ESSA news
- By: ESSA PR
The Event Supplier and Services Association (ESSA) is urging members and non-members alike to ask their MPs to take urgent action on unpaid relief Addition Restrictions Grant (ARG) funds to SMEs in the events sector.
- By: ESSA PR
Thousands of businesses across England are facing further job losses or bankruptcy due to the failure of local authorities to award £1.4 billion of emergency Covid-19 grants, the Event Industry Alliance (EIA) has revealed today.
- By: EIA PR Finsbury Glover Hering
Thousands of businesses across England facing further job losses or bankruptcy due to local authorities failing to pay up to £1.4bn of emergency COVID-19 grants
- By: ESSA PR
Concerned by the reports of geographical disparities in the disbursement of Local Restriction Support Grants (LRSG) and Additional Restrictions Grant (ARG), the Event Supplier and Services Association (ESSA) has issued 400 Freedom of Information (FOI) requests to its members' local authorities in the UK.
- By: ESSA PR
The Events Industry Alliance (EIA) is continuing its call for more funding, and improved availability of cash through current grant schemes, as part of its wider lobbying of government.
- By: ESSA PR
The Event Supplier and Services Association (ESSA) has announced that it is making a Freedom of Information (FOI) request of the government.
- By: ESSA PR
The Event Supplier and Services Association (ESSA) board has elected Marija Erzen, director of Solutions2 UK, to the post of vice-chair of the association. Erzen will serve as vice-chair alongside her predecessor and newly appointed ESSA chair Lou Kiwanuka.
- By: ESSA PR
The Event Supplier and Services Association, Association of Event Organisers (AEO), Association of Event Venues (AEV), and Meetings Industry Association (mia) have today made the following joint statement
- By: ESSA
The Event Service Suppliers Association (ESSA), Association of Event Venues (AEV), Association of Event Organisers (AEO) which collectively represent the exhibitions industry, have officially joined the One Industry One Voice Coalition with their #ProjectRecovery movement.
- By: ESSA
Following weeks of work by the three associations and their members, ESSA, AEO and AEV receive official recognition and sign-off of of the Industry's All Secure Expo Pilot.
- By: ESSA PR
ESSA's serving vice-chair Lou Kiwanuka, (MD; EventShaper) has been appointed chair of the Event Industry Alliance (EIA), assuming the role from Dan Thurlow (Director of Exhibition Sales; SEC & AEV Board Member).
- By: ESSA
The EIA, comprising ESSA, the AEV and the AEO has, last night, delivered an open letter to the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak after the continued lack of support provided to the event industry, despite DCMS having communicated approval of both guidance and a pilot exhibition.
