Press Releases

The Association of Event Venues (AEV) is commencing its salary survey for 2017, and inviting AEV member venues to contribute their salary data to the project, which will be published as a report later ...

Kim Dance from AEV welcomed several new members and instigated round table introductions for their benefit, before Smith requested that the minutes of the previous meeting be approved. Following the f ...

The cross-association Sustainability Working Group convened for its first meeting of the year at ExCeL London on March 22, 2017, with Katie Clarke of Manchester Central in the chair. The meeting opene ...

1. What brought you into the event industry? I was in the Royal Air Force Fire & Rescue Service for 23 years and was asked to take control of the H&S for the fire department. I started to work for Oly ...

The Association of Event Venues has welcomed Ungerboeck Software as a headline sponsor of its 2017 conference at The Vox, Birmingham, on June 29th 2017.

The Association of Event Venues has confirmed that it has secured headline sponsorship for its annual conference, at The Vox Birmingham, June 29, 2017, from Freeman EMEA, the full-service exhibition s ...

The Size and Scale Index of Events (SASiE), the cross association programme of research into the size, scale and characteristics of the UK exhibitions sector, has published its latest report analysing ...

The new HR ‘supergroup', welcoming members from AEO, AEV and ESSA, held its first meeting on March 9, 2017,  at ExCeL London, with Trevor Foley of tfconnect in the chair. Foley welcomed the 25 attende ...

The Association of Event Venues (AEV) has welcomed the news that the Queen Elizabeth II (QEII) Centre has agreed to formally adopt the eGuide, the common regulative policy for major UK event venues th ...

The AEV Marketing & Comms Working group gathered for its first meeting of 2017, at Olympia London on Wednesday, March 1st. Group chair, Jazmin Beale of Olympia London, led the proceedings, welcoming n ...

The National Rigging Advisory Group (NRAG), the pan-industry body concerned with promoting rigging safety in events, has announced its endorsement of the cross-association campaign to raise awareness ...

 The Association of Event Venues (AEV) has announced the appointment of two new board members, Elizabeth Faulkner, assistant CEO Manchester Central, and Kerry Quinn, Liverpool ACC's deputy CEO & direc ...

The Association of Event Venues (AEV) has announced it will be holding a document fraud workshop, delivered by officers from the National Counter Terrorism Security Office (NaCTSO), to help its member ...

The AEV Catering Working Group assembled for its final meeting of 2016 at Farnborough International Exhibition and Conference Centre, on Wednesday November 30th, with Phil Wetz of ExCeL London in the ...

The AEV Event Managers Working Group held its last meeting of 2016 at Manchester Central on Thursday November 17, 2016, with 20 members attending and Emma Chilton of ACC Liverpool in the chair. Chilto ...

Katie Clarke is the quality and compliance manager for Manchester Central, with a broad remit that includes project managing the three ISO management systems in place at the venue, running the interna ...

The cross-association Technical Committee – Electrics Working Group met for the final time in 2016 on November 3rd at Farnborough International, with Chris Morrison of Olympia London in the chair. Mor ...

The AEV/AEO/ESSA Technology Working Group convened at Farnborough International Exhibition and Conference Centre for the final meeting of the year on November 3rd 2016 with Murray Dickson of The NEC i ...

The AEV Security Working Group held its last meeting of 2016 at Ricoh Arena on October 26, with Andy Coulson of Farnborough International in the chair. Coulson opened the meeting with a welcome to all ...

The event industry's leading associations, AEO, AEV and ESSA have come together to launch Stop the Drop, a health and safety scheme that aims to prevent falls when working at height. Conceived earlier ...