Award-winning Creative Event Agency of the Year Accolade.

Drive Productions were honoured to be awarded the ‘Highly Commended’ title for Creative Event Agency of the Year at the Event Awards 2010.

Last year we were finalists in the category, so it’s a real boost to do even better in 2010. The judges were clearly impressed by the three events we put forward for consideration – the pop-up ‘Alpine Experience’ for The Clubhouse Shoreditch, the Bloomberg TV Studio launch and the Emeralds and Ivy Ball for Cancer Research UK. We felt that all three of these events showcased our range of creative talents – and the judges appear to agree!

The Creative Event Agency category is open to all agencies that have produced three or more creative events in the qualification period that have ‘exceeded all of the brief’s expectations in terms of guest feedback, innovation, client satisfaction (and) brand perception’ – so we were in the company of some stiff competition. Celebrating experiential, creative and live events, the Event Awards are an important fixture on the industry calendar and we’re delighted to receive recognition for our contribution to design and production service standards.

A finalist in this category last year, Drive Productions has once again had a great 12 months – and this time has achieved a highly commended recognition.

Event Magazine

Well Done and Congratulations on your High Commendation at the Event Awards 2010! I hope you enjoyed your evening and we do hope you will be joining us next year!

Chantal Kerr-Sheppard

Event Awards Team

Drive take a punt in Cambridge

 

Scudamore’s Punting Company Cambridge recently celebrated its 100th birthday at a glittering event at Cambridge and Newmarket Polo Club.

 Drive Productions made sure the 250 VIP guests, staff and former employees gathered to pay homage to the punting world’s ‘Grande Dame of the Cam’ enjoyed a proper party in vintage style, with a festival atmosphere made up of food and drink stalls and a Centenary line-up featuring world-class entertainment with cabaret, live music and DJs including Miss Behave, Olivier award-winning host of the West End hit extravaganza ‘La Clique’.

 The Centenary Party also launches a year of special events to commemorate the golden age of punting from the Victorian era to the present day, with a historic programme of events unrolling throughout 2011.

 For those of you who don’t know a ‘punt’ when you see one, these unusual flat-bottomed boats were introduced to Cambridge as pleasure craft in Edwardian times. One of the pioneers of punt hire on the River Cam was a Mr F. Scudamore, who founded his business in 1910, quickly establishing punting as Cambridge’s favourite pastime. Proud owner James Macnaghten and MD Rod Ingersent took over the helm – or rather the ‘pole’ – in 1998 and the business has gone from strength to strength.

 James Macnaghten says, ‘Over the last 100 years Scudamore’s has survived two world wars and numerous recessions. Scudamore’s started as a family business and we are now back as a family business.  Tonight is to say thank you to all of you for helping to make it possible’.

 Today, Scudamore’s Punting Company owns the world’s largest fleet of punts, with over 150 craft available for hire along two routes.