Academic options North of the border
11 Academic Venues
Fresh Slate at Warwick
“ The name perfectly reflects the premise behind the venue- a sustainable and highly flexible blank canvas space”
flat, exclusive and flexible expanse of 650sqm for up to 400 delegates, you can even drive a car through it. Warwick Conferences has a new venue, The Slate, available for exclusive use. The £ 5.3m venue has a BREEAM Excellent rating and Food for Life menu accredited by the Soil Association, and a lakeside location. Rachael Bartlett, head of sales and marketing at Warwick Conferences, says the name, The Slate,“ perfectly represents the premise behind the venue – a sustainable and highly flexible blank canvas space, which can be adapted in whichever way is necessary to provide the exact experience a client is looking for”.“ People’ s conference, training and meeting needs are changing,” she adds.“ Serving those needs isn’ t simply about delivering four walls, a flip chart and some food, but delivering an experience. That experience involves providing the space to debate, engage, resolve, share, challenge and learn: the possibilities are endless.” The Warwick Conferences team says demand for the new venue is so strong that they’ ve had to postpone the anticipated official launch event to accommodate. Agents and clients keen to check out The Slate can apply for a bespoke visit to see the new venue which offers space for 400 seated delegates and is available on an exclusive use basis. The Warwick events team says its meeting spaces are less about‘ command and control’, and more about‘ collaboration and inspiration’.
“ Whatever the activity, you’ ll do it better in the right setting. That’ s why we’ ve designed an innovative range of feature rooms that re-define the typical box-room meeting experience,” the team says. The Slate offers opportunities for a creative huddle round the table in The Kitchen over lunch, or to brief 200 in the lecture theatre. In the brainstorm room it’ s one big whiteboard, while the informal boardroom is designed for more relaxed exchanges.“ People arriving as strangers will leave as a team, a network, a force to be reckoned with,” is the claim. The Slate complements existing venues at the University of Warwick: Scarman, Radcliffe, Arden and Conference Park, all of which accommodate both day and residential events.
Academic options North of the border
Scotland is a country well known for its expertise in key sectors such as energy, technology, finance, and life sciences. Its academic venues also offer world class meeting capabilities and centres of excellence that attract conferences include:
• Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh
• Royal College of Physicians, Glasgow
• University of Glasgow
• University of Strathclyde
• Stirling University
• St Andrews University
Scotland’ s first university founded in 1413, St Andrews, has more than 90 meeting spaces capable of hosting anything from a small presentation to a large scale conference. Lucy McCaul, marketing and communications manager for Business Events at VisitScotland said:“ Scotland’ s tradition of innovation provides a stimulating environment to give new perspective to delegates and an inspiring backdrop for fresh thinking.” www. conference-news. co. uk