Events

Building Partnerships

The PCA recently hosted its annual Business Conference at the Brit Oval on the 24th April. Now in its second year, the event attracted over 300 delegates from a wide variety of backgrounds and industries and 27 exhibiting companies.

The aim of the conference was to promote the benefits of building partnerships between business and sport, denonstrating to the delegates how each could influence and benefit the other.

Speakers included Sir John Major, Martin Bell, the former BBC Foreign Affairs Correspondent, actor and Prince’s Trust Ambassador Colin Salmon, Vodafone’s Chief Executive Gavin Darby, Simon Meade – the former senior director of the Red Arrows, Dr Steve Bull – the Team England psychologist and David Ford, the former Chief Executive of Regus, while the role of MC was taken by John Inverdale.

The event’s sponsors, Regus, Vodafone, Jardine Lloyd Thompson, Accenture, Lees Lloyd Whitley, the Financial Times, Volkswagen and Cricinfo, are all companies who have already recognised the benefits of building partnerships with sport and embracing sporting principles.

The day was a great success and the PCA hopes that the Annual Conference will continue to grow and flourish as we look forward to repeating the event in 2007.

Under the hammer

The PCA Benevolent fund was kindly given the opportunity to raise money by holding an auction at the Financial Director’s Excellence Awards on 6th April at the Hilton, Park Lane.

Bob ‘the cat’ Bevan was the ever entertaining auctioneer for the night, which helped raise over £8,000 for the Fund. The PCA would like to thank Mike Bokaie and his team at Caspian Publishing for this fundraising opportunity.

PCA Events Calendar

Click on the image on the left for the 2006 PCA Calendar of Events.