Wacky Winter Wear comes to Conference Roehampton

The green fingered ladies in the conference office have just returned from their Green Impact team meeting bursting with amusing ideas to raise awareness of environmental issues across campus with today’s focus being heating. I nearly fell of my chair when I found out our annual utilities bill was nearly £1.4 million, but what can our little group do about this we all muttered…“lots” Anna our team leader encouraged us.

After gobbling up Alina’s Jamie Oliver chocolate brownies (with fairtrade chocolate of course) we began to brainstorm. Finally, after lots of giggles, gasps and ‘I am not doing that(‘s)!’ the team decided to join forces with AgeUK who are running a campaign called ‘spread the warmth’ and at Conference Roehampton we intend on doing just that.

The idea is; instead of turning up the thermostat in the office to ward off the cold winter weather everyone has to wear something warm and in our case something fun. We are calling it “wacky winter wear”. It’s a simple idea that I am sure is going to provide lots of laughs. We are going to combine this with a afternoon bake sale to raise some important pennies for AgeUK.

This is the opportunity I have been waiting for to buy a onesie, now I just have to decide if it will be a Spiderman one or an dinosaur… choices, choices, choices! Our Assistant Director pipes up in the meeting that he already has a onesie - “it’s called a wet suit!” as long as it’s warm Tim, I can’t wait to see you rock it!

Don’t you worry there will be plenty of onesie photos coming your way.

Competition Time

It has been a busy few weeks here at Conference Roehampton after making the decision to enter our two fabulous venues Parkstead House and Grove House as well as our wonderful ‘Grove House Fairy Godmother’ Carla Simmons into The 2013 Wedding Industry Awards.

After a grand total of 30 weddings over the past 12 months it seemed like a fantastic opportunity to celebrate the relationships we have built with all of our newlyweds, and relationships we have certainly built! The support we have received from all our couples from the past twelve months has been fantastic and after realising that our emails were not spam(!) our Brides and Grooms came on board and we are so grateful that they all took the time to give us their vote.

As all of our 30 couples approach their first Christmas as Mr & Mrs we would like to say for one final time “congratulations and we are so glad you chose to create such happy and important memories at our historical venues”. A big thank you also from our Grove House Fairy Godmother Carla Simmons and her little pumpkin. It was lovely to see that you think she is as brilliant as we do!

Watch this space for more news on how we do in the awards. Forget ‘Battle of the Bands’ its all about ‘Battle of the Venues’ as our sister sites Grove House & Parkstead House go head to head!