Maidstone Construction Professionals' Dinner 2025

Summary

The Maidstone annual Dinner is always fully booked with many companies returning 'year on year'

The event provides guests with the opportunity to network with the leaders of the south east’s building environment sector, providing a unique opportunity for like-minded professionals to meet and entertain guests in a social setting.

The CIOB Maidstone Hub committee looks forward to hosting you and your company at this event.

Speaker

The Maidstone Hub committee are delighted to be welcoming Rory Bremner - impressionist, comedian, satirist, translator, columnist, writer, presenter are among his many talents.

Rory is perhaps best known for writing and starring in the political satire show Bremner, Bird and Fortune, for nearly twenty years a mainstay of Channel 4's comedy output. He won back-to-back BAFTAs for Britain's Top Comedy Performance, together with three Royal Television Society and two British Comedy Awards.

He turned his hand, or should that be feet, to Strictly Come Dancing, and regularly appears on TV and Radio, as a performer as well as presenter, while early TV credits include Spitting Image, Whose Line is it Anyway, Have I Got News for You, Mock the Week (where he was team captain for two series), The News Quiz, The Now Show, 7 day Sunday and QI. He appeared more often than any other guest on both Wogan and Parkinson. He often featured on The Andrew Marr Show, where he reviewed current political events through his many characters.

With John Bird and John Fortune, he also wrote and appeared in numerous specials, including Between Iraq and a Hard Place, My Government and I and Silly Money, and a book, You Are Here, published in 2005 ('a stockpile of satirical ammunition'- Daily Telegraph).

He has made documentaries on Scottish Soldiers and Diaries for BBC4, traced his family history on Who Do You Think You Are (BBC), explored his own self-diagnosed ADHD on Radio 4 and starred in the hugely successful 2011 series of Strictly Come Dancing with partner Erin Boag. He does live tour shows, often with Jazz Performer Ian Shaw and comedienne Hattie Heyridge, and in 2011 began a new satirical show for Radio 4, Tonight, with Andy Zaltzman.

Meanwhile, he's translated three operas: two from French, Carmen (2001) and Orpheus in the Underworld (Scottish Opera, 2011) and one from German (Der Silbersee,1997) together with the Bertolt Brecht play A Respectable Wedding (Young Vic, 2008). He is a regular contributor to The FT, The Telegraph, The New Statesman and Radio Times, for whom he has interviewed Michael Parkinson and Sir David Frost.

When not working he enjoys travel, opera, cooking, sport (especially cricket- he had a 1985 Top 20 hit as 'The Commentators' with N.n..nineteen not out) and motor racing - he owns a 1963 Alfa Spyder and is a regular site on F1 grids.

Supported Charity

The Maidstone Hub committee are honoured to announce that their supported charity for the 2025 Dinner is the Young Lives Foundation.

About the Charity

The Young Lives Foundation (YLF), an award-winning, independent charity based in Kent. We specialize in supporting disadvantaged young people between the ages of 8 and 25, particularly those in care, on the edge of care, or in need. With expertise in advocacy and youth programmes, we aim to create a safe, supportive environment where young people are truly heard and given the resources they need to thrive.

Our Vision

We want all young people to live in communities where they are heard, are safe and supported; with opportunities to thrive.

Our Mission

We aim to support young people to thrive through highly effective and accessible programmes where young people:

• are heard and empowered.
• are supported by consistent adults through times of challenge and change.
• have opportunities and resources to be happy and thrive.

https://ylf.org.uk/

Sponsors

We would like to thank our sponsors for their support.

Dinner

Bam , Chartway Civil Engineering, Coniston Ltd, Quigg Golden

Awards

Baxall Construction, GVE Commercial Solutions

Contact

Beverley Lawrence

Maidstone Member Services and Events Co-ordinator

[email protected] / 01344 630861