Bradford’s Abundant Life Conference Centre (ALCC) recently played host to the ten year anniversary of Rocknations, a conference for young people and their leaders. ALCC provided the perfect venue for the conference which aimed to teach those, aged 14 and over, strong leadership skills.

Rocknations 2010 welcomed over 1700 young people for the three day conference with sessions in the morning and evening, seminars and workshops in the afternoon and fun engaging activities such as paintball, 5 a side football and obstacle courses in the afternoons. Young people came from all across Europe and as far afield as Brazil to attend the conference where they were challenged and inspired to make positive changes in their schools, universities and communities.

Steve Gambill, Rocknations Event Organiser, said:
“Once again Rocknations was a huge success and attendees flocked from across the globe. Rocknations is a great way for the younger generation to improve their confidence so that they can develop and inspire their peers and the community in which they live. ALCC provides a great venue for our youth conference and with Rocknations expected to grow even further in 2011 we are confident that the venue will once again deliver.”

Nicola Lockwood, Business Tourism Manager for Conference Leeds, added:
“ALCC is a fantastic venue which offers a diverse space in a unique setting. The attendee figures speak for themselves and highlight the success of the annual Rocknations conference which has just celebrated its 10th anniversary. Venues like ALCC demonstrate the diversity and also the flexibility of the spaces we have in the region to host events of any scale and for every type of organiser”.

ALCC is one of the UK’s premier event venues which has a commitment to producing excellent and unique events. The ALCC can accommodate anything from a global conference, small and large exhibition space or smaller, more intimate meeting rooms.

For further information about organising an event in Leeds and West Yorkshire call
0113 220 6351 or visit www.conference-leeds.com

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Editors’ Notes:
• Conference Leeds is the official convention bureau for Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield, Wakefield and Calderdale. The “super convention bureau” represents over 260 venues and 40 suppliers.
• Conference Leeds is supported by all the local authorities in West Yorkshire; Leeds, Bradford, Wakefield, Kirklees and Calderdale as well as Welcome to Yorkshire and the private sector. Yorkshire Forward, The Regional Development Agency, funds Welcome to Yorkshire, which is charged with improving the Yorkshire and Humber visitor economy.
• Conference Leeds is the driving force of Yorkshire’s business tourism industry. Key facts include:

- business tourism generates £777m to the economy of West Yorkshire each year. – 5.79 million delegates attend business tourism events in West Yorkshire each year. – Leeds is ranked the 5th most popular destination for the corporate market in the British Meetings and Events Industry Survey 2009.

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