Boathouse Venue
Looking for an unusual venue for your Event?
Well, the Boathouse Venue could be just perfect!
Weddings, Private Parties, Wakes, Meetings, Workshops and Group Gatherings – It all happens here.
The Boathouse Venue is a waterside property that offers stunning panoramic views across the tranquil 80 acres of Upper Bittell reservoir. Even the approach driveway to the venue provides an anticipation of expectation and some additional photographic opportunities.
This hidden paradise offers a unique and secluded venue at the weekend as a stunning location for a wedding, a special anniversary lunch, or evening event, a landmark birthday or just a family get-together.
During the weekdays, the Boathouse Venue offers both companies and voluntary organisations our facilities for in-house training sessions, sales meetings and seminar opportunities away from the usual office distractions or, as a regular meeting point for groups and local societies.
Although not exclusive to the weekends, the opportunity to hold a variety of special and personal events, to create some unique memories for years to come, is waiting here at the Boathouse Venue.
Private Parties
In addition to the warm friendly and homely, less formal style of room setting, it has a fully equipped kitchen that boasts a 5-Star hygiene certificate, a licensed bar that can be augmented with your additional requirements, a sound system for playing your own choice of background music and a wood burner for warmth and ambience.
- Weddings
- Special Anniversary Lunches
- Evening Events,
- Landmark Birthdays
- Wakes or simply a family get-together
The room is set up to your requirements, dependant on the event and if necessary, additional equipment can be hired in for the occasion.
We can put you in touch, depending on the style of your celebration, with our preferred caterer who will discuss your event with you and customise the menu accordingly. Simple buffets with optional hot supplements for the winter months, BBQ’s, Hogg Roasts, two or three Course menus or a fine dining experience is all within the range of food options. Alternatively, to give flexibility, you may wish to bring-in your own outside caterer to use the facilities, or to self-cater, or even a mixture of both. For those wanting to increase the invitee list for a Wedding or a Big-Bash to more than 75, we can offer the prospect of using the upper car park to install a marquee together with, or singularly, a covered extension on the side of the building to provide a reception area and later, a chill out point during the day or evening.
The extensive area of grass in front of the property presents the opportunity to hold a welcome reception and drinks area, and then later in the day for entertainment but all close to the water. A further possibility is to have one or more simple gazebos on the grassy area to provide an area of shade in the summer months.
A word of warning to note; we are not wedding planners but a venue supplier and therefore, we can only offer some advice from previous clients’ experience.
Company, Community and Group Hire
- In-house Training
- Regular Group Meetings
- Sales Meetings
- Workshops
- Seminars
- Local Societies
The room can be set up in a boardroom, classroom, theatre or U-Shaped styles, with a projector and screen in a fixed position and a USB connection lead for the presenter’s laptop, and a sound system that incorporates a hearing loop. Naturally, Wi-Fi facilities are available, as are other training amenities.
Subject to the numbers attending, we offer a choice of either;
- Room hire and additional charges for some optional equipment and catering alternatives.
- Day Delegate Rate, with menu options and nominal charges for extra equipment.
For refreshments and sustenance, we can offer a range of delights from a simple finger or fork buffet, a choice of BBQ options or, a 2 or 3-course lunch. However, the hirer is welcome to bring in their own caterer or, self-cater.
Weather permitting, you can enjoy breakout groups sitting or working outside on the grassed area and in a waterside setting, and for days earlier or later in the year, there is a wood burner with a copious supply of logs for burning and will supplement a gas-powered fan assisted room heater. During company daytime meetings, we can arrange for a variety of teas, coffee and soft drinks to be available throughout the day.
Our Events Coordinator is available to meet with you and discuss and gain your specific requirements beforehand, to enable us to help you plan your event and carry out any specific arrangements in advance, thereby ensuring that you can concentrate on your own preparations and if required, they will also be available during the day of your event.
The Venue’s location is in the idyllic North Worcestershire countryside but within 10 minutes’ drive of the M5 (Jct. 4) and M42 (Jct. 2) motorways and provides sufficient secure on-site car parking. It is also a pleasant 25 minutes’ walk from Barnt Green railway station and its network of rail services, again offering easy access for all.
The Boathouse Venue offers a unique and cost-effective alternative to the usual venues for a variety of occasions.
For further information or to book the Boathouse Venue, contact the Venue coordinator; –
Directions to Venue
From the M5 either, travel onto the M42 and leave at Jct 2, following directions above or, leave the M5 at Jct 4 and take the A38 South from the roundabout. After 400 metres, turn left into Lydiate Ash Road and continue ahead at the staggered crossroads on to Alvechurch Highway. At the T junction, turn left on to the B4096, proceed to the roundabout at Rednal, turn right onto the B4120 and take the third road on the left into Cofton Church Lane (A brown amenity sign shows the way here), following the final directions.
Final directions
Follow this road under the low railway bridge (11 ft clearance) and then bear right at the red club sign, drive slowly along the driveway with speed humps, which is also a bridleway. The “Boathouse” entrance is at the end on the left and signed. Turn in through the wooden gates and proceed to the club car parks. For car navigation systems, the postcode to enter is B45 8BH
