Events industry shows support for The Power of Events

Four months since its launch, The Power of Events has seen considerable support from the hospitality sector and beyond.

The platform focuses on providing a singular destination that is dedicated to showcasing all seven core sectors of the UK events industry, as well as profiling the essential industry community.

From the platform’s launch, it has received over 25,000 unique visitors and a raft of positive feedback. Alongside this the platform has achieved consistent engagement with its wide range of podcast listings and the events calendar. These are both obviously useful components to the industry and are becoming essential resources for professionals in the industry. Furthermore, since opening a year ago, a total of £200k has been contributed towards operational funds.

So far, The Power of Events has seen over 500 organisations come on board as supporters, including a range of industry leaders and many supplier partners such as: Live Nation, Festival Republic, Glastonbury, AEG Europe, ASM Global, Harvey Goldsmith, London Marathon Events, Notting Hill Carnival, SFL Group, Whitelight, G4S Events, Arena Group, Creative Technology, Entourage Pro, PKL, Ticketmaster, Star Group Live, GL Events, Serious Stages, Spartan Crew, Jack Morton, Identity, GPJ, WRG, Smyle, DRPG, NCASS, Informa plc, LS Events, KB Event, MEI, ExCel London, Manchester Central, ACC Liverpool, Lime Venue Portfolio and Ministry Venues.

The Power of Events founder Rick Stainton comments: “Thank you so much to all our supporters and partners who are clearly as passionate as the Taskforce and Action Groups are about the future of our industry, enabling this unprecedented collaboration to grow so rapidly. To those who would like to get involved in any way – please Support, Share, Suggest – the more people in the industry that are aware of The Power of Events, the more in-depth and comprehensive the representation will become and the more invaluable feedback that can be used to evolve the mission. This in turn will translate into a progressive resource that all current and future event professionals can benefit from by better showcasing, respecting and valuing the power of the UK Events Industry.”

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