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Fine dining and events experts Sodexo Prestige ensured the Scotland Food & Drink Excellence Awards lived up to billing, by serving guests a menu featuring ingredients from shortlisted finalists.

Birmingham is presenting a taste of its future conferencing and events offer to 5,000 visitors at the first ever Meetings Show UK (London’s Olympia, 9-11 July).

Leading figures within the events industry met at The Athenaeum on the 14th June as part of a series of meetings that aim to establish a collaborative approach to sustainability within UK events.

Heathrow conference and event venue, Hilton London Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 is celebrating after its director of sales and marketing was awarded a prestigious Acorn Award this week.

Events are getting more interactive, a survey carried out by Westminster event venue, Church House Conference Centre has revealed.

The Vale Resort, a stunning Welsh event venue, is launching a bumper package of summer breaks from as little as £40 per person to add some extra sunshine to guests’ lives!

To coincide with this year’s Drowning Prevention Week Buckinghamshire venue, Stoke Mandeville Stadium, is offering a free children’s taster session in lifeguarding and rescue techniques and incorporating elements of the water safety code into the whole of its Swim School.

The UK is a nation of chocolate lovers, eating an estimated 660,900 tonnes of chocolate a year. While milk chocolate isn’t good in large quantities increasing evidence suggests that dark chocolate has a range of health benefits. Aside from releasing endorphins which give people that feel good factor chocolate can also help fight fatigue and is good for the brain helping to boost concentration and alertness. Armed with this knowledge THORPE PARK has teamed up with Hartleys Events to produce a brand new chocolate based teambuilding activity: the ‘Chocolate Coaster Challenge’.

Capita travel and events has released new data showing the key trends in internal meeting space usage. The information follows analysis of more than 1 million customer internal meeting room bookings.

An industry first, Westminster venue, RSA House has teamed up with C&IT to broadcast live the versatility of hybrid events, from RSA House on Thursday 6th June directly into C&IT TV.