We offer impressive conference, meeting and event facilities in Colchester and Southend through Event Essex.
Contact Event Essex or Wivenhoe House Hotel to make a conference or event booking or enquiry.
Whether you are planning a small meeting or a residential conference for up to 1,000 people, our dedicated conference teams will help you plan your event.
Wivenhoe House Hotel is a glorious four-star country house hotel at our Colchester Campus.
It’s important that you notify the University if you are planning to invite an external speaker to a University event.
Find out how you can book a room for your SU society or group study.
Find out about the rules, regulations and hire form for our barbecue areas.
What you need to know about holding an event on campus grounds or squares
Protests and/or demonstrations in the squares or grounds must be proposed via a Protest and Demonstration Notification Form.
In 2020, the University commissioned a review by Akua Reindorf, a barrister at Cloisters Chambers, to investigate the circumstances surrounding two events. Read the findings
The May 2021 Reindorf Review of two events, the cancellation of a Centre for Criminology seminar and arrangements for speaker invitations to a Holocaust Memorial Week event, makes clear that the University of Essex has made serious mistakes and we need to do our very best to learn from these and to ensure they are not repeated.