Making Stadium Venues Covid-Secure
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Stadium venues are the ideal Covid-secure settings for your meeting and event needs. The existing infrastructure and facilities in place at stadium venues, mean that adapting their unique spaces for your meetings, conferences and events comes as second nature.
How Are Venues Making Their Spaces Covid‑Secure?
Stadium venues offer substantial space, making events with social distancing easily achievable in line with the latest Government guidelines. You could use a selection of smaller rooms or spread out in larger suites. Many rooms also have partitions, which can be opened to create even more space if required. Venues have been exploring and implementing a number safety measures ready for their re-opening such as increased cleaning programmes throughout the day, GDPR compliant track and trace facilities, socially distanced tables and seating, one-way systems to access the facilities, increased signage and floor-markings, wearing masks in appropriate public areas, increasing anti-bacterial hand gel stations throughout the facilities and much more. Ask your venue for details of the measures they are taking to make their venues safer from Coronavirus Covid-19.
Covid-Secure Accreditations
Many venues are working towards accreditations to demonstrate they are a Covid-secure venue, such as the Visit Britain ‘We’re Good To Go’ scheme or the MIA AIM Secure standard. Ask your venue if they have specialist accreditations and ask to see their plans and processes that have been put in place to keep you and your delegates safer. Look out for the Visit Britain and MIA Covid-secure venue logos on our stadium venue pages.
Read more about how Stadium Experience and the MIA are working in partnership.
How Can Technology Help Your Event?
Technology has also been playing a part, meaning you could now have events linking different rooms in the same stadium or across different venues. This is a particularly good solution for those shielding or unable to attend in person, meaning these delegates can now join these new style ‘hybrid’ events and not miss out.
Technology is also assisting event planners with site-visits and show-rounds in advance of their event. Why not take a full tour of the facilities and view how they now look in a socially distanced layout by viewing the latest venue images, videos and 3D tours? You can also share these resources with your delegates so they know what to expect on arrival. Read more about 3D Tours of stadium venues.
What Catering Will Be On Offer?
The award-winning stadium chef teams have been busy creating and developing new catering offerings ready for your event. Options include both hot and cold pre-wrapped delicacies which can be delivered in sealed boxes in a socially distanced manner. Whilst these offerings are different to what you may have experience at events before Covid-19, this doesn’t mean the quality is compromised in any way. Read more about safe menus at Chelsea FC.
Smaller Spaces For Hire
Stadium venues offer a wide variety of flexible spaces. These unique venues also offer many smaller spaces for hire for smaller meetings, or even to let as office space. Executive Boxes used for entertaining prestigious guests on a match-day, can also be hired for your business needs. This could be by the hour, day, week or even on a longer term letting arrangement. Read more about hiring stadium executive boxes.
Outside Spaces For Hire
Some stadium venues offer pitch hire outside of their main sporting season for your own matches, concerts, other sporting competitions and more. Some stadium venues also have fan zones and car park areas available for hire for events such as pop-up restaurants and bars, NHS testing and donor services, drive-in cinemas and concerts and much more. If you’d like to find out more about hiring an outside space at a stadium, please click on your chosen stadium from the list at the end of this blog.
Many events will have a new look and feel going forward, and have many measures in place to give you the confidence that your venue is socially distanced and as Covid-secure as possible. Whether it’s a meeting, induction and training sessions, office space rentals or celebration parties, stadium venues really can cater for your every need and space requirements.
