Meeting Rooms Survey

Location:  Painswick, Vicarage Street

Room name:  Friends Meeting House – Meeting Room (and “School Room” upstairs)

1.  Publicly availability:

Please indicate whether room is generally available for public hire, whether there are any time or other restrictions on its use.

No formal policy.  Happy to consider making available for workshops, discussion groups or similar, provided not inconsistent with aims of Quakerism and a house in the middle of Painswick.

2.  Room size:

Please indicate floor area and shape, and ceiling height.

Meeting Room:  Rectangular, approx:  7m x 8m; 4 m high.

School Room:  Square, approx:  5m x 5m; 2m high

3.  Appearance:

Please describe the decorative state of the room (e.g. style and when last decorated).

Meeting Room:  Simple, light and airy.  School Room similar.

4.  Lighting:

Please describe the nature of artificial lighting and its effectiveness.  Please also describe whether darkness can be created during the day e.g. for slide shows etc and its effectiveness.

Meeting Room: 4 ceiling bulb lights, no curtains or blackout.

School Room: 2 ceiling bulb lights, light weight curtains thus no blackout.

5.  Heating:

Please describe the room heating arrangements and their effectiveness in cold weather.  Please also comment on any ventilation or air conditioning available and its effectiveness.

Electric convector heaters (need to be switched on ahead of time)

6.  Seating and Tables:

Please describe how many seats are available, and indicate their style (eg wood/foldaway/small/benches/etc) and quality.  And similarly for tables.

Meeting Room:  11 benches seating 4-6; 1 table

School Room:  approx 10 chairs; 1 large table

7.  Toilet facilities:

Please indicate the number of toilets available and their nature

Ladies wc upstairs; Gents wc outside.

8.  Parking:

Please indicate what parking arrangements are available

None on site and very limited nearby in Vicarage Street.  About 500 metres from Stamages Lane Car Park.

9.  Presentation facilities:

Please describe what presentation equipment is available.  Presentation facilities include: projectors for slides and/or film and/or computer images, screens, microphones and audio equipment (including for recorded music), staging and special lighting for staging, etc.  Please also indicate its effectiveness, and whether users are allowed to bring and use their own equipment.

None.  May use own equipment.

10.  Kitchen facilities:

Please describe what kitchen facilities are available.  Eg crockery / glasses / washing up / fridge & freezer / cooking.

Limited facilities capable of providing light refreshments (teas/coffees etc).  No fridge or cooker.  3 dozen cups/saucers and half a dozen glasses.

11.  Bar facilities: 

Please describe what bar facilities are available and any restrictions.

None

12.  Foyer facilities:

Please describe what foyer facilities are available (outside the meeting room itself)

Very limited – entrance lobby.

13.  Storage facilities: 

Please describe what storage facilities are available for users. 

None

14.  Disabled access:

Please describe what disabled access arrangements there are.

Entry ramp (removable)

15.  Other facilities:

Please describe any other facilities or features available at the meeting room.  This might include staff on site, sports equipment, entertainments license, picture rails, etc

None

16.  Occupancy levels

Please indicate occupancy levels (ie % of time used)

	Week-days	Saturdays	Sundays
Mornings	0%	0%	Not available
Afternoons	0%	0%	10%
Evenings	0%	0%	0%

Figures are indicative only:

17.  Changes planned:

Please indicate any changes or improvements planned and their status (e.g. wish list, planned but no funding, etc).  Exclude general maintenance.

None

Name of person completing pro-forma:   Paul Castle

Date:  8 August 2008