Yarnfield Park is a training and conference venue local to Staffordshire. With superfast internet, an onsite Costa Coffee and an array of meeting rooms, our venue is perfect for all your academic annual events.
The safety of our guests is at the forefront of our venue. You can read our Coronavirus FAQs in regards to meetings and events for all the latest information. Alternatively, visit our dedicated COVID-19 webpage.
Yarnfield Park Training and Conference Centre is located in the beautiful countryside of Staffordshire. We have excellent facilities that are perfect for academic associations including meeting room hire, a team-building activity area, communal recreation room and an on-site Costa Coffee. Our venue is close to all major transport links including the M6 and Stone train station, so you can rest assured that all your guests can easily get to you academic event.
We understand that membership is an important factor for any association group and you will want your weekend event to be unique and special. That’s why we offer all-inclusive weekend packages for association groups that are bespoke to your group, whilst sticking to a budget. Simply give us a call and we’ll be happy to discuss your requirements.
Not a weekend event? We also offer meeting room packages at fantastic rates including day delegate and 24-hour rates. Our 24-hour rates include everything you need such as accommodation, a 3-course meal in our restaurant, meeting room hire, breakfast and so much more for only £75pp!
Our venue has been host to a number of academic conferences over the years, so we understand the time and commitment that goes into your conference planning. View some of our case studies here. Our dedicated event organisers will work with you every step of the way to ensure you feel relaxed and stressfree throughout the planning process. Choose from 32 flexible conference rooms and a range of room layouts such as theatre, cabaret, U-Shape and classroom. Our largest conference room can hold up to 450 guests – perfect for large conferences. Whilst our smaller rooms are available for 10+ guests, which makes them great if you need to hire multiple rooms for different talks and workshops.
Being able to access the internet is crucial for any conference or event. That’s why we offer one of the fastest free dedicated Internet solutions available at any conference centre in the UK. Our superfast Internet allows any 800 devices to simultaneously log onto our free services at any one time.
We have 338 en-suite bedrooms to stay in, including 60 twin rooms. Our rooms are comfortable for a relaxing night’s sleep and each comes with free Wi-Fi, a flat-screen TV, tea and coffee making facilities and complimentary toiletries.
Our chefs create delicious dishes with locally sourced ingredients. Enjoy breakfast, lunch and dinner in our restaurant every day. We also offer tasty lunchtime buffets that you can enjoy during your academic conferences so guests can keep themselves energised throughout the day. If you’re looking for something extra special for your weekend, then we can transform one of our rooms into a beautiful banqueting hall. Here you can enjoy a lavish 3-course meal, drinks, a DJ and even a dancefloor! Perfect for award ceremonies and private dining experiences.
The staff at Yarnfield Park are professional, friendly and have the most helpful “can do” attitude and are a delight to work with. They have worked closely with us to look at lots of options for our annual Convocation to take place as a hybrid event without us having to worry about any of the technological aspects and to achieve a professional, high quality result.
We have been using Yarnfield Park now for a number of years as our apprentices attend the nearby Stafford College. We have always found the staff to be very helpful, and professional.
Our apprentices are very well looked after and the staff aim for them to have a home from home experience.
J.C
We thought the conference rooms were brilliant, and most staff commented on how Covid safe they felt with the way it was all set up. The staff around the building, the ones that I spoke to were happy to help, and very professional.
We would like to thank you especially, for all your assistance and help, not forgetting the number of deliveries that you signed for and allowed to be delivered to site prior to our meetings. The food was amazing, and the service on the food counter was too.
We will definitely be coming back to Yarnfield Park when we need to arrange some more general meetings and another staff team day next year, hopefully with less deliverable items.
We needed to find a suitable location to meet and demonstrate new product to remote colleagues and under the current circumstances were interested in finding a venue in a good central location away from our operational site. The Yarnfield Park venue was ideal, we were able to carry out a safe, socially distant and ultimately successful training event for our team. The site was well organised to reflect current rules and requirements and made us feel welcome and well catered for – including a hot lunch!
Can you please send our thanks and appreciation to your Manager and the whole team for making the last 3 weeks stay at your conferencing facilities as smooth as possible in the current climate.
It was noted the high level of effort, you and your team went to, in order to make our stay as safe and uninterrupted as possible in order to start our course.
The way you all pulled together, working as a team and filling in the gaps where needed, and keeping the smiles going was really appreciated. Nothing was too much trouble.
We look forward to using the venue again and again in the future and wish you all the best.
The Covid-19 pandemic brought huge uncertainty and the need to cancel and re-arrange our courses. I was so grateful to Emma and her team at Yarnfield Park for their pragmatic, no-nonsense approach to our canceling and later on again when re-booking. I have been particularly impressed by Yarnfield’s arrangements for social distancing and their approach to meeting our needs.
A big thank you for everything you and everyone working at Yarnfield Park has done for us this week.
The work that you have all put in to ensure that our event went smoothly and safely for all, has been magnificent and all the processes you have put in place were managed superbly.
We have had fantastic feedback from our delegates who really did appreciate all your efforts.
We’re very much looking forward to coming back and will definitely be looking to see what other training and events we can work with you on.
Please pass on our thanks to all the team for all their hard work and efforts.
It was very refreshing to see The Venues Collection recently announce their stay safe, feel safe charter for conferences, training and events, not only did it show their proactive approach but the ability to be flexible and adapt during these unprecedented times. We shared their new six point charter with a client of Successful Events who regularly uses the group, they felt every point of the charter has been carefully thought out, has reassured them and given the company confidence for their attendees to return back to the venue and stay safe, feel safe.
May I take this opportunity to say a huge thank you to you and your staff for the wonderful Parish Christmas Dinner we enjoyed today.
The event exceeded our expectations!
The food was lovely, the service was excellent and the layout and decoration of the room was perfect.
We chose Yarnfield Park Training & Conference Centre for a new 12 week residential training programme we were running for 120 delegates and staff. The venue was ideally suited to our needs as it offered good quality accommodation on site, a good catering offer and all the large and smaller seminar rooms we required.
The course went very smoothly and was easy to run thanks to the continual support and assistance from the friendly staff team at Yarnfield; from IT support to storing equipment or finding ways to help us deliver social and wellbeing activities in the evenings. They pulled out all of the stops to accommodate our needs, and at the end of the training course they delivered an excellent 3-course seated Christmas dinner party for all our delegates.
We’re really grateful to the whole team at Yarnfield for making our course such a success!
Our second visit to Yarnfield park conference center and just as good this time around. It is in an excellent centre for us. Comfortable accommodation and friendly staff. Good food served in the restaurant with attentive service. Thoroughly enjoyed our holiday here.
A massive thank you to your whole team (especially Paul, Neil and Jacob) you are all SO amazing at what you do and as a result helps to make our training conference run seamless and smooth…
We are taking enquiries in accordance with the latest Government guidelines. From 17th May 2021 (earliest) we should be able to hold indoor events up to 50% of our room capacity. Please contact us if you would like more information on this.
From 21st June 2021, the Government hope to announce that there will be no limits on event, and we are therefore taking larger event enquiries now to take place from this date.
Please get in touch to see how we can help you.
Our venue is temporarily closed to the general public. If your booking is for critical worker or educational purposes restrictions differ, please contact us to discuss.
Our Sales office remains open, supporting customers and taking meeting, training and event enquiries for this year & beyond.
To help protect you from COVID-19, at the current time, we advise you not to visit our venue unless you have been vaccinated and you have clinical guidance it is safe to do so.
Yes, we are offering catering and light refreshments to guests staying with us, although how we serve it to you has changed, including more grab & go options. We are following the latest Government advice on food service. Please contact us if you require further information.
We have new social distancing capacities for every event layout. Please get in touch for more information.
We are unable to offer face to face show rounds. However, we can offer you a tour by video call, please get in touch to arrange this.
Yes, please keep a safe space from others and wear a face covering in the venue at all times expect when seated to eat or drink.
Yes, all guests all team members will be required to have their temperature taken on arrival to our venue.
Anyone who has a high temperature will be asked to go into a separate room and their temperature retaken after 15 minutes. If it is still high, then they will not be permitted in the rest of the building and asked to return home.
We understand everyone’s event and cancellation circumstance is different so please get in touch with us to discuss further.
The safety of our guests is at the forefront of our venue. You can read our latest changes in regards to COVID-19, find our Coronavirus FAQs and view our safety charter by visiting our dedicated webpage.
