Celebrity & Private Parties

Getting into celebrity event management relies heavily on the amount of experience you have. This can be hard to get, especially at the ‘private’ end of celebrity events. However, there are ways to increase your experience and chances of success:

• Volunteer at general events which have celebrity involvement, such as charity awards and sports tournaments. Charities welcome volunteers as it helps them to keep overall costs low and maximise fundraising, and it can mean you gain some great experience and opportunities to network.
• Volunteer at industry events which naturally involve celebrities. For instance, our students and alumni have the chance to volunteer for the event team at The Brits: making a real difference to the smooth running of the event itself and to their own CVs! Read more about what some of our students said about having this opportunity through Event Academy.

Taking our industry respected, CIM-accredited events qualification which offers access to volunteering, hands-on experience and maybe even a work placement in this area of event management.

Whether you’re switching careers, improving your current skills or starting out with event management, we have courses which can fit flexibly with what you need: online, or full, or part-time live courses here with us in London. You can also study at whichever level suits you:

• Foundation – an intensive, level 3 qualification to introduce you to the events industry.
• Diploma – a level 4 certified qualification covering everything you need to know about the fundamentals of event management – and then some!
• Postgraduate – a level 7 qualification with an initial 3 months of learning, volunteering and practice, followed by 3 months of optional work placement.
• Degree-alternative – progressing from level 3 to level 7, this combination of our Foundation, Diploma and Postgraduate courses is around a third of the cost and time of a traditional degree course and offers live event management, optional work placement and individual mentoring.

An events role within many sectors such as charity and corporate can offer the chance to work with celebrities. Working with Event Agencies can also boost your opportunities in the world of celebrity events.

For talented freelancers with an eye for event management in the celebrity sphere, setting up your own event company is also possible.

Working with PR agencies which may be media, brand-development and entertainment-based offering celebrity-centred potential.