Did/do you ever consider how much waste we throw away on a daily basis from our work environment??I have to say it is just phenomenal the amount of recyclable materials that we do not give a second thought to just dumping not knowing where it will end up!!

In our Conference Centre’s we are trying to be ‘Greener’ and hope that we can work alongside our ‘Council’ to see if they will help in this matter! So far, well I have to say I am dismayed at the lack of assistance we are receiving but then I do realise that it is a topic of considerable importance and all the Council’s are probably up to their eyes in it!! Recycling that is of course!!

We welcome any new suggestions to how we can as venues go forward on this subject as we do believe we are a group of very pro active Conference Centre’s trying to do our ‘thing’ in a small way for the environment!

 The Cavendish Conference Centre is constantly doing events for “Materials Recycling Week” a superb EMAP Publication and we will strive to support this organisation indefinitely. Please help us support and keep our Environment Green for our chidren and our childrens children and our childrens chidlrens children and so on by Booking your Conferences or events at any of our 3 venues notably the Cavendish, the Mayfair or the ICO Conference Centre’s because WE CARE!

The daily chores of life in the conference industry are so varied that they can take in the extreme from dogging cients hurling verbal abuse (not that that ever happens at the Cavendish, Mayfair or the ICO Centre’s!) to mis-direction of client folders to the wrong location (can we be blamed for that? Of Course!!) and of course to our wonderful chef’s with cleavers chaseing stewards for not wearing the correct colour socks!!As if that makes a difference but who wants to have blood on their hands, not me but at least it might change the colour of their socks!!! What a fantastic business to be involved in with such variety not knowing what is going to take place daily!

How about a New Year Resolution is made by all our clients to book more events at the Cavendish, Mayfair and ICO Conference Centre’s in 2007 so that Tom can retire early ( or at least earlier than he wanted!!) and Rachel can be ‘more organised’ and, well there really is not much else to this sector other than keeping the clients happy and giving them what they want, which always happens I believe!! Let me know otherwise but please keep those bookings coming and coming and coming……

Have you ever heard the expression ‘another day another dollar’?? Well it lives true to its word only with the lack of business in the early days after the Christmas and New Year ’splurge’ there are no ‘dollars’ to be made in this industry!!Why not?? A good question!! This is a note to all you aspiring clients of the conference industry ‘ we will give you very substantial discounts to come and do events in any one of our 3 Centre’s’!! We need the company at this time of the year!!It really is dreadful to be so quiet!

Another day another year, the forth bridge bears no comparison to the endless to the acres of paint needed to cover our splendid walls. Were certainly opening with a bang its now 9.45 not a single enquiry so far, maybe that’s a good thing as I’m still ploughing my way through the 915 spam emails received over the ‘festive break’ My beloved colleague Rachel never one to miss an opportunity, has pronounced loud and clear that the lack of calls is really because so many people are still on holiday, hence by default either we are pointless martyrs, or madmen commanded by a tyrannical dictator. All in all it feels like I’ve never been away.