The tidal wave of ‘Green’ events continues, on Monday it’s 200 odd government officials talking about ‘The Countdown to Zero Carbon’. Were doing our best to keep abreast of things, today we signed up with a firm who will compost all our kitchen waste. This is a logistical nightmare; hopefully the end justifies the means.

 

On a related note we are still trying to think of a way where we can move beyond of our zero carbon pledge to offset all the carbon created by our delegates. The devil is in the detail, on any day 250 or so delegates, all getting here who knows how etc etc

After many years of lonely battle it seems that finally our credentials as London’s greenest conference venue have finally been recognised. We are inundated with green conferences, and happy to be so. For the next two days we have Green Power Conferences and 150 of their delegates talking about the Carbon Markets. In addition to this yesterday we had a government sponsored event entitled the Low Carbon Vehicle and tomorrow we will be hosting an event for the Ethical Trading Company.

 

To say I feel vindicated drastically understates the case. For years we have battled cynical colleagues and suppliers as we bought in an ever growing list of green initiatives. Starting with recycled pencils we moved onto to all our stationary being ISO 14001 compliant, ethically traded food and now our campaign to gain the coveted Green Mark environmental kite mark. By Christmas 2007 we hope to be London’s first 100% carbon neutral conference venue.  For two years all this happened and our clients were completely indifferent. Now suddenly the small trickle of green events has become a flood, were loving it thank you.

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The GOOD news is that we are getting lots of enquiries from lots of  publishing companies. The BAD news is their foot warriors, the ever-growing legions of salesmen who attempt to bamboozle our miniscule advertising budget away from us. They all sound convincing, they all have products which A) sound very similar B) sound fantastic. Which to go for we never know. The end result is that we either just advertise in the same old places again and again, or we go with the salesmen who sounds the nicest.

Behold those of you that feel the Conference Industry is in the doldrums!!! We are in the throes of an unnatural growth in our industry as people want more and more to learn and become more knowledgable about world affairs!! This is why so much is happening on the Publishing sector as there is a natural open market to the Conference sector what with the number of people that are attracted to the various magazines and what not!!!! This is why a lot of publishing companies use the Cavendish Conference Centre! All the better for us that they do and long may the publishing sector have faith in our product!!

Thank goodness for Conferences!!