Bookable Spaces

LSE Students Union bookable spaces

 

Student, Club and Society bookings

Before making a booking please read the Room Booking Guidelines (as there are certain specifications in place for different rooms in the Students Union)

You must complete the Events Booking Form and Risk Assessment and send this to k.peters@lse.ac.uk

You will hear back about your booking enquiry within 2-3 working days

Prices and dates will be given (you may need to meet with the Events Team if your event is complicated)

Once all requirements are met, we will send you across your Event Agreement Disclaimer

When this is agreed your event will be booked in

 

External Event Bookings

For all external enquiries, please visit the Saw Swee Hock Centre website or contact Sean Ryan, External Events Coordinator: s.ryan7@lse.ac.uk

 

LSE Staff Bookings

For LSE staff and department events, please email the Events Team at k.peters@lse.ac.uk

LSE spaces

Belong to an LSESU society or sports club? Find out how you can access spaces within the School.

 

 

 

LSESU Venue

LSESU Venue

 

The multi-purpose LSESU Venue is ideal for any event, including presentations, launches, lectures, conferences, film screenings, nightclub events, award-ceremonies, parties and receptions.

 

Capacities:

820 standing (including Mezzanine level)
200–220 seated (lecture style)

 

 

Booking Availability

Day Time slot: 9am–5pm Time slot: 6–11pm
Monday Available for bookings Available for bookings
Tuesday Available for bookings Available for bookings
Wednesday Society rehearsals, 9am–12pm AU Night
Thursday Available for bookings Available for bookings
Friday Friday prayers and society rehearsals Saucy
Saturday Available for bookings (out-of-hours service) Available for bookings (out-of-hours service)
Sunday Available for bookings (out-of-hours service) Available for bookings (out-of-hours service)

Features

The LSESU Venue has audio / visual sound and lighting features, including a projector and projector screen, as well as smoke machines and it’s own private bars. Please describe your requirements for use of these features when making your event enquiry or booking.

 

Cloakroom: The LSESU Venue has a cloakroom with enough rails to hold up to 300 coats. LSESU can provide staff for this at a cost (LSESU Student Staff, £10 per hour – minimum four hour booking), or event organisers can provide their own cloakroom staff. A special request must be made for use of the cloakroom at events. Please note: LSESU take no responsibility for any items placed into the cloakroom storage.

 

Green Room: The LSESU Venue has a Green Room (private area) for your event's speakers / performers / organisers, which can be directly accessed from the stage. This room features a private bathroom (with toilet and shower facilities), sofas and a coffee table. A special request must be made for use of the Green Room at events. Please note: The Green Room is also a fire escape from the LSESU Venue stage and therefore a passageway between the doors in the room must be kept clear at all times.

The Three Tuns

The Three Tuns

 

The Three Tuns is a student pub, which is open during the week in term time. The Three Tuns is not available for private hire during these normal opening hours.

 

 

Capacities:

250 standing (with furniture cleared)

50 seated and 100 standing

 

Booking Availability

Monday–Friday, 11am–11pm

Features

You can organise to have a social or other events, such as pub quizzes, in The Three Tuns, and bar tabs or drink vouchers for these can be arranged in advance through the LSESU Events Team. However, please be aware that even if booking The Three Tuns for your social / event, the pub remains open to other customers as normal – you cannot reserve seats or spaces in The Three Tuns.

 

Any event providing catering in The Three Tuns must secure the approval of the LSESU Events Team in advance.

 

Any requests for private bookings outside of normal opening hours are completely subject to the approval of the Bars & Catering Manager. Please send enquiries for private bookings outside of normal hours to the LSESU Events Team.

 

Features:

  • Projector
  • Sky Sports
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6th Floor

6th Floor

 

The 6th Floor includes the LSESU Weston Café and roof terrace featuring views across London, the Bao Yang SU Meeting Room and the LSESU Activities Studio.

 

 

Capacities:

150 (whole floor, including The Weston Café, roof terrace, Bao Yang SU Meeting Room and
Activities Studio)

 

Booking Availability

The whole of the 6th Floor can be booked for evening events on Wednesdays, Thursdays or Fridays (depending on availability). Other individual spaces on the 6th Floor can be booked individually and at other times – however, please note that bookings aren't available between 1–5pm while the Weston Café is open and because the Activities Studio has regular gym classes during this time. The LSESU Weston Café and the Activities Studio both have their own speaker systems so you can plug in a device (not provided by LSESU) and play.

 

 

LSESU Weston Café

Capacity: 70

 

Booking availability: Monday–Friday, 6–10pm

 

The LSESU Weston Café (6th Floor) is open as a café service from 10am–5pm. Event bookings for this area are available once the café service has closed. When the café closes at 5pm, the café staff close, clean and clear the café area – therefore, event bookings begin at the earliest time of 6pm.

 

The Weston Café has its own furniture (tables and chairs). This cannot be removed from the café, although it can be moved around or re-arranged by the event organiser. If you move the furniture, please ensure that you put the furniture back to how it was when your event booking began. If furniture needs to be removed from the area, it can be moved into the area of the Bao Yang Meeting Room and the partition wall can be closed to hide the furniture. The Bao Yang Meeting Room can also be used as a cloakroom for your event.

 

You have the option of opening the bar in the LSESU Weston Cafe´ for evening events – please note that a limited alcohol stock is available at the 6th Floor bar, and you may need to request more alcohol is delivered if it runs out. The café has its own speakers – however, access to these speakers is located behind the bar. You can play music over the speakers if the bar is open and your device will be safe behind the bar or, alternatively, if you have chosen not to have the bar open but would like music, please give the LSESU Events Team notice of this requirement – they can run a lead under the café shutters, but please be aware that your device is less secure here as it is not behind the bar.

 

LSESU Activities Studio

Capacity:

  • 70 seated (lecture style)
  • 25 seated (boardroom style)
  • 80 standing

 

Booking availability: Monday–Friday, 9am–12pm, Wednesday/Friday evenings, 5pm–10pm, Thursday evenings, 6:30–10pm

 

The Activities Studio as standard will have no furniture in it, so if your event / room booking requires furniture please ensure that you request this.

  

The studio has a projector, screen and speakers, as well as mirrors, white boards and poster boards / privacy screens. Access to the projector is via a box on the wall next to the fire escape – cables for linking your laptop to this wall can be signed out from Reception on the Ground Floor (ask to sign out the AV box) and must be returned immediately after your room booking has finished.

  

The 6th Floor Activities Studio is booked out during afternoons for exercise classes, and is unavailable for event bookings from Monday–Friday, between 12pm–5pm daily.

 

Exercise classes also run on a Monday and Tuesday evening meaning that the space is available for event / room bookings on Wednesday–Friday evenings only. Because the room is shared with exercise classes, furniture will often be left stacked at the side of the room to ensure the exercise classes can begin straight away at the start of their room booking. Please be respectful of this, and ensure that all furniture is left neatly stacked against the walls before the end of your own event / room booking. If the room is left with furniture left out which affects the exercise classes running on time, then the room booking holder may lose their room booking rights.

 

Bao Yang SU Meeting Room (LSE and LSESU depts only)

Capacity: 12 (seated)

 

Booking availability:

Meetings / Events: Monday–Friday, 9am–5pm

Events: Monday–Friday, 6–10pm

 

A table and 12 chairs are kept in the Bao Yang Meeting Room.

 

The Bao Yang Meeting Room is within the café area on the 6th Floor of the Saw Swee Hock Student Centre, behind the white partition wall (which can be opened or closed). Please note: this meeting room is not sound proof due to the partition wall, and therefore any meetings in this space will have noise travelling into the area from the café – and noise will also travel in the other direction.

 

This space can be booked out at any time during the day for meetings. However, as events often run in the evenings meetings cannot take place in this area after 5pm in normal circumstances.

 

When this space is used in conjunction with the café for events, it can be used as a storage space (for unwanted furniture) or as a cloakroom (coat rails can be organised when booking your event).

 

The room is available for students to use between 9am-5pm, when there are no existing bookings (a schedule of the week’s bookings can be found on the door of the Meeting Room).

 

 

 

 

Room Booking Guidelines

Please ensure that you read our Room Booking Guidelines before booking a space in the Saw Swee Hock Student Centre.

 

Promotional spaces

If you are an external organisation with an interest in reaching our students, please see our LSESU promotional spaces.