The Design Council makes a nominal hire charge to cover the administration, set up, equipment and services for your event.
The rate is dependant on what room you have and is available either as a full day or half day (any 5 hours between 8:30am and 6:00pm). An evening event is charged at the full day rate.
Presentation area
- 1/2 day £650
- Full day £750
Conference room
- 1/2 day £500
- Full day £550
The venue is open Monday to Friday (excluding bank holidays) from 8:30am to 8:30pm. If you need access to the building outside these core hours, an additional charge will be levied.
Out of hours rate: £40.00 per hour.
Next steps
For full details please download our venue pack.
If you would like to hold your event at the Design Council, please email events@designcouncil.org.uk with the following information.
- Company/organisation name
- Contact name and number
- Event date
- Event audience (eg, public, designers or internal)
- Company/organisation biog
- Company/organisation website
- Any other relevant information
Once availability has been confirmed, we will send you a checklist for you to confirm your specific requirements.
Terms and conditions
- Event checklist must be completed, signed, and returned 3 weeks in advance.
- The deposit (of the room hire charge) must be received no later than 2 weeks in advance.
Failure to pay the deposit may result in cancellation.
The non refundable deposit will be deducted from your final invoice.
- All invoices are due for payment within 28 days of receipt.
- All prices quoted are exclusive of VAT. We reserve the right to change our prices at any time.
- All changes to numbers of attendees, or amendments to your requirements can only be accepted 1 week prior to your event.
- In the event of cancellation, at least 2 weeks notice should be given. Failure to do so will result in charges being incurred in full.
- Event organisers must appreciate that the Design Council is a busy working environment and care must be taken to ensure all activities are undertaken with minimum disruption to Design Council staff.
- The Design Council has the right to co-brand any activities held at our premises. We therefore ask that you agree to the branding conditions as stated in our Venue Pack.