Just Watch Events

Corporate conferences in the UK, incentive programmes overseas and the logistics of a complicated project all fall within the remit of this Manchester event management consultancy. It describes itself as award winning and says it combines event management, project management and venue finding, with audiences ranging from 5 people to 1,500 and venues anywhere from Aberdeen to Australia.

Events it plans and runs

The business handles private events, award ceremonies, corporate parties, exhibitions and hospitality, in both public and private sector settings. Its managing director says she has personally run event management and incentive travel planning since 2001, and the team quotes more than fifteen years of combined experience across the two sectors. Services listed on the site include gala dinners and award ceremonies, room dressing and event themes, and audio visual and staging, and the team also finds venues for clients. Incentive travel is part of the offer for companies that want to reward staff or customers with trips.

The firm says it enjoys the moment a guest walks into a themed party room or an employee raises an award earned over a year, and it treats attendees as the heart of any event.

Ways of working it emphasises

The consultancy lists several principles under the heading of what makes it different:

• It shares its know-how with clients and is willing to build up their own skills, since everyone can benefit from efficiency savings.
• It says it is open about costs and how its fee is packaged, and will explain which part of its service, if any, is free.
• It promises to point out limits on an event or project and to suggest cheaper or more creative alternatives.
• If a client wants someone beside them throughout a project, it will do that.
• It works only with suppliers whose business ethos matches its own and who are dependable, and it introduces those suppliers to clients.

Responsibility for the client's reputation

According to the firm, clients trust it with decisions as well as logistics, because the reputation of their own business rides on how an event goes. It says it will not take risks with that responsibility. Its stated aim is to deliver high-impact events within realistic budgets, with a can-do attitude and the habit of trying to beat what the client expected.

Just Watch Events is an event and project management company based in Manchester, working in the UK and overseas. It plans and runs private events, corporate events, award ceremonies and incentive travel, and it also finds venues for them.

What Just Watch Events offers

• Event management: planning and running private parties, award ceremonies, corporate events and exhibitions.
• Project management: controlling the logistics of complicated projects.
• Incentive travel: planning incentive programmes for clients, including overseas trips.
• Venue finding: sourcing venues for events, including venues abroad.
• Hospitality events: events in both the public and private sectors.

Who it serves

Clients in the public and private sectors, for events with between 5 and 1,500 attendees.

Key facts

• Based in: Manchester, UK
• Experience: over 15 years combined in public and private sector events
• Managing director: hands-on in event and incentive travel planning since 2001