Awards Dinner ideas

The Chelsea Player of the Year Awards is the highlight of the club’s social calendar. It’s the night when players, staff, partners and supporters come together to celebrate the season and honour the people who made it. Since 2012, Peachy Productions has worked alongside Chelsea’s Special Events team to design and deliver it.

What began as a single production has grown into a long-standing creative partnership. Each year we start with a blank page and a shared ambition: create a room worthy of the club and the moment, and make sure every guest feels part of something special from the minute they walk in.

For the Music Producers Guild Awards at Grosvenor House Hotel, we built a stage and lighting package to suit a ballroom used to hosting the biggest nights in the country. A branded backdrop and repeating step-and-repeat framed a raised stage, with twin projection screens either side carrying the show content and winner reveals to every table in the room.

Moving head fixtures worked the stage and staircase entrance, while a full wash of purple and blue uplighting picked out the room's columns and mirrored walls, working with the venue's own chandeliers rather than against them. A starcloth backdrop on the staircase gave presenters a clean entrance point, and PA and control were positioned to run the whole show from one place without disrupting sightlines across the tables.

It's the kind of brief where the room does half the work, and our job is not to fight it.