NGO Events

Our NGO Events are unique, free events for the charity/NGO community, bringing together charities, NGOs and companies as well as CR practitioners on a large scale. They form a key component in how we operate as a responsible, sustainable business and are UBM’s most significant community investment, in terms of time, money and resources. We believe that the best way for us to support the communities in which we do business is by doing what we do best – running Events. We harness UBM’s commercial resources, and the expertise and experience of our staff in a not-for-profit environment. The NGO Events series has the personal commitment of David Levin, CEO, who is the sponsor at Board level.

Launched in Brazil in 2009, we have been pushing ahead with developing a global series of Events to support the NGO and charitable communities. 2011 saw the third annual Brazilian NGO Event – ONG Brasil www.ongbrasil.com.br/en/ – and the first UK Event – Responsible Business www.responsiblebusinessevent.org/, while we will add an event in India in 2012 – NGO India www.india-ngo.com and in the USA in 2013, Business4Better www.business4better.org/. This series of free events enables NGOs to network; share best practice; raise their profile and build partnerships with business. The total cost to UBM of the NGO Events series during 2011 was £397,365.

Since 2009 ONG Brasil has more than doubled in size as it becomes a fixture in the NGO calendar, and last year saw 453 exhibiting NGOs, 753 conference delegates and 10,500 visitors, while Responsible Business 2011 saw 138 exhibiting NGOs, 350 conference delegates and 2,000 visitors.

The NGO Events series is also supported by PR Newswire, the primary wire distributor for the Events, who in 2011 supplied free distributions, a media room to promote the UK event and five free media rooms to NGOs, worth a total of £152,713.