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Porthaw woman shines in Glasgow
23.09.10
A BUNCRANA woman's
excellent skills in event management has won her a
prestigious prize at the Scottish Events Awards in
Glasgow.
Kate Bouchier-Hayes is events co-ordinator with the
Scottish Youth Parliament (SYP) in Edinburgh and her
organisational talents saw her beat off competition
from some of the country's best known event
management companies to take the award for Best
Small Event. Kate is from Porthaw Glen.
Speaking this week she said she was shocked when her
name was called out as the winner of the award.
"I was amazed as we were nominated together with
some of the biggest event management companies in
Scotland. We won the award for the organisation of
the two-day 10th Birthday Party celebrations of the
Scottish Youth Parliament in June of last year.
Around 300 delegates, aged between 14 and 25, took
part in a debate on Scotland’s constitutional
future, questioned a prestigious panel, ate a
three-course meal, heard from seven external
speakers and a top comedian, marched down
Edinburgh’s Royal Mile and elected 15 people to lead
the organisation for the year ahead – it was a
fairly busy weekend! |
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"In practical terms,
the event used three venues - including the streets
of Edinburgh; worked with 13 suppliers providing
everything from accommodation to cupcakes; collected
several thousand petitions; involved five SYP staff,
two Government ministers; made use of cutting edge
technology ranging from video to electronic voting
pads and, perhaps most impressively, cost a little
over £15,000. Given the tight budgets, timescales
and range of requirements, the Scottish Youth
Parliament is extremely proud of our achievements in
relation to our 10th Birthday Event," Kate said. |
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Scottish Youth Parliament events
co-ordinator, Kate Bouchier-Hayes, from Buncrana,
pictured with SYP corporate affairs manager, Steven
Kidd at the awards ceremony in Glasgow. |
The awards were
presented at the Grand Central Hotel in Glasgow last
Thursday night.
They are the only annual scheme that reward and
celebrate all areas of the thriving events industry
in Scotland.
Now in its third year, The Scottish Event Awards are
going from strength-to-strength, with event
organisers, promoters, in house-teams, venues and
suppliers all entered into the awards.
Kate collected the award in the Best Small Event
(under 1,000 attendees). "Other nominees in our
category were – Maximillion Events who won last year
and are a massive, very successful events company in
Scotland and Barclays Wealth for an Experience
Event. We were also nominated for the Best Education
Event but didn’t get it," added Kate. |
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