Event Management Certificate 

Charlie is a highly experienced and respected Events & Safety Professional with over 25 years’ experience in the project management and operational delivery of televised mass events across the UK. An experienced event planner & director, producing event safety plans for urban & Greenfield sites, he created the operational & safety systems behind the Great Run series. Focused on operational and safety management, Charlie has a strong interest in improving best practice at events and developing the next generation of event professionals through leadership, lecturing and support. Following a long career at The Great Run Company, the UK’s leading mass participation events agency, Charlie went freelance in October 2020 and provides Event & Safety consultancy to a number of clients including Massive. During the pandemic he refocused his safety skills & TV Outside

Paul Walters has an employment history that spans over 25 years within the area of music management, exhibition design/build, management of major outdoor music festivals, project management, touring theatre management, film production, sponsorship/marketing and major sporting events at an international and national level. Paul’s area of proficiency over the past ten years has enabled him to be instrumental in developing Event Management courses at degree and masters level. Over that period he secured the position of programme leader at 4 UK universities and taught the same subject over a period of 5 years at 4 European universities. They include ANGELL Business School in Germany, Ecole de Management de Normandie institute in Paris, France, IMI University Centre Switzerland, Breda University of Applied Sciences, and University of Northern Denmark.