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OPM has extensive experience of events management and can help you organise conferences, seminars, programme and other events, large or small, across the country.

We can take on organisation and support from the initial concept and design right through to final delivery and evaluation. We have given a few examples of our events management support, below, for clients such as the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, Department of Health, Children and Young People's Unit, Youth Justice Board, Department for Communities and Local Government and the Home Office.

We can offer a dedicated team of event and programme co-ordinators to support the following activities:

• Marketing – ad placement – direct marketing – mailshots – promotional literature – compiling mailing databases
• Selecting and booking venues – advice on suitable venues – sourcing venues – venue liaison –  advice on room specifications
• Co-ordination of invitations and correspondence
• Recruiting delegates – delegate liaison – bookings management – invoicing – co-ordinating mail out of joining instructions
• Design and production of event materials – flyers – delegate packs – name badges – table stands – conference booklets
• On-site events support co-ordination – room set up – co-ordinating AV equipment – venue liaison – registration – delegate management
• Event evaluation

Some examples

NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement - Breaking Through

Our events team co-ordinated a series of development centres for the previous national programme of Breaking Through between February 2004 and September 2005. Our team members were responsible for scheduling dates and booking venues for each development centre as well as producing high quality delegate packs and servicing the event on the day. In support of OPM's project manager, a designated project administrator for Breaking Through managed the process of collating applications and allocating participants to specific development centres. At each development centre, we had qualified staff from our events team in attendance to administer and score the numerical and verbal tests.

Department of Health Diabetes National Service Framework

OPM organised and delivered a large-scale simulation event on implementing the diabetes national service framework for the Department of Health. Approximately 60 people attended the event in Macclesfield representing service users, LDSAGs and all the main NHS organisations/services. The event attracted participation from a large number of service users, many of whom had access and other special requirements. OPM ensured that the venue was fully wheelchair accessible and provided handouts and documents in a variety of formats (e.g. Braille, large print). An on-site team from OPM was available at the event to offer assistance, support and to ensure the smooth running of the day

Children and Young People's Unit

OPM were commissioned by the Children and Young People's Unit to organise a series of consultation events for the Government's Building a Strategy for Children and Young People. Over 100 stakeholders took part in these events. OPM managed the venue liaison and co-ordinated the mailing of invitations to national and local stakeholders. We invited a further 70 participants to a simulation event which ran over two days in central England . This involved managing a complex invitation process to ensure a range of stakeholders participated on the day, including young people, community representatives, teachers and local government officials. As the event involved the running of two simulations in parallel, it required complex planning to ensure that timings, equipment and materials met the specific requirements of each activity.

Youth Justice Board - Youth Offending Team Managers

We administered six national cohorts of this national modular management development programme, including the organisation of delivery of a range of modules at regional centres.

Department for Communities and Local Government, Future Leadership programme

Future Leadership is a unique programme that aims to become the gold standard for leadership development in local government. It sets out to provide a whole new approach to leadership development.

OPM runs the programme in partnership with Ashridge Business School and we also provide the project co-ordination and events management for over 320 participating managers.

Home Office - Gun Crime Conference

OPM worked with the Home Office to organise and deliver the 'Connected' events. Participants at the two-day event held in Birmingham in early 2004, and again in 2006, included young people, community representatives, senior police officers, teachers, local and central government officials and others with experience of gun crime. We were responsible for organising the event, including selecting the venue, co-ordinating invitations and taking registrations, through to attendance on the day.

 

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