Founded in the early 90's and based in Edinburgh, Unique Events is Scotland’s leading independent events and festivals creation company. Unique has created and produced a huge range of events throughout Scotland, from sports gatherings to street parties, classical music to rock/pop festivals; an unparalleled range of indoor and outdoor, ticketed and free events. Unique specialises in large-scale public events and festivals working closely with government agencies, local authorities and enterprise companies as well as the private sector. For 24 years Unique Events created and produced the world-famous Edinburgh’s Hogmanay festival, which has welcomed over 3.5M visitors since it began in 1993 and annually generated over £40m for the local economy, with 150,000 visitors from over 80 countries joining the celebrations. With over 20 years’ experience within the Edinburgh’s Festivals, event and music industry, Director’s Alan Thomson & Penny Dougherty have a small, dedicated full-time team engaged throughout the year on a selected portfolio of projects working with Scotland’s top freelance Event Producers to deliver specific events. Unique Events portfolio of events includes Edinburgh’s Hogmanay, Sleep in the Park & World's Big Sleep Out, Illuminight at Dean Castle Country Park, Burns&Beyond Festival, Official Opening of the Queensferry Crossing, MTV Awards Edinburgh, Opening of the Scottish Parliament, UEFA Champion’s League Final Glasgow and more...I've worked for Unique Events for over twenty years as part of an amazing team of event producers, delivering some of Scotland's largest and most high-profile public events. Working from the ground up, I've worked on every aspect of event management and production from programming and creative, health & safety, crowd management, production, PR & marketing of events.For more information visit www.unique-events.co.uk