Sterling Event Group offer a wide range of solutions for events including Live Streaming, Webcasting and other virtual solutions.

Recent events we have delivered range from conferences, product launches through to funerals.

In the current climate, more and more people are turning to digital solutions to hold their event and we have the capability and a wide range of options available to engage your audience including live voting and Q&A.

We can provide simple packages through to TV studio style live broadcasts.

Contact the team today who’ll be more than happy to talk you through the options available and help you find the most suitable solution for your next event.

Sterling provided technical support once again to the amazing charity Forever Manchester. An amazing night was had by all at Forever Manchester’s 30th Birthday Party, with £78,689 being raised for Forever Manchester to fund and support community activity across Greater Manchester.

Over 400 delegates came together at the Principal Manchester to celebrate 30 years of Forever Manchester helping local people doing extraordinary things in their local communities.

Hosted by Tony Walsh and Captain Manchester, the Birthday Party, featured first class entertainment and Clint Boon finished the night with a DJ set which got everyone up and dancing until the early hours.

Check out the event highlights below!

Sterling Event Group have announced a new partnership agreement with one of Manchester’s leading event venues, Victoria Warehouse.

As part of the supplier agreement, which commenced on 31^st January 2020, Sterling Event Group will be the venue’s preferred technical production supplier and will provide exclusive in-house rigging services for corporate clients across the venue’s wide array of unique spaces.

The technical production company, who celebrated their 20-year anniversary last year, work in partnership with many event venues and clients across the North West & the UK and are thrilled to be supporting Victoria Warehouse and their clients. Victoria Warehouse has numerous event spaces catering for intimate gatherings to large scale conferences and exhibitions all with an authentic industrial vibe.

Richard Bowden, Managing Director of Sterling commented on the partnership “We are really excited to be back working with the team at Victoria Warehouse, a venue with their strap line ‘We are what you make us’, which for our projects team opens up a world of options for creativity.”

James Cohen, Managing Director of Victoria Warehouse commented; “We are thrilled to be partnering again with Sterling Event Group for production and rigging, their team have a genuine passion for exceeding client expectations. This combined with their array of in-house services means we can be sure our clients receive the very best experience.”

This partnership comes at an exciting time at Sterling, with a recent expansion adding a further two warehouses to their Manchester based headquarters creating 8 additional jobs. The company plans to continue this growth throughout 2020 with investment, innovation and development to further improve its offering.

Sterling once again delivered the Boohoo Group plc annual Christmas Party. Held at the Hilton Manchester Deansgate Hotel in December, the event was styled around a New York theme with headline act Skepta providing the entertainment alongside a number of acts and DJ’s.

Check out the event highlights below!

Technical production supplier Sterling Event Group, has invested in six Allen & Heath SQ-5 Mixing Consoles. 

Sterling Event Group have purchased six Allen & Heath SQ-5 digital mixing consoles to add to our audio fleet. The console features 16 local XLR inputs and 12 XLR outputs. It is an extremely powerful and capable compact mixer. Other features include;

• 48 input channels – 17 faders on 6 Layers
• Automatic microphone mixer on all channels
• 12 Mixes – can be 12 mono / 12 stereo configured as groups or auxes
• 3 Matrix – can be 3 mono or 3 stereo
• 8 Stereo FX Engines
• Record / Playback to USB
• Flexible routing options

To accompany this investment, Sterling have also purchased four stage boxes – the AB1608.  The AB1608 feature 16 inputs and 8 outputs. These units simply connect to the SQ via 1 Cat5/6 cable and can easily be patched to any input or mix bus via the SQ5. Multiple stage boxes can then be daisy chained for higher channel counts up to 48 inputs making this a very efficient easily configurable stage box solution.

Please contact our hire team for competitive quotations and to discuss how this equipment could benefit your next event or production. Alternatively see more info on our equipment hire page.

As part of our expansion tripling our warehouse space, we have a number of new opportunities for talented people to join our team, based full time within our offices & warehouse by Manchester Airport.

• Audio Prep Technician
• Hire Co-ordinator
• Lighting and Rigging Prep Technician

Please visit our Careers part of the website for full job descriptions.

If you think you have got what it takes then we would love to hear from you!

Avolites will be visiting Sterling Event Group in October, as they hit the road again with their Level 1 & Level 2 of the Titan Academy Course.

These training courses will be run in our new warehouse space, and are open to everyone.

The Level 1 training works through everything you would need to know to build a show file from scratch on the Titan range of consoles. From patching fixtures into the console through recording playbacks, palettes and some of the effects engines that are built into Titan. Level 1 also covers cues lists, which is used for everything from corporate to circus, and theatre to gigs.

Level 2 covers more advanced programming options and set up available already within Titan. As well as networking, Avolites will cover some ways to speed and aid your programming. Level 2 also covers external triggering and working with timecode.

Those attending both levels of the course can then take an optional assessment. Based on the result of this you can be certified or accredited as a programmer on the Avolites website.

For availability and to book please visit https://www.avolites.com/training/book-training

As part of our new expansion tripling our warehouse space, we have a number of new opportunities for talented people to join our team, based full time within our offices & warehouse by Manchester Airport.

• Warehouse Manager
• Head of Staging and Set
• Vision Prep Technician
• Cable Prep Technician
• Warehouse Assistant

Please visit our Careers part of the website for full job descriptions.

If you think you have got what it takes then we would love to hear from you!

Sterling Event Group will be exhibiting at the upcoming Confex North exhibition due to be held on the 3rd & 4th July 2019 at Victoria Warehouse. 

For 36 years International Confex, London, has been the key calendar date to bring together event professionals for 2 days of networking, free to attend education and supplier inspiration. Now in its second year, Confex North exists to offer the same great opportunities for discovery but in a more convenient location for the northern events community.

Register to attend by clicking here.

The team look forward to hosting you on our stand!