My internship has officially begun after my
first full day at the Dine for Life headquarters. Before I get into what I got
up to I’ll give you a little run down about what Dine for Life is all about. Basically
the organisation is a non-for profit high profile dining event that give one
hundred percent of funds to a different human trafficking charity each year. A
truly special and unique idea that has been tremendously successful in the past
and will hopefully continue to be this year with my help of course.
Dine for Life was founded by two talented
ladies who wanted to use their business skills to give back something to the
world. Essentially, it is an event of luxury dining at twenty of Perth’s finest
restaurants, followed by a secret after party, for a number of Perth’s high
calibre guests. My job as an events intern will involve various tasks to
initiate and plan the event and assist with public relations duties to promote
Dine for Life’s objectives, before and after the event.
This week was already exciting. First on
the list was to develop a telephone pitch and gathered sponsorship ideas for the
‘foodie’ goodie bags, received by guests on the evening of the event. Putting
this pitch into practice will be on next weeks agenda and to me is rather
daunting, however I’m up for a challenge and will learn by doing! Today, I also
sent out various emails with my co-intern Sonja, to various restaurants
following up on their M.O.U’s (memorandum of understanding) or basically the
contract outlining what was required of each restaurant sponsor and what they
would receive in return.
This week I also attended a meeting at the
secret after party location (of which I cannot divulge) while the founder
Andjelka discussed ideas with the public relations person of the location. The
day consisted of lighting and sound discussions, then MOU and contract
talk. Overall and extremely
insightful and exciting week, I can’t wait until we next meet!
