Room Hire

The RAI has two seminar rooms on the lower ground floor available for hire.

The large seminar room can be set up as one large room or partition screens can be drawn to create a smaller space to suit the size of the booking. We can provide lecture style seating, with rows of seating facing a speaker or panel at the front of the room, or board room style seating, with a large table in the middle of the room and chairs around the table. We can accommodate a maximum of 100 people in lecture style. For board room style, we can accommodate a maximum of 30 people. We have a full suite of audio-visual equipment including high quality cameras and microphones and a large screen for online, hybrid and in-person events.

The small seminar room can accommodate 10 people around a central table. There is currently no AV provision in this room.

We can provide tea and coffee for an additional fee. There is also a common room area and a garden which, if available on the day of your booking, can be used as a breakout space and for refreshments. Please ask when making your booking if this is of interest.

Discounts are available for University of Oxford bookings.

Seminar room accessibility

There is step-free access to the seminar rooms via a lift in the foyer (entry doors are 69 centimetres/31 inches wide). Once you reach the lower ground floor level, there is a short walk to the seminar rooms (approximately 22 metres/72 feet to the seminar rooms).

For more information or to request a booking, please contact enquiries@rai.ox.ac.uk or telephone 01865 (2)82705.