Winners of ‘Story Gives Back’ Announced
Without further ado we are delighted to announce the following 6 winning event suppliers from our Story Gives Back initiative. They will each recieve a free stand at the London Summer Event Show to help showcase their offering to the London events market. You can visit these and many more at the next London Summer Event Show. Click here to register for your free ticket to the event.
What We Do: Laid back hearty southern street food that will fill your boots and feed your soul!
Future Aspirations: To bring the biggest baddest bluegrass, banjo pickin, haystack hoppin, knees-up hoedown, old southern shindig festival to the English countryside.
Website: www.bluegrassbills.com
What We Do: A social enterprise that supply handcrafted chocolates to the corporate sector (including logo printed chocolates). Our mission is to craft the most delicious chocolates that create employment for young people with autism. A total number of 217 people have benefitted through direct employment, free work experience and other support. Finally, 60% of our profits go towards improving lives of people with autism.
Future Aspirations: As a small and young company, we sometime find it difficult to get into the corporate sector. We hope to become a substantial player in the UK Chocolate industry through our strategy of “Great Product Great Cause”.
Website: www.harryschocs.co.uk
3. JOY PAD BAR
What We Do: We started out hosting our own retro gaming events almost 3 years ago, but this year we have launched our private hire service. Joypad Arcade offers you the opportunity to create your own, fully customised, retro-gaming set-up – almost anywhere, for pretty much any reason! You might be looking to liven up a major commercial event, or just re-live some old favourites with a few friends; either way, we have options to suit all types of event.
Future Aspirations: We’d really like to start doing work at more festivals, corporate and private events. We’d also one day like to open our own bar and private hire work will give us the cashflow to make that a reality.
Website: www.joypadbar.co.uk
4. VITS & KICKS
What We Do: Launched summer 2016, we provide a mobile pop-up bar offering a selection of fresh fruit and vegetable juiced cocktails served up with a kick… Alcohol! All of our drinks contain no added sugars, sweeteners or preservatives.
Future Aspirations: To gain consistent bookings over the course of the next year especially from the corporate market. Then hopefully onwards and upwards!
Website: www.vitsandkicks.co.uk
What We Do: The inspiration behind Nonna’s Gelato all began 85 years ago with one wonderful, little Italian woman, our Nonna! We’ve learnt all we can from our Nonna and plowed our Italian heritage combined with our love of seasonal, local produce into something quite special. Our gelato is an Italian/British fusion (like us!), combining the traditional Italian process of making gelato with only the best of British and Italian produce. You’ll often find us at local markets across London, scooping from our very beautiful, old-fashioned tricycle which adds something very unique to any event!
Future Aspirations: Growing everyday, we’ve been hired for some very special events this year but would like to see us tripling the amount of event bookings next year and rolling out a whole fleet of our very pretty tricycles to spread the gelato amore further.
Website: www.nonnasgelato.com
6. KATHERINE MILLS MAGICIAN + MENTALIST
Event Offering: The first woman magician to gain her own prime-time show in the UK with ‘Katherine Mills: Mind Games’, Katherine’s a marvel of modern magic-making. Unanimously accepted into that ever-mysterious, mostly-male institution, The Magic Circle, Katherine is a true modern – a strong woman creating her own style of contemporary magic and mentalism.
Website: www.katherinemills.co.uk
