Our Awards, Certifications & Memberships

Our certification to the Quality Management Standard ensures our clients of our commitment to the quality control of our products and quality assurance of our services and business processes.

Our certification to the Environmental Management Standard demonstrates our commitment to our environmental sustainability responsibilities, and to our continuous efforts to manage and reduce our environmental impact.

Our certification to the Health and Safety Management Standard reenforces the safety culture which is embedded within GL events throughout the business and ensures the safety of all our operations.

Our certification to the Event Sustainability Management Systems Standard demonstrates our commitment to the continuing management and improvement of sustainability throughout the entire event management cycle.

As holders of Cyber Essentials Plus assurance, GL events UK underlines its commitment to cyber security and data protection, having demonstrated compliance with technical and procedural controls to mitigate common internet-borne cyber attacks.

Safe Contractor promotes higher standards of competence and compliance through the provision of relevant industry specific and tailored health and safety assessments for all professions and sectors.

Demonstrating compliance with PAS91 and Common Assessment Standard, required by many Public and Private Sector buyers, our achievement of the Gold standard includes enhanced recognition of our Equality, Opportunity and Diversity, Environmental and Quality systems.

As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, GL events UK has committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible. We have also anticipated and provided reasonable adjustments in support of disabled people

Vision 2025 is a growing network of over 500 outdoor events and businesses committed to taking climate action. GL events is a supporter and in 2023, was a headline sponsor of its Sustainable Events Summit.

A not-for-profit company providing a platform that showcases the entire UK events industry, The Power of Events brings together events, suppliers, industry media, and university partners to name but a few. GL events is proud to be one of their Supporters.

Our NOEA membership, and our history of supporting the Association as its first ever Futures Sponsor, demonstrates our dedication to raising industry standards and duty of care for the industry as a whole.

Valued by some of the largest purchasers in the defence community, this mark indicates that GL events UK has undertaken the process required to demonstrate its commitment and credentials to the industry.

GL events is a proud member of ESSA, a trade body representing the very best suppliers of goods and services to the events industry. With a focus on Health & Safety, education, business development and driving excellence and shared best practice, ESSA and its members sit at the centre of the events community both in the UK and overseas.

Membership of the UK’s only trade association dedicated to suppliers of marquees, tents and structures demonstrates GL events UK’s commitment to the highest standards of best practice in the industry.

Designed to recognise the best suppliers to the growing festival industry, the Festival Supplier Awards showcase the companies and individuals that help create some of the UK’s most well-known and best-loved festivals.

The Event Production Awards (EPAs) is an annual celebration that recognises the teams and individuals behind the successful delivery of live events during the past 12 months.

GL events UK was announced as Production Team of the Year at the 2020 Event Production Awards (EPAs), in recognition of the GL events Group’s highly acclaimed contribution to the UN Climate Change Conference, COP25 Chile Madrid

GL events UK was part of the winning team to scoop the Award for Best Brand Activation for its work as part of Co-op Food’s ‘Closer to You’ national brand communication strategy, to roll out bespoke festival supermarkets at Download, Latitude, Reading and Leeds festivals.