What's Floating Around? 21 July 2014

Our blog this week is written by the lovely Helen….

Welcome to another week at Cloud 9 towers. From a promised British heatwave, which true to form for English weather only lasted a day here, to two new members joining the team, it’s been a busy busy week!

Our two new interns, Toby and Helen, have been getting stuck into life at Cloud 9 and learning the ropes. Toby who’s nervously waiting for his A Level results, is hoping to study Management at London School of Economics in September, so we’re all trying our best to keep his mind off it by keeping him busy. Helen who studies business at Loughborough University, is here for a few weeks to learn more about event management, before she goes back for her final year.

So what have we been up to this week?

We've been busy with lots of visitors coming to join us in our ‘so not bored room’ aka our meeting room, including Sharon Bannister and her team from Corinthia, Graham Saunders from Sandals, who invited Rubina to Jamaica to see their fifteen resorts, and Jade Sill from Best Western group.

Needless to say we've kept the biscuit tin topped up this week, and the kettle on constant boil. Our doors are always open, so let us know if you want to pop in and have a chat to us. We’ll provide the biscuits!  

Paula had a brilliant time at The PA Club at Alea casino, presenting Cloud 9’s newest venture ‘FUSE’ on Thursday. FUSE is our free venue finding service, and we’re all about taking the hassle out of your event, by offering advice on social media, event styling and post event evaluation techniques. Her game of ‘30 things in our event survival bag’ went down a treat over dinner, with many weird and random guesses.

We've been inundated with entries for the Fresh Awards, so we've been busy processing, unpacking and being blown away by the quality of entries so far. Don’t forget the deadline is the 31st of July, so keep those entries coming! Harriet’s been busy booking entertainment for the judging panel for Fresh, they've certainly got some treats lined up after a busy day of judging.

Next week looks to be as bustling as this one, with Harriet, Rubina and Toby off to visit Yew Lodge Hotel, which Jade Sill kindly invited us to visit before the £0.25 million makeover starts in January 2015.

Paula, Shannon and Toby are off to London on Thursday for the PR judging for the Fresh Awards, our award programme to recognise and reward the best in Creative, Digital, Media and Public Relations in the UK.

Harriet & Rubina are off to the Village Hotel for the reopening of the Verge Bar and Grill, to sample their new dishes, and yes we are jealous! Finally on Friday afternoon, we’re off on a staff outing to the Hinckley Island Hotel, I think a treat is in order after our hard work over the last couple of weeks!

So that's it for this week folks, have a good one!