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Walsingham youth pilgrimage 2008

Affinity was delighted to manage the  2008 Youth Event at Walsingham for the second year running. Our team of event and production managers worked with the organisers for several months, creating an infrastructure, planning the layout of the campsite, obtaining technical equipment and liaising with volunteer teams.

Unfortunately, the 2007 sun did not show its face. Instead, heavy rain and hail caused flash flooding. A 6-inch river ran through the Big Top and piles of ice appeared around site. Affinity’s event and steward managers worked successfully on traffic, site and venue plans to overcome this, enabling the final event to take place in a dried-out Big Top. Departures went ahead without a hitch.

A new addition for 2008 was an ecumenical service. We are already looking forward to next year!

“Thank you for managing with such consummate professionalism. Already the Youth Pilgrimage is unimaginable without Affinity Events.  Creating safe space is vital in enabling it to happen.

“I was especially impressed with the way departure from the site was managed. Pass on my thanks to the team - they were absolutely first rate.” 

Father Philip North

Posted in Charity & Event Campsites & Not For Profit & Testimonials & Youth Events

Picnic Rocks

At fairly short notice Affinity were given the contract by Action Against Hunger for Picnic rocks, a social action event to be held on Clapham Common sponsored by Subway®.

Affinity were responsible for all infrastructure, technical support, Local Authority liason and emergency services support.

Picnic Rocks proved to be a highly memorable event focused around Clapham Common Bandstand and surrounding park lands with over 2000 people attending. All of whom were supplied with an excellent Subway® picnic.

As the first event of its kind all parties were happy with the outcome of this worthwhile event.

Posted in Charity & Concerts & General News & Social Action & Technical Production

KCM Europe - Bournemouth & Basel

This month has seen us out at events for one of our newer clients - Kenneth Copeland Ministries.  Although we’ve been working on the planning for these two events for over a year, this is the first time we’ve been live, out at an event with them.  This is also a new endeavour for KCM, who have never worked with an event management agency before.  We were onhand to provide venue, logistics, delegate management (both pre-event and onsite) and technical production management for these two, three day events.

The first event took place at the Bournemouth International Centre (UK) and was attended by over 2,500 delegates over the course of the three days.  Affinity worked closely with the European and US teams to deliver the event.  Once over, we packed everything into two 40ft artic lorries, and waved them goodbye - only to follow them to Basel in Switzerland two days later.

The Basel venue worked just as well as Bournemouth, and despite the language barrier (which we overcame in the end) the 1200 delegates enjoyed another great event.

Posted in Charity & Conferences & Delegate Services & Meetings & Seminars & Technical Production

Church Army 125th Celebration

Church Army celebrated 125 years and held a service in St Mary’s Kensington London. Affinity provided the technical support for Tim Hughes and his band and all the AV support for the DVD’s to show the work of the society over the years.

Posted in Charity & Technical Production

Christian Aid - Cut the Carbon Cardiff

Our final event of the tour for Christian Aid has taken place this weekend in Cardiff.  Our full team was out to support the ‘home’ event for us – and as well as this event we were also setting up for a conference for Cardiff University at the same time, just half a mile away.

We again successfully built the event, held the show and took everything away within about 14 hours – a true testament to our event management team, suppliers and client, Christian Aid.

We were proud to be involved in such a worthwhile project and pleased to work once again with Christian Aid

Posted in Charity & Concerts & Social Action

Christian Aid - Cut the Carbon Birmingham

Following quickly on the heels of the Leeds event, we once again find ourselves with a one day build-show-derig event for Christian Aid.

This time the event has taken place in Birmingham – and despite a last minute change of venue all went to plan. The special guest at this event was pop-star Lemar who entertained the crowds.

Posted in Charity & Concerts & Festivals & Social Action & Technical Production

Christian Aid ‘Cut the Carbon’ Event – Leeds

Following on from the Edinburgh event, Affinity have once again been supporting Christian Aid – this time at their event in Leeds.  The weather held for us and everyone had an excellent day.

We worked closely with the police, ambulance and licensing authorities to allow us to close the roads through the centre of the city, as well as with the events team from Leeds City Council who own and manage Victoria Gardens where the event took place.

Again, we didn’t know how many people would attend the event so worked closely with the authorities and the client to ensure that our planning covered us for all eventualities.  The event was second in the series of four events which are taking place around the UK.  The events are in quick succession and fall at one of the busiest periods in Affinity’s history.  Despite this our team have pulled together and organised yet another successful event.

Posted in Charity & Concerts & Social Action & Technical Production

FIEC - CBF

In 2005 Affinity were appointed to manage and administer the ticket sales and delegate management for the first CBF which is organised by FIEC.  The event has just taken place at Cheltenham Racecourse, and we are confident that our pre-event solution helped this charity to a successful first year’s event.

Posted in Charity & Delegate Services

Christian Aid - Cut the Carbon Edinburgh

The Affinity team have been working with Christian Aid over the past few months to prepare for the series of ‘Cut the Carbon’ events which are to take place over the next few weeks.  We’ve just battled through the weather to deliver the first event in Edinburgh – and despite the rain a really good time was had by all.

Affinity provided all site management and production teams for the one day event – the most challenging part of which was the need to be in and out in just one day.

The LED screen and sound systems worked well and certainly provided the ‘wow-factor’ requested by the client.

‘Dear Rob, Gary, Ben, Simon and all at Affinity.
A massive thank you for all your hard work in Edinburgh. 

We feel it was a great start to the rally tour – fingers crossed for better weather next time!’
Best wishes from all at Campaigns at Christian Aid

Posted in Charity & Concerts & Festivals & Roadshows & Social Action

Firm Foundations Festival 2007

Since our inception in 2001, Affinity Events has managed the infrastructure elements of the Firm Foundations Festival on behalf of the Girls and Boys Brigade.  The annual event takes place at the Boys Brigade headquarters with Affinity planning and booking all event infrastructure, including marquees, toilets, showers and the main Big Top venue.

Our event management team has worked closely with the event organisers over the years to ensure that the infrastructure requirement closely matches the ever-changing needs of the event.  Our team also provide on-site facilities management to assist with the smooth running of the event.

Posted in Charity & Festivals