The prestigious accolade for London Venues
Due to the continuing Covid-19 restrictions the London Venue Awards will return in late 2021. Sending all best wishes to our friends in the venues industry in these uniquely tough times.
In the meantime, relive some highlights of last time
The London Venue Awards recognise, celebrate and encourage achievement in conference & events. We salute and acknowledge attainment within an industry that is continuously evolving and re-drawing the boundaries of best practice.
Celebrate with your team
Being an award-winner is a powerful motivator to inspire you and your colleagues to keep up the great work!
Enhance your reputation
Appending an independently judged third-party badge of excellence is a sure-fire shortcut to emphasising your merit to colleagues, clients, bosses & stakeholders.
Generate positive headlines
Spread the good news - everyone loves a success story and winning an award is a great publicity hook for social and traditional media efforts
Aspire to Better Practice
Winner or not - seeing what others do for their products is an irreplacable source of tried & tested award-worthy ideas!
Faye Loader
Head of Business Development, The Brewery
For 6 years Faye has led the proactive sales strategy at The Brewery, London’s leading City venue. Prior to The Brewery Faye headed up the corporate events team for a prestigious science communication charity and Grade I listed building in Mayfair. After graduating from Leeds University with a 1st class degree Faye mastered her skills within media sales, selling sponsorship and advertising solutions to West End advertising agencies and multinational technology companies. Her publishing background means she understands the ins and outs of delivering successful commercial events with an insider’s knowledge.
Robin Parker
General Manager, Church House Westminster
Will Poole
Sales Manager, The Mermaid London
Jonathan Read
Founder / Commercial Director, Tobacco Dock
Jonathan relaunched Tobacco Dock in 2012 as an events destination and over the past 7 years it is grown to become the most dynamic, iconic events venue in the Capital.
Tobacco Dock hosts in excess of 250 events per year and is the destination of choice for many of the world’s leading brands, organisations and their agencies including Apple, Accenture, Samsung, Google, Deloitte, EY, Barclays, JP Morgan, Cisco and the BBC. Skylight London, the rooftop bar and competitive socialising concept was launched in 2017 – an urban lawn club in the summer and Europe’s only rooftop ice rink in the winter.
Prior to this Jonathan spent over 20 years in live events and brand communications both agency and client-side, producing product launches, leading brand experience programmes and activating sponsorship globally for brands including AMD, General Motors, SanDisk, Johnson & Johnson, LG, Guinness and Grey Goose. He is a member of EVCOM and the Marketing Society.
Michael Shepherd
General Manager, London Hilton on Park Lane
Lynn has been working in media and marketing for over 21 years and has spent 16 of them helping The Drum become one of the largest industry titles across the world, with the underlying purpose of helping their audiences to make better decisions.
Her global remit has allowed her to expand the live events division internationally, with events now being hosted in New York, Singapore, and London, bringing together thousands of attendees from across the whole spectrum of the industry’s ecosystem. She spends much time working on strategic partnerships with some of the biggest tech giants, agencies, and brands.
Recently she led the team who transformed the live events division in just over one week, to become a commercially viable and engaging virtual events entity.
She is a professional emcee and has hosted +170 events including Content and PITCH stages at Web Summit, Global Ace Awards New York, DoubleClick Bid Manager Awards (a Google company) and many of The Drum’s flagship awards and conferences.
Previously Lynn worked for News International (now News UK) and Business a.m. in commercial, promotional and circulation roles.
But most importantly, she is a proud mum to her eighteen-year-old son and two beautiful cats called Bella and Milo.
Jackie Boughton
Head of Business Events, Barbican
Jackie has had over 30 years working in the UK hospitality industry, marketing and selling hotel group and venues, including Hilton, along with 9 years at the new Wembley Stadium, where she was part of the pre-opening and mobilisation team. She has first hand of experience of selling into the MICE, Corporate and Leisure markets, and has been an active member of several industry Associations serving either as a Board member or a founding partner.
Her current role as Head of Business Events for The Barbican involves her working across its vast portfolio of venues, continuing its growth and commercial success in the domestic and international business events market, whilst blending in with the artistic offer to create bespoke and memorable events for business clients, and at the same time connecting with the arts programmes.
A winner in the supplier/venue category of the UK Event Hot 50 Awards 2016 and 2017, Jackie is regularly featured in a variety of meetings and events industry honours lists. These include C&IT’s Venue Heads, where she has been voted 3rd in the UK, along with Event Management’s Event 100 Club where she was placed 18th out of 100. She has also been included in C&IT’s Power 50 – the most 50 most influential people in the UK Meetings and Event industry.
Johanna Byrane
Head of Business Development, Twickenham
Johanna Byrane is Head of Business Development at Twickenham Stadium. Johanna re-joined the iconic stadium in 2018 following a 12 year period working within the meetings and events industry in the City working within multiple unique and historic venues. She was part of the team who opened the £80M Twickenham East Stand which has been instrumental in the huge growth in the stadiums’ conference and events revenue. Johanna has gained an admirable reputation within the meetings and events market place, both as a senior leader, a strategic thinker, and an experienced sales and marketing professional. Always looking for new opportunities Johanna has driven the calendar of ticketed lifestyle events at Twickenham as well as identified new exciting revenue streams and has partaken in event industry podcasts and panel discussions to share her passion and knowledge of our great industry.
During a fantastic afternoon at The Hurlingham Club, we were delighted to take home a Silver award for ‘Best CSR or Sustainability Initiative’ at The London Venue Awards! These awards recognise excellence, creativity and dedication needed to deliver outstanding service and expertise to customers. Here’s to Gold next year!
Rebecca Hurley – Venues Marketing Manager, BMA House