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The growth of ICMS has been through repeat business and referrals from existing clients to their
colleagues. This underlines our policy of building a good working relationship with clients and
providing excellent support to conferences.
 Peter
Mainprice established Index Communications Meeting Services (often known as ‘Index’) in
1989, with the purpose of helping Organising Committees stage conferences and plan and
administrate educational meetings. The company has grown and has been involved in over 300
meetings, including workshop series, major international conferences and exhibitions making
index one the UK’s leading professional conference organising companies. It has expanded its
brief into publishing and other meeting support activities and has recently been involved in
association and client company administration.
In 2001, Peter was voted Chairman of the
Association of British Professional Conference Organisers with a keen interest in
professionalising the industry. His term ended in July 2004 and he has since chaired many
industry meetings.
Peter is responsible for the financial planning and budget design of all projects
as well as the Project Direction for all events. Additionally he advices and develops for clients the
company and charity systems needed by clients.
In 2005, Peter launched new independent
conferences, researching and designing programmes with expert input from clinical specialities
and professional organisations. Peter is responsible for the design and implementation.
 Rebecca
Lawrence Bristol (left) is the Operations Manager at Index
and has been with the firm for just over 8 years. She is responsible
for managing the Index team and the running of the office. She
is also the Project Manager on a number of the company’s major
projects and is responsible for a lot of the creative elements
in Index’s
Conference solutions.
Wendy Jeffery joined Index in January 2005 in a temporary capacity and made a quick decision
to stay. She provides top-quality administrative work, with a great eye for detail. Supporting
Peter and Rebecca on all projects and regularly communicating with delegates, speakers,
exhibitors and suppliers, Wendy acts as a very reliable foundation for all involved in our events.
Amanda Humby is a project Assistant for Index
is the Exhibitions Assistant for the company Amanda works closely with Peter and the project
teams to liaise with event exhibitors and sponsors as well as organising the logistical elements of
exhibition management. Amanda works closely on the business plan and works to market the
exhibition and sponsorship opportunities for events.
In addition she is involved in the Registration and Abstract Systems used by Index. Amanda
joined Index directly from University in 1997. After five years with the Company, she left on
maternity leave and in 2004 re-joined the Company.
 Georgina
Parker (left) is Administration Executive for one of Index’s
long-term clients, The British Association of Critical Care Nurses.
She is the BACCN’s dedicated administrator and full time development
manager, active in company and charity management.
Ben Churcher self employed Accounts Administrator operates the client projects accounts and
fulfils the company and charity account requirements. Ben has been associated with Index for
over 5 years operating and developing systems.
Access to our support companies
Today Index Communications Meeting Services, offers a stable network of independent service
providers predominantly owner managed with high levels of motivation offering a wide range of
opportunities to pick resources that match the needs of the project. Most of our suppliers and
agencies have worked with us on a long term basis due to quality and professionalism they bring
to the events.
The principal used for the Index ‘service provision model’ is that we do not restrict ourselves to in-
house executives when we can select the best solution at the time when the solution is needed.
This means the Index team can concentrate on the development and administration of a project
while relying on an out-sourced team without needing to increase internal head counts with
associated costs.
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