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Reusable Cups 101
Make the swap to reusable cups with this ‘how to’ guide from City to Sea’s Refill project. If you want to produce epic events without creating piles of plastic waste, then this is the guide […]
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Cost Shifts
METHOD Events’ James Dutton presents a breakdown a typical large-scale festival budget and discusses how things have changed in the last four years. Open Air Business asked me to create a rough breakdown of a […]
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Industry Insights
Steve Heap, general secretary at The Association of Festival Organisers, gives his seasonal industry update. The safety and care of small children, youth and vulnerable adults is a key part of running events no matter […]
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The Great Oak Stage
LS Events presents a behind the scenes look at the production of the Great Oak Stage at this year’s American Express presents BST Hyde Park. American Express presents BST Hyde Park returned to its landmark […]
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Tent Waste
We talk to Dean Betts from Circular Camping about solutions to tent waste at events. Tell us about the tent waste problem at events as it stands today Waste is inevitable at any event, and […]
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Green Hydrogen for Events
Vision: 2025 asks PlusZero’s director of story, Mark Irving, about the growing market for its green hydrogen portable power offer at events. In 2021, PlusZero ran series of trials for its green hydrogen-fuelled generators to […]
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Hire or Buy Crowd Barriers?
SafeSite Facilities’ Greig McGarva on when hiring crowd barriers makes sense. After several uncertain summers of cancelled, postponed and scaled-back events, this year’s alfresco events scene looks set to be a great one. For many […]
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Green Energy Myth Buster
Common questions about greener energy management at events, with answers from Powerful Thinking. Q. Are biofuels bad for the environment Biofuels, especially palm oil and jatropha, are often cultivated on deforested land, displacing agriculture and […]
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Red Diesel Law Change Impact on Events
Seeing red over the new diesel law. Changes to the law concerning the use of red diesel are coming into effect from 1 April, affecting thousands of hire companies across the UK. Hire Association Europe […]
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Total Immersion
AGB Events’ creative director Anthony Bastic on the power of immersive events. What is an immersive event? For us an immersive event is something that you lose yourself in; it’s engaging and emotive and has […]
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Sponsorship
We talk to We Get Sponsors’ Danny Wheeler about, well, how to get sponsors!. The market for live event sponsorship – how’s it looking out there? This year is looking to be the resurgence of […]
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Covid Insurance Alternative
We talk to TicketSellers’ Mo Jones about creating a community indemnity pledge, an alternative to Covid cancellation insurance. What is a community indemnity pledge? Events tend to run on very tight budgets, requiring money to […]