Venues
Places hosting business events across United Kingdom.
Alchemy Bar & Lounge BasingstokeA small independent bar in Basingstoke's old town on Winchester Street, opened in November 2023. It is an organic, eco-minded coffee house by day and an organic wine and cocktail bar in the evening. It is the home of Basingstoke's People Planet Pint sustainability meet-up and offers exclusive hire Sunday to Thursday.RestaurantNear a station
Aldershot Town FC – The EBB Stadium AldershotHome of Aldershot Town FC at the Recreation Ground, five minutes' walk from Aldershot station. The club hires out its lounges for business networking, presentations and conferences, the largest taking up to 200 standing.StadiumPaid parkingNear a stationAlresford Golf Club AlresfordA members' golf club just south of New Alresford whose modern clubhouse, with views over the course, hosts business meetings, golf days and dinners for up to 100 people, catered by SPF Caterers. It suits breakfast meetings, company golf days and networking dinners with plenty of free parking, but private bookings must be made with an existing club member.OtherFree parkingStep-free accessAlresford Recreation Centre – Lower Meeting Room AlresfordNew Alresford Town Council's ground-floor meeting room in the Alresford Recreation Centre at Arlebury Park, hired by the hour (£15 an hour for commercial users, £10 for New Alresford businesses). It suits small business meetings, workshops, committee meetings and networking groups in Alresford on a tight budget; capacity is not published.Community hallPaid parkingAlton College (HSDC) AltonAlton's further-education campus, part of HSDC, about a ten-minute walk from Alton station with its own visitor car parks. The college runs free business networking breakfasts for local firms, with a cooked breakfast and a guest speaker (per HSDC's events page).OtherNear a stationAlton House Hotel AltonA country-house hotel on Normandy Street, a short walk from Alton station, with function rooms led by the Jane Austen Suite (up to 120 guests) and free parking. BNI Alton Dragons meets here on Tuesday mornings at 6:45am (per BNI Hampshire's chapter listing).HotelFree parkingWifi
Alton Maltings AltonA converted maltings in the middle of Alton run by Harvest Church as a community venue, with a 340-seat auditorium, a 150-seat main hall and a string of smaller meeting rooms. It is set up for conferences, seminars, training days, AGMs and networking receptions, with projectors, screens, PA, hearing loops, lift access to every room and staff on site. Its Tagvenue listing quotes hire from £63, with Wesley Hall from £161.Conference centreWifiStep-free access
Ancells Farm Community Centre FleetFleet Town Council's smaller community centre on the Ancells Farm shopping parade, about ten minutes' walk from Fleet station. It has a main hall (18 x 9 m, splittable), a second room opening onto the garden and a small meeting room, plus a kitchen, so it suits small business meetings, workshops and networking groups on a budget. Whole-building packages are offered for 3 or 5 hours, and bookings are requested online.Community hallFree parkingAccessible toiletsAndover Guildhall AndoverThe 1825 Georgian Guildhall in the middle of Andover High Street, owned by Test Valley Borough Council and hired by the hour. Its first-floor Upper Hall holds up to 55 people, with a projector and pull-up screen, flip chart and lectern and a kitchen you can book, so it suits workshops, training sessions, club or networking meetings and small talks in the town centre.Community hallPaid parkingStep-free accessApollo Hotel BasingstokeAn independent hotel on the north side of Basingstoke with 15 meeting rooms, a leisure club and spa, and a large free car park. The Library Bar doubles as a drop-in spot for informal meetings. Hampshire Chamber of Commerce has run its Basingstoke Business Matters event here (Hampshire Chamber news, Sept 2022).HotelFree parkingWifiAudleys Wood Hotel BasingstokeA Victorian country-house hotel in seven acres on the southern edge of Basingstoke, part of Hand Picked Hotels. It has six meeting rooms, the largest being the Garden Pavilion with its own entrance and foyer.HotelFree parkingWifi
Aviator FarnboroughA 169-bedroom design hotel on the edge of Farnborough Airport (the airport's partner hotel), with six meeting and event rooms including the fourth-floor Sky Lounge. It hosts business conferences, events and one-off networking dinners.HotelWifiBreakfast served
Avington Estate WinchesterA private country estate in the Itchen valley between Winchester and Alresford that runs corporate meetings, away days, retreats and product launches across several spaces. Otters Barn by the lakes takes 40 theatre style or 32 boardroom with wifi and a TV screen, the historic Library in Avington Park House up to 100 theatre style, and the Orangery up to 180 guests (house rooms on request only), with packages from £95 per person and on-site accommodation for residential events.OtherFree parkingWifiAvonway Community Centre FordingbridgeFordingbridge's community centre, run by the Fordingbridge and District Community Association, with nine rooms across the main building and an annexe. The East and West rooms join as the Greenwich Suite (155 seated / 199 standing), the annexe takes 135 seated, and smaller rooms suit committee meetings and workshops; hourly rates run from about £6 to £26, with PA, hearing loop and projector included.Community hallPaid parkingHearing loopAxis Conference Centre Southampton
Axis Conference Centre, University of Southampton Science Park SouthamptonA conference centre on the University of Southampton Science Park at Chilworth, on the northern edge of Southampton, close to the M3 and M27. It has flexible space for up to 200 people and ten smaller meeting rooms. The park hosts tech and space-sector networking, such as Space South Central's Orbit evenings and the UKSPA conference.Conference centreFree parkingWifi
Ball & Wicket FarnhamA Chef & Brewer country pub-restaurant on the A325 at Holt Pound, just over the Hampshire side of the Surrey border near Alice Holt Forest. It stands on the old Holt Pound cricket ground (hence the name) and has its own car park, free wifi and disabled facilities. BNI's Holt Pound group meets here on Tuesday afternoons.PubFree parkingWifi
Balmer Lawn Hotel & the New Forest Spa BrockenhurstA large country-house hotel and spa on the A337 at the northern edge of Brockenhurst, overlooking open forest lawns. It hosts conferences of 100-plus, with meeting rooms for 2 to 150 delegates, all with daylight, air conditioning and access to a private outdoor area. Brockenhurst station, with direct trains from London Waterloo, is about a 20-minute walk away.HotelFree parkingWifi
Barclays Eagle Lab Southampton (Network Eagle Lab) SouthamptonNetwork Eagle Lab is a co-working space for start-ups and growing businesses in central Southampton, run by Barclays Eagle Labs in partnership with Southampton City Council. It offers desks, an event space and a programme of workshops and networking, including the FSB Connect Southampton meet-ups.Co-working spacePaid parkingStep-free accessBarnsgrove HookA family-run private members' clubhouse on a farm in the countryside near Greywell, between Hook and Odiham. It mixes co-working desks and offices, a gym, padel courts, a café and Palmers bar, and hires out meeting and event rooms to non-members. It hosts its own Cultivate Connections networking breakfasts.Co-working spaceFree parkingWifiBartley Lodge Hotel Cadnam
BASE Bordon Innovation Centre BordonA business innovation centre in Broxhead House, the restored former officers' mess of Louisburg Barracks in the new Whitehill & Bordon town centre, run with Oxford Innovation Space. It offers private offices, co-working, a business lounge and meeting rooms, with free parking and business support. It runs the free monthly BASE Connect networking mornings.Co-working spaceFree parkingWifiBasepoint Andover AndoverBasingstoke Country Hotel HookA Britannia Hotels property in woodland just outside Hook, about five minutes from M3 junction 5, with ten conference and meeting rooms and a leisure club. Britannia now brands it simply as Basingstoke Hotel. BNI Hook High Flyers holds its Friday 6:45am breakfast meeting here (BNI Hampshire chapter listing).HotelFree parkingWifi
Aldershot Town FC – The EBB Stadium AldershotHome of Aldershot Town FC at the Recreation Ground, five minutes' walk from Aldershot station. The club hires out its lounges for business networking, presentations and conferences, the largest taking up to 200 standing.StadiumPaid parkingNear a stationAlresford Golf Club AlresfordA members' golf club just south of New Alresford whose modern clubhouse, with views over the course, hosts business meetings, golf days and dinners for up to 100 people, catered by SPF Caterers. It suits breakfast meetings, company golf days and networking dinners with plenty of free parking, but private bookings must be made with an existing club member.OtherFree parkingStep-free accessAlresford Recreation Centre – Lower Meeting Room AlresfordNew Alresford Town Council's ground-floor meeting room in the Alresford Recreation Centre at Arlebury Park, hired by the hour (£15 an hour for commercial users, £10 for New Alresford businesses). It suits small business meetings, workshops, committee meetings and networking groups in Alresford on a tight budget; capacity is not published.Community hallPaid parkingAlton College (HSDC) AltonAlton's further-education campus, part of HSDC, about a ten-minute walk from Alton station with its own visitor car parks. The college runs free business networking breakfasts for local firms, with a cooked breakfast and a guest speaker (per HSDC's events page).OtherNear a stationAlton House Hotel AltonA country-house hotel on Normandy Street, a short walk from Alton station, with function rooms led by the Jane Austen Suite (up to 120 guests) and free parking. BNI Alton Dragons meets here on Tuesday mornings at 6:45am (per BNI Hampshire's chapter listing).HotelFree parkingWifiAlton Maltings AltonA converted maltings in the middle of Alton run by Harvest Church as a community venue, with a 340-seat auditorium, a 150-seat main hall and a string of smaller meeting rooms. It is set up for conferences, seminars, training days, AGMs and networking receptions, with projectors, screens, PA, hearing loops, lift access to every room and staff on site. Its Tagvenue listing quotes hire from £63, with Wesley Hall from £161.Conference centreWifiStep-free accessAncells Farm Community Centre FleetFleet Town Council's smaller community centre on the Ancells Farm shopping parade, about ten minutes' walk from Fleet station. It has a main hall (18 x 9 m, splittable), a second room opening onto the garden and a small meeting room, plus a kitchen, so it suits small business meetings, workshops and networking groups on a budget. Whole-building packages are offered for 3 or 5 hours, and bookings are requested online.Community hallFree parkingAccessible toiletsAndover Guildhall AndoverThe 1825 Georgian Guildhall in the middle of Andover High Street, owned by Test Valley Borough Council and hired by the hour. Its first-floor Upper Hall holds up to 55 people, with a projector and pull-up screen, flip chart and lectern and a kitchen you can book, so it suits workshops, training sessions, club or networking meetings and small talks in the town centre.Community hallPaid parkingStep-free accessApollo Hotel BasingstokeAn independent hotel on the north side of Basingstoke with 15 meeting rooms, a leisure club and spa, and a large free car park. The Library Bar doubles as a drop-in spot for informal meetings. Hampshire Chamber of Commerce has run its Basingstoke Business Matters event here (Hampshire Chamber news, Sept 2022).HotelFree parkingWifiAudleys Wood Hotel BasingstokeA Victorian country-house hotel in seven acres on the southern edge of Basingstoke, part of Hand Picked Hotels. It has six meeting rooms, the largest being the Garden Pavilion with its own entrance and foyer.HotelFree parkingWifiAviator FarnboroughA 169-bedroom design hotel on the edge of Farnborough Airport (the airport's partner hotel), with six meeting and event rooms including the fourth-floor Sky Lounge. It hosts business conferences, events and one-off networking dinners.HotelWifiBreakfast servedAvington Estate WinchesterA private country estate in the Itchen valley between Winchester and Alresford that runs corporate meetings, away days, retreats and product launches across several spaces. Otters Barn by the lakes takes 40 theatre style or 32 boardroom with wifi and a TV screen, the historic Library in Avington Park House up to 100 theatre style, and the Orangery up to 180 guests (house rooms on request only), with packages from £95 per person and on-site accommodation for residential events.OtherFree parkingWifiAvonway Community Centre FordingbridgeFordingbridge's community centre, run by the Fordingbridge and District Community Association, with nine rooms across the main building and an annexe. The East and West rooms join as the Greenwich Suite (155 seated / 199 standing), the annexe takes 135 seated, and smaller rooms suit committee meetings and workshops; hourly rates run from about £6 to £26, with PA, hearing loop and projector included.Community hallPaid parkingHearing loopAxis Conference Centre SouthamptonAxis Conference Centre, University of Southampton Science Park SouthamptonA conference centre on the University of Southampton Science Park at Chilworth, on the northern edge of Southampton, close to the M3 and M27. It has flexible space for up to 200 people and ten smaller meeting rooms. The park hosts tech and space-sector networking, such as Space South Central's Orbit evenings and the UKSPA conference.Conference centreFree parkingWifiBalmer Lawn Hotel & the New Forest Spa BrockenhurstA large country-house hotel and spa on the A337 at the northern edge of Brockenhurst, overlooking open forest lawns. It hosts conferences of 100-plus, with meeting rooms for 2 to 150 delegates, all with daylight, air conditioning and access to a private outdoor area. Brockenhurst station, with direct trains from London Waterloo, is about a 20-minute walk away.HotelFree parkingWifiBarclays Eagle Lab Southampton (Network Eagle Lab) SouthamptonNetwork Eagle Lab is a co-working space for start-ups and growing businesses in central Southampton, run by Barclays Eagle Labs in partnership with Southampton City Council. It offers desks, an event space and a programme of workshops and networking, including the FSB Connect Southampton meet-ups.Co-working spacePaid parkingStep-free accessBarnsgrove HookA family-run private members' clubhouse on a farm in the countryside near Greywell, between Hook and Odiham. It mixes co-working desks and offices, a gym, padel courts, a café and Palmers bar, and hires out meeting and event rooms to non-members. It hosts its own Cultivate Connections networking breakfasts.Co-working spaceFree parkingWifiBartley Lodge Hotel CadnamBASE Bordon Innovation Centre BordonA business innovation centre in Broxhead House, the restored former officers' mess of Louisburg Barracks in the new Whitehill & Bordon town centre, run with Oxford Innovation Space. It offers private offices, co-working, a business lounge and meeting rooms, with free parking and business support. It runs the free monthly BASE Connect networking mornings.Co-working spaceFree parkingWifiBasepoint Andover AndoverBasingstoke Country Hotel HookA Britannia Hotels property in woodland just outside Hook, about five minutes from M3 junction 5, with ten conference and meeting rooms and a leisure club. Britannia now brands it simply as Basingstoke Hotel. BNI Hook High Flyers holds its Friday 6:45am breakfast meeting here (BNI Hampshire chapter listing).HotelFree parkingWifi