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Welcome to The Boardroom

Here at Lane End we are absolutely dedicated to providing top quality meeting facilities for multi-day residential conferences – but what happens when a business wants a room for just a day or a few hours?

From Las Vegas to Lane End: Great Location for Kick Off Day

Lane End Conference Centre was chosen by Active Risk – providers of the world's first Enterprise Risk Management solution – as the UK venue to host their annual kick-off day.

Superfast broadband now readily available

Do you know the true internet speed you can expect at your training venue?

Lane End Conference Centre recently invested in a direct fibre optic internet link. The final implementation took place at the end of April. Ever since then the venue benefits from a superfast, totally reliable internet connection.

Active Risk - Annual Kick-Off Conference

Active Risk ­ providers of the world's first Enterprise Risk Management solution that drives business performance by allowing organizations to take more risk.

New Late Bookings Policy At Lane End Conference Facilities

Strong growth in sales over the last 12 months has prompted Lane End Conference Centre to stop taking late bookings so it can concentrate on core business.

Rapidly increasing demand for conference facilities means Lane End will now not accept last-minute bedroom reservations unless they are part of a group booking through a corporate account.

Why Late Isn't Great: Booking Conferences The Right Way

At least 60 per cent of our business at Lane End Conference Centre comes from existing customers.

And the overwhelming message they give us is that they choose Lane End because it is a dedicated conference venue that focuses specifically on the business sector.

Try our conference venue's new Bento Box lunches

Ever been to a working lunch that was more ‘lunch’ than ‘working’?

Perhaps the food took too long to arrive. Or maybe it took ages for the messy plates to be cleared. There must be a better way…

What we took away from the M&IT Awards

They say not everyone can be a winner. However, being nominated in the best UK conference centre category at the 24th annual M&IT awards was a prize in itself. We did not win the gold award this year, but we returned to Lane End as one of four finalists in our category of this UK-wide industry award, voted for by customers.

Lane End Launches Bento Box Meals At Its Conference Venues

Lane End Conference Centre has launched Japanese-style Bento boxes to help make clients’ working lunches at its conference and team building venues even more productive.

Bento boxes are ideal for working lunches at conference venues. They comprise a single-portion meal neatly packed in a box with individual compartments for each tasty option.

IDEXX Laboratories - Sales Training Event

IDEXX Laboratories - global market leader in animal health diagnostics and IT solutions - needed modern residential conference facilities in order to launch its new sales strategy and train its growing UK sales team.

Your Gold Medal for Team Building at Lane End Conference Centre

This summer’s London 2012 games will be unmissable – for people all over the UK it will be the sports spectacular of a lifetime.

Lane End Conference Venues Launch Lane-O-Lympics Team Building Days

Lane End Conference Centre is celebrating London 2012 by launching a new series of Lane-O-Lympics themed team building days at its conference venues.

Teams will compete to win gold, silver and bronze medals ­ the one that gains the most at the end of each day will be declared the winner.