As I write this, we are only a few days away from this year’s M&IT Awards, where we will be once again raising money for the Meeting Needs Foundation. On the night we have a super prize raffle, and right now our on-line auction is LIVE with some terrific lots for you to bid on. Please bid generously via this link.
Meeting Needs is a foundation that awards life-changing grants to small charities, with funds raised from within the meetings and events industry, and we couldn’t do this without you. M&IT Awards is one of our biggest fund-raising events, and we are hoping to raise more than £15,000 at this year’s event from the raffle and auction, so please help us to smash this target.
Hot on the heels of the M&IT Awards, we have a team of industry heroes running the Royal Parks Half Marathon to raise fund for us. The team have already raised over £7,000 but please show your support and give generously at this link. Special thanks also to Cvent who are our sponsor for this event.
You can read about our fabulous runners on our website news page, at this link.
Do you support or champion a charity? Well, as a member of the meeting and events community you can help your favourite charity to apply for one of our grants. Meeting Needs raises money from within the events industry for small charities championed by the people in the industry. If you’d like your charity to benefit, find out how, at this link.
As a foundation we can award grants to a wide range of charities, all using the collective passion, effort, and power that we all share and enjoy within the meetings and events industry. Through Meeting Needs, we event professionals can come together to do great things for those in need. Our foundation focuses specifically on smaller charities who find it so difficult to attract attention and funds, and small grants make big impacts. Our average grant is just £5,000 and these grants can be and have been life changing.
Meeting Needs is a vehicle that can help you and your company do great things, using the strength, talent, and connections we all build and enjoy by working in this wonderful industry of meetings and events. Together we are a massive force that can
focus on doing great things for good causes.
Please encourage your colleagues or your bosses to use the Meeting Needs Foundation to help them to give back and let me know how we can best support you.
I’m afraid I won’t see you this year at the M&IT Awards, as I will be on the high seas having a little holiday, but the marvellous Shonali Devereaux, one of my Board Directors, along with most of our Board and a co-founder of Meeting Needs will be there to welcome you all, and encourage you to bid on the auction and buy lots of raffle tickets.
My Board and I want to share our heartfelt thanks for your ongoing support, which we never take it for granted, but always appreciate.
Chris Parnham MBA CDir
Chairman, Meeting Needs
& Chief Strategy Officer, veSpace & Chilled Agency.
