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10 Christmas Parties Brokering a good Christmas bash It was an on-time departure for the Broker Network at the National Railway Museum in 2018. Nikki Lee, internal and member events programme manager at the Broker Network, answers our questions hat was the brief? We held our staff Christmas party on 13 December 2018, bringing our 120 employees together to celebrate a good year and have a fun evening. Why did you choose the National Railway Museum for your Christmas party? We had previously held an event at the museum and knew that the food was guaranteed to be good! We also wanted a venue which allowed for exclusive hire of the space within our budget, which the museum delivered with bespoke exclusive Christmas Package that included an arrival drink, a delicious three-course set menu and a DJ performance. What happened throughout the event? The evening kicked off with a drinks reception in Station Hall followed by a three-course dinner, which included dishes such as red pepper and spinach roulade with garlic & chive cream cheese, heritage tomato salad and balsamic vinegar, roasted escalope of turkey with a pork and cranberry stuffing, wrapped in bacon and served with all the trimmings and a winter fruit cheesecake with star anise poached pear and vanilla Chantilly cream. We then held a charity raffle with prizes before enjoying a live band www.conference-news.co.uk and dancing, before the party ended around midnight. How were the logistics managed? The main logistics for running the event from our side were the creation of a table plan and organising transport for everyone, which we solved by arranging a coach to take us all to and from the venue. Would you recommend it? NRM was a great venue to hold our annual Christmas Party. Everything ran seamlessly, and the food was great. We received many compliments from staff, everyone enjoyed the evening and loved the venue.