City marketers to remember Dave Hodgson at the BPA Summer Ball
MORE than 200 marketing and communications professionals from around Birmingham and the wider region will come together next week at a special event to remember Dave Hodgson – the former marketing director of Marketing Birmingham.
After leaving Birmingham Dave lived and worked in the Middle East in Dubai. He tragically died last December after a difficult battle with metastatic melanoma, an aggressive form of skin cancer. He was just 41.
The Birmingham Publicity Association (formerly PACE) is dedicating its Summer Ball at Villa Park next Thursday (July 5) to the memory of Dave. TheBusinessDesk.com is one of the sponsors of the event.
Attendees are being encouraged to come attired suitably in Middle Eastern dress can expect to be entertained with fire eaters, belly dancers and live music from the Decades Band.
Money raised from the ball will be split between the BPA’s adopted charities and the Skin Cancer Research Fund (SCaRF), the only UK charity looking into metastatic melanomas.
Radio presenters, and friends of Dave, Ed James from Heart Breakfast and Russ Morris from Free Radio Birmingham, will be compering the event.
Chairman of the BPA Steve Price said: “The event is coming together well and the interest among the industry has been great. We’re at double our usual attendance for this event which goes a long way to showing the depth of feeling toward Dave here in Birmingham.”
Tickets are still available for the event. Individual tickets are priced at £80 and tables of ten at £700. BPA members receive a 10% discount.
To book your place, email events@thisistheBPA.co.uk or visit www.thisistheBPA.co.uk
