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In most events, especially conferences, it’s a standard practice for organisers to print out many paper badges for their delegates to wear during the conference. Makes perfect sense – it’s a networking protocol! We’ve been in the industry for many years now and as a chain of sustainable conference venues we would like to shine some light on the question – are paper badges the most efficient and environmentally friendly way to badge your guests?I think most organisers will agree with me that it takes a very long time to print everything off and set it all up! As well as, it is always problematic if someone forgets or doesn’t pick up their badge and could even be embarrassing when delegates take a very long time and cannot find their name on a badge. This method consumes space, binds staff, can often look messy and offers very little in the way of validating security. But there is an easier way for this.Paperless badges are flexible and interactive e-ink badges that have many positives. At the registration, these paperless badges can be found within seconds, they also can be used as digitalised business cards. This is a wearable device that stores the details of a person's conduct and allows this information to be exchanged with others by tapping two of these devices together. These details will then be transferred to your email address and will be easily accessible.This method can be especially useful during the networking events as it makes it so much easier to connect and exchange delegates contact information in a split second, making it effortless to reach out to one another.On these paperless badges, you would be able to access multiple things, such as a map of the venue, agenda, messages to the badge and alerts from your mobile app.This method is extremely sustainable since this eliminates the use of paper, toner, plastic badges, transportation and other resources. Although it can be a bit pricy, it benefits for the long term, as you don’t need to print badges for every event and best of all, it helps the environment. Paperless badges are returned at the end of the event and can be reused for many more upcoming events. Additionally (and this is a real time saver!) paperless badges automatically turn feedback into calculated statistics that show the outcome of your event

A solo art exhibition of more than twenty vibrant acrylic paintings, at the award-winning Cavendish Venues in central London, informed by Ann Kopka’s fascination with the interaction of geometry, design and architecture in the urban environment. Ann Kopka’s paintings lean towards abstraction although they deliberately hover between the representation of recognisable images and the non-traditional formal repetition of shapes and structures prevalent in abstract art. There is a visual emphasis on exploring the relationships between structure and scale, colour and light, repetition and pattern. The processes of deconstructing and reconstructing subject matter to articulate concepts of space produce images, which taken out of their original context, verge towards a perception of abstraction. Translating her own altered digital images onto large canvases requires precise measurements and calculations, and is an intensive and time-consuming operation. The paintings ‘grow’ through the subtle application of multiple layers of vivid acrylic colour. Colour is employed not to be representational but to convey energy, emphasise the circulation of movement and bind the network of structures together into a coherent picture. The slow development of vibrant saturated surfaces results in paintings that have an illusion of depth sometimes with distinctive three-dimensional qualities contradicting the defining flatness of abstract art and yet in art historical terms allude to analytical cubism, constructivism, op-art and geometric abstraction. Art Exhibition Title: “Ann Kopka: Moving On Up Down Escalators”. How Great Thou Art at Cavendish Venues: Ann Kopka - Moving On Up Down Escalators

In 2019, in partnership with the Country Landowners Association, we launched an initiative whereby we planted an initial 300 trees. We have extended this many times. So far we have planted over 2,500 trees. THANK YOU for all the confirmations. We would like to plant more, our aim is to plant a further 1,000 this year. In the meantime, we wanted to provide an update on the trees already planted. In short, they have thrived, a thorough audit last year reveals that 96% survived the winter. The survivors have on average grown hugely, the largest grew by over 6ft. See below for a few pictures Planted in Autumn 2021.

Cavendish Venues ground-breaking carbon offsetting programme is flying. Wagner Solar one of the world’s leading suppliers of solar panels is using our system to offset the totality of the carbon produced by their event. This offer of totally free offsetting really establishes Cavendish Venues as the greenest most sustainable venues in London. For details of the huge number of initiatives we have launched in this area see our green pages. At the end of the day if you can do something for the environment at zero cost to yourself why wouldn't you!

London is the epicentre for the conference industry in the UK and with a huge surge in corporate travellers to London, using our conference rooms, we are offering you a few tips on preparation for your journey to the City.

Here at Cavendish Venues, we are preparing our conference venues. Next year we expect to see a rise in events according to the following event trends.

Conference insurance is a type of event insurance that protects conference organisers and potentially London conference venues from financial losses that may occur due to unforeseen circumstances, such as cancellation or postponement of the event, damage to property, or injury to attendees.

Another way to take the heat out of inflation, is to take the meat out of your diet. Choose a conference venue vegetarian-only delegate rate and we will not charge any increase – but this isn’t just about saving the pennies.

There are a lot of organisations based in London and the surrounding areas aimed at preventing food wastage. Green Oak Solutions estimates that an astonishing 15 million tonnes of food waste is generated every year, including 7.2 million tonnes from households. Here at Cavendish Venues we continue to build our position as London’s leading sustainable conference and meeting venues. We are looking at how we can reduce food waste within our company by donating to local homeless shelters and food cycle organisations.Food Cycle gives people in local communities’ access to nutritious food that they would otherwise be unable to obtain for reasons such as lack of income or knowledge of healthy nutrition. Surplus packaged or tinned foods from supermarkets combined with free kitchen space and volunteers keep the organisation growing.Crisis is a charity that aims to help homeless people across the UK. It provides housing, education, employment and food to those who need it. Due to health and safety regulations Crisis is unable to accept food donations that are not packaged, tinned or contained with a sell by date.Bio Collectors is a waste food service that collects food from your select location and takes it to a special processing plant where it is treated and used for horticultural purposes, a highly valuable addition to fertilisers. With the health and safety regulations restraining our ability to donate certain excess food, recycling our waste would be an environmentally beneficial option that will help to improve our Green Conference policies.