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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

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

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

Making Our Mark - Archbishop’s Council

Affinity Events are proud to have been working with the Archbishop’s Council on their event to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery.  This event has proved to be one of the most challenging to organise, due to short lead times, unknown audience numbers and the requirement to hold not one but two simultaneous marches through the centre of London.

This act of social action saw almost 3,000 people march through the city streets of London to Kennington Park where the production team from Affinity provided a stage show with speeches, music and theatre from a range of performers.  Add to this the requirement that all equipment had to be built, used and removed within the space of one day – led to tight scheduling and detailed planning.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams took a pivotal role in the event, marching with the crowds and speaking from the stage.

One of the challenges was to control the 40 + media people who turned up from around the world and to provide camera positions both in Whitehall and in Kennington Park.

‘I know that many, many hours of preparation went into the planning and organisation of the event.  It will be a great day that will be remembered and for all the right reasons,
by the thousands who joined us.’
Dr Rowan Williams – Archbishop of Canterbury

Posted in Charity & Festivals & Social Action & Technical Production

Christian Aid - Make Poverty History - Edinburgh

As part of our ongoing work with Christian Aid, and following our sucessful venue production in London, we were invited to provide technical and event management support for their Make Poverty History Campaign event in Edinburgh as part of the G8 demonstrations.
Joining 250,000 people in Edinburgh, our team provided technical support for a series of speechs and videos.

Posted in Charity & Roadshows & Social Action & Technical Production

Christian Aid - Make Poverty History - Trafalgar Square

With just a few weeks notice, Christian Aid approached Affinity Events to help with their plans to march on Downing Street, as part of the Make Poverty History campaign.  Affinity were tasked with providing technical equipment for the fringe venues.  The team from Affinity arranged meetings and site visits within the space of just a few days, to ensure that the equipment provision was suitable and adequate for the venue.

Our Production manager worked with the venue, organisers and artistes to ensure that sound, lighting and AV systems were suitable.  Although the event was fast paced and ran from midnight until 4am, the team on site worked around other events, London traffic and strict restrictions to ensure that the event ran to schedule.

Posted in Charity & Social Action & Technical Production