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SUPPORTING THE EVENTS INDUSTRY

AEO IS RUN BY ITS MEMBERS FOR THE BENEFIT OF ITS MEMBERS THROUGH AN ELECTED COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES

 


 

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Association of Event Organisers Ltd (AEO) is the trade body representing companies which conceive, create, develop or manage trade and consumer events. It is run by its members for the benefit of its members through an elected council of representatives, specialist working groups and a fulltime secretariat.

 

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We've been supporting the event industry for over 100 years

 

Over the years, the mission of AEO has transitioned and developed, to align with current issues.

A century on and the original collaborative ambitions are not too dissimilar from the AEO’s current objectives, albeit on a much wider and ambitious scale. It is run by its members for the benefit of its members through an elected council, specialist working groups and a fulltime secretariat.

AEO is part of EIA

AEO, AEV and ESSA are the three parts of EIA, whose members collaborate and support the events community. 

AEO works in partnership with its sister associations on a number of initiatives including research, cross association working groups and lobbying.

This enables the event community to come together as one voice, responding to a range of opportunities or issues into which all sides of the industry have an important input. 

It also enables members access to several cross-association working groups, networking events, conferences, forums and industry research.

EIA

The alliance gives us and our members the opportunity to influence key initiatives and changes that can have a direct impact upon the whole sector.

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Association of Event Venues (AEV) is a vibrant, effective and highly professional trade body that serves an established event venue community. 

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Event Supplier and Services Association (ESSA) is a trade association representing contractors and suppliers of goods and services to the exhibition industry.  

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Please make sure your customers know to read the small print before signing anything. Your exhibitors may be targeted by companies claiming to be, or work with, your organisation. They may use your event branding to appear genuine. 

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NEWS

  • When I set up Raccoon, the first thing I did was join the AEO. The mentoring programme and the opportunity to network was invaluable at a time when I really needed and valued peer-to-peer advice. The working groups are incredibly invaluable, the advocacy and insight is important and the networking is essential. If you have an events business you really need to be in the AEO.
    Mike Seaman
    CEO, Raccoon Media Group
  • As a small and independent events organiser membership of the AEO is essential to our business. The industry intelligence and access to guidance enables us to stay up to date and implement ever higher standards within our business without having to reinvent the wheel every time. Beyond that, the AEO membership is a community in the truest sense of the word and the support and engagement among the members is brilliant.
    Nicola Harrison
    Project Manager, MTA