During the early months of 2021, while the country was still in full lockdown, a new client approached us for help with a virtual social event for their whole company – around 250 staff and directors based in the UK across several offices – and wanted a fun wine tasting to kick off the event [...]
The British summer isn’t always the most reliable, but 2022 proved to be amazing, and our clients’ thoughts turned to al fresco summer events; specifically rooftop and garden parties. We have spoken to almost every rooftop and garden venue in London over the course of the past few months – from hidden gems to [...]
We can’t believe that we’ve been back doing in-person events for over six months now. Time really does fly when you’re having fun! September 2021 was the grand return for Team Sunflower’s return to in-person events following the restrictions on the live events industry which had been in place since lockdown started in late [...]
This article originally appeared in the October 2021 edition of Brand You magazine as an interview with Hannah Hall, Sunflower’s founder. The key to a productive planning process for a virtual event is to have clear objectives.When the events world was thrown into the deep end of online in March 2020, Sunflower Event Team [...]
One of our regular fabulous clients, MovableInk, has been running virtual team building events through lockdown, and wanted to try something a bit different to boost morale, welcome some new team members and get people chatting. Working with our comedy partner Nice ‘n’ Spiky, we arranged for two comedians to do a 15minute set [...]
As we follow the roadmap out of lockdown, we can start to plan in-person events once again. However, the results from our recent Sunflower Survey suggest that many companies are taking a cautious approach to event planning for the rest of 2021. The answer may be hybrid events - a seamless blend of in-person and [...]
Sunflower Corporation’s assisted former corporate lawyer Caroline Flanagan with her very first book launch in 2015. The launch of Babyproof Your Life was held at Library Club in London, and included speeches from Dashana Ubl and Emma Stroud as well as Caroline herself, a book signing and lots of hugs and celebrations! Since then, [...]
Sunflower Corporation’s world of events before 2020 was filled with early mornings and late nights, venue finding, speaker liaison, arranging conference AV and entertainment, sorting catering contracts, booking travel and organising after parties. In the early months of this year, we managed events in five countries and all across the UK. These days, we still [...]
The events industry is brilliantly collaborative. We work with a great team of freelancers to boost our core team on our live events, and sometimes we work with other events agencies to support them. This was the case when our friend and colleague Lucy Hall (no relation to Hannah!) contacted us early in 2019. [...]
We all know that a well-formulated event brief is a wondrous thing. Some clients come to us knowing exactly what they want, where and when they want it, with times and numbers already planned; all the details tied down to the last canapé. Other clients like to explore options, bounce ideas, change plans and [...]
