Festival Insights NEWS: Defining Our Place in the Events Industry

We asked Power of Events founder, Rick Stainton, how the organisation’s work can turn confusion into definition.

Here is a history lesson.  We all know that in the chaos of Covid the whole of the UK events industry shut down – hard and fast.  Then, despite very little government support specifically for live events, we were amongst the last to be allowed to re-open for business.  The cost to the industry across the four nations of the UK has never been fully identified.  Some supply chain businesses pivoted to help support the unprecedented healthcare provision of vaccinations to the UK population.  Iconic venues transformed into emergency hospitals.  Some businesses thrived but many didn’t and an unquantifiable number of event professionals found work in other roles and sectors simply in order to survive and pay their bills.

Across the complex eco-system that makes up the world class…