We are delighted and very excited to announce that we have welcomed Words To Glow to the Sterling Event Group family!

Words To Glow are a leading provider of beautiful and bespoke vintage letter lights, neon lighting and signs for any occasion. Their large collection of light up letters and event prop hire has created the perfect backdrop for countless events and has never failed to provide that all important wow factor. They have proudly delivered fantastic signage to a variety of events, from spectacular weddings to celebratory bah mitzvahs, wonderful christenings to party shenanigans; there is hardly an event their lighting and signage has not featured in.

Not only do they work to add that extra glamour and sparkle, they have also worked with leading brands including the BBC, Amazon, ITV and Kelloggs, and have been featured on a number of wedding blogs including Rock My Wedding, Brides Up North and The English Wedding.

Words To Glow will continue to operate in the same way with the added advantage of the extensive product range and support of the Sterling team.

Welcome to the family Words To Glow!

If you would like to discuss your next event with Words To Glow get in touch today, we would love to hear from you!

0161 537 1960 | info@wordstoglow.co.uk

Now available to hire or purchase a range of social distancing screens and solutions.

Utilising our experience in live events and exhibition display solutions we are now able offer a range of solutions perfect for ensuring social distancing within your premises. Using a highly versatile modular system, perfect for a huge range of applications. The systems unique attributes make a strong structure that can be assembled in a matter of minutes, with a simple twist and lock. As the system is completely modular it offers maximum flexibility, so as guidance for social distancing changes the solution can be adapted too.

Our range of social distancing screens and products include:

• Desk dividers
• Freestanding dividers / partitions
• Protection screens
• Modular walling
• Temporary pop up offices
• Cubicles
• Complete bespoke solutions

Products are available for hire or purchase and orders can be supplied flat packed or with full nationwide installation by our team. We can even provide fully branded solutions too including custom finished framework and panels along with the addition of vinyl graphics. For more complex and customised requirements we are able to offer a design service including drawings and 3D visuals.

Full stock in the UK and available to deploy at short notice to help meet your requirements.

If you would like to know more and to receive a brochure showcasing the full social distancing screens product range get in touch today.

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 will be exhibiting at the upcoming International Confex 2020 exhibition due to be held on the 25th & 26th February 2020 at ExCel London.

The event is set to be one of the largest gathering of event professionals, service providers, thought leaders and buyers in the UK, with the sole purpose of creating an environment of convenience to help support, inspire and drive the events industry forward.

Register to attend by clicking here.

The team look forward to hosting you on our stand! Find us on stand F04C.

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.

We are pleased to be supporting Production Futures – This event gives young people, students and freelancers the opportunity to come face to face with some of the most well-known companies and individuals in the industry. The event also features the TPi Breakthrough Talent Awards, offering a chance to highlight the work of those still relatively new to the industry but who are making waves within the live events bracket.

The event will be hosted at Fly by Nite Studios in Redditch, a state-of-the-art, arena sized, purpose-built production rehearsal studio located just south of Birmingham, where some of the biggest artists on the planet make their final preparations before heading out on tour.

If your heading to this event we look forward to seeing you there!

Click here for further info on the event.

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!

The whole Sterling team were invited to a Sterling Family BBQ at the end of August to celebrate 20 years of business, as a celebration and a thank you to the team for all the hard work they put in for Sterling’s fabulous clients and events.

Check out the highlights here!

Here’s to the next 20 years!

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