Our Services » Events and Conferences
Our formidable events team run some of the best known events and conferences in
the third sector. We can help you plan and deliver in-house conferences, external
exhibitions, AGMs and road shows.
Whether you’re looking for a partner to work with to develop and manage events or
a company to outsource your entire annual programme, we can help. There are some
examples of the kind of work we do below.
If you’d like to talk to us about how we could help, please call Debbie Hockham
on 0207 939 7434 or contact her by email.
forum3 is Europe’s largest careers and volunteering event. We’ve been running
it since 2001 and it regularly attracts 10-15,000 job seekers over 2 days at the
Business Design Centre in Islington, London and over 100 exhibitors.
Find out more about forum3.
What do exhibitors think?
forum3 has been a very successful tool for us in finding the right people to volunteer and work with us. It is a cost-effective way to source a large pool of talent which ultimately helps us to reduce our overheads. The visitors are generally of a high standard, being skilled, experienced and enthusiastic, which results in the screening process being a brief one.
forum3 has also been useful in raising our brand awareness. Visitors have been really interested in the work we do and what it means to the 2.5 million people living with heart disease in the UK.
We have also received an exceptional level of customer service from the forum3 organisers, making the entire process of exhibiting a straightforward one.
forum3 is the best volunteering and recruitment event for the not-for-profit sector.
Rebecca Birs,
Recruitment Manager,
British Heart Foundation
Dear Debbie, Just a quick note to thank you and all at forum3 for organising such
a brilliant event. The lead up to it and management throughout was superb - well
done to you and your excellent team! We received a huge amount of interest as a
result.
Pete Raines, Coral Cay
I was extremely impressed by the level of professionalism and dedication demonstrated
by Zoë throughout the relationship with The Place2Be. All our queries were dealt
with swiftly and efficiently and always with a smile, with Zoe going that extra
mile to suggest new ideas and strategies to ensure that we got the most out of our
time at the event.
David Meredith, Marketing & Communications Manager, The Place2Be
Thanks to you and all your team for all the effort you put into organising Forum3.
It was a fantastic success for us in terms of the Book Bus, I’ve never been involved
with such a positive show, it was quite uplifting.
Seth Harris, The Book Bus
What do visitors think?
An excellent event on Saturday, lots of really interesting people to talk to, loads
of leads and great presentation by John Lees (I even bought the book!). Can't wait
for the next one! Thanks for the hard work that went into organising it.
Robert Standford
I attended the Forum3 event in Islington some weeks ago, and it's long overdue to
let you know that I thought it was a very well-organized and most helpful event.
My background is as a doctor in medicine, and having just completed the Sloan Fellowship,
an executive full-time programme in Management and Business at the London Business
School, I am interested to work in the NFP-sector. The guides one could download
prior to the actual event where extremely useful and my special compliments go particularly
to the person, who wrote the 'Networking guide'. We have been encouraged to excel
at networking while going through business school but it was your guide, which I
found most thoughtful and extremely encouraging. As a consequence of it, I met some
great people - not just with regard to job opportunities but on an entirely human
front.
Dr Silke Collins–Tracey
Positive Change
Positive Change is a series of seminars aimed at inspiring people to work with value-led
organizations – in the green sector, with charities, or international NGOs. The
events are planned and run by People Unlimited’s events team in conjunction with
2 Way Development, a volunteering placement
agency based in London.
Held at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), these events have been
extremely popular with job seekers, graduates and those looking to transfer their
skills in to the sector. For more information,
click here.
Feedback from delegates:
A Heuer:
Very good events, there should be more of those!
T Falaiye:
A very encouraging start, keep it up and make it an annual event. Enlarge your advertorial
of the event in BOND magazine. Congratulations on your successful start and best
wishes for subsequent ones.
K Burke:
Very useful initiative - ultimately saves the sector lots of time in misdirected
enquiries and job applications
Hannah:
Very impressed. Most beneficial seminar I can ever remember attending!
P Harrison:
A very worthwhile event. As I'm about to embark on post graduate development course
in September the event helped to confirm that I'm making the right decision.