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You need to talk to a tax accountant about the best way to transfer your father's shares to you.
Here's a good article I read that you made be interested in:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/tax/10421200/Passing-on-your-business-Keep-tax-bills-down.html
In that case, you will need to pay across the VAT to HMRC.
You can change over to cash accounting, so you will only pay/reclaim VAT when you have actually receive the money from customers or paid supplier invoices.
Here's some more cash accounting information...
You are offering your clients an additional service. So the money you receive from them is income and the payment you make to the organiser is an expense.
An event is organised by a third party organiser
You find out how many of your clients are interested
The organiser will give you a quote...
It's usually a lot cheaper if you could send all the files through electronically, and then go through them with the bookkeeper/accountant on the phone or email.
If you increased the price you charged your customer, and included entry to the event as an additional service, then you can claim the event entry fee as a cost of sale.