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Venue and facilities hire

Specialist facilities

Discover our range of specialist facilities available to hire to suit your needs, from media studios to mock hospital wards.

We have specialist hire facilities for you to use, including drama and dance studios and mock hospital settings.

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To speak to one of the Commercial Events team complete our form, email commercialevents@glos.ac.uk or call 01242 715022.

Media facilities

Our extensive range of state-of-the-art creative specialist facilities and specialist equipment are available to hire outside of our core teaching periods. All facilities are manned by our specialist technical team.

Hire facilities available are:

  • Dubbing theatre
  • Voice over room / ADR
  • Sound Lab
  • Audio production suite
  • Newsroom
  • TV studio
  • Radio studio
  • Control room
  • Edit suite
  • Post-production suite

Our facilities and equipment are available to hire outside of the main academic year (June to mid – September) Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm.

Student in music studio

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Hospital ward and physiotherapy beds

A view of the mock hospital ward showing beds and healthcare equipment.

Hospital ward

Situated at our Oxstalls campus, our simulated training hospital ward can be booked for external hire for a variety of purposes including filming, teaching and clinical skill development.

The state of the art ward is equipped with six hospital beds, filming and debriefing facilities, and additional equipment including manikins, ventilators and non invasive monitoring devices can be available upon request.

We also have pre-hospital equipment and training facilities available on request. Please enquire with the team for further details.

Available to hire year around, but there is greater availability outside of term time.

Physiotherapy beds

Also based at our Oxstalls campus, our physiotherapy teaching rooms are available for external hire.

All rooms have AV provision and we have rooms with 10, 13 and 15 beds available. These can be hired in conjunction with classrooms.

Available to hire year around, but there is greater availability outside of term time and at weekends.

Eve Scarle, Physiotherapy lecturer performing exercises

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Performing arts spaces

Our performing arts spaces are suitable for a variety of purposes from rehearsals, to group classes, film and photography. All rooms are sound proofed, air conditioned and have computer and laptop accessibility.

Students at the performing arts gala

The garden studio

A light and airy studio, equipped with a sprung wooden floor, floor to ceiling body height mirrored wall, curtain track and a piano.

Capacity: 37 people.

Two performers acting out a swordfight in front of other performing arts students

The drama studio

A fully blacked out studio equipped with lighting equipment and a lighting desk, a vinyl floor and celling mounted lighting. In addition, there are 30 wall mounted fold-down seats.

Capacity: 37 people.

Dance students dancing together in a studio

Dance studios

We have two adjoining dance studios which can be combined to create one larger space. The studio has a Harlequin polished sprung floor suitable for tap and ballet, body height mirrored wall, ballet bars, curtain track and blackout blinds. Fitted with lighting equipment and a lighting desk.

Capacity: Single studio occupancy 60 and combined room occupancy 72.

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IT Rooms

At Oxstalls and Park campuses, our IT suites with capacity of up to 70 computers in an individual room are available for external hire.

Please be aware that external devices can not be plugged into university computers.

Available to hire year-round, but there is greater availability outside of term time and at weekends.

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Moot Court

Students on Law course doing practical in Moot room at Oxstalls campus

Based within our Business School at our Oxstalls campus our purpose-built Moot Court, offers a real-life replica of a court room which can be booked for external hire for a variety of uses including filming and professional training.

The court area has gallery seating for 10 people and in addition, classroom seating for up to 16 people.

Available to hire year around, but there is greater availability outside of term time and at weekends.

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Consumer behaviour lab

Our Consumer Behaviour Lab, traditionally known as a focus group room, or viewing facility, allows moderators to conduct qualitative research.

Specifications:

  • 10 participants capacity and a moderator (boardroom style).
  • Two Shure overhead mics and two ceiling mounted HD cameras.
  • Simultaneous recording and live streaming capability via private Youtube channel. If editing is required, additional charges will apply.
  • Two 48 inch wall-mounted televisions with AppleTV and iPad for presentations or video content.
Consumer behaviour lab

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Get in touch

If you have any questions or want to speak to a member of the team you can email, call us or complete the form below.