London Corporate Dinner Event
A corporate dinner event at one of London’s top city hotels.
A McDonald's People Conference
A conference for all the people managers from McDonald’s across the UK.
McDonald’s obviously employs thousands of people across the UK to run its restaurants, and each of those restaurants is looked after by managers and those managers are looked after by area managers, as you would expect in a business of its size.
I was invited along to photograph a conference for these people in Milton Keynes, where they talked about what was working for the business and what they are planning for the future, as well as doing some fun team-building activities. They even capped it off with a sit-down dinner and party in the evening which featured a great quiz run by a chap in a very colourful suit indeed!
Here are some of my favourite images from the conference.
Elvis, Audrey, Marilyn and Friends
A fun fancy-dress party for EF at Ashridge House.
I’m not sure exactly what the theme for this party was, to be completely honest, but I think it was the 1930’s to 1960’s, because there were people dressed up as Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley and people from Grease. Whatever the theme was for this party for the staff at EF’s business school at Ashridge, it was another great EF party.
The costumes were great and the atmosphere was lively to say the least. The setting was the beautiful Ashridge House, but as an evening event later in the year, it was all inside after dark. There was a flashmob, a dance from the management team and some excellent shapes thrown on the dance floor after dinner.
The images hopefully do it justice.
Celebrating Long Serving Staff
The London Clinic celebrated its long-serving staff with these awards.
Organisations of any kind are nothing without their people. They are what make a business tick. They make stuff happen, they create an atmosphere and work culture, and they push things forward.
Every industry and organisation is different, and staff turnover is unavoidable, but you can tell a great place to work by the number of people who have been there for many years. The London Clinic is one of those places, and they celebrate their long-serving staff members with an awards ceremony, which I was invited along to photograph at the Royal College of Physicians on the South East corner of Regents Park.
The people at the London Clinic, of whom I have now met a lot, are all lovely. I think you have to be to look after patients every day. Their warmth and positivity is clear to all upon meeting them. It’s great that the organisation celebrates its people, and here are some of my favourite images from the evening.
