Venues, Halls & Meeting Rooms to Hire in for you Wedding – Venkey

Overview This London riverside hotel boasts 801 bedrooms, 19 meeting rooms with the largest having capacity for 550 people, complimentary high speed Wi-Fi for everyone everywhere, fitness centre, car parking and a terrace with unrivalled views of Tower Bridge, The Shard and the Thames. Location, capacity and connections; these are just some of the reasons our guests tell us why they choose the Tower Hotel. Nestled between the River Thames and St Katharine’s Dock and alongside two world Heritage Sites – Tower Bridge and the Tower of London, the Tower Hotel is within easy reach of the financial district, Canary Wharf, the Excel Centre, London City airport, historic Greenwich, the West End and Westfield Shopping Centre – making it the most sought after location in London. What better way to start your day, enjoying a scrumptious traditional English breakfast at the Gallery Restaurant. Freshly prepared modern fusion cuisine is served at the Brasserie Restaurant. With London at its best in the evening, the Xi Bar has a great atmosphere, with an extensive drinks menu and a view overlooking the beautifully lit Tower Bridge and the Shard. With superb transportation links, The Tower Hotel puts you at the very centre of this vibrant city: • Five minutes walk from Tower Hill station for access to London Underground and Tower Gateway for Docklands Light Railway • Five minutes walk from Thames Clippers connecting you to the city via the Thames • Less than 10 minutes walk to Fenchurch Street station • Only 30 minutes from London City airport Gallery The Gallery plays host to a unique mix of events overlooking one of London’s best kept secrets, St. Katharine’s Docks. Enjoy breakfast at our stunning restaurant, with floor to ceiling windows overlooking the beautiful marina. We understand how important breakfast is and we can guarantee that the breakfast at the Gallery will help you get the best start to your day. Breakfast is served Monday – Friday: 06:30am – 10.00am Saturday – Sunday: 06:30am – 11.00am If you have booked one of our meeting rooms, the Gallery offers lunch with different cuisines each day, offering great variety even for clients holding meetings and events over several days. The Gallery is also available for private hire. If you are looking for a venue for that special occasion then you need to look no further. This restaurant can cater for functions of up to 180 people, either by hiring the whole restaurant or just part of it. The Gallery is a great venue to celebrate anything from corporate dinners, birthdays, leaving dos, anniversaries, weddings to team building nights. Seating can be formal or informal and we can host anything from intimate gatherings for 50 people to large events. Brasserie If you like your surroundings to be as appetising as your food, we recommend the Brasserie overlooking the Tower Bridge. Offering a seasonal British menu, the restaurant is an extraordinary place to enjoy great food with,sensational views. Brasserie is ideal for afternoon business lunches, with its du jour menu, and evening diners can enjoy a glass of wine after dinner while soaking up those stunning views. To book your meeting visit guoman.com/tower Call 020 7423 8853 or email m&esales.tower@Guoman.co.uk

Town Hall, Birmingham The beautifully-restored Town Hall is available to hire for your own private or corporate event. Since the official re-opening in October 2007 the venue has hosted a range of events for invited guests including banquets, dinners, award ceremonies, conferences, exhibitions and drinks receptions. Town Hall’s photogenic qualities make it a striking choice for exclusive fashion shows, product launches as well as weddings. Imposing Romanesque columns surround the building whilst the beautiful interior and magnificent organ pipes provide a stunning stage backdrop. The distinctive and inspiring main hall has state of the art lighting and excellent acoustics which will only serve to enhance your experience. Situated in the heart of Birmingham city centre, this beautiful and iconic building is the ideal venue for a unique and memorable event. Following a £35 million renovation and its re-opening in 2007, Town Hall’s civic status has been fittingly restored as one of the oldest concert venues in Europe. Excellent access to public transport links locally, nationally and internationally makes Town Hall Birmingham the first choice for events designed to impress. Banqueting: The impressive and imposing setting of Town Hall is the perfect backdrop for a banquet or gala dinner for up to 300 guests. With a lighting package included in the venue hire that enhances the beautiful original features of the venue, including the organ, very little else is required to give your event the 'wow' factor. The front-of-house foyer, Circle Bar and Lower Bar can be transformed for drinks receptions and servicing points. Conferences and Exhibitions: Located in the heart of Birmingham's city centre, Town Hall is the ideal location to host a conference, AGM, convention or exhibition. Many influential figures have given speeches here too. As part of the £35m renovation project the venue has been furnished with high quality seating, natural lighting and in-house technical equipment and stage furniture included as part of the venue hire package. The venue can hold up to 920 guests without catering or 600 guests with catering. The front-of-house foyer, Circle Bar and Lower Bar can also be transformed for breakout sessions, as networking areas or buffet servicing points. Weddings: As one of the most unique venues in the city, this is the perfect place to have your wedding as it will provide the perfect backdrop for your special day. You will have exclusive use of the building and the exceptional Joseph Hansom suite which is ideal for the bride or groom to relax in before the wedding or steal some moments together alone afterwards. A dedicated team of in-house staff will assist with the arrangements of private events from the planning stages through to overseeing the event on the day. Our fixed platforms are ideal for presentations and guest speakers and incorporate a stage with two risers and a stage lift. Please note that the menu and beverage pricing is exclusive of venue hire rates.

Twickenham Stadium “the home of English Rugby” with its truly unique surroundings is an ideal location for any style of event. Various size rooms are located over three levels and across all four wings of the stadium many boosting spectacular pitch side views. Our purpose built conferencing centre in our South Stand offers a variety of integrated and flexible space specifically designed to host conferences, exhibitions, product launches and can host events from 8 – 1,180 guests. There is a state of the art auditorium, 1,100 square metres of exhibition space and numerous breakout rooms all within close proximity. The South Stand allows easy internal access to the Marriott hotel and fitness centre and has a number of built in bars and interconnecting rooms offering further flexibility. Our competitive day delegate packages include room hire, audio visual and catering throughout the day. 100mg of Wi-Fi is available and is not only complimentary but reliable and robust. The sacred confines of the recently refurbished England changing room is brought to life with ambient lighting and rugby memorabilia creating a unique dining experience. Combined with a pre-dinner drinks reception by the side of the hallowed Twickenham turf and in the player’s tunnel, adds a true taste of English rugby to your event. Twickenham Stadium offers on-site complimentary parking with 2,000 spaces available. Convenient transport links just 20 minutes from central London and only 6 miles from London Heathrow. Our on-site award winning caterers offer a variety of delicious menus to satisfy our guests. English Rugby is going from strength to strength in 2015 and never has there been a better time to associate strong business messages with the equity that is England. Related Articles View more articles

MEETinLEEDS is the brand name of the conference, meeting, training, and events facilities of the University of Leeds. The University of Leeds is centrally located between London and Edinburgh and is connected by excellent road, rail and air links. The traffic-free main campus is situated just five minutes' walk from the cosmopolitan city centre of Leeds, the UK's favourite city. During vacation periods, access to the full range of facilities on site offers a wide range of capacities, including up to 550 delegates in the state-of-the-art Conference Auditorium. A mixture of standard and ensuite bedrooms are also available during this period, offering the perfect location for organisations searching for large-scale residential venues for conferences and meetings. With the addition of 3000m² of exhibition space, it is possible to host linked events requiring extensive floor space for static displays or exhibitions. Just a half mile from the main campus, Devonshire Hall offers self-contained facilities capable of hosting day meetings throughout the year for up to 65 delegates. Set within Oxbridge-style grounds, Devonshire Hall offers a tranquil location in which to really get down to business. Complementing these venues is the newly-refurbished Function Floor at University House, on the main campus, offering banqueting and fine dining facilities for up to 100 people. Add to this the provision of high quality catering, full audio-visual support and a Day Delegate Rate from just £29.50 + VAT and you can see why the University of Leeds is the perfect choice for any event. Related Articles View more articles

At Yarnfield Park we help people and organisations from a diverse range of sectors to achieve their conference, training and development goals. We have a successful track record in delivering residential conference and training programmes for association, government and corporate clients. We offer over 25 diverse meeting spaces ranging from large conference suites for 450 to small boardrooms for 10. Allied to this we have one of the UK’s fastest free internet and Wi-Fi solutions, 338 on-site bedrooms, plenty of outdoor space for teambuilding, free car parking and a central UK location just 10 minutes off the M6 in Staffordshire, halfway between Birmingham and Manchester. The venue has both the AIM and Compliant Venues accreditations. Our main conference centre forms the hub of Yarnfield Park with over 25 meeting and event spaces, our restaurant, Costa coffee, bar and atrium. The Knighton suite, our largest conference room, can accommodate up to 450 delegates theatre style, and includes a comprehensive technical package, comprising of twin projectors, microphones, staging and registration area. The Howden and Leighton Suites can both seat up to 250 delegates or can be subdivided to form 4 x 125 delegate breakout spaces. All 3 of these suites are then supported by 18 other meeting rooms, ranging from the 130 delegate capacity Willow and Maple suites through to 6 small syndicate rooms. The atrium is both the home to our registration area but also forms a dedicated exhibition area, perfect for both shell scheme and pop up stands. The restaurant can seat up to 300 in the main area and offers a private dining option for up to 270 in The Oak Suite. We offer a full breakfast service ranging from cereal through to a fully cooked breakfast whilst our lunch and dinner services range from a comprehensive choice of hot dishes through to soups and salads. Our food is prepared fresh on site by our large kitchen brigade who have developed an excellent reputation for the quality and range available. Our internet and Wi-Fi solution is one of the fastest operating at any venue in the UK. We offer a free 300Mbps dedicated service which allows for up to 800 devices to be connected concurrently. This lends itself perfectly for the increasingly popular hybrid events or for learning based programmes involving access to cloud based learning materials. Additionally we offer a comprehensive in-house supply of audio visual facilities from PA systems to projectors, along with an experienced team of event co-ordinators. We also have 400 free car parking spaces for our guests.

Founded in 1826 ZSL London Zoo’s stylish suites, contemporary meeting rooms and private outdoor spaces look out onto exotic animals within 36 acres of zoological gardens. The Prince Albert Suite with its tranquil lawn and private terrace is our largest indoor entertaining space, accommodating up to 260 in a banqueting style or 300 for a reception or in theatre style. Regally decorated with a neutral palette of greens, creams and whites, this suite boasts its own AV equipment, fixed bar, dance floor, masses of natural daylight, wall to wall windows and traditionally high ceiling. The beautiful grade II listed Mappin Pavilion is an elegant, bright entertaining space for up to 80 seated guests. Boasting floor to ceiling windows, white pillars and wooden floors it is perfect for both conferences and presentations or seasonal parties and weddings alike. Overlooking wallabies and emus in their homely Australian Outback with the rear providing stunning views of Regent’s Park. ZSL London Zoo’s main reception also acts as a corporate business centre, offering air conditioning, free Wi-Fi and modern AV facilities. Here you can find a tiered lecture theatre with a private foyer and a contemporary meeting room. The brand new Terrace Restaurant and events facility is housed in the Zoo’s historic Regents Building. It is a visually stunning new space that features a double height 40ft ceiling and is overlooked by a beautiful mezzanine level that leads onto an upper terrace deck designed to afford unique views across the Zoo. Delight your guests with a drinks reception in one of our spectacular animal houses, or treat them to an animal experience or encounter. By holding your event with us, you will be directly contributing to our global conservation projects helping critically endangered animals and their habitats.

At Stadium MK home of Arena MK and DoubleTree by Hilton Milton Keynes we’ve got everything you need to run a successful event under one gigantic roof. Our blank canvas Arena MK provides Event Organisers with 3,420m2 of multi-use space. Spread over three floors it includes; two balcony areas, green rooms, production offices and smaller breakout areas. We can accommodate up to 3,500 delegates for a conference, 4,606 with arena style seating and a whopping 5,000 for a music event. We understand that no two events are the same and that is why our large purpose built indoor venue has been constructed to be as flexible as possible. In addition Event Organisers can ‘flow’ their event into the on-site DoubleTree by Hilton Milton Keynes which has 19 additional event spaces including a large Ballroom along with many smaller spaces which have views over the pitch at Stadium MK. The hotel also provides 304 stylish bedrooms including suites and family rooms. If you need more space there is Stadium MK itself with 32,000 seats and a 360’ covered concourse area. Getting to Milton Keynes really couldn't be any easier. Stadium MK has over 1,450 car parking spaces plus we are conveniently located just off the M1 between Birmingham and London, Cambridge and Oxford. By train central London is just 32 minutes away and Birmingham New Street 52 minutes. A staggering 18 million people live within a one hour drive.

Historic surroundings, contemporary style hotel in Hemel Hempstead A quiet woodland backdrop between Hemel Hempstead and St Albans set in 9 acres of rolling English countryside, sets the scene for a stay that's well and truly relaxing. Whether you're on business or just taking a break; and whilst our heritage stretches back to 1287, we've been brought bang up to date with fresh contemporary interiors including our light, airy Brasserie serving great seasonal food. From boardroom to ballroom we have the space that meets your requirements With seven different event suites, Aubrey Park offers you a choice of venues to suit your personalised business needs and create the ideal setting for your conference or event. Whether it is an intimate board meeting or a corporate gala event, all our meeting rooms can be combined and adapted to a wide range of sizes and formats. Book an appointment with us today to visit our event rooms where our team of experts will be delighted to show you round the venue and discuss the range of options we are able to offer. When it comes to corporate dining Aubrey Park is committed to providing the best possible personalised dining experience for our guests, whether it is an intimate business dinner, large corporate function, charity fundraiser or association event. Our chefs' aim to find the finest and freshest English ingredients, often sourced locally in Hertfordshire, and ensure menus are prepared to exquisite perfection and served by our professional and friendly staff. Aubrey Park has been awarded with one AA Rosette. Related Articles View more articles

Situated in the heart of Bath, our venues offer both historical interest and flexibility for conferences, dinners, exhibitions and weddings. The Bath Assembly Rooms is the city’s premier conference and meeting venue. Situated close to many of the city's hotels and amenities and with a capacity for up to 500 delegates, plus additional space for catering and exhibitors, organisers will find that conferences and meetings are both rewarding and stress-free. With stunning chandeliers in all rooms, the Assembly Rooms also makes a splendid setting for a large conference dinner, perhaps with a pre-dinner reception in the Octagon. Roman Baths & Pump Room Built in 1795 as the focal point of Georgian society, the Pump Room is still the social heart of this World Heritage Site. Spa water still flows from the fountain overlooking the natural hot spring. The Pump Room and the Roman Baths are available for private hire in the evening. The Pump Room can accommodate up to 200 people for a dinner or 300 in theatre style. For up to 80 people it is hard to imagine a more magical setting than the Terrace, overlooking the torch-lit waters of the Roman Baths. With steam rising gently from the water and torches flickering, few venues can surpass the unique ambience of the Roman Baths for a drinks reception. Guildhall The magnificent Banqueting Room at the Guildhall is perhaps the finest Georgian interior in Bath. It is a masterpiece of neo-classical decoration with sumptuous plasterwork and gilding, three glorious 18th century chandeliers and a large collection of royal portraits. Up to 360 people can be accommodated in theatre style or up to 200 for a dinner. In addition, there are a number of smaller breakout rooms making the Guildhall an ideal choice for conferences or dinners. Victoria Art Gallery This lovely building in the heart of the city houses a fine collection of paintings, sculpture and decorative arts. The building consists of the grand Upper Gallery and a more contemporary Lower Gallery, with an inviting marble entrance hall and grand staircase. Surround yourself with history and creativity at a wedding ceremony or drinks reception. Related Articles View more articles

Battersea Arts Centre is a Grade II* listed Victorian town hall housing almost 80 unique rooms and event spaces. Our commercial hires sit alongside theatre productions and community projects, and we can accommodate anywhere between 2 and 1000 attendees in a single space. Our skilled in-house catering team have designed, made and served at a host of events, from intimate business breakfasts to multi-course banquets. We pride ourselves on providing a bespoke service, with quality, homemade food at its heart. Battersea Arts Centre is a working theatre, with a full-time production & technical team. We have a range of packages to suit every event, including specialist lighting, staging and sound services.

Located in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, The Bull has intimate charm. Originally built as a coaching inn, its current interior is a mixture of contemporary and traditional elements, offering a venue for any occasion, from company training courses to dinner dances. The hotel features 13 meeting rooms in total, across four main suites, including the classic Bulstrode Suite, overlooking the hotel gardens, and the contemporary Thames Suite, with a private terrace and reception area. The Bull has the flexibility to host events from 10 to 200 people, with an experienced team of specialists at your disposal. The hotel also features a total of 150 en-suite bedrooms with modern amenities. Public areas include the Beeches Restaurant, which serves classic English food with a modern twist, the Conservatory Lounge for a quick bite or drinks, and the traditional Jack Shrimpton Bar. Its beautifully landscaped gardens are ideal for various outdoor events, including small team building activities, outdoor receptions and barbecues. Conveniently located between junctions 1 and 2 of the M40 and close to the M25 and M1 motorways, The Bull is easily accessible, with guests benefiting from a complimentary car park. It also offers superb access to public transport; Gerrards Cross mainline station is only ½ mile away, with direct access to London Marylebone. Heathrow Airport is also just 12 miles away. An event manager will take care of logistics, and a function manager will be at your service throughout your event. We can arrange full catering, or your group can enjoy a meal in Beeches Restaurant, Jack Shrimpton Bar and the Conservatory Lounge. Free WiFi and iPass connectivity mean delegates can stay connected throughout the event. Most rooms are equipped with projectors and built-in screens as well as adjustable mood lighting. Your event manager can arrange a PA system, video conferencing and any other technical equipment you need. Nothing is too much trouble for our team, so let us know your requirements and we will create the right package for you

CEME Conference Centre is a Gold accredited purpose-built, ultra-modern events and conference venue located on an 18 acre business, education and research campus in East London with close proximity to The City and Canary Wharf. This modern contemporary building offers innovative, stylish, flexible and highly competitive solutions for all event and meetings requirements from a high-tech 120 seat auditorium, to flexible meeting and conference rooms for from 3 to 350 delegates and up to 800 delegates for receptions. We can also accommodate 1600 delegates for Exhibitions. Supported by an experienced events team dedicated to the highest standards of quality and service at very competitive prices, CEME Conference Centre is Accredited in Meetings’ at the highest Gold Standard with the Meetings Industry Association – the only venue in Essex or East London to achieve Gold and is a ‘World Host’ venue for the delivery of exceptional customer service and members of ‘Conference Centres of Excellence’. We abide by our customer charter and the Meetings Industry Code of Practice to deliver outstanding value with the highest levels of quality and service Dedicated Event Management and AV services CEME is a ‘not for profit’, regeneration charity offering exceptional value and are signed up to Fair Pricing Policy Only 15 minutes from The City and Canary Wharf - ‘City Quality, without City Prices!’ Member of ‘Inclusive London’ for the provision of mobility access and DDA compliance with level access throughout the site From film shoots and product launches to business presentations and training seminars, large conferences, exhibitions and receptions with some of the most competitive Day Delegate Rates in London, Essex or beyond. Related Articles View more articles