After many years of experience in conference and event management, Nicola set up Hg3 Conferences Ltd in 2009 and has continued to successfully provide conference and event management solutions to a wide range of clients.

In her earlier working years, Nicola was employed by a charitable organisation as part of their in-house conference team delivering an annual conference and many other events throughout the year.

Prior to setting up Hg3 Conferences, Nicola worked for a well established conference agency managing an events team and ensuring the successful delivery of many events a year for a number of clients, performing on budget and to tight deadlines.

After graduating from Manchester with a retail marketing degree, Charlotte joined a large UK supermarket as a buyer, involving plenty of worldwide travel visiting suppliers. Recently married Charlotte decided to join Hg3 Conferences as a lifestyle choice to enable her to work closer to her family home.

Charlotte is a great asset to the company as she brings her wealth of experience and skills with her to continue the success of Hg3 Conferences. With a buying background she brings a keen eye for detail and a can do attitude. A keen enthusiast of sustainability, Charlotte is always questioning how we work as a business and what we can offer our clients.

In Charlotte’s spare time she likes to spend time planning holidays, is a keen countryside walker and enjoys socialising with friends.

Anna is a First-Class BA (Hons) Events Management graduate from the UK Centre of Events Management with over 6 years of experience within the events and hospitality sector, with expertise around developing, organising, and delivering events.

Over the years, Anna has worked on a wide range of events including weddings, charity events, music and film festivals and corporate events. Through this, Anna has crafted her skillset of event planning, time management and organisation to a very high standard.

Alongside her role as Events Coordinator, Anna also manages the Hg3 social media channels, striving to grow the brands online presence.

In her spare time, Anna enjoys interior design and is an online fashion seller aiding and supporting sustainable fashion.

Ellie has a diploma in business admin and an extended diploma in Aviation Operations. Ellie has gained important skills and experience whilst completing her Duke of Edinburgh, sailing around Europe as crew and travelling to Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. Ellie then went on to working as an estate agent and working at weddings, fuelling her desire to work in events. More recently, in her spare time Ellie has qualified as a Sports Massage Therapist to extend her knowledge.

Ellie is very motivated to achieve deadlines, works well under pressure and thrives on working in a team environment to deliver the very best results and customer service for our clients.

In her spare time, Ellie enjoys playing sport, socialising with friends, and going for long walks in the countryside with her Husband and very energetic Cocker Spaniel.

Neil is responsible for several functions within the business from the onsite event logistics to office facilities management alongside health and safety and human resources including recruitment.

Instrumental in acquiring the current Harrogate office site close to the centre of Harrogate in autumn 2013 and project managing the complete rebuild and refurbishment into the present-day company offices, which have been occupied by the business since 2015.

A university graduate with a keen eye for detail, following 25 years of managerial experience in the transport & distribution industry, Neil provides a valuable support role to the present day Hg3 conference and membership team.

Hg3 Conferences was set up by Neil and Nicola in 2009 at their Harrogate home in the HG3 postcode, hence the business name.

Hobbies include Golf, Skiing, travel, countryside hill walking followed by some nice food and a pint of real ale.

Rob has worked with Hg3 Conferences for 3 years now and enjoys the variety and challenges that the work gives him.

Rob has had a varied career – having originally trained as an actor, he has also worked in Front of House management for venues, worked in Autistic Spectrum Disorder education and also as a graphic designer. Making sure that each client has all of the support they need for a successful event is key to Rob’s role at Hg3, and with an eye for detail and a logical approach to problem solving, he aims to go above and beyond with the events he works on – both on and off site.

When not in the office, Rob enjoys hiking, cryptic crosswords and baking.

A passionate Public Relations student of the Leeds Beckett Business School, Laura is currently on placement here at Hg3 Conferences gaining professional event industry and conference coordinating experience.

Laura comes from a background of performing arts and studying visual Photography and Art Design, which explains her enthusiasm for all things social media and other creative aspects of the job. Laura has experience in multiple marketing roles and over 5 years of customer-facing hospitality work, yet has a strong desire to learn and challenge herself with tasks outside of her comfort zone here at Hg3.

Laura is a confident communicator and enjoys building relationships with people which makes her most motivated when working in a team environment.

In her spare time, Laura enjoys playing social netball, attending music events and creating online content as a promotional ambassador of her university.

Agne has a degree in social work, and after a few years in the job she looked for change and found her interest in hospitality. Working for various large hotel companies found her passion in running meetings and events and later got involved in the conference planning and has experience in organising corporate meetings, weddings, and events.

Agne thrives from the satisfaction you get from a well organised conference and always aims to get the best results. Working at Hg3 is a great opportunity to learn more and expand her knowledge by organising conferences, looking after memberships, and gaining event secretarial experience.

In her free time, you will find her climbing mountains, riding a bike, or going for long hikes with her dog. Agne likes to stay active and keep herself busy at work and during her free time.

Louise has many years of experience working in Finance departments in variety of industries, including for a firm of Actuaries and Pension Consultants in Harrogate for 20 years and a Housing Association in North Leeds, she is now managing the finance and accounts here at Hg3.

She has 2 grown up children and loves to spend time with them as well as with her dog Nellie.  Louise loves to walk around the countryside where she lives.  Her other interests outside work include cooking and baking and sharing the results with friends and family.

Monty Hardaker joined the company full time in Autumn 2019, originally from Sheffield. Monty’s role is that of zoom meeting co-ordinator and he is a keen advocate of the use of the mute button during zoom calls and will always do his best to catch anyone out, not using this feature correctly.

His preferred office time is the moment he arrives with the anticipation of meeting his best mate Reggie.

A real hard worker and always eager to work overtime, persuasion is usually called for at the end of each working day to get him to leave the office in a timely manner.

Reggie Turpin hails from Shropshire and is loving his new home town of Harrogate, whilst the offices are ideally located close to Harrogate town centre, the very nature of Harrogate with the famous Stray provides plenty of wide open spaces within easy reach for him to stretch his long legs.

Reggie has a keen interest in both the security and logistics for the business, working full time and with a height advantage he is the early warning mechanism for the morning postman and all parcel deliveries.

He really does love to tease Monty with his superior agility, but does suffer from FOMO, the fear of missing out and will take every opportunity to hotdesk around the office the very moment Monty moves.