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Event Organisers Update ISSUE 81 November/December 2010

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POOL DEATH AT BRITANNIA ADELPHI The Britannia Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool has been fined £65,000 with £70,000 costs after a visitor drowned in its swimming pool…

HOTEL PRICE FIXING INVESTIGATED The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is investigating complaints from an online room retailer that they have been threatened…

SILLY HYPE FOR LONDON LAUNCH LIVE Organisers of exhibitions in our events sector are not best known for measured statements about their productions and…

A RUM DO One of the more enjoyable events to visit this month was Rumfest, a celebration of rum and a unique opportunity to taste a few of the hundreds on offer….

PLAY SAFE One interesting new product launched at the recent Restaurant Show is the Safetray, a non-slip tray with a hand-grip underneath for extra stability…

FREE DELEGATE DEAL IN THE NORTH EAST Up to ten delegates can attend residential or non-residential events free of charge at a range of more than 30 venues…

ONE ON THE NORFOLK COAST Those who like to get away from it all for their meetings or executive retreats can now book into the recently refurbished…

BOOK THE LIBRARY Those looking for low-cost centrally-located meetings spaces might try a library. As an example the new library in the shopping centre in…

SEE YOU DOWN THE PUB Another low-cost option could be a Wetherspoon pub. The company offer whole venue hire at six London and two Birmingham locations, and at…

COME INTO THE GARDEN The Alnwick Garden, Northumberland, offers a stylish Pavilion for up to 500 for an all day rate of £1500 and a quirky Treehouse for up to 85…

Charity Matters Oct/Nov 2010 ISSUE 33

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SERIOUS HURT FOR THE OVER- 75s
The over-75s in the UK will be the hardest hit of any group by the cuts in government spending….

CHARITY IN CHINA
A Chinese millionaire has pledged all his wealth, currently estimated at more than £280 million to charity, and is making it his mission to encourage other rich Chinese to be….

BIG ONE
The 2010 Virgin London Marathon raised £50.6 million for charity….

SAVING GAME BIRDS FOR THE GUNS
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) has revealed an increase in the illegal poisoning of endangered birds of prey by gamekeepers, working on behalf….

CHARITY AD BANNED
An advertisement claiming that donations to an animal welfare charity would help British troops in Afghanistan has been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA)….

ALL STARTED IN A CHARITY SHOP
Sir Norman Wisdom, the successful screen comic who died recently aged 95, got his uniform for his unique eternal schoolboy character from a charity shop in….

KING’S CROSS FOR PRINCE CHARLES
The Prince of Wales is to move a number of his charities, some of which are paying high rents in expensive and fashionable parts of London, to cheaper offices in….

RISE OF UNUSUAL EVENT VENUES
When event organisers choose a venue the need for it to be unusual is becoming more important….

UPCOMING EVENTS
o The Digital Fundraising Conference takes place on 18th November 2010 .at the QE11 o The Charities and Associations Exhibition 22/23rd February 2011….

SADDO AT MILTON KEYNES COUNCIL
An official from Milton Keynes council hid in a bush with a sound meter to try to prove that the PA system being used at a charity fundraising event was too loud….

Marketing Matters Sep/Oct 2010 ISSUE 16

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DO HMRC NEED INVESTIGATING?
In the wake of the almighty cock-up of PAYE by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs it has been revealed that the man ultimately responsible, the HMRC permanent….

INTEGRITY CHECK FOR INTERNET
The reliability of the review websites for hotels and restaurants used by millions of consumers has been called into question….

KEEP BUYING THE FASHION FAKES
An EU- funded report has found that many of the fears stoked up by the fashion houses anxious to protect their profits against counterfeits are groundless….

BAD MARKETING
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld complaints against a number of misleading marketing practices, ones that readers will wish to avoid….

BIG TURN OFF
More than 70% of TV viewers over 55 have indicated that they will not welcome the product placement due to be part of TV programmes by the end of this year….

TAKE A SABBATICAL
Research by bank group Santander indicates that a record 1.2 million of us have recently opted to take a career break, at an average cost of £6,000….

ECOMMERCE SHOW
The E Commerce Expo exhibition and conference takes place October 19 and 20 at Olympia, London. Entry to the exhibition and the conference sessions is free….

TOUGH ON SPINNERS
Appalled we were to read that some nasty types had been visiting bookshops and moving Tony Blair’s superbly accurate memoirs, A Journey, under the fantasy or….

Marketing Matters Aug/Sep 2010 ISSUE 15

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BLESS
The banking industry is in urgent need of some clever marketing and PR, it seems….

BE VERY AFRAID
The success of a self employed photographer in winning an out of court settlement of £2000 from British Gas for wasting his time can only encourage others to seek….

TAKE ON THE BBC
Meanwhile the BBC’s blustering and bullying debt-collectors, TV Licensing should be taking note of the above….

NAFF MARKETING STILL ALIVE AND WELL
The naff and misleading marketing con of sending out a fake editorial with a fake personalised stick-on note is still finding favour….

TUNA BOYCOTT
Ethical Consumer magazine has called for a boycott on tuna sandwiches from Tesco, Boots, Greggs and Subway….

BIGGER THAN YOURS
Budget hotel chain Travelodge have complained to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) that rival budget hotel chain Premier Inn was misleadingly claiming to have….

JUST SILLY
Sad to see that actress Emma Thompson, appearing on an American chat show, chose to amuse her audience by claiming that homosexuals were stoned and flogged on….

I’LL SAVES YER, OLIVE
Endorsement for the power of cartoon characters in marketing to children comes from researchers at Mahidol University, Bangkok….

HOLIDAY COMPLAINTS
A study by Which? Legal Service has found that 10% of holiday travellers have made a complaint about a trip in the last three years. Half of the complainers were unhappy….

NOT FROM CHEDDAR
More than a third of the “cheddar” cheese sold in the UK is imported, claims the British Cheese….

Charity Matters Aug/Sep 2010 ISSUE 32

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ON GIVING
Forty American billionaires, including Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, George Lucas and Michael Bloomberg, have pledged to give to charity at least half of their fortunes….

VICTIM STARTS CHARITY
Katie Piper, a former TV presenter and model who was badly disfigured in a horrific acid attack has started a new charity for burns victims….

BULLIED TO DEATH
More than half of the suicides of children aged 10-14 are connected to bullying….

VAT LOSS FOR CHARITIES
The raising of VAT in January to 20% will hit charities, which cannot claw the money back on purchases….

THIEF AT PRINCE OF WALES CHARITY JAILED
The former financial director at the Foundation for Integrated Health, a charity founded by the Prince of Wales, has been convicted of theft, fraud and money-laundering….

MORE FRAUD
Also jailed for three years was Moses Bushiri, 48, an asylum seeker from Birundi in central Africa, who swindled charity grant bodies out of £42,000….

RSPCA IN THE PILLORY
The RSPCA persecutes innocent animal owners to generate the publicity that keeps donations of £115 million a year rolling in….

MORE ON DANGEROUS DOGS
Battersea Dogs and Cats Home put down a third of the dogs they took in last year, most of those because they were bull terriers too dangerous to re-house….

PRIVATE SCHOOLS HIKE RATES
Free places given to poor pupils by private schools anxious to keep their lucrative charity status will be paid for by a hike in fees….

TECHNOLOGY FOR CHARITIES
Focussing on technology for the not-for profit sector the new nfp technology exhibition takes place on Tuesday 7 September at the Business Design Centre, London….

Marketing Matters Jul/Aug 2010 ISSUE 14

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NOT FAR ENOUGH?
Communications regulator Ofcom is to ban repeated silent calls to the same household in the same day from early next year….

DONT TRUST THEM
Barclays have had some bad press in the Daily Mail, for their bad financial advice….

SILVER SURVEY
Those marketing to women over 60 will be interested in the recent survey of 500 of them by the Daily Telegraph’s Stella magazine. The findings included….

SAVVY?
Is there any difference between a hotel offering “1,000 rooms for 1p a night” and offering “rooms from 1p”? ….

OUT ON THE CHEAP
A survey of the eating out habits of almost 3,000 UK adults has found that the most popular places for casual dining are Wetherspoon’s, Harvester and Pizza Express….

BAG THAT BARGAIN
The pound and 99p shops now familiar on most high streets are seriously undercutting the major names….

TV DINNERS
A study of advertising on American TV has found that a diet based on the food products featured is profoundly unhealthy….

MORE O’BLARNEY
Consumer watchdog Which? has criticised Ryanair for charging £5 per passenger per flight for using a credit card, rather than charging the fee per booking, like other….

UNWANTED R’s IN OZ
Mugs commemorating the visit of US prezz Obama have been withdrawn from sale at the parliamentary gift shop in Canberra after it was discovered that his name had….

DELIA AND WAITROSE DROP ONE
A seafood risotto recipe produced by celebrity cook Delia Smith as part of her completely impartial tie-up with Waitrose has been sharply criticised by those who….

EVERY LITTLE HELPSH
Interesting to note that Tesco’s retiring CEO Terry Leahy is such a supporter of price measures to curb the consumption of alcohol….

Charity Matters June/July 2010 ISSUE 31

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BOYCOTT THOSE NICE CANADIANS
Those who feel strongly against the slaughter of seal pups in Canada should stop buying Canadian seafood and should not visit Canada until the cull is banned….

MORE CHINESE CRUELTY
Around 10,000 bears are being kept in tiny cages on bear farms in China, to be milked for their bile, a highly prized ingredient in Chinese traditional medicine….

COURT IN THE LONG RUN
The organisers of the London Marathon are taking legal action against a Channel 4 Dispatches episode Tracing the Marathon’s Millions….

EXPLOITING THE POOR TO GET RICH?
Retailer Brighthouse, which makes its money selling aspirational products to credit-impaired households at an annual rate of interest of 29.9% over three years has….

FRAUD TRIAL
George Gray, 50, is to appear at City of Westminster Magistrates Court on June 14 charged over an alleged £253,000 fraud at the Foundation for Integrated Health….

MODEL CHARGED WITH FRAUD
Serbian model Katarina Rebraca, 37, has been arrested for allegedly embezzling £327,000 from her breast cancer charity and spending it on lavish parties, a Jeep….

EAT YOUR GREENS
Children who fail to eat five portions of fruit and vegetables a day are depriving themselves of essential vitamins and nutrients, and could be at increased risk….

ITS CHARITABLE ASDA BOYO
An Asda store in Cardiff started charging charity collectors £100 to operate in its store….