Top Tips for Finding Conference Centres for Your Event

Why not hire a Yorkshire golf club for your next conference? Picture courtesy of Conference Leeds
Why not hire a Yorkshire golf club for your next conference? Picture courtesy of Conference Leeds

There are many reasons you may choose to hire a venue whether it’s for a company conference of over one thousand colleagues, a small intimate meeting of fifteen directors or a wedding with over two hundred guests.

Finding the right venue helps ensure the day or couple of days plan out as expected. When dealing with such a high volume of guests you need to ensure they all have accommodation, if they need to travel fair distances, you need to ensure they are all fed during the conference with plenty of tea, coffee and biscuits to keep them going and you need to ensure the conference centres have ample space to accommodate everyone.

Hotels

Hotels tend to be the firm favourite, they always have ample parking and they have accommodation for those which travel to get there. They often incorporate the rooms and function facilities into one affordable price, making it easier to plan. There are a number of fantastic hotel venues in Leeds and Yorkshire to hold your next conference, handling small group’s right up to large one thousand five hundred person company conferences.

You can include the accommodation, lunch, teas, coffees, room hire and even overhead projector hire into one price when booking with a hotel. These are set in beautiful and convenient settings, where you can leave to get to town if you need to, though everything you need is easily available right at the hotel of your choice.

Most of these hotels have amazing facilities, some with pools and others with fitness centres which can be used during the conference, so everyone can sit back and relax after a long hard day of meetings.

These Leeds and Yorkshire hotels are also ideally suited for your dream wedding, managing guests, working a menu to your liking and offering magnificent garden areas for your beautiful wedding pictures. Some have wedding licenses, so you can have the ceremony and reception at one place, all the guests can stay at the hotel, making it easy and letting the celebrations continue late into the night without anyone worrying that they need to get home.

Country Houses

One thing there is no shortage of in Leeds and Yorkshire are magnificent country homes and they make ideal conference centres.  These are suited for smaller groups if you intend staying overnight, but can handle a fair amount of people for a daily conference.

The country houses are manors set in picturesque garden settings offering a beautiful place to hold your business meetings, intimate weddings or conferences. They also offer catering facilities, so you can incorporate meals, teas and coffees into the price as you would with a larger hotel chain.

You will find the service more personalised in these locations, the owners will be hands on to ensure your event goes smoothly without any hiccups.  Choosing country houses as conference centres offers a personal touch to the entire event and something everyone attending will enjoy.

Golf Clubs

Many golf clubs in Leeds and Yorkshire double up as conference centres, they have large meetings rooms’ ideal for one or two day get together.  They don’t all offer accommodation, but will be able to advise you where there are hotels conveniently situated close by.

Holding your conference, wedding or meeting at a golf club offers you top class facilities, maybe some even want to go for a round of golf after sitting in meetings all day.

Golf clubs are perfect for your ideal wedding; they often have beautiful garden areas for photographs after the ceremony and top class chefs to work out the perfect menu for your special day.

Whether you’re planning a meeting for ten directors or five hundred wedding guests or five thousand conference attendees, there are some superb conference centres in Leeds and Yorkshire for you to take advantage of.