Wells Place Centre in Eastleigh, Hampshire, is a room hire venue for meetings, training days, conferences and group gatherings. It offers nine rooms over three floors, with the largest hall seating 143 guests in theatre layout and the smallest room holding six around a table. The centre sits between Winchester and Southampton, close to Eastleigh station.
Seminars and company events
The centre is run for day-to-day business use: team training, workshops, interviews, board meetings and public sector events. Rooms can be set up as boardroom, theatre, classroom, cafe style or horseshoe, and the team will arrange another layout on request. Every room has free WiFi. A projector and screen, a TV and DVD player and a portable PA system with two radio microphones and a hearing loop can be hired, and one flipchart with pens comes with each booking.
Rooms are bookable from 8:30 am to 9:30 pm Monday to Thursday and from 8:30 am to 5 pm on Friday. Evenings after those hours and Saturdays can be discussed through the booking enquiry form.
Rooms and capacities
These are the capacities the official site states, in boardroom and theatre layouts.
The Church on the ground floor holds 34 at a boardroom table and 143 in theatre layout. Desborough Hall, also on the ground floor, holds 40 and 100. Scantabout takes 20 and 30. On the first floor, Nightingale holds 35 and 50, Allington 20 and 30, and Boyatt 16 and 20. On the second floor, Fair Oak holds 30 and 40, Bishopstoke 12 and 15, and Stoneham 6 around a table.
A lift serves the first and second floors, and the rooms on the ground floor have easy wheelchair access. Several rooms have a piano. Organisers often combine one larger room for plenary sessions with smaller rooms upstairs for breakout groups.
Catering
Catering is organized in-house. Tea, coffee, juice, water, biscuits, cakes or fruit can be served in the meeting room at the times you choose. Lunch is prepared on site, with sandwich lunches and a hot jacket potato option. A day delegate package bundles room hire, equipment, three coffee breaks and a sandwich lunch for groups of at least 10 delegates. A coffee shop in the building serves cakes, lunches and barista coffee.
History and setting
Wells Place Centre is the trading name and a ministry of Eastleigh Baptist Church. The building combines the church hall with meeting rooms, which explains the mix of a large ground floor hall and small rooms upstairs that are also used for counselling sessions. The site is in the town centre of Eastleigh, a short walk from shops and the railway station.
Getting there
Eastleigh station is within easy walking distance. By road, the centre is reached from the M3 and M27, and Southampton airport is nearby. Delegates travelling from across Hampshire reach the town easily, which is one reason local public bodies and charities use the centre for training days.
