Well Met Conferencing’s award-winning venue the Rose Bowl recently played host to the inaugural interdisciplinary International Sports Medicine, Science and Performance conference. The two day event was a great success and saw attendees from a variety of sectors and organisations including, leading sports medicine doctors, commercial suppliers, Directors of Governing Bodies of Sport, Physiotherapists from professional sports clubs, Olympic and Commonwealth Games practitioners and academia.

The event, which was attended by over 140 professionals, was interactive and interdisciplinary with well received keynote addresses from impressive home and international speakers as well as special practical sessions on innovations in sport and the Commonwealth Games. Delegates enjoyed visiting the commercial exhibition of over a dozen firms representing established and new products and services in sports and excerise medicine.

Kate Pitcher, Business Development Manager for Well Met Conferencing, said:
“It is a great honour for Well Met Conferencing to be chosen as a host venue for such key events like the Sports Medicine and Science Conference. The Rose Bowl provided the perfect venue for such a significant event and the first rate service from the Well Met team along with the building’s iconic structure made for a memorable event.”

The International Sports Medicine, Science and Performance conference was just one event recently that contributed to a month of bookings at Well Met Conferencing worth over £333,000.

Well Met Conferencing manages a wide range of venues and spaces as well as providing experienced event management services for both internal and external clients. Well Met’s portfolio ranges from urban and parkland venues including the Rose Bowl, Carnegie Village, The Old School Board and the Gandhi Hall which collectively provide the perfect destination for conferences, meetings and exhibitions to product launches, dinners, filming, corporate away days and team building events.

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For further details about Leeds Met’s Conferencing facilities please contact the conference and events team at Leeds Met on 0113 812 8555 or email conferences@leedsmet.ac.uk.

Notes for editors:
Leeds Met Offers
• 3 brand new signature buildings representing £177 m investment
• Dedicated meeting rooms
• 17 lecture theatres, maximum capacity 256
• City centre or parkland setting
• Complimentary Wifi
• High quality catering
• Professional crew and event staff
• Summer school accommodation competitively prices
• Clients include; NHS, Leeds City Council, Royal Bank of Scotland, Leeds Building Society, Leeds Teaching Hospitals, Ladbrokes, Marks & Spencer and Yorkshire Water.
• Leeds Metropolitan University has 30,000 students and over 300,000 associate students through its partnerships with 24 colleges.
• The University’s new iconic Rose Bowl building was awarded Best Commercial Property Development in the 2009 Yorkshire Property Awards.
• The University has achieved its best ever Research Assessment Exercise results. Sports-Related Studies is in the top 6 institutions in the country with research rated at the highest levels of 4* and 3*.
• The University scored highly in the Times Higher’s Student Experience and was ranked 2nd in the category ‘Good library and library opening hours’.
• Leeds Metropolitan University won the ‘Coaching Environment of the Year’ award at the sports coach uk 2008 UK Coaching Awards and was announced as the home of the UK Centre for Coaching Excellence.
• The University is home to The UK Centre for Coaching Excellence.
• Leeds Met Carnegie is the primary partner of rugby league’s Carnegie Challenge Cup