Benefit

Policy

What is the government’s thinking on events and how you can benefit? How can the regional development agencies help you? What are the roles of events for city policymakers? You will hear from DCMS, DCSF, the LDA, NWDA, Manchester City Council and Leeds City Council.

Practice

How do you put on an event? Involve communities and volunteers? Help excluded young people to participate? We’ve got the FA , Arsenal and North Liverpool Positive Futures, Supporter to Reporter, v and others to work with you about how it’s done.

How can we make cultural events open and generate participation? Use sports events to manage conflict? Come along and hear from Leap: Confronting Conflict, Cornerhouse, Youth Music and the Northwest Culture Observatory.

Can we use IT and venues more effectively? Hear from international speakers - Catalytic Communities from Brazil and Sydney University.

And how do you go about organising an event for the most marginalised – the homeless? We’ll hear from the England Homeless World Cup Team.

Research

What are the lessons from previous major events for deriving wider benefits in future ones? We’ll hear from leading researchers, from Toronto, Sydney, Fluminese and Liverpool Universities… and from substance.

How do we better evaluate events and understand their impacts? We’ve got practical advice from key researchers at Sheffield Hallam University, substance and Cardiff University to help us all do this more effectively.

And imagine organising events in war torn Israel and Palestine - the Football for Peace programme organised by Brighton University does just that.

We don’t want to focus solely on mega events – much work suggests smaller, more local events can have more of an impact. Learn more from PMP, Manchester FA and FC United.