Meeting Rooms Survey

Location:  Painswick, New Street

Room name:  St. Mary’s Church Rooms – Main room, Small room and shared kitchen/toilets

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 both rooms are available for public hire on all days of the week except Sundays when it is essentially fully booked for church purposes.  The main and small rooms can be hired independently or together.

2.  Room size:

Please indicate floor area and shape, and ceiling height.

Both meeting rooms are rectangular with ceilings of approx 5 metres.  The main room is about 14 metres long by 8 metres wide.  The small room is about 6 metres long by 5 metres wide.

3.  Appearance:

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

Approx 10 years old – in reasonable condition decoration wise

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.

Both rooms are lit by fluorescent tubes.  Both rooms have curtains – for black out  if slide shows or similar are needed

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.

There are two gas heaters in the main room and one in the small room. They can be controlled by the hall user.

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.

There are 10 Go-Pak tables and about 75 stacking plastic chairs available.

7.  Toilet facilities:

Please indicate the number of toilets available and their nature

One male and one female.

8.  Parking:

Please indicate what parking arrangements are available

The rear entrance to the rooms has a small private parking area for two or three cars which can be accessed from the public village car park next door.

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 with the rooms.  If needed screens projectors etc can be hired or borrowed from contacts in Painswick.

10.  Kitchen facilities:

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

All kitchen facilities listed above plus a catering oven, a microwave and sinks with hot water are available. Comprehensive range of crockery and cutlery available,

11.  Bar facilities: 

Please describe what bar facilities are available and any restrictions.

No bar facilities. No objection to obtaining an alcohol licence for special occasions.

12.  Foyer facilities:

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

Small foyer in churchyard entrance for coasts etc.

13.  Storage facilities: 

Please describe what storage facilities are available for users. 

Very limited within the rooms themselves but some storage is available in a basement (accessed from outside the building).

14.  Disabled access:

Please describe what disabled access arrangements there are.

Disabled access  (i.e wheel chair or similar) is straightforward for the church yard entrance but the entrance from the car park involves some steep steps and is hence more difficult.

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

Table tennis table can be provided

16.  Occupancy levels

Please indicate occupancy levels (ie % of time used)

	Week-days	Saturdays	Sundays
Mornings	25%	Low	100%
Afternoons	25%	Low
Evenings	25%	Low	100%

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.

The Painswick Gateway Project is negotiating to take over the rooms along with the adjacent library facilities.

Name of person completing pro-forma:  David Bishop

Date:  24 August 2008