The Hotel Booking Agents Association (HBAA) has announced that it will be supporting EventWell and Buses4Homeless as its charitable social enterprises for 2021.
This initiative comes as part of the association’s strategy, aligned to resilience and ethics, as two of its four pillars.
EventWell is dedicated to cultivating better mental health and wellbeing, supporting and serving professional and business members and the industry community with the knowledge and tools they need to stay well .
Helen Moon, CEO and founder of EventWell, said: “The partnership with the HBAA aligns with our three core values: empathy, culture and self care. Our mission is to work collectively with the industry to encourage better understanding and empathy; to work with our business members and friends to inspire positive leadership; and to work with our professional members and friends to change attitudes to selfcare.
More than a dozen MPs and over 100 event industry executives have signed a letter to the chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak, copying in prime minister Boris Johnson, calling for him to implement a Government-backed insurance scheme for festival, live music and events or face them disappearing from our fields and cities for good.
The letter, written by DCMS Committee chair Julian Knight MP, follows the 5 January opening hearing of the Committee’s inquiry into the future of UK music festivals, during which festival operators emphasised the urgent need for Government support.
At a crucial point in festival planning schedules, MPs warn that organisers and investors are unable to risk repeating losses sustained in 2020 unless events can be insured against cancellation.
Calls for insurance scheme intensify in industry letter
Thursday, 7 January 2021
A number of MPs and live event specialists have signed an open letter to Rishi Sunak in a bid to save summer events and more (Photo: Hanny Naibaho)
UK - The live events industry has launched a fresh appeal for a government-backed COVID-19 insurance scheme with a letter signed by 120 sector representatives and MPs. In the letter, written by the chair of the DCMS committee Julian Knight and addressed to the chancellor Rishi Sunak, the sector - which has largely been shut down since March 2020 - warns that “[w]ithout insurance, the events we know and love simply won’t take place this year - vaccine or no vaccine”. “Sustaining losses like those we’ve seen in 2020 for another year isn’t an option, and hundreds of businesses in the events supply chain have already been forced to fold,” the letter continues. “The Government has backed insurance for the film and television industry to the
A MAJOR employer has let 40 per cent of its staff go due to the effect of the coronavirus pandemic on its finances. Inntel, which is based at the Threshelfords Business Park in Feering, has announced the move in a bid to cut costs. The firm, considered to be the UK’s largest independent meetings and travel management company, would not say how many employees were affected. However, information online suggests the company employs more than 100 people. Chief executive officer Douglas O Neill said the firm had been forced into taking drastic action due to the huge impact coronavirus has had on the industry.
A MAJOR employer has let 40 per cent of its staff go due to the effect of the coronavirus pandemic on its finances. Inntel, which is based at the Threshelfords Business Park in Feering, has announced the move in a bid to cut costs. The firm, considered to be the UK’s largest independent meetings and travel management company, would not say how many employees were affected. However, information online suggests the company employs more than 100 people. Chief executive officer Douglas O Neill said the firm had been forced into taking drastic action due to the huge impact coronavirus has had on the industry.