Big Day Ltd

Nina Baxter has 40 years’ experience across event management, sales and marketing, gained across roles in travel wholesale, beauty/fashion, consumer electronics, freight, telecommunications and contract event management. In 2001 she formed Big Day Ltd to expand this knowledge and build a direct client base, delivering tailor-made, full-service event solutions to major corporates, government agencies and private clients for over 25 years. A hands-on, detail-focused “perfectionist”, Nina draws on a trusted nationwide supplier network to bring creativity, logistics expertise and budget discipline to every event she manages.

Event Types

• Conferences, AGMs & seminars
• Product & media launches
• Gala dinners & awards ceremonies
• Trade shows, exhibitions & roadshows
• Team building & staff functions
• Fully staged & themed productions
• Premises openings & brand activations
• Weddings & private functions

Production & Logistics

• Comprehensive creative & logistical planning, concept to conclusion
• Venue & location sourcing (standard & unusual locations)
• Staging, set design & build
• Lighting, sound, AV & vision (LED, projection, mapping)
• AV content production & total technical sourcing
• Pyrotechnics & lasers
• Show-calls & stage management
• Hire: marquees, flooring, fencing, power & portaloos
• Total event logistics & transportation (vehicles, people, props)
• Budget & supplier management

Event Services & Experience

• Catering: food, wine & host responsibility advice
• Theming: florals, bunting, props & bespoke displays
• Entertainment, speakers & MCs; music sourcing, composition & licensing
• Event & hospitality staffing
• Travel: flights, accommodation & transfers
• Online delegate registration, invitations & RSVPs
• Photographers, video & film crews
• Branded guest gifts, event collateral & bespoke trophies
• Full conference organisation, permits, OSH advice & event security
• Meet & greet/departure services and team building/interactive guest experiences

Key Skills & Attributes
Personal Attributes

• Highly organised
• Attention to detail
• Accountable
• Dynamic
• Responsive
• Experienced
• Solutions-based problem solver
• Can work autonomously and collaboratively

Event Management Skills

• Project management & project budgeting
• Event producer, concept through to delivery
• Development of key event documentation: runsheets, budgets, briefing sheets, table plans, session documentation, event comms etc.
• Incorporation of sponsors’ requirements
• Speaker & venue liaison
• Access to excellent supplier networks
• Excellent communication with clients, suppliers, guests & stakeholders

And then In 2025, she added an additional service to the company, Big Day Coach. Nina focused on personal leadership development using tools such as:

• Meta Dynamics™
• Profiling Tool
• Critical Alignment model
• Inner child/ Attachment style
• Tribal cycle/ Self-esteem triad
• Needs & Emotions/ Emotional regulation; which can be done on a one to one basis or as a group facilitation.

By building more confident leaders, Nina helps them share their knowledge & skills to their company & clients on a day-to-day basis or through the events she curates for them. She loves helping their events clients, create and tell stories, and for their coaching clients- she loves helping them unpack their story.

What Our Event Clients Say

“The best night at a conference weekend for years.” – Bell Gully Solicitors

“They ‘made our day’; we just turned up. A pleasure to work with.” – Tower Financial Services

“Nina and her team bent over backwards to accommodate our needs and delivered every step of the way.” – Cognition Education

“All credit to you for pulling it together at such short notice. You will get more business from us out of this.” – Perpetual Guardian

“Made everything happen as planned, on time and within budget.” – Smith & Smith

“It was like having close friends there to help.” – Steve & Wendy Butler

“We honestly could not have done this without you.” – Matt & Jade Alexander-Dodd

What Clients say about Big Day Coach

“I have been working with Nina over the past eight months or so and it has been invaluable to me both personally and for our business, Cliffe Consulting Limited.

In a personal capacity, we have been doing a (very) deep dive into my personal ‘superpowers’ and stretch areas, understanding my characteristics/traits and figuring out where my strengths are best utilised. Nina has also worked with my staff members individually having similar conversations with them which has been fantastic for their own personal development and understanding their own strengths and stretch areas both personally and professionally. The culmination of this was using all these insights in an amazing offsite day that Nina facilitated for the whole team, with the goal being to improve the way that Cliffe Consulting operates. We discussed my vision and purpose for the company, and together worked on a vision and mission, identifying our shared values and what we need to support these ideas. We came away with a whole bunch of action items so that we can serve our clients better and grow the business holistically, where the team feel valued and supported to perform their roles, and we can have replicable systems and structures in all areas of the business to increase efficiency and effectiveness.

I would highly recommend working with Nina both personally and as a business owner. It has been invaluable to me personally and to our company.” – Rachelle Bland, Cliffe Consulting