DHP Family and Beat the Streets, Fighting Homelessness.
On Thursday, March 30 a legend in the Nottingham live music scene, George Akins Snr, passed away, aged 94. A prominent businessman and property developer, his many achievements included founding Rock City in 1980,...
We Invented the Weekend – Bold Claim and New Festival for Salford.
We Invented the Weekend, a brand new festival, based in Salford, with a bold claim within its name and, as co-founder Wayne Hemingway MBE points out “If you're going to claim that a place...
EXIT Partners with NFT-TiX for Multi-Year Collaboration After UK Festival Awards Innovation Win
After receiving an award for Best Innovation at the U.K Festival Awards, EXIT has entered into a multi-year collaboration with ticketing platform NFT-TiX for its upcoming festivals and events. Last July, EXIT, a multiple...
help me Angela on a Mission to Make People Feel Safer
At the recent Night Time Industry Summit, we met up with the good people at help me Angela, an organisation with a mission to enhance personal safety. Using a suite of tools that sit...
From Beach Bar to Festivals, Growing Tunes in the Sand.
From Beach Bar to Festivals, Growing Tunes in the Sand.
Becoming a festival owner wasn’t exactly Tommy Job’s destiny, but his dad, Bob's acquisition of a beach bar near home on Cornwall back in the...
Beat-Herder – A Festival With a Sense of Re-Purpose
Accreditation in a former mobile chlamydia screening unit disguised as a train carriage? A swimming pool under a roof supported by the ribs of an old boat? If the Wombles ran a festival, surely...
Demystifying the Misconceptions Surrounding Solar-Powered Events
Andrew Teverson, Managing Director of The Stage Bus, on the misconceptions surrounding solar power - and how you can measure the power consumption of your event.
Every single mobile stage in the Stage Bus fleet...
Protect Duty Becomes Martyn’s Law
In a move designed to step up the UK's resilience to terrorism, the Government has announced details for the Protect Duty, now to be known as ‘Martyn’s Law’ in tribute of Martyn Hett, who...
Vision: 2025 Launch 8th Annual Outdoor Event Industry Green Survey
The 8th annual Outdoor Event Industry Green Survey is now live, launched by the Event Vision: 2025 industry climate action group to track UK outdoor event industry’s sustainability journey and the priorities and and...
The Loop Drug Checking Service Achieves Charity Status, Appoints First CEO
The UK’s first and only dedicated drug checking organisation, The Loop, has been granted charity status by the Charity Commission and has welcomed on board the first CEO for a drug checking service in...
