Daily Archives: September 24, 2012

Liz’s 3-month London 2012 Olympic/Paralympic event

Not long after the London Olympics were over, the 2012 Summer Paralympic Games began. The Opening Ceremony took place on August 29 and the games ran for the next eleven days, until the Closing Ceremony on September 9. Around 4,200 athletes, each with some form of physical or intellectual disability, competed in 503 events covering 21 sports. Around 150 countries sent athletes to compete in the London Paralympics, and over 1,000,000 seating tickets were sold.

This is where Liz was involved for the last 3 months; she worked through ILuka for BP at the Olympics and then Paralympics as Team and Ops Manager for the One Day Programme. It was very diverse, extremely busy, long working hours but most of all incredibly inspiring!

Paralympics are now done and dusted, what an amazing job and what amazing people!

Liz hopes to be involved again in 2016.

Felicity Shankar (Iluka Managing Director) and Tiffany Broome Iluka Programme Director Client Services at Para Opening Ceremony

Fancy dress With Jonny Ruddy, Venue Overlay Manager at Olympics wrap-up party

BP Team 2012 training day

Team Iluka

Fancy dress wrap up party

BP Team 2012

Paralympics athletics in the stadium - crowd of 80,000 +

International Housekeeper’s Week – PEHN Picnic at the Albert Park Lake

This event honoured the hard work of the Housekeeping Teams  and was attended by about 40 housekeeping professionals  from Clarion Suites Gateway, Park Hyatt Hotel, Radisson Hotel and Crown Towers Hotel. Suppliers were also present BlueStone Recruitment, Marie Brereton Uniforms, MCohn and Associates Linen Supplier, International Interior Images, IKON cleaning services and SleepTight Services.

This was the first time PEHN organised such an event. As usual time poor in organising the event and the weather threatening to dampen the fun, the event was a great success, attendees brought food, sandwiches from Park Hyatt and lovely scones with cream and jam, beverages contributed by Crown and chips from Radisson, BBQ and other food by PEHN.  There were games organised and  all enjoyed the fun. Including creating a hat out of materials provided. which has shown the artistic side  and resourcefulness of the housekeeping staff.  The event kicked off at around 4:30 and finished by around 6:30 just before the clouds opened up.

The event was a great success. In future we will include a similar event in our yearly calendar aiming to get the Housekeeping departments from various hotels  together at least once each year! After all, it was “International Housekeeper’s Week ! “

The next event will the Annual General Meeting in October and a PEHN Christmas Party in December, which is going to be a formal affair this year, so everyone can dress up in their finest, please check the website www.pehn.org for information. Or email us at pehn.aus@gmail.com  to include you in our email data base.

The committee would like to extend Special thanks to the organisers for all the hard work in planning and setting up , carting out all the food from the car to the site (did not have to go to the gym for a week afterwards), Margaret Fernandes – Radisson Hotel (Vice President), Marian Stratford – PEHN President, Karen Bingham – PEHN Committee, Lynabel Carreon – Clarion Suites Gateway (Committee) and as well to the above mentioned hotels and suppliers who attended and supported this event!