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Corporate Christmas
Celebrate the festive season in the region
The Christmas holidays are almost upon us once more, which means it’s time to book your office Christmas party. And with a range of incredible options available in the Midlands, it will be easy to celebrate the festive season in style.
The summer holidays seem like a distant memory, the nights are drawing in, and your thoughts may be turning to organising a Christmas celebration for your staff. When it comes to organising a Christmas party, time is of the essence and good organisational skills are a must – but don’t worry, as the East Midlands plays host to a variety of stunning venues and exciting options to help you organise the best celebration yet. If you don’t have time to handle
the planning process yourself, it would be prudent to appoint a member of staff to take care of the logistical details such as sorting venue confirmation, organising the menu and transport and confirming the numbers. It is vital to make sure your guests are given plenty of notice as diaries can fill up quickly in the run up to the holiday season. Business owners will need to
decide on the guest list and the most appropriate setting. A dinner and disco might serve as a great way to reward staff for a year’s worth of hard work, while a more formal setting might be better if the guest list will comprise of clients and customers. Additionally, an elegant lunch or drinks reception could provide the perfect opportunity to network and make contacts for the New Year. The next step is to secure the
venue. Traditionally, a Christmas party takes the form of dinner and entertainment at a local hotel or restaurant, organised by the venue. This kind of party can offer great value for money, especially as many hotels offer both private and shared party options. But when it comes to revelling in the festive season, your celebration can be as
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traditional or as unusual as best fitting your organisation. Edgbaston Park Hotel and
Conference Centre, just two miles from Birmingham city centre, is offering a range of options to suit every budget, including festive Christmas lunches, shared party nights or private dining options. Located in the heart of the city centre, the Macdonald Burlington Hotel’s private party nights promise to be the epitome of style, allowing you and your guests to dress to impress and celebrate with a three-course festive meal, novelties and DJ. A masquerade ball, held at Lea
Marston Hotel, in Sutton Coldfield, will certainly add a touch of glamour to your Christmas party. From your red carpet arrival and the glamorous magic mirror photo both to the three-course dinner and disco, this black-tie event will help you ring out the year in style. Of course, for a lot of businesses,
December isn’t necessarily a good time to take time out. End-of-year meetings or conferences may take precedence – but this Christmas, St Johns hotel, in Solihull, allows businesses to mix business and pleasure.
‘A dinner and disco might serve as a great way to reward staff for a year’s worth of hard work, while a more formal setting might be better if the guest list will comprise of clients and customers’
As well as Christmas joiner
parties and festive dinners (for those not too confident on the dance floor) St Johns is organising Meeting, Stay and Party private hire VIP experiences. As soon as your meeting is complete, your staff can immediately get into party mode - rates include catered full-day meeting and conference facilities followed by a festive dinner and overnight accommodation. For those of you that don’t have
a second to spare this December, The Arden Hotel, in Solihull, has organised festive party nights, complete with a three-course dinner and dinner right through until early January, ensuring that no one need miss out on the fun. Of course, not every business will have the means or the time
A masquerade ball will add a touch of glamour
available to organise a party. However, this does not mean that you or your staff should miss out on the festivities, as there are a number of alternative options available. If a dinner and a disco isn’t you
thing, the George Hotel, in Lichfield, has organised a range of exciting Christmas workshop and activities. This year’s activities include wreath making, festive flower arranging, and a Christmas Voices concert. Loki Wines is inviting wine aficionados to Christmas wine & spirits fair, to be held this year at Birmingham’s city centre’s Malmaison Hotel Mailbox. Up to 300 different wines and spirits will be shown, along with award- winning cheeses from Anderson & Hill available to sample and purchase. Finally, for something completely
different, why not opt for a workplace trip to the theatre? The pantomime has long been a staple of the festive season, and this year the Lichfield Garrick theatre is staging Dick Whittington from 29 November, while Sleeping Beauty, starring Debbie McGee and Richard Cadell (and Sooty), will be entertaining audiences from 8 December.
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