Community Base has three high quality and extremely affordable meeting rooms in the heart of Brighton available for hire between 7am and 10pm seven days a week.
Register to book rooms
To get started, you should appoint a named contact person responsible for all matters relating to your group’s bookings (you may have a separate contact for invoicing).
This contact person must:
- Read our Room Hire Contract
- Then register by completing our Room Hire Account Request Form including a scan or photo of your signature.
- If you cannot upload your signature, please email a photograph of your signature to roombooking@communitybase.org
Please note that it takes about 3 working days for us to process your request form, this process may take longer if the reception team is unusually busy.
If you are registering to book a room for the next 48 hours, you may want to consider another venue.
Once we have checked and approved the Room Hire Contract we will set up an account for you on our online room booking system and confirm with you by email, you will then receive log in details for the room booking system, Skedda.
If Brighton and Hove City Council are paying for your booking you need to include a valid council payment code when you book.
Our meeting rooms
For a calendar showing room availability, see the bottom of this page.
South Wing Conference Room
- Capacity 100 people
- Projector and screen
- Sound system
- Mobile smart screen
- Kitchen
Our South Wing Conference Room has a capacity of 100, a mobile smart screen, sound system, projector and screen, wireless internet access, toilets, baby changing facilities, a balcony, windows which you can open, an induction loop and beautiful views over Brighton. Our conference room kitchen has reusable mugs, tumblers, plates and cutlery and a sink for washing up. As part of our commitment to reducing our carbon footprint we insist that no throwaway plates, cutlery or cups are used in our conference room.
The conference room is found on the 5th floor of our South Wing, accessible by stairs or lift. Visit reception (North Wing) if your booking is during reception opening hours. If your booking falls outside of reception opening hours, you must visit reception in advance of your booking to collect an access fob.
There is an accessible bathroom and a women’s bathroom on the 5th floor, there is a men’s bathroom on the 4th floor, which is accessible by stairs or lift.
Directing your participants / visitors to the venue:
Please ensure your participants have been contacted in advance about where to come and how to contact you if they get lost.
Participants should be directed to the South Wing entrance, and should press the Conference Room button on the intercom. The phone in the Conference Room will ring and you can press the ‘SW Door’ button to open the door for them.
Some event organisers prefer to wait at the door for participants.
During reception opening hours, any participants arriving at reception will be directed to South Wing.
South Wing 2 and South Wing 3
- Each room has capacity 12 people
- Wireless internet access
- Windows which you can open
- A smart screen is available in South Wing Two – please book this meeting room if you require the screen
Community Base has two smaller meeting rooms.
You can book a specific room or book whichever room is available.
South Wing 2 is found on the 2nd floor of our South Wing. South Wing 3 is found on the 3rd floor of our South Wing.
Both rooms accessible by stairs or lift.
Visit reception (North Wing) if your booking is during reception opening hours. If your booking falls outside of reception opening hours, you must visit reception in advance of your boo0king to collect an access fob.
There is an accessible bathroom on the Lower Ground Floor, and men’s and women’s bathrooms on the 1st floor. These floors are accessible by stairs or lift.
Directing your participants / visitors to the venue:
Please ensure your participants have been contacted in advance about where to come and how to contact you if they get lost.
Participants should be directed to the South Wing entrance, and use the intercom to dial 1222 for SW2 or 1333 for SW3. The phone in the room will ring and you can press the ‘SW Door’ button to open the door for them.
Some event organisers prefer to wait at the door for participants.
During reception opening hours, any participants arriving at reception will be directed to South Wing.
For more information, click here to see our FAQs
Meeting Room Prices
| Room | Tenant | External Non-profit | External Profit | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost/hr | Min Booking | Cost/hr | Min Booking | Cost/hr | Min Booking | |
| Conference Room | £15 | 1 Hour | £30 | 3 Hours | £60 | 3 Hours |
| South Wing 2 | £5 | 1 Hour | £10 | 1 Hour | £25 | 1 Hour |
| South Wing 3 | £5 | 1 Hour | £10 | 1 Hour | £25 | 1 Hour |
| Car parking spaces | £5 (4 hrs)
£10 (4+ hrs) |
4 hours | ||||
Special offer for external non-profit customers
We’re pleased to offer half-price bookings for South Wing 2 and South Wing 3 after 5pm on weeknights!
The discount will automatically apply when you make your booking.
Cancellation terms
Customers will receive email reminders the day before the booking cancellation window closes so they have time to cancel unwanted bookings themselves without incurring a booking charge.
Different types of customer have different cancellation windows, please click on the statement below that best describes your situation.
From June 2022, we no longer accept payments by cheque.
