Planning guides
A good event starts with a few good questions.
Once a place makes your shortlist, work out how it will actually work for your event. These guides give you the right questions to put to the owner and your suppliers.
Before you book a field
A site-visit checklist covering the working areas, access after rain, facilities and the agreement.
5 min readWhat does dry hire include?
Put two quotes side by side and find out who is supplying what before choosing your venue.
4 min readQuestions to ask a wedding venue
The questions that catch couples out after booking, from the curfew to who else is using the site.
6 min readWedding venue with a marquee
Three different things can hide behind "marquee included." Find out which one you are looking at.
5 min readExclusive use wedding venue
Get the boundary of what is actually yours for the day, not just the brochure line.
5 min readCorporate retreat venues
Booking a farm, barn or estate for a company retreat, and the questions a city venue finder never asks.
5 min readOutdoor team building venues
Finding the field or barn to run your own activity on, not another facilitated day out.
4 min readTipi wedding
What the field needs to give you before the tipi company turns up.
5 min readSmall wedding venues outdoors
What actually changes, and what doesn't, when the guest list is short.
5 min readFestival-style wedding
The list underneath the bunting: power, toilets, camping and the curfew.
5 min readWedding guest camping
Agree this with the venue before you tell guests they can stay the night.
4 min readDo you need a Temporary Event Notice?
The real legal limits for a field party or festival, in plain numbers.
5 min read
Still choosing a place? Browse fields for hire, outdoor wedding venues or company events and away days, then keep the ones you like in your shortlist.