YWCA Lismore has spaces to hire for your local event, meeting or workshop.
Auditorium – Capacity 120
- Large room with access to outside undercover area and car park.
- Light and airy with large windows and french doors.
- Mud-brick walls and ceiling fans regulate temperature, plus heat/air-conditioning if needed.
- 12 plastic folding tables and 35 stackable chairs.
- Additional café tables and chairs, and sofas.
- Furniture can be arranged to suit your event.
- Raised stage with retractable screen and PA system available.
- Kitchenette with counters for serving tea and coffee, a fridge and 30L hot water urn.
- Toilets (female, male and accessible) nearby.
- Suitable for bigger events as well as smaller meetings and workshops.
Training room – Capacity 20
- Quiet and private space for meetings, workshops and craft activities.
- Sturdy tables and stackable chairs provided, plus additional seating/surfaces around the walls.
- A retractable screen and projector are included in the room hire cost.
- The room is next door to a kitchen for access to a fridge and kettle (by arrangement).
- Opens up to a shared grassy area with a table, chairs and umbrella (by arrangement).
Small meeting room – Capacity 4
- Small private room suitable for interviews and small meetings.
- Small sofa, coffee table and 2 chairs included.
Please note
This is not a serviced venue hire, and as the event organiser, there are additional responsibilities, including catering and refreshments, attendee safety and comfort, cleaning, setting up and packing up of facilities. if you have any questions, contact our team by emailing lismore@ywca.org.au.
- General and normal cleaning is included in the hire cost, but additional charges may be payable if your event has created cleaning needs above and beyond normal cleaning.
- Rearrange the furniture to suit your event but please return it to the original arrangement afterwards. Ensure nothing is blocking or obscuring emergency exits or signs.
- Nothing should be nailed, screwed or stapled to the walls, doors or other surfaces. Please no blue tack on the mud brick walls as it removes the render.
- Report any damages or cleaning issues so that we can rectify these.
- Use bins provided for landfill, recycling and organic waste and remove excess rubbish.
- Turn off heating / air-conditioning and lights after use.
- Parking is limited and needs to be shared with YWCA staff and other venue users. There is additional on-street parking but this requires a walk up and down a steep driveway. It is the event organiser’s responsibility to communicate this to guests and to implement plans (shared car rides) to minimise vehicles.
- YWCA has a non-smoking policy; smokers may smoke outside the building in our designated smoking area in the north-east corner of the car park. Use the bin provided for rubbish. It is the responsibility of the function organiser to ensure all guests attending their event abide by this.
- Event organisers are responsible for completing their own risk assessment for the event. This is a shared space for both YWCA staff and other venue users; please consider child protection as part of your risk assessment if children are attending.
- All user groups or hirers must hold a current Public Liability Insurance policy which indemnifies YWCA Australia from or against all claims arising from the user group or hirer’s legal liability as a result of its occupation. A copy of a current Public Liability Insurance Certificate of Currency must be provided to YWCA at the time of the booking application and must cover the event period.
- Conduct your event in a safe and orderly manner with consideration for other users of our space. We reserve the right to intervene if a function’s activities are considered illegal, noisy or offensive.
- Venue users are required to keep a list of everyone who attends the event and to use this list to check that all visitors have left the premises at the end of the event. In order to comply with YWCA Fire Safety and Evacuation policy, it is the function organiser’s responsibility to ensure all participants have completed the sign in/out sheet so that everyone in the building can be accounted for in the event of an evacuation.
- YWCA staff will take all necessary care but accept no responsibility for injury to guests and/or loss of personal items left on the premises prior to, during or following your function. Any damage to YWCA property, fittings or equipment by a participant, guest or outside contractor while setting up, during or following the function is the financial responsibility of the room hirer.
- Cancellation should be provided as soon as possible if the venue is not needed.
