What UK Event Associates does

UK Event Associates Ltd is a UK private limited company headquartered in Beverley that provides integrated event management, security, health and safety, and crowd management services to event organisers across the United Kingdom. Its core offerings comprise four lines: Event Planning & Site Management (end-to-end event delivery including crisis communications and emergency planning), Security Services (arena, corporate, hotel, retail, static guard, private party and sports security), Health and Safety Services (licensing applications, SAG meetings, risk assessments, site inspections, traffic management and fairground safety), and Crowd Management and Stewarding. The company is a people- and operations-intensive professional services firm with no proprietary software platform; service delivery is grounded in the management team's claimed thirty-plus years of combined experience across police, military, retail, hospitality and educational backgrounds.

The company operates on a sales-led, direct client engagement model. Pricing is not publicly disclosed and contracts are quoted per engagement based on the specific event profile, with contact driven via phone (03333 441033) and email. Documented customers span music festivals (Glastonbury, Creamfields, Leeds Festival), retail and shopping centre operators (Meadowhall, M·A·C Cosmetics), public-sector and sports bodies (Sport England's This Girl Can Campaign, Tour de Yorkshire/ASO), and heritage and equestrian events (Royal Cornwall Show, Royal Windsor Horse Show, North Yorkshire Moors Railway). Customer concentration is spread across multiple anchor events rather than reliant on a single client.

The firm is privately held with no disclosed funding rounds, parent company, subsidiaries, or institutional investors. Headcount is stated at 51-100 employees, consistent with a mid-sized event services contractor capable of staffing multiple simultaneous large-scale UK events. Marketing is largely website- and referral-driven, supported by a blog documenting case studies at marquee events. Revenue, profitability and recent growth metrics are not disclosed in the available material.

Name

UK Event Associates

Legal name

UK Event Associates Ltd

Website

https://ukeventassociates.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

UK Event Associates Ltd is a UK private event-services firm providing event planning, security, health and safety, and crowd management to festivals, shopping centres, sporting bodies, and heritage events across the United Kingdom.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Event Management Services

NAICS

Other Spectator Sports (711219), Spectator Sports (71121)

SIC

Services-Miscellaneous Amusement & Recreation (7990)

akta.pro primary industry

Event Security, Safety & Crowd Management (MPAGAAAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Sports Security, Crowd Management & Event Medical Services (MPAGAMAL), Festivals, Fairs & Outdoor Event Security (BPAKACAC), Event Security Management (BPABAMAC)

Keywords

• Event management services
• Crowd management
• Event security
• Health and safety consulting
• Stewarding services

Headquarters

HQ city

Beverley

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Event Management Services: Professional services revenue from event planning, site management, security, health and safety consulting, and crowd management. Services are provided on a project/contract basis to event organizers ranging from small intimate events to large-scale festivals.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

UK Event Associates is a UK-based event services company that delivers integrated event planning, site management, health and safety consultancy, crowd management, stewarding, and security services to event organisers. Services span the full event lifecycle from conception through to post-event debrief, including licensing applications, risk assessments, traffic management, and emergency procedures for events ranging from intimate gatherings to large music festivals and agricultural shows.

Product overview

UK Event Associates is an event management services company offering a unified suite of integrated services rather than a software product platform. The core offerings include Event Planning & Site Management (full-service event delivery from conception through post-event debrief), Security Services (covering arena, corporate, event, exhibition, hotel, private party, retail, static guard, and sports security), Health and Safety Services (consultancy for licensing, risk assessments, site inspections, and emergency procedures), and Crowd Management and Stewarding (professional crowd control with trained staff). These services are delivered as an integrated package, with the company emphasizing their expertise drawn from police, military, retail, hospitality, and educational backgrounds to provide practical and achievable safety and security solutions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Event Planning & Site Management Full-service event management from conception to completion, including site management, crisis communications, emergency planning, and coordination of first aid, security, and concessions operations for event organisers.
• Security Services Comprehensive security services for event organisers and corporate clients, including arena security, corporate and close protection, event security, exhibition and conference security, hotel and concierge security, private party security, retail security, static guard services, and sports security.
• Health and Safety Services Health and safety consultancy for event organisers covering licensing applications, SAG meetings, risk assessments, safety site inspections, legal compliance, emergency procedures, traffic management, site design, fairground safety, and food and drink concessions oversight.
• Crowd Management and Stewarding Professional crowd control and stewarding services delivered by trained staff to ensure safe and smooth event operations, working in conjunction with the security and event management teams for event organisers.

Named customers10 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Has API

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Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• OCS Group: OCS Group is an international facilities services group delivering event security, crowd management and stewarding within a wider soft-services portfolio; broader incumbent competing for UK venue and festival mandates.
• Corps Security: Corps Security is a UK-wide manned security provider with a notable events and venue security practice, comparable to UK Event Associates on arena, corporate and event security bidding.
• Mitie Security: Mitie is a major UK facilities management and security provider with an events and venue security division; a broad incumbent rather than a specialist, but competes for the same large multi-site events contracts.
• Cordant Security: Cordant Security is one of the UK's largest security staffing providers with dedicated event and venue coverage, competing for the same stewarding and crowd management tenders as UK Event Associates.
• First Response Group: First Response Group provides UK-wide security, stewarding and event services across music, sport and retail environments, overlapping with UK Event Associates' integrated events + retail activations book.
• Allied Universal (formerly G4S UK): Allied Universal is one of the world's largest security services groups with a dedicated UK events and stewarding capability; competes with UK Event Associates for large promoter contracts but as part of a much broader manned-guarding portfolio.

Direct peers

• AP Security (Anthonys Protective Services): AP Security is a long-established UK event security and crowd management firm serving concerts, festivals and sporting events, providing a directly comparable mid-sized peer for UK Event Associates.
• FGH Security: FGH Security is a UK-based event stewarding and crowd management specialist working across music festivals, concerts and sporting events; comparable to UK Event Associates for direct event-by-event stewarding and security contracts.
• Showsec: Showsec is the UK's largest dedicated crowd management and event stewarding company, supplying security, stewards and crowd safety services to festivals, concerts, sport and live events — a direct equivalent to UK Event Associates' core service mix, both contracted by the same UK promoter base.
• SecuriGroup: SecuriGroup is a UK-based integrated security company providing event security, stewarding and crowd management alongside static guarding, overlapping directly with UK Event Associates' combined events + venue security offering.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/UKEventAssociat
• Facebookfacebook.com/ukeventassociates
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/uk-event-associates-ltd

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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