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The team at Venues.org.uk were delighted to attend the CurryOke night held last night at The Enterprise Hotel, Earls Court.

The London 2012 Games and a sensational summer of sport may have now drawn to a close, but the 19th-21st October will see the legacy of the Paralympics live on as the United Kingdom’s top junior wheelchair basketballers battle it out in The Lord’s Taverners National Junior Championships.

Chelsea Football Club has added a new space to its hotel portfolio, in the form of the Delta 360˚ Lounge in the Millennium & Copthorne Hotel.

The International Special Events Society (ISES) has commissioned the second part of a research project that will explore the impact on the events industry supply chain during Summer 2012.

International Confex and Live Experience will work with leading agency Zibrant as the official hotel booking partner for the 2013 shows. This new and exciting partnership has been developed for the 9,000+ meeting and event professionals taking part in ‘Confex Week’.

Central Hall Westminster, the largest Conference Centre in Central London, increased its turnover by over 20% in the year ending August 31st 2012. Revenue grew from £4.4m to over £5.3m over the 12 month period buoyed by a number of large overseas conference and Award ceremonies.

The sales and marketing team at Hilton London Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 recently combined an internal meeting at their office at Heathrow, with an afternoon teambuilding activity at Thorpe Park.

Stoke Mandeville Stadium, birthplace of the Paralympics, has recently tallied up the amount of medals that athletes and teams which had trained at the stadium in preparation for the London 2012 Paralympic Games had won – a staggering 41 medals in total.

A recent survey*, commissioned by The Enterprise Hotel, among UK exhibition organisers and contractors has revealed that, despite the pull of ExCeL and East London, 56% of responding exhibition organising companies still run exhibitions in West London. Respondents were largely based in London and the South East.

Wakefield Trinity Wildcats has brought Lindley Venue Catering on board as its catering partner as part of the professional Super League club’s plans to develop and expand its catering and hospitality business at the Rapid Solicitors Stadium – the Wildcats’ home ground until the club’s planned relocation to a new 12,000 capacity community stadium in 2015.