Location and Accessibility
Located two miles from the cosmopolitan centre of Manchester. The mainline railway station is located on the edge of the campus and less than 15 miles from Manchester International Airport. We are ideally located for motorway access and less than an hour’s drive to Cheshire, Derbyshire and the Lancashire coast.
Meeting Facilities (facilities for day and residential events)
Our modern, dedicated year round conference venue, The Innovation Forum, has several communal areas along with three boardrooms and a large multi- use conference room catering for all types of meeting, seminar, exhibition and conference for 10 to 120 delegates. In addition to a permanent, on-site support person, the Innovation Forum's full and half day rates include room hire, audio visual equipment, refreshments, an excellent lunch and on-site car parking. We also offer Video Conferencing facilities.
We also have a wide variety of conference and meeting rooms, lecture theatres, concert halls, exhibition areas and classrooms available to hire. With excellent catering provision, modern audio-visual equipment and professional conference support we are ideally placed to facilitate a broad range of events. Situated in 34 acres of parkland on the banks of the River Irwell we can offer residential conferences over the summer period with use of our comprehensive leisure facilities.