Venue Hire - Cedars Hall

Venue Hire

What We Offer

Whatever kind of event or celebration you are planning, whether it is a conference, a meeting, a lecture or a family party with live music, our experienced team will be able to put together a package that will suit your requirements.

What we can provide

A dedicated events team
A choice of seven main event spaces
Spaces for anywhere between two and 350 people
Theatre–style plenary room for up to 350 delegates
Cabaret-style for up to 250 people
Formal dining for up to 160 people
In-house catering
State-of-the-art AV facilities
Free Wi-Fi throughout

Accessibility

Most of our main venues have disabled access, disabled parking and disabled toilet facilities, plus hearing loops and wheelchair seating are available in Cedars Hall. Please contact us if you intend to bring an assistance dog.

Beautiful grounds

You can enjoy the views over our extensive grounds in all weathers, and in the warmer months we can provide a limited amount of wooden tables and chairs for outside use by your delegates – an ideal space to sit and enjoy a working lunch perhaps.

Parking

We have 50 spaces for parking in a private car park which is short walk away from the main school site, plus additional spaces can be allocated throughout the whole school site, including a dedicated disabled parking area. Further parking can be found in one of the five other main public car parks.

Accommodation

We can supply a comprehensive list of local accommodation upon request.

Cedars Hall has been a vital addition to the Wells Comedy Festival. It’s a beautiful venue, and our comedians have loved playing it.

Ben Williams

Wells Comedy Festival

I have recorded three CDs at Cedars Hall with my ensemble La Serenissima www.laserenissima.co.uk, and we already have our next recording booked in. Cedars Hall is our Number 1 venue of choice for its spaciousness, the excellent warm acoustic, stable climate control, extensive backstage facilities, daylight in the performance area, minimal external noise disruption, friendly and helpful administration, and most prosaically, ample parking!

Adrian Chandler

Artistic Director, La Serenissima

It is a joy to play in the wonderful Cedars Hall where there’s such a marvellous combination of clarity and warmth in the sound. If a hall is an extension of a musical instrument, its acoustics a continuing, sympathetic sounding-board, then Cedars Hall is a Stradivarius.

Stephen Hough

Internationally-renowned concert pianist and composer

Delivering Wells Festival of Literature in Cedars Hall has been a great success. An attractive, comfortable venue with excellent technical facilities and a ‘can-do’, professional team!

Frances Rowe

Wells Festival of Literature

Cedars Hall and its extensive facilities proved the perfect location for our workshops and concerts. The boarding houses too were fantastic and the setting is second to none.

Tamsin

WOWFest

Room Capacities

As well as Cedars Hall, we have a number of other facilities available for hire due to our affiliation with Wells Cathedral School:

Eavis Hall (in Cedars Hall)

Size – 16.6m x 11.4m
Concert – 210-350
Dinner max – 160
Drinks reception – max 250
Whole party venue – max 300
Theatre style – max 350
Natural daylight – yes

The John Baxter Foyer (in Cedars Hall)

Including fully licenced bar
Size 22.2m x 6.2m
Concert – suitable for small recitals
Dinner – max 80
Drinks reception – max 150
Natural daylight – yes

Sports Pavilion

Size – 11.9m x 6.1m
Dinner – max 20
Drinks reception – max 40
Whole party venue – max 40
Theatre style – max 20
Classroom – max 12
Boardroom – max 20
U-shape – max 15
Natural daylight – yes

Quilter Hall

Size – 14.1m x 7.5m
Concert – max 90
Drinks reception – max 100
Conference – max 90
Whole party venue – max 100
Theatre style – max 90
Natural daylight – yes

Cedars Drawing Room

Size – 9m x 5.7m
Concert – max 50
Dinner – max 32
Drinks reception – max 60
Whole party venue – max 60
Theatre style – max 50
Natural daylight – yes

Cedars Morning Room

Size – 7.1m x 6.3m
Dinner – max 24
Drinks reception – max 40
Whole party venue – max 40
Theatre style – max 30
Boardroom – max 12
Natural daylight – yes

Sports Hall

Size – 36.4m x 18.4m
Exhibitions – max 40 stands

The Cook Building Meeting Room

Size – 22.5m x 8.2m
Whole party venue – max 100
Theatre style – max 100
Classroom – max 70
Natural daylight – yes

Ritchie Hall

Size – 21.2 m x 6.4m (without stage area 14.01m)
Suitable for small theatre productions
Theatre style – max 100
Natural daylight – yes

Conferences and Meetings

We are able to provide a complete package to meet all your conference and meeting requirements. Cedars Hall is an ideal venue for talks and lectures, and our several other venues offer scope for exhibitions, smaller meetings and breakout sessions.

Day Delegate Rate

From £35.00 (plus VAT) per person.
(Minimum number of delegates apply, depending on venue)

Our rate includes:

Morning coffee, tea and biscuits
Water throughout the day
Finger buffet lunch
Afternoon coffee, tea and biscuits
Hire of the main venue
Audiovisual equipment – LCD projector, screen, flipchart
Notepad and pen

Half-Day Delegate Rate

From £25.00 (plus VAT) per person.
(Minimum number of delegates apply depending on venue)

Our rate includes:

Morning or afternoon coffee, tea and biscuits
Water
Hire of the main venue
Audiovisual equipment – LCD projector, screen, flipchart
Notepad and pen

Refreshments

Our highly skilled catering team will be happy to provide a full range of refreshments for your event.

We are dedicated to serving fresh, healthy and nutritious food for any occasion.

Conferences

Hot beverages
Breakfast
Hot and cold buffet lunch
Fruit baskets
High tea

Functions and events

Fully licensed bar
Canapés
Two- or three-course dinner
Hot or cold buffet
High tea

Concerts

Fully licensed bar with interval ordering
Pre concert receptions
Post concert receptions

Marketing Your Event

Advertising Opportunities

The Cedars Hall Concerts and Events brochures are printed three times a year (Autumn, Spring and Summer). We distribute 16,000 brochures each season – many of these (around 7,500) are sent out via a professional distributor to arts venues, tourist information offices, cafes, relevant shops, libraries and so on across Bath, Bristol, Street, Glastonbury and surrounding areas. We distribute the brochures to Wells Cathedral School staff, current parents and Friends of Music. We also send them to music schools and colleges, local bed and breakfasts and everyone else on our box office database who has asked for a brochure.

Many more electronic versions of the brochure are sent out in marketing emails and so on.

We can offer you the opportunity to advertise your event in the brochures (from £120 plus VAT), or to include your event in the listings section (£150 plus VAT).

Ticketing and Box Office

We can sell tickets to your event for you. Delegates can purchase tickets online and in person at our Box Office, which is located next to the main Wells Cathedral School reception. We can set up early-bird price reductions for conferences and so on.

Fee is 12.5% of total ticket sales.

Minimum fee of £250.