[HLUG] Linux audio / video special event venue

[Ann Tether]

Grange Court is lovely, just a note that the 28/5 is spring bank holiday 
week, so a lot of people may well be away then. £10ph is very 
competitive as well for Leominster, and from a personal point of view I 
could actually get there.. but not on the 28/5. It should be fairly easy 
to get a free press release in the Leominster Journal as well to see if 
there are other users locally who haven't found this group yet.
regards
ann

On 27/04/14 22:32, Julian Robbins wrote:
> Hi everyone
>
> I went over to speak to Polly Robinson, (Heritage Development Worker) at Grange
> Court <http://www.grangecourt.org/> in Leominster on Friday, about our
> requirement to hire a room and she was friendly and helpful. Grange Court
> is set up as a '*Community, Enterprise, and Heritage Hub. It is free to
> enter and enables the people of Leominster and visitors to work, play and
> learn*' run by the LARC Development Trust. The facilities at Grange Court
> as you would expect from a recently National Lottery funded project are
> extremely good. The prices are also low too as they do a much reduced rate
> for community groups.
>
> The last event we put on, Ben's Open Street Map workshop last year was
> attended by 28 people to give an idea of how many we hope to attend, if we
> publicise this well.
>
> There are two rooms we could hire :-
>
>     1. The Education room, which depending on how you set up the seating
>     will take up to 25-30 people. The room has a large new, wall mounted
>     flatscreen touchscreen tv (don't know about linux capability here) which we
>     can use to work with. The best bit is the room is only £10 per hour (note
>     all the other rooms we looked at started at £14 per hour, ie St John
>     Ambulance and the Kindle Centre in Hereford). The room makes an excellent
>     training room as that is it's primary purpose.
>     2. The John Abel room, this seats up to 60 people is a beautifully
>     ornate room but is £25 per hour so out of our price range I think.
>
> There is free wifi access (approx 8MB/s), kitchen facilities where we can
> make teas etc, excellent disabled access (as it's a new alteration to an
> old building), new lifts etc. disabled car parking right outside, general
> parking in Etnam St. next to the Grange, after 6pm. Grange Court is just
> off the town centre, with Leominster railway station nearby and is a very
> short walk to numerous takeaways on Etnam St, should you feel peckish
> before or after the event. Trains take just 11 mins from Hereford to
> Leominster and there are about 1-2 trains per hour. in the evening if you
> feel like leaving the car behind.
>
> Dates available for Education room are 21/5, 28/5, 18/6. Note the 28/5 is
> our usual 4th Wednesday of the month, to keep things simple ....    ;-)
>
> Therefore I think we should book the room, assuming Charlie can make one of
> the available dates above.
>
> Just as a note I'm not so keen to use the St John Ambulance Hall in
> Hereford, as although the room is central, I had lots of niggling issues
> getting the booking sorted out, access to keys, and the alarm ringing like
> a maniac as they supplied the wrong code. Plus the wifi code didnt work
> either. I think we can do better ..
>
> Thoughts, ideas ... ?
>
> Julian