{"id":1912,"date":"2020-03-20T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edgbaston.com\/events\/?p=1912"},"modified":"2020-06-16T07:44:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T07:44:49","slug":"edgbaston-stadium-to-be-closed-covid-19-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edgbaston.com\/events\/news\/edgbaston-stadium-to-be-closed-covid-19-update\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Update: Edgbaston Stadium closed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Neil Snowball, Chief Executive of Warwickshire CCC and Edgbaston Stadium, said: \u201cThe impact of COVID-19 is affecting all parts of our daily lives and with the every-changing landscape it is in the best interests of our staff, players, Members, supporters and customers that we close the stadium to the public until at least 30 June, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have instigated plans that will allow the majority of our staff to work remotely across all parts of our cricket and non-match day operations and we absolutely remain contactable for enquiries during our core weekday hours of 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are of course very disappointed to take this course of action, but everyone\u2019s health and well-being is our immediate priority and we all hope that we can make a swift return to cricket and our conference and events business in the near future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe will continue to make all further updates through&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edgbaston.com\/events\"><strong>edgbaston.com\/events<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;and our social media channels.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Conference &amp; Events<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are a client and have an upcoming bookings in place, then you will be contacted by our team to discuss the options available for your event. We are doing our upmost to accommodate all events on an alternative date later in the year, once the stadium\u2019s operations are back underway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have any concerns or enquiries regarding an event, please do contact the conference and events team between 9am and 5pm, Monday to Friday, on 0121 369 1994 (option 3) or email&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:events@edgbaston.com\"><strong>events@edgbaston.com<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;and a member of the team will respond.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"post-cta\">\n            <h3>Safe Meetings &amp; Events at Edgbaston Events<\/h3>\n        \t\t<p>Edgbaston Events continues to operation Safe Meetings &amp; Events. We continue to operate under a comprehensive set new and improved health, safety and cleanliness procedures to ensure the safety of all our guests and staff.<\/p>\n<p>Get in touch today about your next event and find out how we can help you.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"post-cta__buttons\">\n\t\t\t\t    \t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/edgbaston.com\/events\/info\/contact\/\" class=\"btn \" target=\"\">\n\t\t\tContact Us\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warwickshire County Cricket Club and Edgbaston Stadium have announced that, following Government advice and discussions with the England &amp; Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and other major stakeholders, the stadium will be closed to the public with immediate effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":50742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,597],"tags":[225],"class_list":["post-1912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conferences-events","category-edgbaston","tag-edgbaston-stadium"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>COVID-19 Update: Edgbaston Stadium closed - Edgbaston Conference &amp; 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