Booking the Winter Garden

The Winter Garden is a community space – part indoor garden, part arts activity hub – owned and run by and for the local community under the umbrella of the Granby Four Streets Community Land Trust.

We want the space to be open to the public and regularly used for workshops, events, exhibitions, meetings, and more – to serve the neighbourhood, the city and beyond, responsive to community need.  

You can inquire about booking the Winter Garden using this form. Inquires are received and reviewed by a group of volunteers. We’ll endeavor to get back to each inquiry within two weeks (but often much sooner.)

Policies and Priorities

Granby Winter Garden will consider all kinds of activities. Priority will be given to groups:

• with a connection to the area

• without access to other spaces and resources

• which offer ideas, actions, practical and creative skills for community benefit

• who are voluntary, social enterprises, or creative practitioners, rather than for-profit organisations and businesses

• who are creating and sharing common resources

• which are public rather than private

All groups will be expected to run their own events with adequate levels of staffing to keep everyone safe, comfortable and feel welcomed, and to do their own set-up and clean-up.

Groups that want to use the Winter Garden regularly will be expected to actively contribute to running the space and helping with practical issues where they can.

Groups are required to review and uphold our policies on Diversity, Inclusion, Equity and Belonging when running events.

Charges

Use of the space is free for local residents and small unfunded voluntary organisations doing non-commercial work – though a voluntary contribution is welcome.

We may ask some groups to pay hire fees depending on their level of funding or the type of activity (commercial or non-commercial, etc.) – so that we can keep the Winter Garden financially sustainable.

Generally, fees are £50+VAT for every four hour session (or £100+VAT for a full daytime programme), but if you’d like to use the space and can’t afford these rates, please get in touch via the booking form anyway as we might be able to accommodate you or support the programme.

Capacity and Access Details

Our meeting room section can seat 15 comfortably in a front-facing configuration while providing wheelchair access to and past each row (20 max if wheelchair access from only front/back).

In the winter months, if you’re looking to use the whole space, the Winter Garden may be slightly colder than normal room temperature as the building is only fully heated in some parts (with radiant heaters in the others.) If a reliable warm room temperature is needed, our partition doors can be closed to form a fully heated meeting room that seats approximately 8.

Approximately 40 standing room capacity throughout the building.

The recognised barriers to accessibility include: 

• Limited floor space throughout the building

• A kitchen without wheelchair accessibility

• A second-floor bedroom / BnB area only accessed by a staircase  

• Very limited or no parking space due to its residential location