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Leading London dedicated meeting, conference and event operator Cavendish Venues has announced two landmark milestones in signing a brand-new City venue at The Minster Building and the launch of their bold new website.

The events Industry is already a very competitive field and it takes a lot of effort to be successful and ahead of your competitors for longer than just a couple of well-organised conferences. Increasing delegate's engagement is essential for effective events as it takes a lot of time and energy to plan a conference and so naturally you want to get as much out of the event as possible.

Seating arrangements have the power to make or break your conference and meeting in conference venues, “Much of getting what you want comes down to where (event attendees) sit,” says Brian Lee, Chief of Product Management at Lifehack. And where people sit depends on the type of seating arrangement that’s chosen for the event, meeting, conference, etc.Read on to discover 8 must-know types of seating arrangements.

Cavendish Venues are leading the way when it comes to sustainable venues in London. The most sophisticated commercially available web casting facility available anywhere in the UK. You don’t need to come to the venue to enjoy a fully interactive event. The event will be streamed to any mobile device, fully interactive and fully branded. Save those transport costs and the environmental implications. The only venues to offer a free from landfill guarantee. We have recycling routes for all our inputs. All food waste composted. Detailed sourcing information is available for all menu items. All carbon produced by an event fully offset, all carbon released by an attendee travelling to the event fully offset at our cost. Year on year declines in vehicle movements to all venues as measured by annual travel surveys. Commitment in our purchasing policy to localising our supplier base (detailed figures on our website) Commitment to annual reductions in all measurable inputs, again detailed figures on the website. All electricity used Green (exempt from the carbon levy) All company vehicles electric. Non disposable items used anywhere.

Professionals and executives employed by medium to large companies will inevitably attend all-day offsite meetings at some point. An offsite meeting brings your team together someplace apart from your usual office to hold a meeting, coordinate a strategy, or deliver training.A meeting in this format will incur extra expense, and will mean a day spent away from other essential daily tasks.

Having reliable internet access is vital. Delegates expect to be able to connect a variety of devices ranging from mobile phones to tablets to laptops through a venue’s Wi-Fi. Meeting presenters may have additional needs such as web demos, video streaming, crowd polling or video conferencing. How well a venue’s broadband service is able to meet these demands depends on a number of factors.

Ever shown up for a meeting where there is plenty of natural daylight but no way to dim the room to make your speaker’s slide demonstration visible? Or the chairs were those plastic stackable ones they use for backyard BBQs? Nothing makes a company meeting or conference less motivating than an awkward, uncomfortable space where the guests feel shut out or ill provided for.“Awkwardness is one of those things that differentiates events that feel “pro” from those that feel thrown together.

Cavendish Venues are leading the way in Meeting, Conference and Event sustainability. Over our 29 year history, environmental sustainability has been a core value of Cavendish Venues. Major milestones include, landfill neutral certification (the first London Venue to achieve that), enabling our clients to offset the carbon footprint of their event and delegate travel, to our active tree planting campaign.

Some interesting history about our Hallam Conference Centre @ 44 Hallam Street... The southern part of this building (to the right in the picture above) was erected in 1915 to house the General Medical Council (formally the General Council of Medical Education & Registration of the United Kingdom). The Council had begun to investigate a move to larger premises from its offices at 299 Oxford Street in 1903, during the presidency of Sir William Turner. he northern part of the building, always intended, was not added until 1922–3. The Dentists Act of 1921, seen through by the Liberal politician Francis Dyke Acland, had established the Dental Board of the United Kingdom to take on the GMC’s oversight of dentists and to deal with the scourge of unqualified dentistry. To maintain good communications with the Council, the new Board, chaired by Acland, built the interconnected premises next door.