What we do, and what it costs

Annual conferences, sales kick-offs, leadership offsites, AGMs and partner summits. Usually there's something specific you've been asked to achieve, whether that's getting everyone behind a new strategy or training a partner network, and the day gets built around that.

Most clients come to us with a date, a rough headcount and a budget. We come back with a venue shortlist, an agenda that holds attention past 2pm, and a line-by-line cost breakdown you can take to your finance director.

These are two quite different jobs and we do both. If you're organising the show, we handle the floorplan, exhibitor sales support, contractor liaison, health and safety paperwork and visitor registration. If you're exhibiting at someone else's, we design and build the stand, get it there, sort the logistics and get it home again.

It's easy to waste money on exhibitions. The two things that make the most difference are where your stand sits on the floor and how much of your audience you've lined up before the doors open, so that's where we spend the effort.

Awards nights are the fastest-growing corporate event format in the UK at the moment, with enquiries up 57% in the first half of 2026. They're also the hardest to get right. If a conference runs late it's annoying, but if an awards night runs late people start leaving before the main categories.

We handle the lot: entries and judging, table sales and seating, the room, the host, the running order on the night, and the photos and content you'll want the next morning.

This part of the market has shifted. Guest numbers on away days are down about 37% while spend per head is up 55%, so companies are running smaller days for the people who most need to be in a room together, and expecting more out of them.

Which is why we start with what you want out of it. A team that's just been merged and doesn't trust each other yet needs a completely different day from a sales team that's hit target and wants a reward. If an activity isn't going to get you there, we'll say so.

One big launch, or the same show in ten cities over three weeks. With a roadshow almost everything comes down to being able to repeat it: a set that packs down properly, a crew who've done the build before, and enough slack in the schedule that one van stuck on the M6 doesn't cost you a whole city.

You can use this on its own and it costs you nothing. The venue pays us a commission when a booking is confirmed, and your rate doesn't go up because of it. You get a shortlist within two working days, rates negotiated on your behalf, and someone actually reading the contract before you sign it.

We're independent. No hotel group owns us and we haven't got volume targets to hit with any chain, so what's on the shortlist is what fits your brief.