The Museum of the Order of St John, St John’s Gate, London EC1

For further information, please contact Juliet Barclay on 020 73245 4076, juliet.barclay@nhq.sja.org.uk

Registered charity 1077265 www.museumstjohn.org.uk

Visitors are amazed by the unimagined treasures concealed behind the enigmatic exterior of St John’s Gate.  Built in 1504 as the ceremonial entrance to the mediaeval Priory of St John, its long and chequered history is closely linked with Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, William Hogarth and Charles Dickens.

All who enter are captivated by its extraordinary history, atmospheric rooms and stunning decorative details.  Any function, whether it be corporate or social, may be combined with a private tour of the historic buildings and the galleries.

From meetings, concerts and lectures to receptions, recitals and dinners, events at the Gate are special from the start.

Rooms, uses and capacities: The Grand Priory Church: Service, Concert or Lecture: 250 The Norman Crypt of the Priory Church: Service, Concert or Lecture: 80 The Priory Garden: Reception: 200 The Council Chamber: Lunch, Dinner or Meeting: 25 The Museum Galleries: Reception 100, Lunch, Dinner or Meeting: 30 The Chapter Hall: Reception 200; Lunch, Dinner or Meeting 100 The Prior’s Dining Room: Lunch, Dinner or Meeting: 10

For further information, please contact Juliet Barclay on 020 73245 4076, juliet.barclay@nhq.sja.org.uk

Registered charity 1077265 www.museumstjohn.org.uk

The Elvetham in Hampshire is a stunning 19th Century mansion located within a fifteen minute drive of both the M3 and M4, just 40 miles from London. Rich in history yet progressive in its approach, The Elvetham is ideal for business or for pleasure. Offering hotel accommodation, superb meeting and conference facilities and 35 acres of gardens and grounds it’s the perfect venue for business meetings, conferences, corporate training, company or family activity days and team building. Contact Us to get the best Deal to Book this Venue for your Private or Corporate Event.

A corporate event venue for team building, motivation and bonding, leadership and development and of course management training and executive training, including graduate induction and graduate training too. The Elvetham corporate event venue is serious about business. With 21 meeting and conference rooms, 72 bedrooms and 35 acres of gardens and grounds, there are a host of activities possible. Outside the possibilities are almost endless. A corporate events venue offering multi activity days, with archery or clay pigeon shooting, quad bikes or 4 x 4 off-road driving, falconry or ferret racing. For activity and hilarious fun try an “It’s a Knockout” day which is as enjoyable to watch as it is to take part. For corporate activity days that are not weather dependent there are activities such as giant Scalextric or virtual golf, wine tasting or cocktail making, casinos or murder mystery. The Elvetham is a very versatile corporate event venue.

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Function Rooms

Library
Seat Capacity: 48-105
Party Capacity: 200

Morning
Seat Capacity: 24-50
Party Capacity: 60

Oak
Seat Capacity: 36-68
Party Capacity: 100

Seymour
Seat Capacity: 43
Party Capacity: 60

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Dining

Function Rooms

Garden/Patio

Luxurious Accommodation

Meetings and Conferences

Parking

Party Venues

Private Functions

Sport

Team building

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Renowned on the Capital’s party circuit for throwing fun party events, late night shenanigans and post-work cocktails, Adventure Bar in Covent Garden is expanding into the corporate and private hire market to add a completely new dimension to the business as it continues to grow in the New Year.
Able to accommodate up to 300 guests and with no hire fee, Adventure Bar is perfect for a wide range of events, whether they be product launches, business meetings, networking evenings, office parties or team building days. And with the venue’s reputation as a house of fun, it is certain to make every event unforgettable.

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Ideally situated in the centre of London, just minutes from bustling Soho, Oxford Street and Leicester Square, the bar is moments away from prime transport links and within walking distance of several underground and over ground rail stations.

The venue provides a great event space, stylishly designed with exposed brickwork and plenty of seating. It is available in its entirety or, for more intimate affairs, its back section can be used independently. This area can host up to 70, seating 35, and as it has its own bar it and can be sectioned off from the rest of the venue to provide complete privacy.

All catering needs can be provided for, whether it’s a champagne reception or an evening of cocktails and canapés. Adventure Bar also features the premium sound system that is expected from such a venue and the facilities to host live PAs, with entertainment available upon request.
One of the venue’s greatest assets are its staff, all of whom receive the highest training and will accommodate all clients whatever their brief, ensuring that proceedings run seamlessly. Adventure Bar’s team includes highly skilled mixologists, all capable of expertly creating any of the cocktails from the venue’s vast menu.

Adventure Bar has received a cult status in the Capital for its unique extras like penny-sweet infused shots, fun cocktails, bathrooms decorated with retro Where’s Wally poster art and that play recordings of Blackadder and Alan Partridge. These will be available to all event bookers and along with exemplary service, unbeatable value and delicious food and drink, Adventure guarantees a truly unique experience for those looking for corporate and private hire with a fun twist.

CAPACITIES
Back section – 70 (35 seated)
Whole building – 300 (85 seated)
PRICING

All events differ and Adventure Bar offers a bespoke service tailored around its client’s needs. For full prices for all food, drink and entertainment offerings then please drop their events team a line.
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ORT House Conference Centre is a spacious Conference and meeting facility in the heart of London. It is a flexible and contemporary London-based conference centre

Situated in Camden, North London, ORT House offers a range of rooms and services that can comfortably accommodate conferences of up to 120 delegates, board meetings, interviews, seminars and training courses.

Three servings of tea and coffee

Light lunch
Meeting room hire
Projector and screen
Exclusive introductory offer

For all new bookings received from a N, NW or W London postcode we are offering the special introductory offer

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Entertain your guests at one of London’s most spectacular and dramatic venues – Kew Bridge Steam Museum. Set within a magnificent and atmospheric Victorian waterworks, here industry sits side by side with elegance.

Guests can enter via the Grand Junction Engine House where they can marvel at the impressive Grand Junction engine –the world’s largest fully operating beam engine. From here, guests move into the Steam Hall – A flexible space that can seat up to 120 or accommodate up to 150 for a standing reception.

The Museum is available to hire 7 days a week and offers exceptional opportunities for entertaining including Wedding receptions, Private parties, Corporate events, Product launches, Meetings and Conferences.

For a smaller affair, the Babcock Room offers a separate quiet setting for meetings whilst our Mezzanine, Maudslay and Boulton & Watt room serve as excellent breakout rooms.

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“The Beacon in Harrow is unique community centre close to Rayners Lane.

Our conference hall seats 200 comfortably and is perfect for a large range of events including product launches, fashion shows, dance events, corporate away days, seminars and community meetings.

Conference Equipment includes; large screen projector, wireless microphones, stage, kitchen,breakout spaces, and free car parking on-site.

Catering is also available from £5.50 per delegate.

We also have three additional meeting and seminar rooms on site and media suite equippedwith 15 computers. All our spaces are very adaptable and the Beacon team strives to make every event a success.”

The Beacon, Malcolm Jeffery Place,

Scott Crescent, South Harrow,

Middlesex HA2 0TY

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The Dickens Inn is a restyled and reconstructed wooden warehouse building thought to have housed tea or to have been owned by a local brewery. It certainly existed at the turn of the 18th century and may well have been born in the 1700’s

The Dickens Suite is a hidden gem, sheltered from the City’s hustle and bustle. Delightfully stylish, the room is beautifully finished in a style complimentary to this historic setting, but is also light and spacious. The perfect spot for a wedding party or private function.

The Dickens Suite can host events of up to 200 people, with catering provided. Let us know what you’re planning and we can provide ideas, advice and special touches to ensure a unique and memorable occasion.

Additionally we are able to cater to corporate clients and the venue is suitable for meetings, conferences and team building. We are able to provide audio visual equipment and offer a competitive delegate day rate.

The room is licensed until 12pm for music and dancing and includes an inbuilt bar and kitchen as well as a breakout room and mezzanine area.

We can offer a wide range wide range of catering options from 3 course banqueting menus to buffet and daily delegate options as well as specially designed wedding menus.

For informal evening functions book our Copperfield Bar. Perfect for parties, quiz nights, games nights, retirements and many other celebrations. 

We also have a beer garden perfect for summer partys with a barbecue option..

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Oxford House was established in 1884 and was the first settlement to be built. It is now a community and art centre in the heart of London’s East End. The venues for hire are 120 seat Theatre, a fully equipped Dance Studio, a purpose-built Arts Gallery, two Classroom/meeting room style, an intimate, beautiful wood panelled chapel and Basement / Gallery Bar which is ideal for exhibitions, launches and post-show drinks. Contact

There is also a café which offers a full catering service for your event from refreshments to buffet lunches and sit down meals. We also offer discounted rates for block bookings and voluntary organisations. Situated only a short hop from central London and only 5 minutes walk from Bethnal Green tube we are easily accessible. Contact

Chandos House is owned by The Royal Society of Medicine thereby benefiting from over 200 years of expertise in hosting meetings and events which still continue to this day. All the five principal rooms that are available for hire have been fully restored back to the original design using the colours and grandiose schemes that Robert Adam designed in 1771.

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On the ground floor and located adjacent to the reception and entrance are the Robert and James Adam Rooms. These rooms can be hired as a suite or individually. To the rear of the House is the Terrace Room which is unique with its tall and imposing French windows to the walled Garden Terrace.

Ascend the impressive grand staircase under the glass domed ceiling to the first floor Duke and Duchess Rooms. These are arguably the most striking of the meeting and event rooms both with stunning chandeliers and highly decorated ceilings.

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All of the rooms benefit from natural daylight and a flexible space which makes them ideal for:

Meetings and Conferences
Product Launches
Lectures
Training Workshops
TV and Filming
Wine Tastings
Corporate Entertainment
Seminars and Dinners.

1769 Chandos House construction was started by the Adam family, supported with finance from the banker Sir George Colebrooke. The house was built speculatively on land which was part of the Duke of Portland’s estate
1771 Chandos House was completed. The House remained unsold and eventually was put up for sale by auctioneers Christies
1774 James Brydges, the third and last Duke of Chandos acquired the lease for £11,000
1815 The unexpired portion of the lease (51 years) was purchased by the Austro-Hungarian Embassy
1815 The resident Ambassador was Prince Esterhazy and for the next twenty five years Chandos House was the scene of entertainment on a most lavish style.
1842 Prince Esterhazy leaves the Embassy
1843 Baron Neuman became Ambassador, followed by Count Dietrichstein (1847-1849), Count Colloredo-Waldsee (1850 and 1852-1856), Count Buol (1851-1852) and Count Apponyi (1856-1866). The Embassy moved before the lease expired
1866 Chandos House was acquired on a 99 year lease by The Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, a descendant through marriage of the third Duke of Chandos. He only lived there for a short time but it remained in the possession of the family until the end of the century
1890 The lease was assigned to William Stephen, Earl Temple, the Duke’s nephew
1902 The Earl Temple dies and brought to an end the Chandos connection
1905 Cora, Countess Stafford took over the lease
1924 The Earl of Shaftesbury took over the lease and modernised the property with additional bathrooms and windows.
1927 The tenancy passed to the newspaper tycoon, Sir James Gomer Berry, Viscount Kemsley
1963 The Royal Society of Medicine acquired a 99 year lease for £250,000 and the house underwent restoration and conversion to meet the needs of the RSM. A hotel for Fellows was established in the Chandos House mews to the rear of the property at 10 Duchess Street
1967 The work was completed and Chandos House soon became a favourite rendezvous for the Royal Society of Medicine’s Fellows. It additionally provided the RSM with book storage, meeting rooms and offices to rent. The College of Pathologists, The Nutrition Society, The Royal Medico-Psychological Association and Excerpta Medica Foundation all took short leases
1986 Chandos House was sold to help finance the refurbishment of 1 Wimpole Street and acquisition of the adjoining building, the former Western Sorting Office
1990 Chandos was sold to Fairgate Estates but remained unoccupied
1994 The house had been neglected and was eventually placed on the English Heritage Buildings At Risk Register. It continued to be neglected and English Heritage in conjunction with Howard de Walden Estates (the freeholders) served a repairs notice on the leaseholders. This was followed by a compulsory purchase order.
1995 Chandos House was chosen as one of the locations for Ang Lee’s film of the Jane Austen novel Sense and Sensibility. This in itself is ironic in that Jane Austen, the worlds most famous romantic novelist, was a relative of the Dukes of Chandos. Jane Austen’s grandfather, the Reverend Thomas Leigh was the son of Mary Brydges, sister to James Brydge, the first Duke of Chandos for whom Handel composed the famous Chandos Anthems.
2002 Howard de Walden Estates saved the house by purchasing the lease after identifying the Royal Society of Medicine as future tenants.
2004 After extensive restoration work the house was returned to its former splendour and is now open again for use

Set in exclusive Chelsea Harbour, Wyndham Grand London Chelsea Harbour is the city’s only five-star luxury all-suite hotel. Offering an ideal base from which to explore the very best that London has to offer, the hotel is only minutes from all the major sites and the legendary boutiques which line the fashionable King’s Road. The Wyndham Grand London Chelsea Harbour is one of London’s finest hidden gems, where guests can immerse themselves in a residential setting offering stunning views of the River Thames just 20 minutes from the heart of central London.

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Our air-conditioned meetings and events facility has six meeting rooms, which can host events for up to 1,000 delegates reception style. The centrepiece is a spectacular Grand Room, which can accommodate up to 600 people for a seated dinner.

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We are delighted to announce that our Blue Harbour Spa has now re-opened after an extensive refurbishment. Providing a comprehensive health club facility and treatment experience, the spa features a 17-metre indoor swimming pool with swan neck waterfalls and body jets, and a fitness suite. Sauna and steam rooms are located in each changing room, and are complemented by six treatment rooms (including one for disabled customers), a relaxation suite, a nail bar and a hair salon.

Function Rooms
Grand Ballroom
Seat Capacity: 500
Party Capacity: 1000

Grand Room
Seat Capacity: 600
Party Capacity: 600

Venue Facilities
Christmas Parties
Civil Ceremonies
Cocktails
Corporate
Dining
Extensive Wine List
Function Rooms
Garden/Patio
Late Licence
Luxurious Accommodation
Meetings and Conferences
Parking
Party Venues
Plasma Screens
Private Functions
Wi-Fi