Are you ready for a walk in the parks?
Margaret Mann2025-02-26T10:43:48+00:00You don´t need to be a distance runner to take part in the Royal Parks Half Marathon – you don´t even need to be an athlete. Many of the 16,000 [...]
Meeting Needs Chairman’s blog Q1 2025
Margaret Mann2025-02-24T16:25:03+00:00As we begin 2025, I am a little sad that my two years as Chairman are coming to an end, but I am very proud to be handing over to [...]
Meeting Needs project to end food insecurity for subsistence farmers
Margaret Mann2025-02-03T18:11:42+00:00A project to build air-tight grain stores in Tanzania with funding from event industry foundation Meeting Needs is well under way despite heavy rains that threatened the work. Working with [...]
Chris Peacock remembered by Zimbabwe staff and schoolchildren
Margaret Mann2025-02-04T11:09:16+00:00A plaque in memory of Meeting Needs former chairman Chris Peacock has been installed at Break Primary School in his memory in the Matetsi region of Zimbabwe following a [...]
Meeting Needs funding drives food and medicine to Ukraine with Mighty Convoy
Margaret Mann2025-01-21T11:28:59+00:00A cash grant of £7500 at the end of 2024 by event industry foundation Meeting Needs helped finance the delivery of ambulances, food and medicine to Ukraine this month. Working [...]
Meeting Needs Celebrates Its Fifteenth Year
Anthony Lishman2019-12-05T13:11:09+00:00Meeting Needs is celebrating its fifteenth birthday since its formation, by leading event industry figures, back in 2004. The anniversary coincides with another milestone for the event industry’s charity—the distribution [...]
Record Fundraising from the Royal Parks Half Marathon
Anthony Lishman2018-10-19T09:55:33+01:00MEETING AND EVENTS INDUSTRY INDIVIDUALS BRAVE THE TERRIBLE WEATHER TO CONQUER THE ROYAL PARKS HALF MARATHON AND RAISE NEARLY £20,000 A supreme effort was required from both experienced and novice [...]
Meeting Needs Launch Their Perpetual Auction
Editor2018-09-18T16:13:57+01:00Meeting Needs has launched its Perpetual Auction, an online auction that will run continuously for the rest of this year. The auction will enable Meeting Needs to sell items donated [...]
How a Mountain Ambulance Service is Saving Lives in Tanzania
Editor2018-01-08T14:03:37+00:00A year after providing finance for the running of a mountain ambulance in Tanzania, Meeting Needs is measuring the impact of our £5000 grant. Working with specialist charity Hampshire-based Village [...]
We have launched our appeal for prizes for the M&IT Charity Auction
Editor2017-11-24T14:10:45+00:00In the past readers and subscribers to M&IT and Meetpie have been generous supporters of our annual online auction, which is our single biggest fundraiser. We have started our appeal [...]