Apologies if we have been a bit quiet of late, we have been working really hard behind the scenes here at Woburn House to bring online new spaces, day delegate packages and menus for you.
New Space!
Firstly, I am very excited to announce the launch of a new space at Woburn House. Sakura Café is a light and bright open space on the 1st Floor of Woburn House providing fantastic views over Tavistock Square. The space is a great place to see the changing seasons of the park from the snow and bare trees in January, to our favourite, the blossom and flowering of spring. Sakura, is the Japanese word for cherry blossom as the space has fantastic views of the cherry blossom memorial tree to commemorate the lives lost in the Hiroshima bombing in 1945. The tree comes out in the most stunning pink blossom in spring which you may be lucky enough to see from the cafe.
The space is equipped with free to vend bean to cup coffee machines so your delegates can get those all important espressos, lattes and cappuccinos. Fruit and herbal teas, decaf options and filtered water. Throughout the day the café is stocked with tasty snacks to fuel your delegates such as fruit, pastries, biscuits and sweet treats. At lunchtime we serve a 2 course fork lunch in the café giving your delegates chance to break out from your meeting room and stretch their legs and enjoy lunch networking with colleagues overlooking Tavistock Square. The café is accessible from 8am – 4pm every day giving your guests somewhere to have those all important side conversations or Teams/Zoom calls throughout the day. All our smaller rooms are now sold with access to this space with the unlimited catering package for a day delegate rate starting from as little as £70 + VAT.
New Menus!
We have recently launched and implemented our new menus. We have focused on improving the sustainability of our food whilst improving guests experience and food offer. Our new menus provide tasty options for all guests with a choice of vegan, vegetarian and gluten free options available every day. They have been designed with local and seasonal produce at the forefront, and we are working hard with our suppliers to ensure the ingredients we use are sourced sustainably. We are offering a sustainable menu which offers a purely vegan and vegetarian menu packed full of flavour. We can also replace biscuits with fruit during your breaks should you wish. We are very conscious of our carbon footprint so we have looked at the food miles of our ingredients, food wastage and number of deliveries to our venue and we have managed to reduce these things by around 50%! As always, our food is prepared freshly each day by our in house chef ensuring that your food is not only fresh and flavoursome but also flexible to cater for those all important dietary requirements. Our menu is concentrated on chef’s choice options to ensure we can source seasonal locally sourced produce and create your delegates the best food possible.
We also have a new reception and fine dining menu which we are really excited about. We can offer nibbles, canapes and bowl food to have alongside the ever popular unlimited drinks packages. With the new opening of the Sakura Café, we now have another space for you to host those all important dinners and receptions. Why not host your conference in Woburn Hall then move upstairs to the Sakura Café for your conference dinner? We have a list of a wide variety of local hotels we can recommend should your conference require that residential element.
For full details please visit https://www.woburnhouse.co.uk/our-services/catering
Audio Visual update
We now have the capability to join virtual and hybrid meetings in all of our meeting rooms. We have installed the latest Logitech video conference systems in our rooms and an excellent 2 camera system in Woburn Hall allowing you to broadcast speakers into your event and broadcast your event out to delegates joining online. For details please see https://www.woburnhouse.co.uk/our-services/audio-visual-and-video-conferencing
Team update
We have been fortunate enough to keep the team together after the COVID outbreak closed the business for a period. Magda and I are still here to help you make your event the best it can be and we have a new Senior AV Technician, Tony Konstantinidis who is expert is all things AV including hybrid and virtual meetings. Our usual reception and catering team are on hand to make sure you and your delegates have the best experience with us on the day.
So we are ready and excited to help you with all of your event needs! If you have meetings or events coming up then please contact the team and see if Woburn House can help bookings@woburnhouse.co.uk or 020 7419 5489. Finally have some brilliant new videos shot by our friends at 3 Degrees West http://www.threedegreeswest.co.uk/ see them here
https://www.woburnhouse.co.uk/rooms-and-spaces https://www.woburnhouse.co.uk/your-event
We hope to see you soon
Richard Bull
General Manager
