Residential Conference
Venue UK
Our flexible conference centre aims to help people and businesses achieve above and beyond their conference goals offering a professional working environment with modern meeting facilities available. We are more than just a conference centre that provides a venue, we’ll make sure that your conference is a success.
Our purpose-built residential conference centre provides a warm and welcoming environment with all the facilities that you need to provide a successful conference or corporate training event for your team or organisation.
Explore Rooms & CapacitiesMore Than Just a Conference Centre
Get out of the hustle and bustle of the city with our newly refurbished Connex conference facilities. Ideal for a dedicated conference venue, you can hold training events, team building days, networking events and conferences of varying sizes.
Connex offers 18 dedicated meeting rooms and 6 office spaces with a maximum capacity of our biggest conference room being 500. This flexible space can be hired as a whole dedicated space for large conference events, a corridor can be hired for multiple conference rooms or on a single room basis.
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.
Beam
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
In 2023 we won a bronze award for the Best Sustainability Initiative and in 2021 we won Team of the Year at the Meetings & Incentive Travel Industry Awards, one of the biggest event industry awards in the business. 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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Available on a range of corporate bookings including:
24 hour and day delegate event packages, Training Events, Team Building, Room Hire, Corporate Banqueting
Getting To Our Conference Centre in the Midlands
- 10 Minutes from the M6
- 1 Hour from Birmingham Airport
- 30 minutes from Birmingham by train and a short taxi ride
- Just over an hour from London by train and a short taxi ride
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Venue Features
41 Meeting Rooms
Event spaces range from 8-person board rooms to 500 person theatre-style venues.
Free Wifi
Make your presentation easier with our in-room technology and high-speed WiFi.
Bedrooms
338 double and twin guest rooms.
Easily Accessible Location
With easy access to the M6, Yarnfield Park is just 10 miles from Stoke-on-Trent.
500 Max. Capacity
Our rooms hold up to 500 people so we’re ready for events of any size.
Ample Free Parking
On site parking for all delegates.
Breakout Spaces
Multiple breakout spaces for informal meetings.