The Events Industry Board (EIB), the government’s advisory body to help improve and promote the UK’s Events sector held a conference call with Nigel Huddleston, the Minister for Sport, Tourism & Heritage on the 30th March, to discuss the impact of COVID-19 and to start considering a recovery plan.

Please click here to see the minutes of the EIB Meeting which took place via teleconferencing on 30th March 2020. 

Over twenty CEOs from many of the UK’s leading destinations, event venues and creative agencies met online last week as part of the UK Events Industry Board’s Leaders Panel to discuss the government’s support for the UK’s £70bn business events sector with Minister for Sport, Tourism and Heritage, Nigel Huddleston MP.

Lex Butler, Chair, HBAA added: “With payments being unacceptably withheld and Government funding delayed, as I feared, many are in danger of not surviving this crisis.”

“Landlords have support giving a verified three month mortgage holiday but there’s nothing legislated for commercial renters, only the promise that they can’t be evicted in the next 3 months. This impacts on both agencies and venues which rental premises."

The National Outdoor Events Association is partnering with the UK’s leading supermarkets, and their suppliers, to support the #FeedtheNation campaign. The initative has been developed to help the country cope with the huge increase in demand for ‘essential workers’ in the food supply sector following the Coronavirus outbreak.