There has been a lot of talk recently surrounding dodgy suppliers popping up to take advantage of the high demand on event supplies over the Olympic period. The issue of “back street” suppliers is always there when people decide to hold an event and this option can seem all the more appealing when budgets are [...]

“The UK events sector is well set to play a pivotal role in facilitating economic growth and added employment by showcasing Britain as a world class destination for international conferences and trade shows, as well as staging its great sporting and cultural events and festivals.” Michael Hirst Chairman of the Business Visits and Events Partnership [...]

With summer in full swing (although you wouldn’t be able to tell), The Old Library is now entering its busiest season of the year with many brides madly preparing for their big day. If you want to get a head of the game there are lots of tools out there for you to start gathering [...]

  Back in April of this year, The Old Library played host to the wedding of Tony and Nisha. We began working with the couple at the beginning of January and with less than three months to go, got straight into organising their big day. Nisha gave us a brief of ‘Indian wedding without being [...]

  The summer has begun! And it kicked off in serious style this year at The Old Library, with Diesel’s Island Disco – beginning  their ‘Diesel School of Island Life Project – a series of lessons, field trips and parties featuring inspiring industry experts from creative and cultural fields’ (Mr Hudson being one to grace [...]

Here at Custard Factory Spaces, one thing we pride ourselves on is making events that can often be boring and mundane in other venues, fun, experiential, interactive and memorable. A perfect example of this would be the Mars Conference, held late last year. Mars approached us with a brief to create a full site, interactive [...]

2011 is looking incredibly busy for events at The Old Library, with a string of beautiful weddings and swish corporate events ahead of us. We kicked off the spring with a fabulous event for Umberto Giannini’s local west midlands salons. Having used the space previously for their yearly awards ceremony, the event organisers at Umberto [...]

The notion of an interesting and inspiring office space is a totally alien thought for most office workers who would generally associate their work space with words such as mundane, boring, dreary, and dull. Could spaces that are thought of by workers with negative descriptions result in a lack of motivation at work? Physical space [...]