Connecting event organisers with academic spaces

Discover thousands of unique event spaces within academic venues across the UK. Search our nationwide recommended member venues or ask us about thousands more within universities, schools and colleges.

Find a unique academic venue for your next event

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.

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Spotlight on Imperial College London....now Celesta Venues by Imperial College London

Dream Bigger. Explore Further.

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Academic Venue Solutions delighted to announce finalists for Annual Awards

Academic Venue Solutions (AVS), the UK’s only consortium dedicated to academic venues, has today announced the finalists for its inaugural awards ceremony which takes place at the Annual Conference on Thursday 7th December 2023 at Nottingham Venues, Jubilee Hotel and Conferences.

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AVS - Member Referral Scheme

Members Referral Scheme - Reminder

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AVS Delighted to Reveal 2023 Award Categories

AVS are absolutely delighted to reveal to categories for the inaugural AVS Awards 2023. The categories (drum roll please..) are:

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Save the Date - Annual AVS Conference 2023

SAVE THE DATE!

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AVS Delighted to Reveal Guest Speaker for 2023 Annual Conference

AVS are delighted to confirm Shona Hirons as our guest speaker at the AVS Annual Conference in December.

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Annual Conference 2023

We are delighted to invite you to join us at this year’s Annual AVS conference and Dinner, which will be taking place on Thursday 7th December and Friday 8th December 2023 at Nottingham Venues, Jubilee Hotel and Conferences. As is tradition, the conference will include the 42nd AGM on the afternoon of 7th December 2023. We are working on an exciting line up of keynote presentations and interactive Workshops / Discussion Groups.

To find out more and to register click here.

Choose from our nationwide members academic venues throughout the UK

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.

Free venue-finding service

Let us help you find the perfect venue, free of charge. Tell us your event requirements and we’ll contact you with a list of the venues that most suit your needs.

What our clients think

QMU served as the ideal venue for our Production company to film in recently. With a number of large spaces on offer, we were spoilt for choice when choosing where to film for our client. The facilities were clean, well maintained and the service we received from the Events team was exceptional. We will definitely be back!

Kat Jordan, Tanami

Thank you so much for your support and organization which helped to make the event last week such a success. Particularly for your patience with the changes in numbers - we far exceeded our original estimate and even more positively, the numbers just exceeded the final catering number of 125! And in ensuring we could accommodate our specific requirements. The venue was very good for the scale and type of event and even on such a hot day, stayed cool and well ventilated thank goodness.

Public Health Surrey Day Conference, June 2022, University of Surrey

I just wanted to pass on my personal thanks to you and the events team for helping our DTP students organize their conference last week at Surrey. The event went really well, and I think that those who attended all had a great time. I know that events, such as these, take a significant amount of time and effort to arrange and I am very appreciative of your support and hard work in helping to organize this event. In fact, there were many comments saying "what a great place to hold a conference" and "perhaps we can do it here again next year". Well, we shall see......!

SCENARIO, University of Reading Residential Conference, September 2022, University of Surrey