Second Home Spitalfields offers seven spaces for private hire in East London, for talks, workshops, team offsites, drinks receptions and product launches. Rooms hold from 20 seated in the smallest to 150 standing in the auditorium. The venue sits at 68-80 Hanbury Street in Spitalfields, a short walk from Brick Lane and Liverpool Street.
Seminars and company events
The Auditorium is the room for plenary sessions and panel talks: 120 seated or 150 standing. For breakout work, Hanbury Studio is laid out classroom style for 45, the Workshop Space seats 35, and The Study takes 20 to 35 seated or 40 standing, which suits a focused team offsite. The Rooftop works for readings, short talks and workshops with 50 seated or 100 standing.
Every hire includes AV, high-speed Wi-Fi, flexible layouts, screens and staging, and guest management by the events team. Hires run from two hours to a full day and beyond, so a morning workshop and an evening reception can share one booking.
Rooms and capacities
The Café holds 45 seated or 80 standing and suits launches, after-hours socials and private events. The Bookshop is an atmospheric room for launches, readings and small gatherings, with 50 standing. Second Home also lists Libreria, its bookshop on Hanbury Street, for up to 70 guests, which is used for book launches, private dinners and location shoots. Several spaces can also be hired as filming locations, with acoustic treatment and plenty of daylight.
Capacities depend on layout, so tell the team the format you need: theatre, classroom, banquet or standing reception.
Catering
Catering is provided by the in-house team and is arranged on request. Combined with the Café and the Rooftop, this allows a reception to move between spaces during the evening. Ask about dietary needs and service times when you enquire.
History and setting
Second Home describes Spitalfields as the place where its model began. The building is also a working coworking site with a 24-hour membership community, so events take place alongside a lively daily workplace. The design is biophilic, with a lot of planting, and the rooms are light and flexible rather than traditional. Guests find a reception team, a cafe and breakout areas on site.
Getting there
The venue is about a 10 minute walk from Liverpool Street station, 8 minutes from Aldgate East and 8 minutes from Whitechapel. Brick Lane, Shoreditch and the City are all within walking distance, which keeps travel simple for delegates arriving from different parts of London. Most visitors arrive by Underground or by train into Liverpool Street.
The site does not offer bedrooms, so organisers of multi-day events should book hotel rooms nearby for out-of-town guests. For a one-day seminar or an evening reception, the combination of meeting rooms, a large auditorium and a rooftop is enough to run the whole event on one site.
