Press Releases

The Association of Event Venues (AEV) has announced the publication of the fifth annual Size and Scale Index for Events, showing year-on-year comparisons across key event industry metrics and including detailed trends, analysis and insights from the organiser and supplier sectors, presented by Philip Soar, CEO and executive chairman of CloserStill, and Nick Marshall, executive chairman of GES, respectively.

18 individuals from across our venue membership and 1 invited AEO member converged on a sunny Silverstone circuit for the first eGuide meeting of 2019. Situated inside the circuit and via the famous B ...

Technology Working Group meeting Meeting for the group’s second get-together of the year a number of technology experts from across the industry met at Olympia London to progress conversations surroun ...

Diversified Communications UK welcomed the Cross Association Event Industry HR working group to their offices in sunny Brighton this week. It was satisfying to see that since our last meeting in Febru ...

The AEV/AEO/ESSA Electrics Technical Committee and the AEV/AEO/ESSA Technology Working Group are holding a joint meeting on May 22, featuring an invited panel of experts, to discuss important new tech ...

  After completing the Mental Health First Aid England (MHFA) course, Alden has received his certificate, confirming he is qualified to offer mental health first-aid. Alden was very positive about the ...

The AEV eGuide Working Group will be meeting at Silverstone on Wednesday May 15th for its first meeting of the year with Siân Richards in the chair. Richards said “I’m looking forward to our next meet ...

  We are excited to announce that we will be holding our 15th Birthday Party at Dirty Martini, Manchester, on July 4th at 7pm. The party, sponsored by Freeman, follows the AEV 2019 conference on the s ...

  We have begun our annual Salary Survey exercise for 2019, and invite association members to contribute their salary data to the project. The results, composited and interpreted by survey specialist ...

 “I have been branded with folly and madness for attempting what the world calls impossibilities.." Richard Trevithick - British mechanical engineer and inventor who successfully harnessed high-pressu ...

"I shared my experiences with the AEV Security Working Group and explained why collaboration on security through the group was beneficial for all the venues that took part" written by Benn Higginson, ...

  The AEV Catering Working Group will be meeting on Wednesday April 10 at the National Railway Museum, York, for the first meeting of the year at 11am. Jamie Anderson, Working Group Chair, and venue d ...

  Ungerboeck will be the headline sponsor at this year's AEV conference - taking place on July 4, 2019 at Manchester Central; and Blitz, a GES company, will be joining as conference partner, providing ...

We are proud to announce that Silverstone Circuits Ltd, home to the Formula One British Grand Prix, and state-of-the-art exhibition facility, The Silverstone Wing, has joined the association, followin ...

18 individuals from across 13 companies gathered at UBM/Informa’s spectacular central London offices for an afternoon of collaborative industry sustainability thinking. Olympia London kindly sponsored ...

Starting this week, we begin the countdown to AEV Conference 2019, with a series of weekly #throwbackthursday messages, each one highlighting a signature event or moment for 15 of our member venues fr ...

The AEV/AEO/ESSA Sustainability Working Group will be convening at Informa, London, on Wednesday March 20, 2019 for a meeting featuring a sustainability workshop from The MICE Machine, sponsored by Ol ...

  Not even Storm Gareth could keep us away. Event Managers from 13 member venues congregated at Manchester Metropolitan University on 13th March. Welcomed with an array of tasty refreshment the group ...

The AEV Security Working Group met at Olympia London last week during SCTX – Security & Counter Terror Expo. Our meeting commenced with the chair, Steve Neal prompting those present for a round table ...

  Our Event Managers Working Group is to hold its next meeting on Wednesday,  March 13, 2019 at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) in conjunction with second-year students on the MMU Events Mana ...