Lime Venue Portfolio has expanded its collection of venues with the addition of Lakeside Conference Centre, a contemporary venue designed to inspire innovation, located at the heart of York Biotech Campus.
The new addition gives event planners even more choice, within the portfolio, in the North of England, while opening the doors to a venue with strong relevance for brands and organisations looking to align with elite research, technology, learning, bioscience, and medicine.
Set within 32 hectares of wooded countryside just outside York, Lakeside Conference Centre combines an atmosphere of escapism with the credibility of a leading science and innovation hub. It offers event organisers the flexibility to run discreet strategy sessions, blue-sky thinking retreats, or content-rich conferences supported by impressive on-site facilities.
One of the standout features is the venue’s 250-seat auditorium, further lending itself to educational events, screenings, and high-impact presentations. Equally, with floor-to-ceiling windows and natural daylight throughout the venue, as well as outdoor and inside break and relaxation areas, the Lakeside environment offers delegates space to reflect, relax, and take stock of conference content.
Complementing the experience, a bright mezzanine space, ideal for exhibitions, showcases, or informal breakouts, works symbiotically with a selection of flexible meeting rooms, supporting everything from board meetings and workshops to training days. The surrounding countryside gives events a distinctly restorative quality, perfect for wellbeing-led team building and incentive challenges.
By joining Lime Venue Portfolio, Lakeside Conference Centre becomes part of one of the UK’s most recognised families of specialist event venues. It expands the Portfolio’s northern footprint and strengthens the range of campus-style and science-led venues available to planners.
“This is a special space for events, and we’re really proud of what we have here,” commented Annaleigh Marshall, Conference Centre Manager at Lakeside Conference Centre. “Lime Venue Portfolio has the bandwidth and ambition to bring a wider, national audience to our campus, and to widen our appeal across specialist events, and in front of event planners, who want to offer something genuinely different to their delegates.”
“Lakeside Conference Centre is a brilliant and exciting addition to our collection,” commented Jo Austin, Sales Director, Lime Venue Portfolio. “Its location, quality, and background make it ideal for event professionals looking for fresh inspiration or a venue that can support more thoughtful, retreat-style experiences. The auditorium alone opens up exciting possibilities, but the wider setting, from woodland walks to lakeside receptions, gives planners something genuinely distinctive to offer their clients.”
