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With over 35 years' experience of matching event planners with amazing spaces, the specialists at Academic Venue Solutions understand your needs.
Our friendly and passionate venue finding team won’t just help you to find the perfect venue, we’ll make sure you have everything you need for an exceptional event. If our venues are unable to help we will look at other academic venues across the UK.

Keele University Events and Conferencing Launching New Hybrid Virtual Conference Packages
Keele University Events and Conferencing are proud to announce that we have partnered with the virtual events platform Reattendance to offer our clients a premium Hybrid Conferencing service.
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Keele University Events & Conferencing - Newsletter
As daffodils and tulips abound outside Keele Hall and we see all the flora and fauna coming to life on our leafy rural campus, we wanted to share some highlights around Keele University Events and Conferencing.
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Academic Venues Solutions News
As a consortium, our Board Members play an important role in the strategic direction for the consortium, to work with our academic venue members and position Academic Venue Solutions (AVS) as the natural partner for conference and event planners.
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Academic Venue Solutions Business Support and Training Packages
As an industry, we need to build and prepare for the future, to retain and support existing staff and when recruiting new people.
As we all move into the whole new world, post Covid, it will be even more important for your venue and your team to shine bright.
Customers will also be operating in a changing landscape – let’s make sure your teams are ready to deliver for them.
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"WE'RE GOOD TO GO"
Academic Venue Solutions members venues are working with Visit Britain "WE'RE GOOD TO GO" scheme acquiring the Industry Standard mark, this means that it's business's have followed government and industry COVID-19 guidelines, have a Risk Assessment in place and a process to maintain cleanliness and aid social distancing.
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Keele University Events and Conferencing working with Visit Britain “We’re Good To Go” has acquired the Industry Standard mark.
Keele University Events and Conferencing venues provide a location that inspires, excites and leaves a lasting impression. We have an impressive range of conference and events spaces for small team meetings to events for 600 delegates. Choose from one of our contemporary campus venues during Easter and Summer vacation, or for a year-round venue delegates will be welcomed to the magnificent Grade II listed Keele Hall set amidst 604 acres of leafy landscape.
Our dedicated team of event professionals can offer conference event management in addition to introducing your to Keele University’s academic research and expertise, specialised learning environments, all providing conference and event organisers with everything you need to host your event at Staffordshire’s leading academic venue.
Covid-19 Update - April 2021
Keele University Events and Conferencing team continue to work remotely and are speaking to their clients planning events for 2021 and beyond. We are planning to re-open fully summer 2021.
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Whether you’re holding a small board meeting or a residential conference for hundreds of delegates, there’s an academic venue to suit your needs.
The thousands of spaces our members can offer include iconic, traditional buildings as well as purpose-built, state-of-the-art conference halls, in locations that range from vibrant city centres to rambling campuses set in acres of beautiful countryside.
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