UK Venue Managers Association Annual General Meeting

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TIME: 11.00am – 3.00pm (including a stadium tour)

VENUE: Leicestershire County Cricket Club

County Ground

Grace Road

Leicester, LE2 8AD

Notice is herby given of 2011 Annual General Meeting of The Venue Managers Association (formerly UK Stadium Managers Association).

The Managing Secretary, Neil Levett, will firstly introduce the aims, objectives and reasons for the name changes to the assembled audience of members. There will then be a presentation by DC Jim Maietta, from the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure who will speak on threats and protective security including some UK and international examples and what Venue Managers can do to mitigate risk.

At least one other guest speaker will present a paper and this will be followed by a tour of Leicestershire County Cricket Club for Venue Managers to see, first hand, another colleague’s venue and to discuss the issues they commonly face.

Editors are reminded that membership of UKVMA is open, exclusively, to Managers/Directors of multipurpose venues such as Stadia, Arenas, Athletics Tracks, Racecourses, Dog Tracks, Motor Racing Circuits, Auditoria, Theatres and Exhibition Centre’s and that it is the person who is the member and not the venue.

For further details on UKVMA please contact the Membership Secretary, Sandy Lopes, on

01732 459683, by email sandy@aladltd.co.uk or visit the UKVMA website www.ukvma.org