Opening Doors & Venues

19/12/2025

🎄 As the year comes to a close, everyone here at Opening Doors & Venues would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to all of our Facebook followers and connections, our wonderful clients and of course, our incredible team for your continued support over this last year.
💫 Holiday Closure
We'll be taking a well-earned break over the festive period, closing at 5 pm on Monday 22 December 2025 and reopening at 9 am on Monday 5 January 2026.
💕 Whatever way you celebrate, we wish you and your loved ones a joyful festive season and a happy, healthy new year.
🙏 Thank you for being part of our journey. We can't wait to see you in 2026!

19/12/2025

13/12/2025

We spent two wonderful days in for the Excellence Awards 2025, hugging, chatting, exchanging 'war stories' with friends and peers - we've been involved with ABPCO for well over a decade and this event is one of the highlights of our year. Lunchtime award ceremonies might be unusual, but we make it sparkling and glamorous ✨🌟✨

It was the biggest awards event we've ever had AND double special, is was Heather's farewell ❤️ Mrs ABPCO, aka Heather Lishman, taking early retirement - after 14 remarkable years of leadership as association director - was not on our bingo cards for 2025 & we just had to send her off in style!

Triple special was our nomination for the the Best Partnership award, in recognition of our ongoing collaboration with MeetCambridge - long may it continue! It's been 10 years since we entered the awards, so we were delighted to be shortlisted 🎉🥳

looked after us perfectly!

some proper professional pics by , others by us or the ABPCO 💪🤳

04/12/2025

Next week we'll be heading to the ABPCO Excellence Awards, where we're finalists alongside Meet Cambridge in the Best Partnership category!

Here at OD&V, we're strong advocates of the work that ABPCO does to support our industry, and we couldn't be more honoured to go to the event and celebrate all that's good about our community of PCOs, suppliers and venues.

Reflecting on the nomination, we have been thinking more about the impact of business relationships and the benefits that they bring to organisations and, in turn, to our clients.

So what's the story of our nomination? Take a look at our latest blog to find out!

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https://www.opening-doors.org.uk/news-and-blog/125-when-expertise-aligns-the-story-behind-our-abpco-award-nomination

14/11/2025

Where have 4 months gone?!

Thank you for the very kind words Congress on Family Law & Children's Rights 🤩🙏

29/05/2025

How would you go about choosing a professional conference organiser for your next event? What questions would you ask? What do you need to prepare before you start looking? Do you know what services you might need? Our latest blog will give you lots of pointers and a handy 'shopping list' to get you started 😀

https://opening-doors.org.uk/news-and-blog/118-how-to-choose-the-right-professional-conference-organiser-pco-for-your-event

24/04/2025

Did you know that we work with a team of freelance project managers who assist with a range of tasks on our clients' conferences? Today, we're introducing Charlotte, she's a whizz at building conference websites and an EventsAir genius. Charlotte also helps us on-site with too many things to mention! Quite simply, she's a superstar! ⭐️

17/04/2025

As we do our final cross-checks, we're reflecting on the amazing Synuclein 2025 meeting last week in Cambridge. It was a privilege to be tasked with bringing this event to life. The OD&V team worked with a great committee of local organisers and the scientific committee to welcome over 400 delegates to last week. Here's our round-up!

10/03/2025

Here's what ChaptGPT said about conference trends for 2025 and beyond - some of this we're seeing already at Opening Doors & Venues Limited, and there are some in the top ten that we see as essential - what are your thoughts? Have you used any of the technologies mentioned?

https://www.opening-doors.org.uk/news-and-blog/117-what-s-trending-in-2025-and-beyond-for-conferences

18/02/2025

Introducing a member of our incredible support team, Celia. A valued member of the wider Opening Doors & Venues team, Celia is known for her wizardry with abstract management and programme planning...she's amazing at everything else too!

17/02/2025

We're so thankful to the committee who have made such huge strides in bringing this conference together in many different ways and in building such an exciting programme. 🙏🙏🙏