Meeting Rooms Survey

Location:  Painswick, Gloucester Road

Room name:  Rococo Garden – The Bothy

1.  Publicly availability:

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

Generally not in the evenings.

2.  Room size:

Please indicate floor area and shape, and ceiling height.

15m x 3m.  Lean-to.  Very old.

3.  Appearance:

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

Recently restored to original state of an old gardener’s tool shed.  So rustic.

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.

Low energy lighting.

Slide shows can be shown as ambient light levels are low due to small windows.

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.

Wood burning stock.  Lack of good insulation makes the room hard to heat.

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.

Large solid farmhouse style table to seat 10.  Solid wood chairs made to traditional pattern.

7.  Toilet facilities:

Please indicate the number of toilets available and their nature

2 ladies cubicles.  1 mens urinal & 1 cubicle.  1 disabled toilet.  All shared with Garden visitors.

8.  Parking:

Please indicate what parking arrangements are available

Plenty and free.

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 available.

10.  Kitchen facilities:

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

On site restaurant.  No self-catering.

11.  Bar facilities: 

Please describe what bar facilities are available and any restrictions.

As above.

12.  Foyer facilities:

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

None.

13.  Storage facilities: 

Please describe what storage facilities are available for users. 

None.

14.  Disabled access:

Please describe what disabled access arrangements there are.

On level.

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

Access to Rococo Garden.

16.  Occupancy levels

Please indicate occupancy levels (ie % of time used)

	Week-days	Saturdays	Sundays
Mornings	10%	10%	10%
Afternoons	10%	10%	10%
Evenings	-	-	-

This is very concentrated, when the Garden uses it for Harvest Festival.

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.

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Name of person completing pro-forma:   Paul Moir

Date:  22 August 2008