Seminars and company events
All Nations Centre takes conferences for up to 900 delegates theater-style, along with training days, seminars, exhibitions, examinations and meeting room hire. The centre stands on Sachville Avenue in Heath, a residential district in the north of Cardiff, and works as a conference venue in its own right.
The team sets each room in the layout an organizer asks for and provides audiovisual support, from presentation kit to bespoke sets, sound and lighting at different budgets. Day delegate packages include a main room, a Full HD projector, a screen, a laptop and a flip chart, refreshments through the day, Wi-Fi and parking, with breakout rooms at a reduced rate. Free Wi-Fi covers the whole building, and reception can print documents and call taxis.
For exhibitions, the pillar-free Main Auditorium and the foyer take table-top or shell-scheme stands, with easy access for setting up. The centre also runs as an examination venue, with the larger rooms set in classroom layout.
Rooms and capacities
Five rooms cover most formats. The Main Auditorium, on the ground floor, measures 23.5 by 29 meters and seats 900 theater-style, 300 in classroom, 400 at banquet tables and 340 in cabaret. Muller Hall, on the first floor, measures 21 by 16.8 meters and takes 120 in classroom, 160 at banquet and 120 in cabaret, or 50 around a boardroom table. The Wallis Room, 10 by 9.1 meters, seats 90 theater-style and 34 around a boardroom table. Two smaller ground-floor rooms, Aylward (7.5 by 5.6 meters, 42 theater-style) and Wilberforce (7.5 by 5 meters, 36 theater-style), work as breakout rooms or for board meetings of 16 to 20.
The building is fully accessible, with no lip higher than 1 cm anywhere, and the whole campus is smoke-free.
Catering
Catering is run in-house by a kitchen led by a chef with more than ten years in five-star hotels and resorts. Formats range from tea, coffee and pastries to hot breakfast rolls, breakfast buffets, finger buffets, working lunches for up to 60 delegates, standing hot fork buffets, cold fork buffets and plated three-course menus. Menus can feature local Welsh produce, and gluten-free, dairy-free and vegan diets are catered for regularly. Food is prepared in a kitchen where nuts and shellfish may be present, and the conference team holds the allergen details.
Getting there
Cardiff Central station is about 3 miles away. Buses 21, 23 and 35 leave from the bus interchange opposite the station, and route 9 from the city centre, for the Newfoundland Road stop, a short walk from the centre. Cardiff Airport is about 13 miles away. By car, the East Car Park, with more than 200 of the 260 free spaces, is reached straight from the A48 slip road. The smaller West Car Park is off Whitchurch Road via Sachville Avenue and fills up first.
