One of the biggest challenges for any conference organiser is to ensure you meet your return on investment (ROI). There are many varied activities and event musts which will assist this result, however, one major factor is to nail down how best to display those key messages. Although you may not have control over the [...]

When I walk into our main warehouse in Edinburgh, it’s always a hive of activity with equipment being loaded in and out of our vans, on and off shelves, all in preparation for one of our many events. One notable exception for this was a few weeks ago when our warehouse was nearly bare, with [...]

We arrived at Murrayfield stadium with a bittersweet feeling today. Sweet that we were involved with the press conference event for an absolute sporting legend; bitter that we, along with thousands of others, expected the outcome to be his announcement of retirement from track cycling. We had hoped to support Sir Chris Hoy in the [...]

As part of our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policy, we are very aware of the impact that the event production industry has on the environment and communities and as a member of this sector, we always look at ways in which we can give back. One recent opportunity has been via AquAid, as through our [...]

WHAT? Hire Co-ordinator WHERE? Daily Hire Office, Edinburgh WHEN? Now! Send your CV and covering letter to lorraine@visionevents.co.uk Full details: Reporting to: visionevents Operations Manager Hours of Work: – basic 40 hour week, Monday to Friday To provide effective, accurate and timely processing of hire enquiries, quotations and orders for clients. To continually market the [...]

WHAT? Event AV Technician WHERE? VisionEvents Manchester WHEN? Now! Send your CV and covering letter to lorraine@visionevents.co.uk Full details: Reporting to: visionevents‘ Manchester Project Manager Hours of Work: Basic 45 hour week, shift pattern To deliver, rig, operate and de-rig audio-visual equipment for clients in a timely and professional manner. To deliver a high quality [...]

With the buzz that is surrounding Scotland for the next few years, we have to ensure that visionevents are best placed to be able to meet the increased demands for our services. These will come in all forms as we aim to get involved with the many events and activities which will take place: Homecoming [...]

Hopetoun House was the backdrop to a spectacular launch of Homecoming Scotland 2014. Homecoming Scotland 2014 is a yearlong programme of events which is designed to showcase all that’s great about Scotland’s arts, natural and cultural heritage. The events include battle re-enactments, Findhorn Bay Arts Festival, a festival to celebrate the life of John Muir, [...]

We are fast approaching Easter and March has already been a really busy month for us, with two major pieces of news to report. We are delighted to announce that Lewis Stocks has joined our Event Production team as an Event Producer. Lewis comes from an events/conference background, and after having spent a year working [...]

Have a look at some of the latest and greatest corporate events we have done… Edinburgh: 0131 334 3324 Glasgow: 0141 334 3324 London: 0207 936 9800 Manchester: 0161 669 7060

Have a look at some of the latest and greatest conferences we have done… Edinburgh: 0131 334 3324 Glasgow: 0141 334 3324 London: 0207 936 9800 Manchester: 0161 669 7060

Have a look at some of the latest and greatest award ceremonies we have done… Edinburgh: 0131 334 3324 Glasgow: 0141 334 3324 London: 0207 936 9800 Manchester: 0161 669 7060

It’s been an amazing journey for our Manchester office since we opened our base there in 2011. Securing a location in Manchester has been fantastic for our ability to deliver event production throughout the UK, but it has also added significant industry knowledge with the expertise of Lisa and Darren who joined our team and [...]

Come and visit the visionevents‘ team at our stand L542 at International Confex 2013 from Tuesday 19th to Thursday 21st March. Not only will you be able to chat about your forthcoming events, seek advice for your projects and meet some of our team, but we will have lots of photo, graphics and video examples [...]

WHAT? Warehouse Technician WHERE? Edinburgh Warehouse WHEN? Now! Send your CV and covering letter to lorraine@visionevents.co.uk Full details: Reporting to: visionevents‘ Edinburgh Resources Manager Hours of Work: Monday to Friday 8:30am to 5:30pm Ensure all hire stock is functional and maintained. To maintain a high quality service and provide technical support to Resources Manager, Daily [...]

A timely follow on from our recent blog “Getting organised with our logistics team”, where we went into detail of behind the scenes with our event coordinators, we move on to focus on our Project Management team. One of our recent projects this year was for a global client who held a multiple and simultaneous [...]

We were delighted to hear that we gained the SAFEcontractor accreditation earlier this month. Gaining the accreditation is the high point of what has been months of hard work. As a supplier, it underlines the quality of our health and safety working practices which we have built into part of our daily working life. Our [...]

Happy New Year! Now we are in 2013, we took some time to look back to 2012 which was an especially busy year with about 2000 events (give or take) under our collective belts. It’s looking set to continue for the early part of 2013 for our production, hire and technical teams who are based [...]

During our busiest months our video production team are all over the UK, making bespoke films and catching the best moments of our events. So it’s only fair to upload snippets of their hard work to our showreel, which led us all to think about how the use of video has changed events. In years [...]

Dazzle with cost efficiency! You may not like it, but Christmas is around the corner, and it’s time to give a bit of thought to your Christmas party. While times are still tight and budgets even tighter, don’t give yourself an extra headache trying to come up with quirky room decorations which usually blow your [...]

Further investment in our AV equipment hire for event production Video is fast becoming one of the best and most effective ways to communicate. Not only online through various styles of video such as capturing key moments, interviews, creative montages or live/on-demand web-streaming, but also for camera relay onto stage screens to enhance the audiences [...]

The day of the Pride of Britain awards arrived, our team were in London at the Grosvenor House Hotel making sure everything was perfect and I was keeping an eye on Twitter, hoping I wasn’t going to need the box of tissues so many were clearly bulk buying in preparation. It’s always fantastic to support [...]

Planning a good event can be challenging. You need to create a spectacle which is interesting, has seamless event production, perfect projection and lighting. But for us, you need one extra factor: the event needs to memorable. It’s difficult to pin down what creates a memorable event, if there was a formula then you would [...]

There are certain staples which a specialist event production company must do well. The first of these is projection. The industry is constantly evolving, so it is important for those specialising in AV hire and multimedia production to constantly invest in the best new equipment or risk being left behind! This is why we have [...]

We would call that company, visionevents. Over the last 10 (or so) years visionevents has been part of the sound+vision brand as a department which offers the entire range of event production services. We feel this name now however best represents the overall company with our in-house skills as a full event production agency. We’ve [...]