Thank you for your interest in hiring our Main Hall, Alec Moore Room or other facility.
Main Hall
Our Main Hall, with sprung dance floor, is charged at a standard rate of £20 per hour for week-day use and £24 per hour for evening or weekend use. This rate is applied to business event and occasional hirers.
Our pricing policy grants certain groups of hirers a discounted rate for hire of the Main Hall. For example:
Our Main Hall, with sprung dance floor, is charged at a standard rate of £20 per hour for week-day use and £24 per hour for evening or weekend use. This rate is applied to business event and occasional hirers.
Our pricing policy grants certain groups of hirers a discounted rate for hire of the Main Hall. For example:
- Weekly hire, for regular exercise and well-being groups, we offer the hourly day rate of £16 per hour, and, for evening and weekend hire it is £18 per hour.
- Regular and occasional hire for Social & Community groups also benefit from the hourly day rate of £16 per hour, and, for evening and weekend hire it is £18 per hour.
To qualify as a regular hirer, you would need to book for three months in advance and pay in advance for three consecutive months. After three months, regular hirers are invoiced monthly. Payment is requested within 30 days of receipt of our invoice and is preferred via BACS - details are supplied on the invoice. Our cancellation policy is outlined in our Conditions of License.
Please ask about current Main Hall availability.
Kitchen
Use of the kitchen is included with hire of the Main Hall for preparation of hot & cold drinks and cold foods (mugs and teaspoons the only crockery & cutlery provided).
Should you wish to reheat prepared food (i.e. pizza or soup) there is a charge of £10 to cover the fuel costs and to arrange for a team member to light the oven. Should you wish to use the fully professionally equipped kitchen to produce a hot, catered meal from scratch, there is an additional charge of £60 per session / day to cover utilities.
Alec Moore Room
The Alec Moore Room comes equipped with its own tea & coffee making facilities and has a standard hire rate, across the board, of £7 per hour.
Period of Hire for all facilities
The period of hire must include any setting up and packing away time you may require. Please see our website, https://stmichaels.lemonbooking.com, to view our facilities, room dimensions and capacity numbers.
There are two weeks in the year that the Centre is closed: Holy week (from the Tuesday prior to Good Friday to, and including, Easter Monday) and for our Annual Cleaning & Maintenance week (the week beginning the week after the first Saturday in August).
Terms & Conditions
Should the following general hire policies be acceptable to you, please email to request dates, times and exact hire rates, provide details regarding the nature of your hire, any equipment involved, the qualifications and experience of your facilitators.
We would require the following, prior to the date of hire:
- The full name, address, contact telephone number & email address of the person responsible for the event / hire.
- The dates, times and facilities you would like to hire from and until
On confirmation by you to proceed with the booking, a Booking Confirmation form (and invoice) will be generated. This will be marked as ‘Pending’ until the required documentation is in place and the advance payment has been made.
The following documentation must be completed and returned, also prior to the first date of hire:
- Conditions of Licence General Hire documentation completed, signed and returned.
- Additional Legal Information form completed with your business insurance details and your Child/Vulnerable Person Protection Policy. If you do not have a Protection Policy, agreement must be given to comply with ours.
Bookings will then be ‘Approved’ and authorisation provided for you to access the building at your agreed time slots.
Any current legislation and guidelines, both Governmental and from the Church of England, must be abided by.
We require that you take all rubbish produced by the event away with you at the end; clean the areas used and leave them as you found them.