science

Skiddle

Skiddle is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Skiddle rather than just read about it. In short: Skiddle Ltd is a primary ticket outlet and online events guide based in the UK, with offices in Manchester, Liverpool, London and Preston dealing with event bookings, registrations, promotion and online ticket sales. It concentrates its core business in the three main areas of gigs, clubs and festivals, plus lifestyle events such as food and drink, sports, days out and entertainment.

Key takeaways

Skiddle belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Skiddle to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Skiddle from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Skiddle Ltd is a primary ticket outlet and online events guide based in the UK, with offices in Manchester, Liverpool, London and Preston dealing with event bookings, registrations, promotion and online ticket sales. It concentrates its core business in the three main areas of gigs, clubs and festivals, plus lifestyle events such as food and drink, sports, days out and entertainment. The company has a gross turnover in excess of £100 million and over 70 employees.

History Skiddle was launched in May 2001 initially as a What's on Guide for Preston in Lancashire. It was incorporated as Skiddle Ltd in January 2006. In February 2014, Skiddle acquired new 5,000 sq ft (460 m2) premises in Longridge to support expansion. In August 2015, Skiddle launched an iOS app with mobile 'box office' functionality. The app works with Bluetooth printers and iZettle card-readers, allowing tickets to be purchased and printed closer to gig start times. In November 2015, the firm announced an intern program with the University of Salford, with the aim of giving students insights into the industry and to develop journalism skills.

Industry involvement In 2013, Skiddle announced its white-label ticket shop, already in use by Mixmag, would also be powering Debenhams' Box Office. During October 2015, Skiddle was chosen as the official ticket website for the BBC Radio 1Xtra Live event in Leeds. Skiddle has sponsored a range of festivals, tents and gigs mainly in the UK.

In 2005, the firm sponsored its first dance tent at The Wickerman Festival. At the 2010 RockNess Festival, the firm introduced the SKIDDLEBUS, a multimedia broadcast bus for live coverage allowing festival-goers to upload their content. The bus is now a regular feature at UK festivals as well as being used by the BBC. Skiddle sponsored the Bass Music Awards in 2013, its inaugural year, and continued this sponsorship through 2015. In 2015, Skiddle attended the Isle of Wight Festival, Reading and Leeds Festivals and Creamfields, providing up to 10,000 pairs of 3D-printed Wellington boots to attendees.

Charity work In 2011, Skiddle announced its sponsorship of the charity Campaign Against Living Miserably (C.A.L.M). A checkout donation scheme on the Skiddle website has helped to raise money for several UK charities. A donation in 2015 for over £15,000 was presented to the Anthony Nolan trust, with previous benefactors including Macmillan and the Disasters Emergency Committee. In 2016, Skiddle announced it would be aiming to raise £100,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support in memory of a colleague who died from cancer. This target was later increased to £300,000. The total raised to date for charities is over £300,000.

Awards Skiddle has received a Hitwise Top 10 Award every month since 2008 and in August 2011 Skiddle was awarded the Hitwise Top 6 Award, making it one of the most viewed websites in the UK within its category. In March 2012, Skiddle was awarded 'Online Business of The Year' by the Lancashire Business Review's "Red Rose Awards". In February 2016, Skiddle won 'Best Ticketing Company' at the Event Production Awards in London. In April 2017, Skiddle was awarded with two Ticketing Technology Awards, for Customer Service and Moving On Up, recognising recent innovation and focus on customer satisfaction.

References

External links Official website

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Skiddle

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Skiddle claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Skiddle before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Skiddle ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Skiddle

In research: Skiddle appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Skiddle in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Skiddle is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Companies based in Preston, Lancashire, Entertainment companies established in 2001, Listings magazines, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Skiddle outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Skiddle in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Skiddle means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Skiddle out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Skiddle in simple terms?

Why does Skiddle matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Skiddle?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Skiddle.