Rick Stainton
Rick Stainton
Rick Stainton is Group Executive Director at Smyle, winners of UK Event Agency of the Year 7 times in the last 13 years (including 2020) and One Industry One Voice founder & spokesperson for their #WeCreateExperiences campaign. One Industry One Voice is a coalition of businesses and trade associations from across all the core sectors of the events industry, seeking a road map from the government to kickstart planning for the return of live events.
Why reopening the events industry is critical to the UK’s economic recovery

Why reopening the events industry is critical to the UK’s economic recovery

Rick Stainton
Dec 8 '20
The UK’s world-leading 84bn events industry has been one of the sectors hardest hit by coronavirus, having been effectively shut down since March.