Check out this fantastic case study about Balfour Beatty’s Innovation 2050 launch organised by Venues & Events International and held at our award-winning Westminster venue, One Great George Street. It is a really good example of how to harness the latest technological innovations and integrate them seamlessly into your event. Claire Battles from Balfour Beatty certainly appreciated the outcome…
I was honoured to meet HRH The Duke of Kent on Tuesday 7th February 2017 when he visited our innovative accessible entrance lift provider, Sesame Access Systems Ltd. The visit was to celebrate Sesame Access winning The Queens Award for Enterprise in Innovation 2016. The Duke unveiled a specially commissioned plaque to commemorate the visit, and was accompanied by HM Lord Lieutenant of Surrey, Michael More-Molyneux.
Meet our award-winning kitchen team featured above celebrating the last working day of 2016 in London’s recently crowned ‘Best Private Dining Venue’, One Great George Street. Standing from top left to right is Charlene Basan – Head Chef, Joey Castro – Kitchen Porter, Bayani Balba – Kitchen Porter, Kamila Hajduk – Chef de Partie and David Wilkinson – Executive Chef. Seated from bottom left to right is Roberto Timbreza – Kitchen Porter, Oren Grant – Sous Chef, Marian Gal – Chef de Partie and Judith France – Lead Chef de Partie. A big thank you also goes to our Lead Sous Chef Amanda Staunton.
The company behind our Grade II listed building’s accessible entrance lift, Sesame Access, was invited to Buckingham Palace on Thursday 14th July 2016 to meet The Queen and to celebrate winning the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in Innovation 2016.
Our congratulations go to Charlie Lyons (Chairman) and Alison Lyons (Director of Commercial Development) who attended the Reception on behalf of Sesame Access.
Members of the Royal Family attending the reception with The Queen included The Duke of Edinburgh, The Princess Royal, Princess Eugenie of York, The Duke of Gloucester, the Duke of Kent and Prince and Princess Michael of Kent.
Fantastic news! Sesame Access Systems Limited, the innovative company behind our main entrance accessible lift (see below), has won the Queen’s Award for Enterprise 2016 in the Innovation category.