Majestic Hotel, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG1 2HU
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Majestic Hotel, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG1 2HU
The Annual Conference is the biggest event of the NFAN calendar. Back for 2014, the NFAN Annual Conference & Trade Exhibition was the biggest yet, with nearly 150 farm attraction delegates and over 60 trade stands.
Delegates met fellow operators, learnt from a bumper packed conference programme and metthe key suppliers of the industry all under one roof.
For every event, NFAN are always extremely grateful to their sponsors, who help keep delegate prices down.
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On the way to Harrogate, we arranged free entry for delegates to visit Yorkshire Wildlife Park with a tour at 2 pm. Over 60 delegates attended the tour and it paved the way for a very successful event.
Yorkshire Wildlife Park is the newest wildlife attraction in the UK and used to be a farm park. It was amazing to see how it had been transformed.
Many delegates hadn’t been to the award-winning Cannon Hall Farm in South Yorkshire and it was clear to see why it was award winning.
Welcoming over 250,000 visitors annually, the attraction includes 7 huge animal barns that have been built to provide excellent viewing for families (whilst working for their commercial farming business too), a £400,000 adventure playground (including the biggest tube maze in Europe), newly expanded tea rooms and an award-winning butchery.
With thanks to our sponsors Agility Marketing and Timber Play
For the first time ever, the 2014 NFAN awards were presented at an informal Networking Dinner. With networking being a key benefit to NFAN, the format worked extremely well.
With thanks to our sponsor: The Partners Group
Alongside the Main Conference, we ran our ever popular Trade Exhibition. With over 60 exhibitors, click here to see the full list who exhibited. We are very grateful for the trade that support our Conference as they allow us to keep our conference fees as low as possible.
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| 9.15 am | Welcome and Introduction – NFAN Chairman Matthew Heast |
| 9.20 am | Looking back and moving forward: The future of NFAN – The NFAN Committee |
| 10.00 am | The Team: How a Yorkshire farmer reluctantly went to Disney and had a revelation – Tom Pearcy, York Maze |
| 10.30 am | Happy Customers: How to achieve positive online reviews – Anita Waddell, Agility Marketing |
| 10.40 am | Learn from the best – The 2014 Farm Attraction of the Year winner |
| 10.50am | Coffee/tea and a chance to visit the Trade Exhibition |
| 11.30 am | Getting more from your gift shop spend – Mike Bennett, Yorkshire Wildlife Park |
| 11.50 am | Avoiding the 5 common mistakes in bank lending – Phil Barker, Lloyds TSB |
| 12.10 pm | NFAN AGM |
| 12.20pm | Networking Lunch and Trade Exhibition |
| 2pm | How a graduate placement can accelerate growth: A farm park’s success story – Louise Possegger and team, Spring Barn Farm |
| 2.20pm | Be number one: How to become and award-winning attraction – Cath Dutton, People Junction |
| 2.40 pm | Afternoon tea and the chance to visit the Trade Exhibition |
| 3.20pm | Learning Outside the Classroom: Attracting top marks for your school visits – Gary Richardson, Countryside Learning. |
| 3.40 pm | Food for thought: Creating best-in-class catering – The 2014 Catering Award Winner |
| 4pm | Refreshments and close |
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