Raw 04 - December 2008 - (Page 49)

TLB RAW Corporate Events are a major part of our business in the UK and Europe and we have accommodated from 10 – 3,500 people. This can be anything from arranging a series of training dates around the country for a client, annual awards dinners, staff parties, product launches, AGM’s, charity events, christmas parties, booking venues for exclusive use or taking your clients to the grand prix in Monaco!. At one event in Budapest, for dinner, we had to theme a boat on 2 floors with a Moroccan theme for 500 delegates ensuring that the buffet followed the same theme. The snake charmers and belly dancers were a great hit too but more importantly, extra insurance was taken out because of the risk element and there was plenty of security staff on board too! On another event in Cannes, a private island was hired for a team building activity with a nightclub booked for exclusive use for the party afterwards and in the UK, a country manor was booked for exclusive use for a conference during the day with an african themed marquee & bbq with full entertainment afterwards. We are in the Christmas Party season now so there are lots of requests for marquee themed parties – the all white theme is the most popular as looks stunning when all the white velvet chair covers, tablecloths, white christmas trees, star cloth ceiling, sparkling baubles and twinkling white dancefloor is all set up. Catering for office parties at their premises has become more popular too and exclusive events in country house hotels with a murder mystery theme! Guests can join in and get dressed up for this theme and it also becomes a team building exercise without them knowing so, if anyone is bored of the Christmas type themes, then this is a great one to go for. The secret of having a successful party at this time of year is to ensure that the meal is served at a reasonable time, not too late otherwise people will have too much to drink on empty stomachs! that there are plenty experienced and competent staff on in the bars as this is the busiest department all night – there is nothing worse than queuing up at the bar as there is not enough staff on so if need be, get floor staff on too to do table service. Also its worth having security on the door for larger numbers even at private parties as they watch and monitor everything and ensure that everyone behaves!! In part 2 – in the next edition, I will go into more detail about Awards Dinners, Private Parties and Weddings but for now, I’m an event planner, get me out of here… www.TLBevents.co.uk millionimpossible.com 49 Tel 01625 538999 http://www.TLBevents.co.uk http://www.millionimpossible.com

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Raw 04 - December 2008 Contents Imran Hakim Linda Klassen Brown Bradley Chapman Heidi Weir Colin Stroud Emma Thompson Raw Business Have a Care JPR Mortages TLB Events Alexander Davis

Raw 04 - December 2008

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