Our company
Founded in 2005, First Option Venues Ltd manages an exclusive range of unique and exclusive venues/showrooms in Central London which are dry hired by clients for a wide range of events and Pop-Ups.
FOV provides consultancy to property landlords in London, the UK and globally who are looking to utilise their space or property asset(s) as a means of leveraging revenue from event activity.
FOV are able to provide a tailored Venue Search function for existing and prospective clients with specific Venue requirements.
FOV can also provide our clients with creative consultancy and strategic production expertise in terms of event conception and production.
Why should you work with First Option Venues
First Option Venues have over 15 years’ experience of managing a wide range of award winning and exclusive dry hire event spaces for a variety of Landlords.
We have incomparable experience in providing or procuring a diverse selection of superb dry hire venues for our existing and prospective clients.
We take great care to invest this professional experience to deliver the requisite support and certainty both our clients and Landlords value so much.
We are passionate about the service we provide and believe building a good customer or supplier experience does not happen by accident. It happens by design.
We would welcome the opportunity to discuss working with you and invite you to get in touch to discuss your next event project or consider your venue for hire.
Events
The company provides venues and event space for:
Product Launches Pop-Ups Experiential Events Brand Activations B2B B2C Sample Sales Seminars Exhibitions FilmingOur mission
The goal of First Option Venues is to provide customer service that is not just the best in our industry but legendary.
Meet the founder of First Option Venues
Dickon Galloway - Founder of Award Winning Venue Management & Dry Hire Venue Sourcing Agency, First Option Venues
I established First Options Venues in 2005. Based in the heart of Central London, we now produce over 200 corporate and private events around the world every year. The company has exclusive tenureship of various central London blank canvas dry hire spaces.
We are also able to source and procure specific bespoke venue options for prospective and existing clients from our extensive range of Landlord contacts in multiple locations.
Our spaces are sought and hired by our clients for a range of event types including Press Shows; Product Launches; Experiential Events; Brand Activations; B2B; B2C Events; Sample Sales; Seminars; Exhibitions and Filming.
Entrepreneurial by nature and a proud Yorkshireman, Dickon was educated at Ampleforth College and graduated with a BSc Hons degree in International Events Management from The University of Surrey.
Dickon is acknowledged as a leading expert in venue provision and management as geared to the production of brand-related events. He has worked with and for a broad-spectrum of blue-chip brands, agencies, start-ups and property Landlords.
Outside of the business Dickon is a published poet and has a passion for Indie music, photography, paddle boarding, mountain biking, skiing and the outdoors. He is an avid collector of original album artwork and sites the iconic designer Peter Saville of Factory Records fame as one of his main creative inspirations.