Whether you are hosting an annual fundraiser or a partypoker extravaganza, birthday bash or hen night, you have dozens of places to choose from. Our list is quite varied, so you are sure to find a venue at a convenient location and within a reasonable budget. We want you and your invitees to enjoy the event to the fullest, and that is only possible when the venue is perfect! We offer free consultations if you have any questions or need advice on hiring the right spot. It might be tricky if this if your first time– you need to be aware of some rules and regulations in certain cases. A well-organized event is enjoyable, memorable and safe for all involved.

Take the time to visit and research your venue. The preparation will really pay-off, as it will help you plan all the details. Thorough planning will make the event a success, and mean less last-minute worry and hassle, leaving you free to really appreciate the event on the day itself. If you need suggestions on important questions to ask, or a good checklist to go through with the venue management, we at Venues for London would be happy to help you with that. Please feel free to contact us at your earliest convenience for more information. Thank you for your visit and good luck finding the perfect venue for your event!

Here at Venues for London we take the stress out of finding the right party for you. First of all we offer a FREE venue finding service and we give our clients a professional, efficient and reliable service backed up by a wealth of knowledge from our expert venue finding team who have vast experience in the organisation of Christmas party venues for your ideal Christmas party in London or anywhere in the UK.

To back up our service, we have a comprehensive database of Christmas party venues that will accommodate varying requirements and capacities. From large banqueting halls to small intimate locations, shared parties, themed Christmas parties and private rooms and you are guaranteed to find your perfect office Christmas party!

It is never too soon to start planning your company Christmas party and an early booking is definitely recommended to secure your preferred party date and avoid any disappointment. We are constantly updating our Christmas party page with new features, new shared and exclusive Christmas Parties, venues and inspiring ideas to make your office Christmas party the best yet.

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson (http://www.london.gov.uk/who-runs-london/mayor/boris-johnson), today announced that the spacious One Great George Street conference center off Parliament Square will house the London Media Center, welcoming non-accredited and accredited journalists. Contact

At each Olympiad the National Olympic Committees collectively accredit around 25,000 journalists and other representatives from international media organizations to cover the Games, giving them access to the Olympic Park Media Center and International Broadcast Center. However thousands more journalists, without accreditation, will also descend on the capital to report on the Games and celebrations in London during this historic period.

The Mayor has therefore made special arrangements to accommodate them, and accredited media, in One Great George Street. The Center will have works paces for over 250 journalists, with press conference facilities to sit 200 members of media. It will be a fully serviced 24-hour media center with live broadcasting areas, additional office space for photographers and in-house dining facilities. Contact

The London Media Center is perfectly located for journalists to attend events as well as experience why London is such a great place to visit, live, study, and do business. Media will be just a ten-minute walk from a host of London‘s vibrant attractions, from its internationally renowned bars, clubs and restaurants, to its great museums and the best theater land in the world. With some of the most iconic tourist spots on their doorstep, they are also a short journey to Games venues such as Horse Guards Parade and the Live Sites in Hyde Park and on the South Bank. Westminster Tube station is a five -minute walk, from where they can travel direct to the Olympic Park on the Jubilee Line within 30 minutes.Contact

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, said:

“London has the best and most diverse leisure and cultural offering of any city in the world. Whether it is relaxing in one of our famous parks or squares or experiencing London‘s unrivaled nightlife all our guests in 2012, be they spectators, athletes, media or organizers, will be truly spoilt for choice.

“Journalists joining us for these historic days in the summer of 2012 are now guaranteed a central working base in the heart of all the action. A stone’s throw from the London Media Center lie some of the capital’s most iconic shots and locations, ready to be beamed into homes across the globe. I look forward to welcoming our visitors in 2012 and joining with them for the biggest party London has ever seen.”

LOCOG Chair Sebastian Coe said: “In the summer of 2012, the focus of the world will be on London. As well as thousands of athletes, thousands more media will be in London and will be telling our story globally. Ensuring they are well looked after and have all the information they need about the Games, about London and about the UK as a whole will be vital to how they work and how London and the Games is reported. ”

Christopher Wyld, Director of the Foreign Press Association, said: “The Foreign Press Association in London looks forward to working closely with the Mayor and Visit London to make sure that visiting journalists get every opportunity to see what a diverse and exciting city London is before, during and after the 2012 Games. London is one of the great media hubs of the world and the central location of the London Media Center will provide yet another opportunity to welcome foreign journalists to the United Kingdom and help them gain access to the people they want to meet and the places they want to see”.

Visit London‘s Chief Executive Sally Chatterjee said: “Worldwide media coverage is perhaps the single biggest opportunity for promoting the city in 2012. And there will be as many fantastic stories to tell outside the sporting venues as there are inside. The eyes of the world will be upon us throughout the whole of the Olympic year and it’s the world’s media who will be telling that story. It’s vital that we work closely with journalists, make them as welcome as we possibly can and provide them with great news about the city.”

To help all visitors to travel smoothly around the city up to 8,000 London Ambassadors will be located at key points across the city providing information, assistance and a warm smile to everybody needing help and support during their stay for the Games. These volunteers will be in addition to the 70,000 Games Makers that London 2012 (http://www.london.gov.uk/priorities/london2012) organizers will be recruiting to help at Games venues.

On their arrival in London journalists and spectators will find the world’s best big city proudly showing what it has to offer to the billions watching around the globe. This includes London‘s transformation into a true cycle friendly capital with cycle super highways leading into the heart of the city from the outer boroughs and the new cycle hire scheme allowing people to travel short distances in central London on the 6,000 bikes stationed at more than 400 collection points dotted around the city center.

By 2012, people living, working and visiting London will enjoy the results of the Mayor’s programmes to radically improve the capital’s environment and quality of life. They will discover new and revamped public spaces as part of the Mayor’s £220 million Great Outdoors Programme, including revitalised parks and squares, 2,012 new community food growing plots as well as 10,000 newly planted street trees across the capital. They will see the progression of the Mayor’s drive to make London the electric vehicle capital of Europe with thousands of branded charge points in place to support thousands of electric cars, streets that will be cleaner through a determined drive to stamp out litter and the curse of chewing gum. London‘s air quality will be improved as the consequence as a robust programme in place to tackle pollution with tougher restrictions to cover more types of vehicles entering the city’s Low Emission Zone in place from January 2012; a new era of lower polluting buses with all new buses entering the capital’s bus fleet by 2012 being hybrid, whilst the New Bus for London will be 40 per cent cleaner.

Notes to editors

1. It is predicted that during Games-time there will be upwards of 25,000 international and UK media professionals (accredited and non-accredited) in London. Up to two-thirds of these of these journalists will be accredited by the National Olympic Committees of competing countries and eligible to use their facilities in the Olympic Park, namely the International Broadcast Center and the Main Press Center.

2. The non-accredited media will not have rights to the Games but will be in London to cover news and features on London as a venue and the 2012 Games. The content of their work will be informed by a pre-planned programme of activities and editorials designed specifically to showcase London to their audiences. The non-accredited-by-LOCOG media professionals will also have the opportunity to access not just the London Media Center (LMC) but also its satellite broadcast positions, which will be in key iconic locations around the city.

3. For more information and to register to become a London Ambassador go online to www.londonambassadors.org.uk. Application forms will be sent out in January

4. About One Great George Street:

Located in the heart of London‘s cultural and political life, the One Great George

Street conference and wedding venue is surrounded by many fantastic landmarks such as the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey and one of London‘s most ornamental parks, St James’s Park. This elegant and historical building has been described as a ‘monumental neo-classical design’ and a ‘modern rendering of the late Renaissance’. The exterior, foyer and grand staircase are made of Portland stone and many of the rooms are ornately decorated with French Walnut and oak paneling, elegant carved plaster ceilings and elaborate crystal chandeliers.

The building is truly a venue for all occasions, from the intimate to the grand, the formal to the informal. Whether a conference, dinner or wedding reception, One Great George Street can offer this impressive backdrop with a great range of amenities and a fantastic service to match. Contact

The One Great George Street conference and wedding venue is a division of Thomas Telford Limited, which is a company wholly owned by the Institution of Civil Engineers. Contact

1)Locality – If the venue is easily accessible to delegates

2)Logistics – If the Venue will provide the basic requirements, i.e.light refreshments, stationery , PA for speeches, a rostrum, a stage and basic lights for the stage area and the cost for hire for each breakout room. If the Conference Venues in London do not provide these basic requirement, providing them yourself as an organiser can add to the cost considerably.

3) Prices of Consumables – If you are already paying for a Conference Venue for Hire, it is good to check on the prices or the light refreshments as these can be extremely high. For Eg a just of orang juice can cost up to £20.00, a bacon sandwitch can cost £5 – £10 pounds each, a bottle of fancy sparkling mineral water can set you back another £10.00

It is good to use a venue hire company to negotiate a total amount that includes all the necessary to avoid going overbudget which can easily happen.

Many Conference Venues in London have strict loading and unloading times, it is good to find this out in advance as you can end up paying a lot for overtime if you are not able to empty the room at the set time.

Demand for Packaged Conference Venue hire in London is increasing as clients opt for fixed costs rather than hiring a venue that an have variable costs.

Venue Hire Sales Managers are known to promise everthing only to the dismall of the conference organisers on the event day. It is good to have a venue expert to help you cover all the bases covered.

Please feel free to contact Carrie Larwood on 0207 808 5634, she can personally help you avoid all the pitfalls of organising a basic conference to a large one with her comprehensive checklist and many years of experience.

For the best free venue finding service in London and all major UK cities you need look no further! Here at Venues for London we offer a free venue finding service for restaurants, pubs, bars, hotels and exclusive venues in London and the whole of the UK. Whether you need a function room for a pub quiz or a venue for a corporate event we have them all.

Our venue finding service is dedicated to finding the perfect function room for your party or event. Our service is unique and we research the best venues until we find the right one for you. If you want a venue that offers everything from a contemporary relaxed area, a sophisticated exclusive venue, a state of the art meeting room or a warm intimate traditional bar we’ll find the right venue for your event.

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 Discover a different perspective with a range of nine conference venues, banqueting, and event suites, accommodating from 4 to 250 delegates and supported by state-of-the-art audiovisual equipment, The complete first floor consists of seven self-contained conference and banqueting suites and two boardrooms are located on floors close by.contact

We can help you find the perfect Christmas 2010 venue in London or throughout the UK. We have a vast range of themed and traditional shared Christmas parties, hosted in many unique and different venue styles, with a wide variety of entertainment options with many of the Top marquee Christmas party location available and bookable today. Function Fixers can take away the anxiety of finding that perfect venue to host parties that you will never forget. It is our aim to take the hard work out of finding a Christmas party venue for corporate or private Christmas parties. Contact

We offer a FREE venue finding service and we give our clients a professional, efficient and reliable service backed up by a wealth of knowledge from our expert venue finding team who have vast experience in the organisation of Christmas party venues for your ideal Christmas party in London or anywhere in the UK. To back up our service, we have a comprehensive database of Christmas party venues that will accommodate varying requirements and capacities. From large banqueting halls to small intimate locations, shared parties, themed Christmas parties and private rooms and you are guaranteed to find your perfect office Christmas party! Contact

It is never too soon to start planning your company Christmas party and an early booking is definitely recommended to secure your preferred party date and avoid any disappointment. We are constantly updating our Christmas party page with new features, new shared and exclusive Christmas Parties, venues and inspiring ideas to make your office Christmas party the best yet. Contact

We are here to help you find the ideal Christmas Party and to take the hassle out of finding the perfect venue. Give us a call now and we guarantee that your Christmas party will be one to remember for all the right reasons!Contact

View some of our Christmas party venues for 2010: Contact

Go  here for  Christmas Carolers in London or Christmas Music Entertainment.

 7.00pm Themed bars open in Montmartre Square
7.45pm Accordionist and Caricaturists
8.15pm Five Course Dinner
8.30pm Aerial Trapeze Act and Can Can Dancers
9.00pm Mesmerising Aerial Hoop Act
9.30pm Aerial Silks Finale and the World Famous Can Can
10.00pm Dodgems, Disco and Casino
12.30am Survivors Breakfast
12.45am Last Orders and Last Rides
1.00am Au Revoir!

Christmas Carol Themed Party – Contact

Old Luxters Barn is an enchanting place for a Christmas Party. The 17th century tithe barn could have been purpose built for 21st century Christmas Parties. The old world charm of this timber framed building is perfect for your company’s seasonal celebrations. The barn will be festooned with candles, pea-lights, tea-lights, poinsettias and Christmas trees. Carol singers will welcome you to the party and a warming glass of Mulled Wine will warm you up for a fabulous party. We also offer Shared Party Nights at this venue.

Three course traditional dinner
Glass of champagne on arrival
Half bottle of house wine with dinner
Unlimited soft drinks
Room themeing
Security
Cloakroom attendants
DJ & disco
Full event management
£85 + vat per person

Ice Themed Christmas Party – Contact

This website works via three methods, whereby venues receive a free listing, they pay for a standard listing, or they pay monthly to be a featured venue via a banner adds on the front page of the website.

The idea of Venues for London came about when we started Music for London a live music agency which was set up in 2002. The Venues for London.Co.Uk website is officially owned by Montagu Media which in turn is owned by Cuzzy Media Network. Venues for London or rather VFL as it is known is part of an Interntaional Network of service related websites. This is part of the reason that makes this website so popular and easily found when clients look to hire corporate venues, wedding venues, function rooms, party venues or to hire  conference venues. The targeted newtwork includes Events for London and Caterers for London.

Events for London features the various suppliers involved in the creation and production of an event, this includes the logistic and technical suppliers. This includes PA Companies, Production , Lighting , Crewing, Security, Decoration, Logistics and Set Companies.

Caterers for London  features the various levels and variety of caterers involved in the catering industry in London.

Apart from this regular SEO activities are taken to ensure the site can be easily found and would be of beneficial to our customers.

There are three type of Venue Listings available at Venues for London.

Free Listing

A free listing requires the venue to email us an article about the venue, jpegs, a corporate video if it is available (alternatively we can produce one for you for a small fee)  and detailed information about the venue.

Your contact details will not be shown for a free listing, all enquiries for venue hire will pe passed on to a professional venue finding agent, who will then get in touch with you and work out a sales comission and introduce the potential client to you when the booking is nearing confirmation.

Standard Listing

A Standard Listing cost a one off fee of £100.00 + VAT . This listing requires all of the above information including the venue contact information. The difference with this listing is, the enquiry will come direct to the venue and there will be no agency involvement.

Premium Listing

A premium listing includes all the above, website details, contact details,  plus a banner which is site wide on the Venues for London website. The cost for this listing is £100.00 + VAT per month. There are no contracts for this listing.

The bang for buck and ROI advertising on this site is huge compared to taking out an add in a magazine or paying 1000′s to Marketing companies. Just by being on the first page of this website can almost guarantee thousands of pounds worth of new business and enquiries that come in daily during the peak periods.

To advertise or to be listed on this site please email  accounts@montagumedia.co.uk or call 0207 993 8007

There is one reason that makes pubs and public spaces popular for even small private parties. Generally peoples living spaces in London is relatively small and not suitable for larger parties of more than four people, hence birthdays, promotion celebrations are most often held in function rooms across london or hotels venues for those with larger budgets.

Many function rooms can be obtained for free if there is a guaranteed spend on food and beverage, this avenue must be explored when looking for a private function room for hire in London. One of the important points to look our for is the closing time of the function room and till what time the staff are available. Most function room owners will allow for a late closing time as it is a private party or event, but it is important to check on the overtime charges before comitting as most private parties in a private area will inevitable run late.

The more posh venues will tend to be extremely expensive when extensions are required, it might be worth hiring a slightly low end function room in the London suburbs if you thing your party or event will finish late.

Nevertherless if you are looking for your ideal free london function room please feel free to Contact us.

Events in Venues are important to ensure the top end profits are made as rooms have become cheaper in London and rooms tend to only cover the running cost of a hotel venue, whereby the events tend to bring in the profits especially when they are bespoke events for celebrations on conferences where clients want to show their appreciation to their customers.

Some venues are going as far as just offering their venues for free for film shoots for that little extra bit of awarenss with regards to the venues. With many hidden gems all around London, a free venue finding service is essential in bringing about these beautiful venues to potential customers and clients.

So does all these extra costs eventually bring in the extra money, well they collectively do, if a hotel venue is booked, the tendency is their rooms will be booked to, so in essence hotel rooms need a nice venue to attracts potential wedding bookings, party bookings or corporate event bookings for the hire of various services offered by the venue.

There is profit to be made all along the chain, corporate venue hire is big business and venue finding services are essential in increasing the sales required to make these venues busy on a regular basis.

You can even book a BBQ london venue at the very last moment in London and receive good discounts, so you can look at the weather in the morning and decide you are going to have a party in the afternoon, afterall a spontaneous party can be the most memorable and fun. Catering will be complicated when booking a venue at the last moment, but various London Caterers can rise to the ocassion, but it would be good to hire a venue that serves food, if it is done at the last moment.

BBQ parties need not be grand, it can be done to celebrate and ocassion and can be done in a simple format with burgers and sausages, you don’t need to have premium cuts of meat or seafood.

It is always nice to have a BBQ party near a poolside if budgets and logistics permit.

If you are looking for a venue with a combination of a closed  and an open are at the last moment at good bargain please contact Venues for London on 0207  808 5634.

When you find a venue, ensure that you read the booking contract for the small print, this is where many brides fail after falling in love with the look of the venue.

1) Ensure the Wedding Venue does not have a sound limiter unless you are planing to have a quiet wedding party. Sound Limiters are great big white wet blankets.  Vocals will send the limiters to their limit easily, cutting off the power while the live wedding band is peforming. It is a draconian device. The sales person for the person for the venue will off course say, don’t worry, it will all be fine, they just have to ensure it is turned down slightly, what he or she is actually saying is ‘it needs to be tuned down by 50 – 75%.

2) Health and Safety – Check what their health and safety policy is, will the caterers, event production company or bands have to supply a risk management and method statement document. This will increase your cost with the suppliers

3) Check in detail the late finish policy and charges as a good party is sometimes difficult to end and you yourself would be feeling like partying. Once the sales person at the wedding venue agrees to the additional charges and finish times etc. ensure it is in the contract.

4)if you are planning to have one of the weddings with a real cool and fancy look created by curtain, backdrops and lights, ensure you take and event production person with you. Just because you went to a wedding where they said it costs £5k, it does not mean it will cost anything similar for the wedding venue you have chosen. Logistics, venue location, ready fittings, power supply issues with the venue you have chosen, can mean the cost to create the same look that your cousin Sara for her wedding might actually cost you £10k

5) Not everyone can afford a wedding planner, but if you can afford one, get quotes from the recomended wedding planner that venue gives you andone you find independently. Venues are like little cartels, they prefer for you not to bring any of your own suppliers or bands, simply because someone at the venue is on the take from the suppliers. If you have a paticular caterer , musician or any supplier that you want to specifically use, find a wedding venue that will accept your terms. Get married on your terms, sit at the negotiation table and negotiate your terms, do not let yourself be bullied.

6) Location – think about about your friends and family, if they can afford the nearby accomodation if they cannot travel on the same day. That is if you are not booking the rooms for them. If the venue is in London, look at hiring a minicab company as well, not all your guests will be able to afford Black Cabs to the home counties. Best is to give guests a choice.

If you have any tips, please feel free to add them here at the comments section below.