Yarnfield Park National Training Centre

A range of clients from across the UK regularly use Yarnfield Park national training centre as their centre of choice, with a range of flexible spaces for all training styles and a highly experienced and knowledgeable team, we work closely with you to ensure you can focus on successfully delivering your training course while we look after everything else.

We offer the ideal space for all corporate events. All of our training rooms can be tailored to match the design of your business’s branding, whether that be for a long-term training event or a one-off training session.

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Why choose Yarnfield Park as your national training centre?

We have developed long term relationships with some of the best Personal Development professionals in the country. We work with specialists who deliver great content in a fun, interactive, informative and accessible way that means they keep returning to Yarnfield Park time and time again to deliver successful training courses.

If you’re an organiser, explore our meeting packages for more information on how we can help make your event a success with our comprehensive meeting packages. Alternatively, check out our case studies and see for yourself why organisations across the UK choose Yarnfield Park as their training venue of choice or view our tour video.

Meeting & Events Accreditations

We are proud to be part of leading meeting and event associations, adopting their best practice and guidance.

MIA

The Meetings Industry Association (mia) is the association supporting and growing the business, meetings and events industry in the UK, and the keeper of AIM, the UK’s only recognised quality standard for the meetings industry. We are delighted to be accredited as AIM Secure which means we deliver first-class service, excellent facilities and a total commitment to upholding legal compliance and health and hygiene protocols.

HBAA

Beam, formerly the HBAA

Beam is the events and hospitality association that drives, promotes and models good business between its agency and venue members. It champions best practice, ethical working and sound commercial judgement, making beam membership the mark of quality assurance for event bookers.

M&IT Awards 2021

Named Best Team Of The Year at the 2021 Meetings & Incentive Travel Awards. The awards bring together all sectors of the meetings, conference and event industry to reward excellence of service.

Green Accredited Venue

We’re delighted our venue has achieved the ‘silver’ level in the Green Tourism ‘Green Meetings’ Standard – the world’s largest sustainable certification programme. This accreditation covers waste management, recycling, energy, water conservation and much more. We’ve not stopped there! We’re working hard on our green journey to achieve the ‘gold’ standard, supported by our ‘Future First Charter’.

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National Training Centre Facilities

Our diverse training facilities allow us to create an environment conducive to learning with all the tools in place. Along with space, flexibility and natural daylight we have plenty of break out rooms for group work or quiet study, a free-flowing refreshment station and outdoor space for those learning activities outside the NTC.

We offer all of this and more:

An environment conducive to learning for every learning style

1:1 sessions
Group sessions / courses
Continuous refresher courses
Year round courses for larger organisations

Accommodating local, national, global and online training. Did you know that training is a great employee engagement strategy?

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Fully equipped meeting rooms

At our National Training Centre in Staffordshire, our meeting and conference rooms come fully equipped with the latest technology. This means that minimal setup is required and the meeting rooms are ready to use from the get-go. Our training rooms include:

Projector
White Boards
Flip Charts (available on request)
Pens and pads
Superfast Wi-Fi

Our superfast Wi-Fi has a 1Gbps connection, allowing up to 800 devices to be connected simultaneously with no speed issues. This is vital for any corporate training event.

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National Training Centre in the Midlands

At our National Training Centre in the Midlands, we have 41 training rooms to choose from, with a wide range of room capacities and layouts. The Knighton training room can seat up to 450 delegates theatre style, whilst our smaller rooms are suitable for numbers anywhere in between. Other benefits include:

Refreshment station – free-flowing tea and coffee all-day
We also have a Costa Coffee on-site for you to enjoy
Bedrooms equipped with desks for study
Secure storage for training materials/exam papers
Lunch options in our restaurant

Syndicate/break out rooms

Our syndicate rooms are perfect for small groups, quiet study – which is why we see a lot of academic association groups and professional association groups use our venue for revision weekends. We also have a number of breakout spaces throughout our venue, which are stocked with fresh snacks, tea and coffee making facilities and comfortable seating so you can relax in between training seminars. You can also opt to relax in our bar area, where you can grab a light bite and play some pool.

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National Training Centre for Critical Workers

Our National Training Centre is suitable for a wide range of training sessions and seminars. We have an abundance of space available which is great for first aid and ambulance training and our syndicate rooms are perfect for smaller groups. Our training venue is frequently used for critical workers including but not limited to:

First aid and emergency medical services
NHS Staff training
Firefighter training
Police training
Teacher training
Social care training

If you have something different in mind, then give us a call and we will be more than happy to share a discussion with you and find the perfect training room at our NTC.

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Testimonials

Teenage Cancer Trust has been working with Yarnfield Park to facilitate our annual over 18s post treatment conference for young people who have experienced cancer treatment. Young people come from across the UK to spend time together and share experiences and Yarnfield has always been a welcoming and accommodating venue to work with. We enjoy making use of the varied spaces and the food is always very well received. Thank you for the ongoing support

Teenage Cancer Trust

When an established Conference makes a change of venue after ten years, it’s important to get it right! From initial enquiries to site visits the Yarnfield team were helpful and efficient in understanding our conference needs in order to ensure it would run smoothly.

On the Conference days, the staff were visible and helpful, the bedrooms comfortable and clean, the meeting rooms set out for our specific needs, and the food was excellent in quality and quantity. Feedback from our 140 delegates was overwhelmingly favourable and we have confirmed Yarnfield Park for the next two years.

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Janice Bowman

Thank you to the team once again for making us feel so welcome and supporting our training conference needs throughout our two days (despite Covid restrictions). We saw the effort and hard work from everyone behind the scenes. You all worked so hard to make our stay the best it could be.

Ali, Senior National Events Manager, Cancer Research UK

I wanted to write and express our sincere gratitude to all at Yarnfield for the support in making our events a success. All the rooms were really well laid out, the support from your colleagues was superb and the lunches were exceptional. So in short our very sincere thanks to one and all.

Emma, Leadership Development Manager, Atlanta

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

Apprenticeships, 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.

IRO (Institution of Railway Operators)

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!

P.C

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.

R.T

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.

Karen, BPCA

Venue Features

41 Meeting Rooms

Our event spaces range from 8-person board rooms to 450 person theatre-style venues.

450 Max. Capacity

Our rooms hold up to 450 people so we’re ready for events of any size.

Free Wifi

Make your presentation easier with our in-room technology including high-speed Wifi.

Ample Free Parking

On site parking for all delegates.

Bedrooms

338 double and twin guest rooms.

Breakout Spaces

Multiple breakout spaces for informal meetings.

Easily Accessible Location

With easy access to the M6, Yarnfield Park is just 10 miles from Stoke-on-Trent.

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Yarnfield Park Training & Conference Centre
Yarnfield
Stone
Staffordshire
ST15 0NL

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