Beacon Arts Centre hires out a 500-seat theatre, a studio for 120 seated or 200 standing, and flexible first-floor rooms with views over the Firth of Clyde, for meetings, product launches, private performances and wedding receptions. It is a contemporary theatre and arts venue on Custom House Quay in Greenock, Inverclyde.
Seminars and company events
The centre offers its spaces for business uses such as meetings and product launches, and describes a bespoke service rather than a fixed package. A dedicated operations and technical team supports each booking, and the building has state of the art technical facilities and easy access for technical load-ins. For a conference or a company presentation, the proscenium-arch theatre gives a stage and 500 seats on three levels. The studio, a black-box room, seats 120 in theater style, which suits a briefing or a training session with a screen and sound. The first-floor rooms offer a more conventional meeting setting.
Weddings and receptions
The centre lists a marriage and a celebration among the events it hosts, and its spaces page names wedding receptions and parties as typical uses. The first-floor rooms, with floor-to-ceiling views over the Firth of Clyde, are the natural choice for a reception, and the on-site catering team can look after the food. Dedicated reception facilities are part of the offer. Couples should describe the guest list and the layout they want when they enquire, since the centre builds each booking around the event.
Rooms and capacities
The theatre is a proscenium-arch room with 500 seats on three levels. The studio is a smaller black-box space with theater-style seating for 120 people, or room for 200 standing. On the first floor, a fully accessible suite can be used as one large room, as three smaller interconnected rooms, or as one large and one small interconnected room, all with floor-to-ceiling views over the Firth of Clyde. A separate fully accessible first-floor room takes up to 20 people. There is also a first-floor exhibition space and a ground-floor cafe overlooking the waterfront. Technical specifications for the theatre and the studio are available from the centre.
Catering
The venue lists superb on-site catering facilities and says it can take care of all catering needs. Beacon Cafe and Bar on the ground floor is a fully licensed bar and restaurant in the evening and a cafe by day, open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day and later on show nights.
History and setting
The building is a landmark on the regenerated Greenock waterfront. It is run by Greenock Arts Guild Ltd, a Scottish registered charity trading as Beacon Arts Centre, and the venue offers discounted rates for registered charities at certain times of the year. The views across the Firth of Clyde are one of the reasons organizers pick it.
Getting there
The centre is on Custom House Quay, a short walk from Greenock Central Station and from the bus stops on Rue End Street and Dalrymple Street. By car, it is about 30 to 40 minutes from Glasgow city centre, depending on traffic. Free customer parking is available, with designated bays for Blue Badge holders near the main entrance. Every first-floor space mentioned above is fully accessible.
