Venue Hire
Our small conference room is suitable for meetings, training, workshops, interviewing, and smaller presentations. It is a pleasant room in two sections - a meeting area and an anti-room where your refreshments will be provided. There is plenty of natural daylight and the room is decorated with canal related posters. We are in a highly accessible location within walking distance of King's Cross, St. Pancras, and Euston stations and excellent Underground bus and local rail services.
Boardroom style. Our layout is flexible.
Self service refreshments
"Chairs in a Circle" style - often used for training
Built-in whiteboard and projection screen
Round tables x 2, for 12-14 people (small extra charge)
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Many meetings take place in rooms that are just plain boring, in venues that are even more uninteresting! Our meeting room is a comfortable, flexible room that won't break the bank, but our standards are still high. There is a greater element of self-service than in a hotel (you make your own tea, which we provide) but we offer a nice room in an interesting place at a sensible price.
The room is available for booking at any time of the day or evening, any day of the week. Our charges start at £95 plus VAT and include your self service refreshments facility. We charge a fixed fee for usage between 1000 and 1630 and supplements for earlier starts or later finishes. Different prices apply to evening meetings. The inclusion of tea/coffee can mean a considerable saving compared to venues who charge for coffee by the cup. An optional rapid booking system (with deposit payment online by card) keeps administration to a minimum.
If you need to know dimensions and the shape of the room please download this Layout plan - small meeting room in Adobe PDF format. This plan gives key dimensions and illustrates the unusual layout of the anti-room and the meeting area.
If you would like to see more pictures of the room please go to our Picture Gallery and choose the meeting room album.
We have a range of equipment available, which should be booked in advance. There is a built-in screen. We can provide various projectors, DVD and CD player, amplifiers for sound tracks, flip charts, Wi-Fi, and more. For a list see our equipment page. The most common requiestes in this room are a data projector £45 + VAT) and a flip chart (£5 plus VAT)
If your delegates only drink goats' milk or soya milk we will do our best to help. We don't provide food. Any special needs should be discussed in advance.
We don't offer food ourselves. You can visit a local sandwich bar or cafe if you wish. You can order a buffet lunch to be delivered to your room by your choice of caterer. We don't reccommend caterers but the following suggestions may be useful. Links open in a new window.
We can provide fruit juices at £1.75 per carton plus VAT or you can ask your caterer to provide this or bring it yourself. Juice must be booked in advance.
When you need a place to meet in central London, or near King's
Cross or St. Pancras, which won't cost a fortune, our small conference room /
meeting room is ideal. It is a relaxed, pleasant place for meetings, training,
interviewing, and small scale lunches and dinners. It is an airy room with
plenty of natural light, with an exhibition of canal posters and pictures not
on public display. The conference room is an unusual combination of a main
meeting space, and an anti-room, divided by a narrower opening. We have 12
comfortable upholstered conference chairs, and tables are arranged to suit your
needs. The anti-room is normally used for refreshments and can also be useful
if you need a place for materials, literature or other things for your event.
We can provide flip charts and an overhead or data projector. Wi-Fi Internet
access is available with The Cloud.
Our self service refreshments are included in the charges. We provide a table equipped with a kettle, and all the ingredients to make your own tea and coffee as and when you want it. Disposible cups are supplied, as are selected alternative teas such as fruit, green or Earl Grey tea. So far as practicable we use Fair Trade ingredients. A supply of good quality biscuits is provided. . This is informal and completely flexible. However if you are entertaining clients or VIP guests we can offer a more formal service with china cups and ground coffee, at a supplementary charge so please let us know what you need and we'll quote for your exact requirements
The furniture is flexible and can be arranged to suit you. Round tables are also available at a supplement of £10 for one, £15 for two. These seat up to 10 people each for dining, up to 8 for meetings, or up to 6 per table for meetings with a presentation, where everyone needs to see the screen or speaker. The supplement covers round disposable table cloths that you can use as a brainstorming tool - write down your thoughts and take away the cloth at the end!
If you need to keep in touch our Internet facilities are good. There is Wi-Fi access with The Cloud. We can also provide a wired Internet connection using our own network, for your laptop, in almost any part of the building. Wi-Fi Vouchers are available from the museum shop. They are available at a reduced price if ordered in advance.
So far as practicable, our self-service refreshments are provided using Fair Trade supplies. Disposable cups are made from biodegradable material.
You don't have to be having a meeting. The room is suitable for small
receptions, private dinners, buffet lunches and more.
Please note that bookings are not accepted for Saturdays, Sundays, and bank holiday Mondays in May to September earlier than six weeks prior to the date. This is due to the regular use of the room in conjunction with larger weekend private functions in summer.
