Party Planners, Events Organisers - Green Ant Events

2011-09-12T08:41:00.001-07:00

Green Ant specialises in tailoring every single event to its client’s requirements. For a consultation email info@greentantevents.com

2011-09-12T02:35:00.001-07:00

It’s your wedding so why not enjoy it? Collection 26 is available 24 hours to help plan your perfect wedding http://ping.fm/LAJAb

2011-09-05T01:15:00.001-07:00

The Green Ant team are dedicated to creating your perfect event. Wedding? Conference? Private party? Contact info@greenantevents.com

2011-09-01T08:15:00.001-07:00

Green Ant specialises in organising and producing @Bespoke Events

2011-09-01T04:51:00.001-07:00

We are recruiting, loads of new positions available. Email hr@greenantevents.com for more details.

2011-09-01T00:29:00.001-07:00

Everyone very busy in Green Ant offices this morning!

2010-11-04T11:32:00.001-07:00

http://ping.fm/rK6y5 - Visit our site and check out latest news, with more info on what we do

2010-10-27T23:40:00.001-07:00

http://ping.fm/lX4Pp - Our website - Take a look!

2010-07-12T12:15:00.001-07:00

New Job Vacancy @ Green Ant for Business Development Manager. See http://ping.fm/c0x0x for more info!

2010-07-09T07:56:00.001-07:00

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Phase 2 of the office mural, stay tuned guys for the next phase!

2010-07-01T09:37:00.001-07:00

A shot from the Right Move 10th anniversary at Jasmine Studios. Great event and great people!

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2010-06-30T07:38:00.001-07:00

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Phase 1 of the mural by Annie Driscoll.

Watch this space for phase 2!

2010-06-30T07:37:00.003-07:00

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Phase 1 of the mural by Annie Driscoll,

2010-06-30T07:37:00.001-07:00

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Phase 1 of the mural by Annie Driscoll.

2010-06-30T07:36:00.001-07:00

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2010-06-28T04:15:00.001-07:00

Add us on our official Green Ant Facebook Profile! http://ping.fm/NmtdT

2010-06-28T01:15:00.001-07:00

Great night for the people at Right Move! Very happy client, roll on Medics Ball tonight in Manchester!

2010-05-13T09:20:00.001-07:00

Green Ant to open London offices in Westbourne Studio's, Nottinghill on 1st June 2010. http://ping.fm/vD1I5

2010-05-06T14:02:00.001-07:00

Joe Blackman wins Wales Young Director of the Year & is now in the final 10 for the Director of the Year Awards UK Final http://ow.ly/1HUYq

2010-05-04T12:05:00.001-07:00

We are opening new offices in Westbourne Studios, Nottinghill... watch this space for invite to the housewarming party!

2010-04-27T06:19:00.001-07:00

Green Ant had yet another successful event in Tonbridge. Well Done to the team who made it possible for our client. http://bit.ly/d59YJv

2010-04-22T07:00:00.001-07:00

Ryan Air have backed down over expenses! http://ping.fm/Xqmlr

2010-04-21T01:55:00.001-07:00

Green Ant Wednesday Fact: There are 92 known cases of nucklear bombs lost at sea. http://ping.fm/DQ5Vs

2010-04-20T08:02:00.001-07:00

RT @BeatwaxAgency: Absolutely Stunning photos from the Eyjafjallajökull Volcano eruption - http://bit.ly/aEc4jC

2010-04-15T03:21:00.001-07:00

RT @Eventmagazine: Green Ant to produce 'UK's largest' African festival http://bit.ly/cA3MB5 eventprofs

2010-04-13T12:39:00.001-07:00

Hey, Check out http://ping.fm/pVVIA for a list of all our services

2010-04-13T10:28:00.001-07:00

What a beautiful summer's evening - cant wait for all our mega summer parties to start kicking in!

2010-04-13T01:06:00.001-07:00

Feel free to visit our website www.greenantevents.com for more information on what we do!

2010-04-12T09:02:00.001-07:00

Please follow us on twitter www.twitter.com/greenantevents

2010-04-10T11:52:00.001-07:00

Its so much nicer doing marquee events when the sun is shining and everyone is happy!

2010-04-08T05:16:00.001-07:00

All in the office planning lots of events, but wishing we were outside drinking cocktails!

Source Software

2010-04-07T07:05:00.000-07:00

Green Ant Creative Events have been asked to organise Source Softwares Summer Party for the second time. Please read the full story by clicking on the link below.

http://www.citmagazine.com/news/search/993037/Source-Software-appoints-Green-Ant-Creative-Events/

Cian Murphy
Marketing and Business Development Executive

2010-04-07T06:31:00.001-07:00

Green Ant gets drives forward the development of social media and online marketing - http://ow.ly/1vxOX

Green Ant expands its team with the appointment of a new Marketing and Business Development Executive, Cian Murphy.

2010-04-06T17:59:00.000-07:00

Cian Murphy, specialist online marketer, has taken up a full time position with Green Ant to drive forward its online marketing and social media development.

Director Joe Blackman said: "We are really excited to have Cian as a part of the team. He will play a vital, strategic, role in adding a new dimension to our marketing strategy for 2010, and push us into the realms of market leading social media use within events."

“Social Media is the next generation of marketing, and we are excited to be able to bring someone onboard in a specialist position to look after this for us.”

Cian was formally a director of a marketing firm based in Ireland specialising in online marketing, and social media usage. Cian is a Qualified Google professional and previous has studied a BA (Hons) in Media Studies before completing his Masters in Business Administration (MBA).

Cian is the author of a number of specialist web marketing blogs, and hopes to help develop some further specialist industry forums and directory sites as part of his role.

"I am really pleased to be a part of the team at Green Ant. The team is so passionate and dedicated about what they do, and it’s a really exciting time of growth that I am looking forward to being part of and helping drive forward." said Mr Murphy.

"I did a small amount of work with Green Ant in 2009, and I am really overwhelmed that they have chosen to bring me back from Ireland especially to fulfill this role."

Happy Easter

2010-04-05T08:44:00.000-07:00

Happy Easter Everyone!

Whether you are organising a small easter egg hunt in your garden, or a massive easter festival for a town - have a fantastic easter!

Green Ant Events have been busy with a mixture of easter events, and chill time to think about crazy ideas for our summer season of events, parties and festivals coming up soon.

Check our site out for more details.

Make sure you also all add us to your twitter @ greenantevents!

Party Planners and Events Organisers

2010-03-12T02:24:00.000-08:00

My Event World- Joe Blackman

Green Ant Creative Events director Joe Blackman talks about his desire to be like Glastonbury organiser Michael Eavis, except younger.

I have worked here since the beginning of Green Ant Events, a few years ago but have been involved in events in one way or another since I was 13.

I was attracted to this particular role because event management has always been something I have had a passion in doing, from a very young age.

Not many people know that I am also a magistrate (justice of the peace) and part time university lecturer on BA(Hons) Event Management in Cardiff when not working.

My worst experience at an event was when I was working on the 15th Asian Games in Qatar, nearly having my exit visa denied after spending six weeks there due to a speeding ticket that I did not know about. Oops.

To top it off when I did get my visa through, I woke up four hours after my flight left due to over-indulging at the games closing party, and had to pay for an entire new flight home. Nightmare.

If there's one thing I've learnt it's always to be friendly and chatty to everyone, and never dismissive or instantly judgemental. Some of the most interesting, and useful people I have ever met have been completely randomly. Whether that's someone in Starbucks who ends up giving you free coffee, through to someone I was randomly chatting to on the train, who ended up being one of the worldwide group chief executives of HSBC.

The best event I've been involved in was Green Ant Events producing a party end of last year for one of the Royal Family in Abu Dhabi. They were so pleased they have asked us to start a company out there so we can do more events for them.

If I could do it all over again I would not change anything. Part of the excitement of life is doing things you don't enjoy sometimes, making mistakes and logically bad decisions. I do, however, believe all experiences that you go through make you who you are today, and I like to think I have no regrets. That all sounds a bit cheesy doesn't it? Hmm.

The one thing I can't stand is people who don't give you honest answers to questions. Life would be so much simpler if people admitted when they need help or assistance. People who don't think things through logically irritate me too. And also very stuck up people. Come to think of it, there are quite a few things that I can't stand.

Outside of work I spend my time doing work too, or performing my magistrate duties. Also I love going out, drinking cocktails, travelling when I get a bit of spare time, and trying to sort my house out.

If money were no object I would buy a private island, probably in the Caribbean somewhere or maybe next to Mr Bransons. It would have a selection of helicopters and jets, kind of like Tracy Island in Thunderbirds. It would have the addition of a few different key feature areas, such as a Balinese spa complex, a number of cocktail bars, themed guest accommodation and lots of cool leisure activities.

The one event I will never miss is a festival that we were involved in, that had a couple of the worst people I have ever met on its committee. They basically had the mentality of what I would like liken to small unintelligent goldfish, whose emphasis for the entire event was cost over public safety at all costs. Not really sure why I used a goldfish as an example actually, I quite like goldfish.

The recession has meant a really fantastic year for Green Ant, we have had a busier year than ever before which is an encouraging sign. On a personal downside, I wish I had bought my house a couple of years later so it didn't drop in value.

The next 12 months will be hopefully even more exciting than the last 12. This year should see Green Ant launch out in the Middle East, along with diversifying its company portfolio to include our specialist mobile cocktail bar company "Tetrabars" which will launch this year too.

If I could switch places with anyone else in the industry it would probably be Michael Eavis. Actually, thinking about it, does that mean you automatically inherit their age. If so I possibly may rethink that answer.

If I ruled the event industry I probably merge all events companies into one big one that I was in-charge of. It would be pretty cool having all companies working under one roof and not competing against each other - what an awesome work environment that would be - just everyone doing what they are good at with no competition. I would also get rid it of boring people, ensure that it was martial law that everyone had to be fun, bouncy and creative in work.

Green Ant Events???

2010-03-10T01:53:00.000-08:00

Green Ant Events????

Green Ant?? Why would we choose this name?? Mr Joe Blackman would love to inform all of our customers, and potential customers for that matter, why he and the company directors chose 'Green Ant Events' to be the name of this prestigious events management company. It's simple really! Joe and his colleagues felt that the Green Ant's characteristics matches that of 'Green Ant Events'. Before you start comparing us to an common little ant please read all about this wonderful creature of the soil.

'The Green Ant

Ants are co-rulers of planet Earth. There are ten thousand trillion worldwide. Roughly. If you weighed all the humans on Earth today, we would weigh around the same as all the ants. They have been on Earth for 140 million years. They outlasted the dinosaurs.

In a typical colony, almost exclusively female, adults care for the young, a queen acts as the Head of State, and a regimented division of labour predetermines the chores that maintain the community. They can sew silk, garden, enslave other ants, and are one of the few species, other than humans, truly capable of altering their surroundings.

Just like humans, ants have their own unique way of communicating. They have mastered an odorous alphabet that allows for recognition, alarm, territoriality, and internal balance of the colony. The letters of their alphabet are called pheromones and they help spell out the immediate and long-term activities needed to govern the nest.

But in terms of ecology, we have a lot to learn from the humble ant.

In the process of going about their business, ants recycle the nutrients of the earth, turning more soil on a daily basis than the ubiquitous earthworm. Indeed, ants are the premier soil turners on Earth. They help the environment by consuming unwanted plants, enriching the soil when they process their food so nothing goes to waste. To them waste is food.

They have learnt to coexist with trees and plants so that all parties benefit. Some ants even help in the spreading of seeds. And they don’t have to run a huge advertising campaign to get ants recycling. It is instinctive.

And yet the ant can do all this with a brain that weighs less than one millionth as much as a human brain.

And there we were thinking that we were the smartest critters on the planet'

joe blackman
green ant creative events