You Can Fill Your 2025 With More Funny Ha Ha-The Side Hustle That You Can Fit In With Your Day Job

About Friday 22nd November 2024; when 570 people gathered at Old Billingsgate to celebrate the London Venue and Catering Awards 2024 A thank you to Claire Wormsley and Rory Ross Russell for recognising their hard work.

The funny ha ha was supplied by Rob Broadwick (also known as abandoman). For two hours Rob's personal brand of hip hop got the judges of the awards involved; to the delight of the audience.

{Moneypennies is a proud partner of London Venue and Catering Awards 2024}

+++ The subject of this Event Horizon is:

You Can Fill Your 2025 With More Funny Ha Ha-The Side Hustle That You Can Fit In With Your Day Job

It is About:

Considering signing up to

Rob Hitchmough Stand Up Comedy Course at City Lit London. Starts on Monday 20th January Ends on Monday 31st March 2025. (It is held at  at the aptly named Wellness Centre, just around the corner from Grand Connaught Rooms).

The London Awards circuit provides a steady income for stand-up comedians.

So knowing more about the who, what, when and where is something that you could take advantage of in your quest towards becoming a stand-up as well as winning some workplace quodos (receiving praise for your achievements) when you secure some award bookings.

Following are some insights about UK awards buyer demand in 2024  for London Conference Centres and Hotels  led by close to real time evidence based data:  

This corresponds to 448 annual awards, held at London Conference Centres and Hotels during 2024 that were reviewed by Moneypennies on Monday 9th December.  

About the annual Award buyers and their demand impact by numbers in 2024.

During 2024 UK Association buyers and UK Corporate buyers introduced 109/448  NEW Annual Awards into the London Market.

64 buyers who organise more than ONE Annual awards per year.

With bookings spanning from  Tuesday 14 January to Tuesday 17th December  (with 3 August bookings) 

Interrogating the data to identify the  annual award bookings that have converted into 2025 bookings.

As well as the annual awards  that have still to set a 2025 date and sign off on their London Conference Centre or Hotel booking.

To enable me to share with you this snapshot of opportunities as of Monday 9th December.

Looking forward into 2025.

Following is a month by month breakdown of the six month booking period (in two parts).

Specifying confirmed date and confirmed  London Conference Centre and Hotel bookings;

Each of these parts has a highlighted section which shows the cumulative booking number that correspond to each booking period.

This cumulative booking number represents each of the 2025 annual awards still to schedule a date in 2025 and still to sign on the dotted line of a contract at a London Conference Centre or Hotel for their 2025 bookings*.

Of the 448 Awards reviewed

*18 had a scheduled 2025 date without a confirmed venue booking.

2025 January, February and March

11 bookings in January

17 bookings in February

30 bookings in March

WITH 49 BOOKINGS STILL TO SCHEDULE A 2025 DATE and CONFIRM A BOOKING AT A LONDON CONFERENCE CENTRE or HOTEL FOR JANUARY, FEBRUARY and MARCH 2025

2025 April May June July and August

15 bookings in April

22 bookings in May

26 bookings in June

9 bookings in July 

3 bookings in August

WITH 155 BOOKINGS STILL TO SCHEDULE A DATE and CONFIRM A BOOKING AT A LONDON CONFERENCE CENTRE or HOTEL FOR APRIL MAY JUNE and July 2025

Yielding a total of 224 annual awards opportunities for the first six months of 2025  that Conference Centres and Hotels (and Caterers)  can add to their on the day revenue for the first six months of 2025.

Or

Yielding 334 annual award opportunities for the first six months of 2025 that could be of interested to audio visual and conference production agencies.

197/448 Annual Awards reviewed were held during SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER, NOVEMBER and DECEMBER

Number of bookings by Day:

3 Sunday 

22 Monday 

64 Friday 

7 Saturday 

 352 Tuesday, Wednesday Thursday bookings

About 34/145 awards with a scheduled 2025 date and a confirmed booking moved on from their 2024 London venue choice.

Following is about 12/34 of these moves detailing the from and to:

(1) Move: 

From (2024):      City of London Iconic Venue

To     (2025):       Iconic Central London Venue

(2) Move:

From (2024):     5* Park Lane Hotel

To       2025) :    Livery Hall

(3) Move:

From (2024):     Central London Hotel

To:    (2025) :     Central London Conference Centre X 1                           

(*Listed on the big hitter booking list, see below)

(4) Move:

From (2024):      Central London Hotel 

To      (2025):      Central London Conference Centre x 2                            

(*Listed on the big hitter booking list, see below)

(5) Move:

From (2024):       Iconic City of London Music Venue

To     (2025):        Central London Conference Centre x 3                            

(*Listed on the big hitter booking list, see below).

(6) Move:

From (2024):       5* Park Lane Hotel

To     (2025):        5* Park Lane Hotel

(7) Move:

From (2024):        Iconic London Venue

To      (2025):        5* Park Lane Hotel

(8) Move:

From (2024):       City of London Hotel

To     (2025)         City of London Conference Centre

(9) Move:

From (2024):        City of London Hotel

To      (2025):       City of London Hotel

(10) Move:

From (2024) :      5* Park Lane Hotel

To     (2025):        5* City of London Hotel

(11) Move:

From (2024):      Central London Exhibition Centre

To      (2025):      City of London Hotel

(12) Move:

From :(2024):     City of London Hotel

To       (2025):     City of London Hotel

More About the 448 awards, held at London Conference Centres and Hotels during 2024 that were reviewed.

In alphabetical order a list by name of a few of the 2024 award hosting London Conference Centre or Hotel:

Evolution 

Old Billingsgate

Raffles London OWO

Sheraton Grand Park Lane

The Biltmore

The Peninsula

The Roundhouse

The Royal Garden Hotel

The Savoy

Wembley Stadium

When it comes to Annual Award bookings these are a few of the  big hitter London Conference Centre and Hotel:

Grand Connaught Rooms

Grosvenor Square

Grosvenor House

Hilton London Bankside

Park Plaza

The Brewery

The HAC

+++ Want 2025 to be the year that your annual awards business truly takes off?

Then the next 48 hours are crucial.

Until Friday 13th December at 5 pm I am pleased to gift you

Moneypennies April, May, June & July Annual Award Opportunities For London Conference Centre and Hotel Dashboard and Summary Report                    

*Get it before the holidays set in          

*Enjoy the read with a cup of tea and a Mince Pie           

*Hit January hard knowing that you have the relevant information to get your awards business firing by the end of Q1.

I get that it can be tricky finding the right time to start something like this.

Waiting for things to calm down.

Waiting to feel in the right headspace.

That's why I've timed my gift for this moment.

Because for many of you, there isn't going to be a better time.

An end of year lull.

A new start in January.

+++ All you've got to do. is request your gift of:

Moneypennies April,  May, June and July Annual Award Opportunities for London Conference Centres and Hotels Dashboard and Summary Report.

An Explainer:

The dashboard is shared in the following format: With row of data for each buyer

With the following columns:

About the Buyer:

Association/Corporate (1)

About the 2025 Award Opportunity:

Month (2)

Day (3)

2025 Bookings Scheduled (Yes) (4)

Moved From 2024 Booked Conference Centre/Hotel (Yes) (5)

New to Market in 2024 (6)

Shared with you in excel format.

{Extracted from Moneypennies Update Annual Award Opportunities For London Conference Centres and Hotels}

(The Summary Report includes a full list of the named London Conference Centre or Hotel to help you to benchmark (use a competitor or geographically close Conference Centre or Hotel as the point of reference) for a relevant up-for-grab award booking.

To receive your gifted  April, May, June and July Award Opportunities Dashboard and Summary Report.  

All you've got to do- is send me a message via Linkedin

Until next time,

Suzanne

PS

Moneypennies is an accredited member of the MIA (Meetings Industry Association).

Moneypennies is a proud partner to London Venue and Catering Awards 2024. Sharing up-to-date and relevant events data to drive growth for event services is Moneypennies core activity.

Sharing up-to-date and relevant events datato drive growth for event services isMoneypennies core activity.