The partners
eventIMPACTS has been developed by a consortium of UK-based organisations that have an interest in staging or supporting major public events – particularly those of a cultural or sporting nature.
UK Sport
Established by Royal Charter in 1996, UK Sport works in partnership with the home country sports councils and other agencies to lead sport in the UK to world-class sporting success. With the emphasis on providing a performance advantage for UK athletes, UK Sport also leads the campaign to bring strategically important sporting events to the UK. Working in partnership with national governing bodies, cities & regions and home country agencies, UK Sport has, since 1997, supported more than 120 events of World, European and Commonwealth status that have been held in the UK.
VisitBritain
VisitBritain is Britain's national tourism agency, responsible for marketing Britain overseas. We work in partnership with thousands of organisations in the UK and overseas and seek to ensure that Britain is marketed in an appropriate way in 35 markets around the world. We also work to promote the tourism industry within the UK itself - www.visitbritain.org. The eventBritain team within VisitBritain works with UK industry partners in the support of bids for major sporting, business and cultural events to come to Britain. For further information please see - www.eventbritain.co.uk.
EventScotland
EventScotland, the Scottish national events agency, was established in 2003 with the aim of strengthening and promoting Scotland's events industry. EventScotland does this by attracting, generating and sustaining a portfolio of world-class events in Scotland.
London Development Agency
The LDA is the Regional Development Agency for London. Its goal is to improve London's economic development and the quality of life for all Londoners. We pursue our goal by investing in a range of projects that have been designed to improve life for London and all its diverse communities. We focus on six areas of investment: Regeneration; Climate change and environment; Sustained employment; Business support; International promotion; Olympics. To deliver our strategy in practice, we work with a wide range of partners in the public, private and voluntary sectors. These include other members of the GLA family (including the GLA itself), the 33 London boroughs, government agencies, businesses and charities. The LDA is funded by central government, with contributions to our budget coming from various government departments including the Department for Communities & Local Government and the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform.
North West Development Agency
The NWDA's core purpose is to maximise the region's competitiveness to build a stronger economy.
Competitiveness is the key to England's Northwest economic success – the essential element in the development of our region's businesses, its people and its places.
We work to maximise the region's competitiveness, delivering effective responses to both short-term challenges and longer-term opportunities. We do this by supporting the region's businesses, by assisting new startups, by encouraging investment in the region, by leading the region’s £119 billion economy in innovative and sustainable directions and by delivering real opportunities for the seven million people who live within our boundaries.
We use our economic expertise to shape the growth opportunities of important industry sectors and help guide the development of the skills needed to match our economic ambitions.
Yorkshire Forward
Yorkshire Forward is the regional development agency for Yorkshire & Humber region, tasked with improving the economy our region. Yorkshire Forward's goal is to make Yorkshire & Humber a better place to live, work and invest, and to ensure that our region is able to compete on the domestic and global stage. The visitor economy is an important element of the regional economy, it accounts for 1 in 10 jobs and 1 in 9 businesses, events are one way in which we can grow the visitor economy in our region - they bring in spending and help to raise the profile of the region, often to a new audience.
Glasgow City Marketing Bureau
Glasgow City Marketing Bureau is the official destination marketing organisation (DMO) for metropolitan Glasgow. It is engaged in national and international activity comprising: development and implementation of the city branding campaign Glasgow: Scotland with style; event creation, attraction, management and marketing; conventions, incentives, meetings and exhibition sales; accommodation bookings, public relations and optimisation of the website
Research partners
In the summer of 2008, a research team headed by the Sport Industry Research Centre (Sheffield Hallam University) and involving colleagues from the BRASS Centre (Cardiff University), the University of Stirling and the Substance social research company, carried out a pilot study of six events to inform the development of the eventIMPACTS Toolkit. The partners are indebted to the research team, on whose subsequent report and proposed evaluation framework the Toolkit is based.
Sport Industry Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University
http://www.shu.ac.uk/research/sirc/
ESRC Centre for Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability and Society, Cardiff University
Department of Sports Studies, Stirling University
http://www.sports.stir.ac.uk/research/index.php