Global warming and the effects on the environment have been a big talking point of late with more urgency to do more to protect our environment. Public awareness is now at an all-time high and without action will be greater consequences.
At Millennium Point we are passionate about supporting the environment best we can and therefore have launched a new sustainability program with several systems in place to reduce our carbon and ecological footprints. We understand how the smallest of changes to the day to day running of the business can benefit and protect the environment.
Each week we will be posting a new blog to show the different ways we can make a difference so keep an eye out for that.
To support our sustainability program, we are delighted to announce that we have signed up to the #20percentless campaign with the Meetings Industry Association (MIA). The main objective of the #20percentless campaign is to eliminate single-use plastics from your organisation by 2025. You will find us on the MIA’s Pledge Wall.
We are passionate about doing our bit with the removal of plastic straws, stirrers, cutlery and using refillable glass bottles in our meeting rooms replacing the plastic ones. Our mission moving forward is to remove even more plastic from our organisation.
It’s important to be aware of how you can contribute to helping the environment with the removal of plastics. Please see below some of the actions you can take to make a difference in day to day living and in the workplace. We understand a full solution to the environment’s issues can’t be addressed overnight but we are pushing hard to make Millennium Point more greener and make a difference. We look forward to the journey ahead.
For more information or to join The Pledge please click here.
We are delighted to announce a NEW SPECIAL OFFER with 20% OFF* all room hire for events taking place between 1st January and the 31st March 2020.
Millennium Point is an award winning iconic landmark and a unique venue in the continuously developing city of Birmingham. Our city centre location is easily accessible with New Street Station and other city centre transport links only a short walk away. We also have an on-site multi-story car park available if you wish to drive to the venue.
With state-of-the-art facilities, a 354 seated giant screen auditorium and public & private event spaces, our goal is to make your event a winner with a number of packages to best suit your needs.
That’s not all – a percentage of your booking will fund our charitable work supporting science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) within the region.
For a detailed run through on each of our event spaces simply click below or call 0121 202 2200 to talk with the Millennium Point team.
Please note this offer will expire on the 31st December.
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Singing sensations G4 are set to bring the festive spirit to Millennium Point with a free-to-attend set of Christmas classics.
Our first ever Christmas celebrations are being taken up a notch with the announcement that G4 will be giving a free performance at Millennium Point in Birmingham city centre.
The operatic four-piece, who rose to fame on the original series of X Factor, will perform in the ground floor atrium of our landmark public building under our 39-ft Christmas tree between midday and 2 pm on December 10th.
The group will take to the stage at Birmingham Town Hall for a highly anticipated show the same evening, with fans able to get a sneak preview as part of Millennium Point’s Christmas events schedule.
Fans of the group and lovers of all things Christmas are welcome to join us for an early afternoon treat, where they are sure to hear incredible renditions of festive classics.
Rebecca Delmore, Commercial Director for Millennium Point says “Our beautiful tree and decorations will add to the atmosphere for what should be a special event at Millennium Point.”
G4 reunited in 2014 after disbanding in 2007, with the release of their first post-reunion album ‘G4 Christmas’ followed by a Christmas tour, a tradition which has continued and grown in the years since.
The latest tour, including the Birmingham Town Hall show, takes in 28 shows across the country in the run-up to Christmas.
The multi-platinum selling group will be showcasing a new line-up at Millennium Point consisting of Jonathan Ansell, Mike Christie, Lewis Raines and new bass singer Duncan Sandilands.
Mike Christie, baritone singer, said: “It’s always wonderful to return to Birmingham, as the audiences are incredible.
“We can’t wait to join in with the celebrations at Millennium Point before heading to our Christmas show at the iconic Town Hall.”
Reserve your free ticket now by visiting this page, you can check out our full Christmas programme on our dedicated page. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram @millenniumpoint and share your Christmas photos at Millennium Point with #mpchristmas for a chance to win £50 in Amazon vouchers.
Millennium Point is an award-winning venue and landmark public building with commercial profits being invested back into the Millennium Point Charitable Trust which supports science, tech, engineering and maths (STEM) and education in the West Midlands.
The Millennium Point Trust and MPPL Annual General Meeting will take place on the 16th December from 1pm, in Connect on Level 2.
Download the signed MPPL AGM Notice
Download the signed MPT AGM Notice
The first-ever Christmas celebrations at landmark Birmingham venue Millennium Point are officially underway.
BBC Radio 2 Zoe Ball Breakfast show co-host Richie Anderson and BBC Midlands Today presenter Rebecca Wood were joined by Santa and staff at the Curzon Street site for a light switch-on event signalling the start of festivities.
The trio pushed the button to illuminate a 39-foot tall tree covered by 23,000 LED lights set up in the venue’s atrium.
Richie Anderson, who had been at Millennium Point rehearsing for his appearance on BBC Children in Need tonight, said: “Millennium Point is one of my favourite venues in Birmingham, the staff are all so wonderful and I hope they have a fantastic Christmas. The tree they have installed is beautiful and the whole building looks spectacular so I am very pleased to have been invited along for the switch-on event.”
A time-lapse video created by Millennium Point shows how the inside of the building has been transformed by the festive spectacle, installed by Birmingham based company The Christmas Decorators.
The process took more than twelve hours to complete and the tree will now form the backdrop for a range of upcoming Christmas events, all free to attend, including Santa family days and musical performances.
The outside of the Millennium Point building has also been illuminated by The Christmas Decorators, offering up a festive treat for visitors approaching Grand Central station.
Millennium Point has invested in a new renewable energy commitment ahead of the installation, to ensure the power usage while the tree is installed is as low as possible.
Abigail Vlahakis, Interim CEO at Millennium Point, said: “Having Richie, Rebecca and Santa join us for the switch-on event was a real pleasure and I am delighted with how everything looks. We are looking forward to welcoming families from across the city throughout Christmas. Celebrating Christmas in this way is something new for us and we are pleased to have got things underway with staff all getting together.”
Watch below as our Christmas lights were officially switched on.
A time-lapse video below shows the installation of Millennium Point’s tree.
Each week we’ll be giving away £50 Amazon vouchers for your best snaps and selfies at Millennium Point. Share your photos on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram tagging in @millenniumpoint with #MPChristmas for a chance to win!
Families in Birmingham can meet Santa for free as part of the first-ever Christmas celebrations at Millennium Point.
Three Santa Family Day events will be held in our atrium across the festive season under a 39-foot artificial tree, which is one of the biggest in the city and will be brought to life by more than 23,000 LED lights.
Each child will get to meet Santa, receive a gift and the opportunity to have their photo taken, as well as enjoying children’s entertainment provided for each of the days.
The family days form part of a series of events and activities to mark Christmas at Millennium Point, which will be more visible than usual for visitors approaching Grand Central station thanks to a major lighting project set to illuminate the side of the building.
Rebecca Delmore, Commercial Director at Millennium Point, said: “As this is the first time we have used our fantastic building to properly celebrate Christmas, we want families in Birmingham to come and see what we are all about.
“Aside from being a major venue in the city, we are also a charitable trust and are constantly working with our community to give back.
“Christmas is the perfect time to reach out to more people than ever before, we are inviting families to come along and meet Santa for free, have a photo taken and receive a gift.
“We have brought in one of the biggest trees in the city and will be lighting up the side of our building, we want to make this first Christmas celebration special and use it as a building block for future years.”
The Family Day events will take place on December 8th, 13th and 19th, with various musical, craft and festive events to be announced over the coming weeks.
To book a meet and greet with Santa, and see what else is happening, at Millennium Point, visit: www.millenniumpoint.org.uk/christmas but be quick as there are limited spaces available for each day. Tickets are timed and there will be a small queue during your slot allocation.
As a STEM charity, we love anything science, tech, engineering and maths – so you can imagine our faces lit up with child-like glee when we heard it was the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission this week!
In true Millennium Point style, we knew we had to celebrate one of the biggest achievements of the 20th century. We recruited our very own MP astronaut; you may know him, it was the wonderful Mat from the Marketing team; suiting up in the name of STEM.
From Millennium point we took one small step rather than a giant leap into Birmingham City centre to talk to the public about our fantastic events spaces and the Millennium Point Trust (we’re a charity, just in case you didn’t know) and last year alone donated £4.8 million back into STEM Projects in the West Midlands region. (Read about our small grants programme here).
Our astronaut’s day began by landing in our own auditorium, a whopping 350 seater space with a giant screen (many Brummies’ fondly remember it as the old IMAX theatre) – a space that’s perfect for film screenings, award ceremonies, conferences, lectures and AGM’s . We’ll be hosting the Birmingham Film Festival here in November. We then boldly went where many have gone before and headed down to platform. Connected directly to the auditorium with its own private bar, Platform is the perfect place for a party – time to bust some moves, moon walk anyone?
After a quick stop to see our friends over at Thinktank to check out their newly refurbished 4k planetarium and find out about their Moon Landing Party on Saturday 20th July, we caught the closest capsule into the city centre for a tour of Birmingham’s landmarks; stopping for selfies along the way.
It was great to get out, meet everyone and put the 50th anniversary of the Apollo mission on the radar of Birmingham.
We even got to hear a few stories from people who’d witnessed the launch first hand – one lovely lady out with her grandchild told us how she’d watched it at home with her mother and another lady recalling watching the launch and moon landing at school – the teachers wheeled in a TV and the class shared the momentous moment together!
If you grabbed a selfie with our astronaut we’d love to see it, tag us on social or share a story of your Apollo mission memory.
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We’re excited to announce we’ve been awarded AIM accreditation by the Meetings Industry Association (mia).
Aim accreditation is the UK’s only recognised quality standard for the meetings industry. To achieve this our facilities and services had to pass a stringent quality assurance assessment, which means that when you book our spaces you can be confident that we will do everything possible to reach and exceed your high standards.
Rebecca Delmore, Commercial Director, Millennium Point, said: “It’s fantastic testament to the highly experienced and dedicated team at Millennium Point that we have secured national AIM accreditation as it provides buyers a benchmark of the highest standard. We appreciate that it can sometimes be overwhelming as there are so many things to consider when planning an event from location to catering, photography, speakers, delegates and marketing. However, with our AIM accreditation, buyers can immediately feel confident they are working with dedicated and experienced professionals.”
Jane Longhurst, chief executive, the mia said: “We’re delighted that Millennium Point is the latest venue to secure AIM accreditation. The iconic status acts as a guarantee to buyers that they’re choosing a service provider that cares about best practice and actively strives to meet and exceed your expectations. With so many dedicated conference centres and hotels, sporting and academic venues to choose from nationwide, it offers a smart method to quality control your selections that could ultimately save you time, anxiety and reputational risk later down the line.”
If you’d like to talk to a member of our events team about holding your next event at Millennium Point, give them a call on 0121 202 2200 or email [email protected].
The list of speakers for DIDFest 2019 Finale Party have been announced and they’re a great mix of professional from across the digital/tech industry!
Following four weeks of 50 outstanding events across Birmingham with over 1,000 attendees #DIDFest2019 wraps up with a celebratory closing party at Millennium Point in Birmingham City Centre. Whether you attended any events or not as part of the festival this event will give you valuable insight, skills and tools to help you grow in digital and tech.
Meet the speakers
Dr. Charlotte Webb, co-founder of the Feminist Internet & Founding Director of Even
Nominated by the Evening Standard as one of the most influential people in Technology and Science in London in 2018 Dr. Webb has been featured by a wide range of media platforms and presented at TedX, Internet Age Media and Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity among many others.
Co-founder of the Feminist Internet, an ambitious non-profit advancing internet equalities for women and other marginalised groups through creative, critical practice and Founding Director of Even, an ethical tech consultancy that brings Feminist Internet intelligence to brands and businesses; Dr Webb brings a wealth of knowledge of the industry to DIDFest 2019.
https://twitter.com/otheragent?lang=en-gb | https://twitter.com/feministintrnet
Mac Alonge, CEO of The Equal Group
Over the last 10 years, Mac has worked with and for some of the world’s largest private and public sector organisations, including the likes of KPMG, National Grid, Capita and the Scottish and UK governments. Throughout his career, Mac has observed that there are numerous barriers within the workplace that prevent organisations from truly reaping the benefits that come from embracing greater levels of equality, diversity and inclusion. Mac’s mission is to ensure that the current generation leaves a legacy whereby equality and inclusion are the new ‘norm’ and differences are respected and valued.
“As we move towards being a digital economy, the digital sector will be responsible for shaping how we live our lives in the medium to long term – diversity in digital is imperative to ensuring that our future is more inclusive and representative than our past and indeed our current. Diversity and inclusion is a job for all of us!”
https://twitter.com/theequalgroup | https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-equal-group
Ria Blagburn, Team Integrator at Vanti and MD of GrowBeyond
Ria Blagburn spent the first decade of her career in marketing, during which she founded her own company and won the Birmingham Young Professional of the Year award for Marketing and Communications. Ria changed focus in 2019 to apply her skills in a new way at technology company Vanti. As Team Integrator, Ria supports and coordinates activities and resources on a day-to-day basis, whilst also designing and implementing processes that will help Vanti’s Service team to scale in line with the wider company strategy. A passionate champion of causes she believes in, Ria has chaired committees for Silicon Canal and BPS Birmingham Future, and has recently launched Birmingham Future’s newest committee to promote diversity and inclusion within the city’s professional services sector.
https://twitter.com/riaface?lang=en-gb | https://www.linkedin.com/in/riablagburn/
Genea Lynch, Digital Director at Exhibit Interactive
Genea Lynch is a stand designer turned App Developer. She specialises in creating applications in Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality.
https://twitter.com/GeneaLynch?lang=en-gb | https://www.linkedin.com/in/genea-lynch-b501464a/
More information to follow, so keep checking this blog for updates!
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In a galaxy not so far away – in fact, just a 15 minute walk from New Street station and 5 minutes from the new Primark – Millennium Point was taken over by the good, the bad and the bantha fodder of the Star Wars universe.
On Saturday 4th May, to celebrate Star Wars Day, Millennium Point became the Galactic Senate, as characters from the movies took over all of our event spaces for their Galactic Summit.
CONNECT
After a brief welcome, Lord Vader was making full use of the wireless presentation facilities in Connect with his ‘How to aim’ workshop – with a practical demonstration next door in the Connect Conference suite. There’s enough space for 120 delegates, then there’s definitely enough space for a little target practice. Rey was brought in as a consultant on the workshop following plummeting numbers in the Empire’s monthly happiness survey, which mostly sited Lord Vader and Kylo Ren as horrible bosses.
ATRIUM
Things got a little tense when Rey ran into Kylo, it’s a good job there’s plenty of space in our Atrium – so much that you can even park a Millennium Falcon (or other space ship) here, great if you’re looking to show off the latest model in a public space!
AUDITORIUM
Heroes & villains alike set aside their differences over popcorn to test out the giant screen. Those Stormtroopers, they’re so vain! Any excuse to watch themselves. I’m sure they would have preferred it to be filled out to its 350 capacity, but oh well boys – maybe for The Rise of Skywalker?
*Spoiler alert* Darth Vader is Luke’s farther!
PLATFORM
After the workshop in Connect and film in the Auditorium everyone was ready for a drink at the Cantina. Platform is just a few steps from our giant screen and presentation space, with a built-in-bar that overlooks the vibrant bustle of our central ATRIUM. If you held a party, workshop or performance here, you can be sure the space is exclusively for you, as this space isn’t open to members of the public.
Word gets around fast of the visit, as fans couldn’t resist getting a selfie or two outside ThinkTank.
After a jam-packed day of events around Millennium Point, it was time for the Galactic Summit to finish.
If you’re looking for a venue to hold your next event and would like to take a tour of our spaces, give our lovely events team a call on 0121 202 2200 or email [email protected].
