Exciting opportunity?

Yesterday at work I received an email inviting me to the Huddersfield Examiner (our local newspaper) Community Awards. Our company sponsors the event and each year a handful of lucky employees who have done valuable work in the community are selected to attend the evening which (I think) sees local heroes rewarded for there bravery and services to the community. We get to go as representatives of the sponsor.....which seems pretty cool.

But I'm not sure if I want to go or not. It means spending the evening with a bunch of big wigs from work and some other people who I don't really care to spend my night off with. So what do you think? Exciting opportunity? Completely boring? Should I be dusting off my ball gown? :)