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Seventeen Events launches BS8901 compliance system

Lorraine Francisco, 06 November 2008

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Seventeen Events has launched an online system to help organisers achieve the corporate social responsibility standard BS8901.

 

Eventberry allows users to manage its relationships with suppliers, stakeholders, internal and external clients. The system helps an organiser by prompting them with questions and hints that helps to establish the tracking necessary to make sure a user is BS8901 compliant.

Users also receive regular email updates and a centralised supplier database that allows them to manage all event information.

One of its first clients was The MS Society who signed up to the system to ensure it was BS8901 compliant for its recent AGM.

There are no formulas, periodic tables or spreadsheets involved in using Eventberry and over time it will create a master document that outlines a compliance to BS8901.

"If we can make it easier for organisations to manage their data, and make it easier to gain compliance to BS8901 by organising that data properly, it's a win-win situation for everyone." said Seventeen Events managing director Andrew Williams.


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James Durrant - 06 November 2008

Not wanting to 'splash' on anyone's bonfire but in order to apply the BS8901 standard you need to have applied and be accredited with the BS9001 first. Further the wording of the article is somewhat misleading because BS8901 is not yet a standard in use as it has not been finalised and currently there are NO organisation in the UK accredited with the standard.

Always a challenge for the publisher checking the PR's facts...

Andrew Williams - 07 November 2008

Hi James, and thanks for your comment.

 

While I'm always happy to discuss the nuances of BS8901 I'm afraid your point here is fundamentally mistaken. You do not need to apply to anyone or be "accredited" by anyone in order to use BS8901 or claim compliance to it. To quote the standard itself:

 

"Claiming compliance with this standard

An organization shall be deemed to have complied with this standard if

it has met all relevant requirements in Clauses 5 to 13.

Claims of partial compliance, e.g. to Phase 1 in preparation for an event, may also be made.

NOTE 1 British Standards are worded to enable compliance to be

verified by the first party (the organization), second party (stakeholders)

or an independent third party (such as a certification body)."

 

It is also not correct to say that the standard is not in use or has not been finalised – BS8901 was launched on the 12th November 2007 and several organisations (including Seventeen) have claimed compliance from that date.

 

You may be getting confused between compliance and certification. The certification process is still being trialled, but again it is not true to say that "No organisations in the UK [are] accredited" – indeed, our friends at Organise This announced this week that their management system has been certified, and we and the MS Society will follow suit once the certification process has been finalised.

 

The MS Society deserve tremendous praise for the efforts they have gone to in making their events more sustainable and BS8901 has been invaluable in that process.

 

If you, or anyone else, would like further clarification on this or would like to discuss this further, please feel free to get in touch with me any time – andrew@seventeenevents.co.uk or 020 7515 8402.

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