Venues of Excellence CEO Mandy Jennings has been featured in the EPN Journal:
How building a consultancy changed my career
Sixteen years ago, Mandy Jennings took a leap of faith, she founded Paje Consultancy and later made Venues of Excellence what it is today.…
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Hi everyone,
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking since our conference in January about how live events are changing — and not just operationally, but emotionally, culturally and socially.
“In 2025, there has been a noticeable reduction in smaller events which typically book at shorter lead times. I expect the decline in smaller meetings to continue.” Christine Gomez, Revenue Director of Wyboston Lakes Resort succinctly captured the overriding view of the Resort’s Senior Leadership Team when they recently considered which issues will have a major impact on the sector in 2026.
Suzanna Reid Barreiro da Silva, Managing Director at Unique Venues Birmingham shares a blogpost about the hidden benefits of choosing certain venues for your events...
Venues of Excellence Preferred Partner, Matthew Algie, will sponsor the coffee at the upcomingCook and Serve Challenge 2025. The competition is to be held at Leicester College and in the evening, competitors and venues will gather to celebrate the great culinary talent within our member venues at Unique Venues Birmingham.
Choosing an alcohol-free drink is not new, but what is an increasing trend is conference and event delegates and guests looking for a range of alcohol-free drinks that are not soft, sugary, fruity alternatives.
Venues of Excellences were first introduced to The Alcohol Free Drinks Company when they attended the Annual Conference in January this year to showcase their products to our member venues.
This summer Ashorne Hill had the pleasure of hosting a leadership and development event for our client JLR. The event took place over a 4-week period where we welcomed over 2,000 delegates to our beautiful Ashorne Hill.
The run up to the big day was exciting as the plan evolved and the team assembled to pull together a programme of 12 repeat day events with 200 delegates and fifteen facilitators at each one.
Since the launch of our revised Quality Strategy at our VOE 2022 Winter Members Forum we’re pleased to share that VOE Quality Ambassador, David Vaughton has conducted 11 quality assessments for our member venues to date, representing 25% of the membership!
The benefits of consortium membership for independent venues and small venue groups.
Venues of Excellence (VOE), the UK’s leading UK sales and marketing consortium for independent venues recently announced their new Quality Strategy to members in November 2022, which has prompted CEO, Mandy Jennings to engage in conversation with key partners...
David Vaughton, Venues of Excellence Quality Ambassador, discusses leadership and coaching and whether there is a difference anymore.
An interesting question to pose, namely can one exist without the other in the modern era of developing talent from within. Given the continuing challenging recruitment landscape coupled with the shifting dynamics