Showforce Overview UK

UK • UAE • QATAR

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About usWho we are and what we do

Showforce is an innovative, award winning event support-services company, specialising in providing experienced personnel to the entertainment industry. With operational offices in the UK, UAE and Qatar, we have over 25 years’ experience in providing services for venues, film, television, theatre, live events, ceremonies and major public events.

Event, entertainment and production projects rely on experience, expertise and continuity. At Showforce, we are committed to redefining industry standards with an unparalleled level of service, a highly skilled and committed work force and a focus on building strong client relationships based on trust and loyalty.

We have experience and expertise working across all fields, on projects of all sizes and scope from major, high-profile events such as the Sports Personality of the Year awards, the Olympics Games, Wimbledon, the Tour de France and the Queen’s Golden and Diamond Jubilee celebrations to smaller corporate events requiring precision attention to detail and a highly personal approach.

Our Mission

OurVision

Our Values

To provide a comprehensive range of integrated event services; from safety conscious crew, engaging event staff and highly skilled technicians to meet

all personnel requirements.

To be world leading event facilitators, globally recognised for excellence

and efficiency.

Discipline, respect, integrity, passion, teamwork and quality are at the core

of everything we do.

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Event CrewA highly skilled and efficient, temporary source of labour

Whatever your crewing needs, we have the right solution:

Showforce provide a highly skilled and efficient, temporary source of labour to assist you in the delivery of your event or production.

Our crew are adaptable, versatile and highly proficient in a comprehensive range of industry related skills enabling them to provide a service that offers the highest levels of reliability, flexibility and customer service. Our core work-force boasts an average length of service of five years and work on the same or similar projects regularly so that our clients can directly benefit from their experience.

Technical crew

Plant operators

Climbers

Backline crew

Production crew

Show crew

Site crew

Stage crew

Follow spot operators

Drivers

Runners

All Showforce crew members receive our comprehensive, industry specific health and safety induction training along with a company handbook, PPE and basic tool kit. We also support industry best-practice certifications and training.

At Showforce, we also provide our clients with Crew Chiefs, whose role is to ensure all projects meet client requirements and exceed client expectations. Forming an extension of our management team, our Crew Chiefs are highly trained personnel with a minimum of five years’ dedicated service.

Our Crew Chiefs have a detailed understanding of the strengths and abilities of our crew and provide clients with an individual point of contact, arriving on-site fully briefed and ready to oversee projects from conception to completion.

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TransportWe have a fleet of vans for all your transportation needs

At Showforce, we have a fleet of vans including long wheel base Sprinters and low loading and tail lift Lutons for all your transportation needs.

Our ‘man and van’ service has proven extremely popular with our clients. As part of our ‘man and van’ package, an experienced driver is on hand to ensure goods are delivered and loaded both securely and on time. Once col-lected, goods, props and event kit can be stored safely at our warehouse in London overnight or at the weekends, ready for your next occasion.

Specialist Vehicle Installation

Showforce has a long and experienced history as vehicle movement specialists. We regularly provide high performance drivers for vehicle launches, film shoots and commercials as well as traffic marshals.

We can also supply specialist equipment including ramps, wheel skids and our unique vehicle tilt rig.

Expert automobile installation operatives

Specialist vehicle tilt equipment and vehicle skids

Car installation ramps and display stands

High performance reveal drivers

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Production Technicians and Personnel

An unrivalled network of international production technicians and personnel

Our highly experienced production technicians and personnel cover the following disciplines:

Showforce has an unrivalled network of international production technicians and personnel offering venues, techni-cal suppliers and production companies the highest level of professional standards and capabilities.

Recruited from throughout the world, our team has specialist experience across all areas of the event industry and are considered experts in the delivery of prestigious events worldwide.

Production Managers

Stage Managers

Riggers

Sound

Audio Visual

Lighting

Electricians

Carpenters

Scaffolders

Following the success of being able to provide the most experienced and highly skilled technicians from around the globe through our Production HR division. For certain projects they may be over qualified, in these instances

Showforce’s technical team can bridge the gap and recruit someone with the right skill sets locally and provide the organiser with a more cost effective solution.

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Showforce offers SPA (Safety Passport Alliance) training to industry professionals from our London office’s state of the art training facility.

The course deals in depth with the legal H&S framework, the responsibilities of employers and employees, and specific issues for our industry such as manual handling, workplace transport, working at height, electricity, noise at work and slips, trips and falls.

Many event venues require personnel to hold the safety passport to gain access to site. Following the one day course, successful candidates are provided with a credit card sized passport and event specific certification valid for 5 years.

Global Partnerships

Showforce can help you source event crew throughout the world.

We believe in using local suppliers through our global partnerships for their knowledge of an area, its venues and their ability to speak the language. We can source crew in every major city around the world.

We have relationships with the industry’s best, allowing us to supply crew of the same calibre and high standard that our clients have come to trust from an unsurpassed network of reputable crewing companies.

SPA Safety Passport Alliance TrainingWe train industry professionals

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Our staff deliver an engaging and positive brand experience.

We provide immaculately presented and dynamic staff:

Showforce provides clients with dynamic and responsible staff to enable you to deliver an engaging and positive brand experience. Our event personnel are carefully chosen, with client input, from a network of experienced professionals throughout the UK.

Our personnel understand that when they wear your uniform, they become a representative of your company and responsible for your image. They pride themselves on their unrivalled standards and can-do attitude - qualities that reflect on your business.

Models & Presenters

Translators

Event registration

Brand Ambassadors

Multi-linqual Hospitality Staff

Promotional & Field Marketing

Wherever possible, we will work with locally-based personnel to minimise costs however our aim is to always ensure the perfect match with your brand.

Event Staff

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Why Showforce?

OurapproachExperience Recruitment

Showforce is an award winning, international, event support services company with over 25 years’ experience of providing experienced personnel to global projects. Our experience spans over 50 countries and we count some of the leading names in entertainment as our clients.

Delivery of service

We follow a strict recruitment process for all our team, whether permanent or freelance, to ensure we can always provide the highest quality event crew and staff. Our process remains the same, wherever we operate, which allows us to provide a consistent level of skilled staff with appropriate qualifications in the global market.

We have highly efficient office operation that includes dedicated booking and project management teams who oversee the booking, recruitment, training and accreditation processes. Our account management team will have a detailed understanding of your requirements and will work flexibly to ensure that your needs are met.

We have developed bespoke staff management software that stores comprehensive records of all our personnel. All our projects are managed using this system so that we match skills and personal attributes with roles and location and can ensure the right people are on the job for you.

Crew management

Quality control

Commitment to

sustainability

We are globally accredited to the BSI standard ISO 9001 in quality management, enabling us to provide and maintain a high level of quality in the provision of our service to our customers. We use key performance indicators to provide clear performance targets, demonstrate achievement of objectives and drive continuous improvement throughout the business.

Health and Safety

We have recently been awarded ISO14001 standard for environmental management and are dedicated to working towards the ISO 20121 sustainable events management standard to support these goals. We recognise the impacts that we make on society, the economy and the environment, and we seek to make a positive difference in the places where we operate by our commitment to being leaders in our field.

Our crew manager is responsible for the implementation and monitoring of crew standards and presentation. He is also responsible for overseeing the recruitment and induction process – carrying out regular site audits and inspections to ensure compliance and company policy.

We have an uncompromising attitude towards health and safety.

We continually develop and improve our safe working practices and monitor our health and safety performance against targets and objectives to drive continuous improvement.

The very nature of our business means people are at the heart of our organisation and are our most valuable resource.

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This was a massive task that was taken on by the Showforce team and my colleagues could not speak any higher of the crew on site. The job was extended multiple times and everything from the office to the crew on site was done with efficiency and speed. Cannot recommend your team enough.

Mike Dilks - Aggreko

Testimonials

I have used Showforce for all the Michael McIntyre theatre based TV shows produced by Hungry Bear Media, both at the London Coliseum and now at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. With a severely restricted schedule every minute counted. We had just 24 hours to get in everything overnight, then have a full rehearsal, record the show that evening, and then turn everything around ready for another performance of ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ the next day. Showforce provided a consistently excellent service with highly proficient crews, and we will definitely be coming back for our next series in the summer.

Adrian Pegg - Line Producer - Hungry Bear Media

Imagination has been utilising the services of Showforce ever since their inception 25 years ago, they have consistently provided us with highly experienced and qualified crew. The work we have asked of the crew is always so varied, from Motorshows to working at our offices at Store Street – their teams have always arrived on-site with the right attitude to get the best possible results.

Being there from the very beginning, it’s been great to see the progress of Showforce over the years, they are friends as well as colleagues – which is a testament to the great work they do.

Trevor Oliver - Production Director - Imagination

Showforce has been my crewing company of choice for a number of years now. I’ve come to rely on the experience, skill sets and hard work demonstrated by their crew, it is exactly what I need to successfully deliver events and shows. It is also equally matched by the professionalism and organisational skills of their operations team who have a great understanding of my requirements.

Jaie Genadt - Technical Director - My Beautiful City

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Testimonials

Showforce have been the crew I have relied on for years. They have dug me out of holes (sometimes literally) and made GPJ’s delivery on site possible.

Whether it was impossibly tight load ins to livery halls for Imagination, building hospitality structures on the roof of Westfield shopping centre or taking local crews in hand in Milan, Singapore or Berlin to get the job done Showforce have been there and always exceeded expectations.

Showforce should produce a wedding album of Production Managers weddings they have worked on – for my own I had 3 vans, 12 crew and Mic Murphy as chief to get everything ready for my big day – you never forget that kind of help.

Mark Bannister – Technical Director - George P Johnson

As an industry we are very quick to criticise others, while often not recognising the times when we notice colleagues (from other suppliers) working beyond the level that would normally be expected. This week is one of those cases. The incredible effort made by your team has been truly inspiring. They have done exceptional work in very difficult conditions. Your managers attention to health and safety management on site has also been outstanding. Briefings, Tool Box Talks, Planning, Welfare and your teams overall professional look and attitude have all been overviewed with great diligence.

The commitment from all your guys in all aspects of their work this week has been simply incomparable.

Chris Woodford - Head of Events - A.C.T. Health & Safety

I am proud to say that Arena Seating and Showforce have had a successful working partnership that is as strong today as it was when I first met Ian in 1992. Showforce have always been at the forefront of the industry with such great attention to detail and a brilliant dedicated and hard working team from the back office through to the crew on site. In my opinion, the true qualities of crewing company are not just measured by how well the crew perform on site but how the back office deal with the inevitable problems and changes that occur in live events, how they always manage to deal with those things and keep us ‘the client’ happy! Something that Showforce have done for us for many years now and long may it continue.

Terry Smith – Operations Director - Arena Seating

Pushing industry standards for over 25 years.

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