Plan the Best Charity Event in Canterbury! All Top Venues, Lowest Rates

The unique Chef’s Table allows your guests to sneak a peek behind the scenes and observe our talented team of chefs in action preparing dishes for your enjoyment.

Celebrate a special occasion, give your working lunch some style or give someone a send-off to remember with delicious food, fine wines and a three-course meal or tasting menu in this intimate space for up to 12 of your nearest and dearest, colleagues, friends or family

The spacious County Room boasts distinctive to accommodate up to 150 guests making it ideal for partying the night away! The space is fully licensed for your big day too, with it’s own private bar and dancefloor.

Alternatively, the County Room can also adapt to business needs with enough space to allow a variety of configurations including cabaret for 64 and dinner for 100 – perfect for presentations, workshop sessions, team building and much more...

The Wine Room is sequestered behind a glass- fronted wine wall in our celebrated County Restaurant, providing a distinctive venue to dine in style with family, friends or colleagues.

Whatever the occasion, a special anniversary, birthday party, graduation dinner or team-building dinner, we’ve got it covered with delicious dishes, fine wines and unique cocktails conjured up by our resident mixologists in the Champagne Bar.

Flexible spaces with natural daylight, these rooms can adapt to your business needs, with a variety of set ups available to ensure conversation flows and nothing stands in the way of creativity, perfect for conferences, seminars, presentations, team building workshops and much more...

Keep it intimate in Man of Law with a variety of configurations including boardroom for eight or spread out a little in Wife of Bath with theatre for 30.

Flexible spaces with natural daylight, these rooms can adapt to your business needs, with a variety of set ups available to ensure conversation flows and nothing stands in the way of creativity, perfect for conferences, seminars, presentations, team building workshops and much more...

Keep it intimate in Man of Law with a variety of configurations including boardroom for eight or spread out a little in Wife of Bath with theatre for 30.

The Chaucer Room is a multifunctional space with enough room to allow a variety of configurations

Styled like the Lord’s Long Room, the Chiesman Pavilion is Kent's historic oasis in the midst of the grounds modern facility.

Guests will be surrounded by photographs and paintings of the greats of Kent Cricket, spanning over 150 years.

The chandeliers and décor set this room apart as the ideal venue for formal gatherings, dinners and meetings.

Built with an annexe extension, it can be expanded to cater for larger groups.

Half Day Rate (4 hrs) £400

Day Rate (8 hrs) £475/520

Evening Rate (from 6:00 pm) £475/520

Situated on the second floor of the Colin Cowdrey Conference Centre, the FGS Plant Harris Room and balcony offer panoramic views of the grounds, in all its peace and grandeur.

Versatile and flexible, the FGS Plant Harris Room can cater for large public meetings, formal and informal dinners or an occasion of your choice. Well serviced with a bar area, it has been refurbished to a high standard in the redevelopment programme.

Half Day Rate (4 hrs) £320

Day Rate (8 hrs) £420

Evening Rate (from 6:00 pm) £420

On the first floor of the Colin Cowdrey Conference Centre, the Cornwallis Room is set up for buffet meals and breakfast gatherings, due to its built-in serving area. You will have space to move around and arrange in a manner to suit your gathering, while still enjoying the peaceful vista of the cricket outfield and block.

The Cornwallis Room also doubles as an excellent pre-event reception area for functions in the Harris Room.

Half Day Rate (4 hrs) £320

Day Rate (8 hrs) £420

Evening Rate (from 6:00 pm) £420

Overlooking the stunning ground, the Committee Room is the ideal venue for boardroom meetings, small presentations and as a break- out area.

Delegates will be surrounded by photographs and memorabilia of times gone by.

The room is situated within the Frank Woolley Stand.

Half Day Rate (4 hrs) £220

Day Rate (8 hrs) £300

Evening Rate (from 6:00 pm) £220

Upstairs in the Les Ames Stand, the five boxes offer a variety of sizes and can comfortably host groups of between six and thirty.

The height and views create a tranquil environment for you to work in throughout the day, be it a small group meeting or break-out space used as part of a larger conference.

Day Rate (8 hrs)

Les Ames Boxes Single £ 200

Upstairs in the Les Ames Stand, the five boxes offer a variety of sizes and can comfortably host groups of between six and thirty.

The height and views create a tranquil environment for you to work in throughout the day, be it a small group meeting or break-out space used as part of a larger conference.

Day Rate (8 hrs)

Les Ames Boxes Double £ 250

Upstairs in the Les Ames Stand, the five boxes offer a variety of sizes and can comfortably host groups of between six and thirty.

The height and views create a tranquil environment for you to work in throughout the day, be it a small group meeting or break-out space used as part of a larger conference.

Day Rate (8 hrs)

Les Ames Boxes Triple £ 300

On the ground floor of the Les Ames Stand, our Spitfire Bar is ‘party central’ on-site and the ideal venue for birthday celebrations, stag and hen nights or any occasion when you want some privacy to let your hair down!

You can also enjoy the extended space provided by the balcony as you look over the grounds.

Half Day Rate (4 hrs) £320

Day Rate (8 hrs) £375

Evening Rate (from 6:00 pm) £375

Darwin Conference Suite is our all year round flexible conference venue, situated in Darwin College.

An adaptable space for a maximum of 300 people. It can be used as one large room or divided, with soundproofed walls, into three smaller rooms with a capacity of 40 to 100 people. The space has its own reception area, cloakroom, dance floor, and bar.

The flexibility of this space, allows for a wide range of meeting and event needs to be met.  Boardroom or theatre style for those important business meetings or talks or banqueting style for dinner dances.

The Grimond Building is a self-contained meeting and conference venue, located at the heart of the campus.  It comprises a range of three lecture theatres and eight seminar rooms.

Grimond has a large foyer area that is ideal for registration, catering, exhibition space, and for holding drinks receptions. 

This striking black and yellow building is home to a range of contemporary facilities to host your next meeting. 

With flexible interiors and bold design, let your ideas come together and collaborate in our sustainable space surrounded by woodlands. 

Built in 2021 the Kent Indoor Tennis and Events Arena offers a versatile, unrestricted space for a wide range of events, accommodating up to 4,000 people at the University of Kent Canterbury campus.

With over 3,000 sq meters of flexible flat floor space, the arena can be configured in a variety of layouts including conferences for over 2,000 delegates, trade exhibitions, banquets, functions, sporting events,  concerts and more. 

Our three sports halls are great for large-scale events. 

The adaptability of the sports halls means a variety of events can be held there, from sports events such as boxing or karate to banquet dinners, large exhibitions and conferences. 

Keynes College is an all-in-one venue for residential conferences.  

Keynes has a wide range of meeting rooms available, including 5 large lecture theatres (capacity 60-330) and over 20 breakout rooms (capacity 10-52). Alongside the meeting rooms are two foyer areas ideal for delegate registration, working lunches, exhibitions and drinks receptions. 

Keynes is the perfect venue for residential conferences as we have 600 en-suite single and double bedrooms located next to the conference rooms, a catering outlet and bar.

Opened in 2020, the Pears Building is based on the Canterbury Campus and is part of the Kent and Medway Medical School. 

The state-of-the-art building has one large lecture theatre for 150 people, multiple multi-use seminar rooms and a bright airy foyer area.

Rutherford College is home to our dining hall, the perfect location for large dinners and evening socials.

An adaptable space with a seated capacity of 350 guests. The large floor to ceiling bay window provides a beautiful view of the city and Canterbury cathedral.

The space can accommodate small or large events from awards ceremonies and dinners to parties and music events, it can cater to all.

Built in 2017, this state-of-the-art building will give you the chance to impress, with three large lecture theatres, six meeting rooms and a contemporary ground floor event space.

Follow the pathways through the trees to discover our innovative high-quality conference venue, winner of the 2018 South East Building of the Year by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).

Providing 2,350m squared of high-quality conference and event space there's room here for nearly every type of event with plenty of wow factor.

The Templeman Library features a 250 seat lecture theatre, 8 seminar rooms and a large bright foyer area. 

Following a major extension and refurbishment of the Templeman Library in 2017,  it created a vibrant contemporary building at the heart of the campus.  

Woolf College is the perfect venue for large conferences and events as it houses our largest 480-seater lecture theatre.

In addition, there are six seminar rooms, a reception and a large foyer area ideal for delegate registration,  working lunches, exhibitions and drinks receptions.

Leading outside from the entrance is a small and quiet courtyard with seating and tables, a great place to get some fresh air and enjoy lunch.

The Gulbenkian Arts Centre can cater for a variety of events with it's 340 seat theatre, 300 seat cinema and a café bar. 

The venue is multi-purpose and can be used for a range of events, including performances, workshops, conferences, screenings, rehearsals and filming.

Built in 2012 the Colyer Fergusson Music Building is a unique and charming venue for musical performances or conferences and events. The building consists of one large auditorium, meeting rooms and a foyer area. 

With adjustable and retractable seating the main hall can accommodate intimate musical events and large-scale musical, academic and conference events. When functioning at full capacity the hall can accommodate seating 400 people.