Creative Technical Excellence
Creative Technical Excellence, in the Spotlight This week saw our resident Cameraman and Video Editor, Dan Plant, mark his 19th year of working at Istead. Over the years, Dan’s helped on thousands of events all across the UK and Europe but three memories in particular stay at the forefront of his mind, showing true creative […]
Istead Recognised for Long Service
Istead and our director Stuart Walker were recognised recently with a special contribution award at The Digital Forensics Conference, celebrating 10 years of audio visual production and technical support at the event. Since the conference attendance is the global police forces and intelligence agencies to discuss emerging communication technologies. Amidst tight security, due to the […]
We’re Hiring
We’re Hiring a FULL TIME EVENT AV TECHNICIAN Full-Time Event Audio Visual Technician to join small, vibrant, audio visual company in Coventry. We are looking for a hard-working, energetic individual who is competent with all audio visual fields, i.e. audio, lighting, projection, etc. and has live event experience. The Role of Event AV Technician: Skills: […]
Singing for Harry
As a lot of you already know, our employees at Istead love involving in various fundraising for a number of charities. This also extends to our friends and families… Our Managing Director Neil’s lovely wife Donna is a part of the Solihull Pop Chorus and just before Christmas, she and the singing group recorded three […]
The Boys Are Back in Town
The Boys are Back! No, we’re not singing along to Thin Lizzy, the boys are back after our Christmas break feeling excited for the year to come… and maybe a few pounds heavier! With the holiday season feeling like a distant memory, Istead are straight back into the full swing of things in our very busy […]
Merry Christmas from the Istead Elves
Istead Elves Ho Ho Ho, Merry Christmas! On behalf of all of our elves at the Istead workshop, we would like to wish you a very Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year filled with happiness, joy and success. A Istead Merry Christmas Our offices will close for Christmas on Thursday 22nd December at midday […]
Istead Mannequin Challenge
Introducing, The Istead Mannequin Challenge! Last week our team took on the Mannequin Challenge the Istead way! We all love a good challenge so unsurprisingly this isn’t the first viral challenge we’ve taken part in before… Do you remember the #IceBucketChallenge? This viral charity challenge saw people pour buckets full of ice and water over […]
KidsOut ‘Question of Sport’ Glasgow
KidsOut Istead returned to the impressive Old Fruitmarket venue in the centre of Glasgow to produce the latest in a series of fundraisers for the KidsOut charity. The historical venue was a functioning market for 100 years before it was transformed in the 1970’s into a concert hall and event venue, used by BBC Scotland […]
A Mud Run Like No Other
Time For A Mud Run! On Saturday 22nd October, our Warehouse Manager Mark Diggins and his son Sam took part in the Royal British Legion 10K Major Series for the second time this year. The obstacle course took place at Ragley Hall in Warwickshire and saw hundreds of people endure this cross country challenge that […]
5 Reasons Why We Loved This October
October has been a very busy and successful month for us. In the first two weeks alone, we delivered three months’ worth of successful events all across the UK, Spain and The Netherlands. Therefore here are 5 highlights of our October this year: 1. In The Netherlands our team filled 8 rooms full of our […]
