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City Break.
Online booking for our £24 per night city-centre bedrooms.
Looking for a keenly-priced base to explore one of the UK’s popular city-break destinations? Then look no further than our Clarence Dock Apartments. Now available to book online!
Clarence Dock is situated on the banks of the River Aire, next to the Royal Armouries Museum, and close to the centre of Leeds. Apart from the fantastic Royal Armouries, with its huge collection of arms and armour, and its jousting and falconry grounds, Clarence dock features restaurants and designer shops, all developed around Leeds’ historic dock basin.
For theatre-goers, the West Yorkshire Playhouse is a few hundred yards away and a ten-minute walk takes you to the heart to the shops, bars and restaurants of the city centre.
All this convenience for £24.00 per night in an en suite room! Find out more, and make an online booking, at www.meetinleeds.co.uk/shortbreaks
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Open for business.
New Conference Facility Delivered On-Time.
The keys for our new en-suite residence were officially handed over by construction company Morgan Sindall on 23 July – bang on time.
Storm Jameson Court, on the main campus close to many of our city centre venues, has been kitted out with 460 en-suite state-of-the-art bedrooms in two accommodation blocks, standing at eight and six storeys high, respectively. This development also offers premier league conference facilities to be used during the summer holiday break. The complex is named after a former University of Leeds student, Margaret Storm Jameson, a prolific 20th century writer.
Head of Sales & Marketing, Richard Handscombe said “this is one of the best – if not the best – student residences in the country. It has been built with both student and conference delegates in mind, and some of its features are ground-breaking. Our conference clients will love it”.
The hard work of fitting out the building with soft furnishings and moveable furniture will now continue throughout August. “We already have a conference booked here in September, then it will over to the students until next July, when conferences begin in earnest” said Handscombe, adding “we have a huge string of bookings for this great new building”.
Live.
Our new website is launched.
Last month the last few pixels were put into place on our new website and we finally launched it out into the world (wide web). And we’ve had some great feedback already!
Those of you who read our blog will already know that a new website has been an important part of our plan ever since we launched the new MeetInLeeds brand. As proud as we were of the old site its foundations lay in an old design that no longer suited the size of the conference and events operation at the University of Leeds today.
The new site has had a total overhaul and now has more information than ever on our fantastic facilities. New features include:
- Brand new floor plans (click on the room name in the table at the bottom of each venue)
- Online booking for our short-break accommodation at Clarence Dock
- Testimonials and FAQ pages
- More information on our location including a guide to Leeds
- An image gallery and links to all our latest news, tweets and blog entries!
Matt Hamnett, Ecommerce Coordinator, explains the most important change:
“The greatest feature of our new site is its new layout. Our website gets many visitors all wanting something different, whether it be delivered catering, event management or just driving directions to a particular venue. We wanted our site to be as easy to navigate as possible so we’ve worked hard on making it as simple as possible to find what you’re looking for”.
Take a look at the new site now at www.meetinleeds.co.uk and let us know what you think!
A Real Page-Turner.
Our new brochure is now available digitally.
Ok, so it may not make it into Richard & Judy’s top ten summer reads, but we like it. If you’re looking for a fast and easy way to review our facilities, and show others in your office what you were thinking of, then we think that you’ll like it too.
The eBrochure gives details of the wide range of facilities the University has to offer clients including our Event Management service and Delivered Catering.
It also features the latest additions to our portfolio: Storm Jameson Court and The Edge. Take a look at it here or order a hard copy for yourself by emailing us.
550-Seat Sparkler!
Our flagship theatre, the Conference Auditorium, has undergone a total makeover of the foyer and ground floor area.
The aim was to create a conference-friendly, and stylish space and the result has been very positively greeted by all who have seen it.
As well as totally refreshed décor, new features include automatic external doors, an organisers reception desk, new glass interior doors leading to new glass and stainless steel staircases to the auditorium, and two built-in refreshment points with hot beverage machines.
This project was completed with stylish and contemporary furniture in the foyer, some exterior seating and a wonderful gallery of early photographs taken more than 100 years ago in and around Leeds.
The Conference Auditorium forms the nucleus of a series of facilities ideal for large-scale conferences. Alongside the main auditorium is Auditorium 2, seating 320 delegates, and also in the building, is a gallery ideal for poster-board presentations. An adjoining building contains 1200 square metres of exhibition space, and the nearby Roger Stevens Building offers 25 breakout theatres of varying sizes.
All-in-all, great reasons to make Leeds your next conference destination!
Find out more about the Conference Auditorium.
The Conference Crusader.
Our very own soapbox.
If you’ve been keeping up to date with our Twitter feed, YouTube channel and even this email, then you’ll know by now that we have a lot to tell you!
The Conference Crusader, our Blog, is the latest way we’ve found to keep you up to date with the goings on at MEETinLEEDS.
Sometimes we’ll be talking about Event Management, other times about the best conference idea we’ve seen. Or maybe we’ll use it as a soapbox to highlight what we’re doing in our own lives!
The exciting news is that we have asked some of the leading people in conference and business tourism to be guest bloggers, so that’s another great reason to subscribe!
It's easy to subscribe: just enter your email address into the box at the top of the blog and you’ll be sent updates each time we post!
Read the Conference Crusader.
