction industry event of the year, took place in the grand surroundings of the Great Room at London's Grosvenor House Hotel.

The extremely sough after Building Awards are all about rewarding best practice, innovation and excellence. Attended by over 1500 industry professionals, with Alistair McGowen hosting the glittering ceremony, keeping an audience of key construction professionals entertained throughout the event. To finish the awards, Katherine Jenkins gave a breathtaking performance even moving grown men to tears...

Click here to see highlights of the event and who won the gongs!

Images shown are from 2008 Event. All rights reserved














HealthInvestor Awards
Recognising excellence in the healthcare sector

Right now, the healthcare sector is an incredibly exciting and profitable place to do business. HealthInvestor magazine was established to keep the sector up to speed within this fast changing environment. The HealthInvestor awards dinner was launched to recognise outstanding achievements.

This year’s black tie event, hosted by Channel 4 newsreader Krishnan Guru-Murthy was a sell-out, with just under 600 guests. It was held at the prestigious Marriott Grosvenor Square in central London. The evening's charity auction raised nearly £13,000 for The Royal Marsden Cancer Campaign.

The 2009 Awards will be held in the Hilton Park Lane on Wednesday 3 June. For further information please call 0207 451 7069 or email alex.beaumont@healthinvestor.co.uk

Click here to see video, photographs and the winners of the 2008 Awards

Images shown are from 2008 Event. All rights reserved







Northwest Property Awards

"ASK" Chief Ken Knott was named North West Property Personality of the Year in front of 1200 people in Liverpool. Knott, who sold a stake in ASK to Morgan Stanley Read Estate Funds in late 2006 won the award at the first dinner event to be held at the new BT Convention Centre in Liverpool.

The Duke of Westminster was Guest of Honour at the ceremony, with Liverpool One, the mixed use scheme to be opended by his Grosvenor Group in May was named Regeneration Project of the Year. The Awards were hosted by Property Week in association with English Partnerships.


Image shown is from 2008 Event. All rights reserved




CASE STUDY


RIBA International Conference 2007

Location: Paris |Number of Delegates: 250 | Duration: 2 days

The conference was staged at the French Communist Party Headquarters in the centre of the Capital. The conference theme was "the secret of successful collaboration".

An extremely important networking element was incorporated into the programme by creating an opportunity for delegates to meet sponsors in the exhibition zone. A successful reception also provided an ideal networking opportunity and was held at cite de l'architecture, Europe's largest new Architecture Centre where delegates enjoyed a rooftop reception and the chance to tour the historic and contemporary architecture galleries.

On the second day, another networking reception was held at the world famous Pompidou Centre. In addition to the conference there was an exciting and extensive programme of special architecture tours that covered all the best that Paris has to offer.

Createvents provided the following services:

  • Pre and on-site venue management including organising of rooming lists, catering and room logisitics
  • Pre and on-site conference management
  • Sourcing and management of off-site reception
  • Management of audio visual production
  • Sourcing and management of local suppliers

"Thank you so much for the great organisation. This was the first time I have come to a RIBA Conference, and I'm really impressed"



EVENT TECHNOLOGY NEWS




Createvents launches bespoke table/guest management system

With an ever increasing volume of short lead bookings, together with expectations of guests for us to use the latest available technology, Createvents are pleased to announce a new service that has been designed with our clients’ needs and the awards event market in mind.

How does it work?

  • Upon receipt of a table booking form and/or booking spreadsheet, the information is entered into the specific event database
  • Once all details have been entered, the team will immediately send out an electronic confirmation notification, personalised with the booking contact, company name, and number of tables/places. In addition this email will also include key information such as payment process, a provisional itinerary, dress code, and wine order process etc
  • The booking confirmation will include a secure web link for the host to add individual guest names and make any amendments up until the printing deadline set for each event


What are the benefits to your event/guests?

  • It‘s quick, it’s secure and it creates an efficient awards guest management system
  • It avoids errors, allows host to manage their individual guest names, therefore more control
  • It helps the environment by cutting down use of paper and fax transmissions
  • It provides your host companies with value for money
  • It uses the latest event management technology


How will Createvents use the data?

  • To produce speedy and accurate reports for you
  • Enables Createvents to download guests names for table planning/A-Z guest lists purposes



CSR NEWS




Createvents sponsor Windsor Saints FC

Simon Cross (Manager / Secretary of Windsor Saints) writes :

"The Sponsorship given by createvents has been really appreciated. The club has been running for many years now but we, like many teams in the current climate, have struggled to secure sponsorship over recent years. We are certainly grateful for the support that Createvents have given. And it seems that some of the company's success rubbed off on us as we secured promotion with a very young side. So a big Thankyou goes to Createvents - here's to more success !
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With thanks to SIRA Studio for providing images for the Bridal Buyer Awards