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Our highly versatile venue offers unique auditoriums, conference, meeting, exhibition, dining and training facilities and has a beautiful panoramic view at the top for exclusive dining events and entertaining all year round. Find out more here.

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We offer a wide range of rooms for hire, catering for conferences, exhibitions and meetings of all sizes. With a wide variety of sizes and styles you’ll be able to find the room that specifically matches your event requirements. Make your event bespoke with a wide array of audiovisual and catering services.

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Spaces at The Spine is Liverpool's ultimate destination for events, offering dynamic and modern event spaces as well as next-generation technology. The venue is housed within the Royal College of Physicians' (RCP) northern home, The Spine. Find out more about our organisation and venue.

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Housed within The Spine, a magnificent building overlooking Liverpool City Centre, our venue sits in the heart of Paddington Village, Liverpool Knowledge Quarter. Find out how to get here prior to your visit.

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sustainability credentials & pledges

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Sustainability is at the heart of everything we do at Spaces at The Spine, and the way our venue operates day-to-day reflects our commitment to sustainable working and to reducing our impact on the environment.

The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) was the first royal college to receive the Carbon Trust Standard, following a 30% reduction in total carbon footprint over three years.

Our building

Being a new build gave us the opportunity to prioritise sustainability from the design phase to construction, optimising our energy efficiency and incorporating natural and recycled materials. Sustainability features you will find at Spaces at The Spine include:

Smart building management system to regulate temperature and lighting – the system responds to external light conditions and saves energy by automatically turning lights off when rooms are not being used
Optimisation of space layout to ensure maximum exposure to natural light
Use of LED lighting, saving 50% of energy costs compared to traditional lighting
Filtered drinking water accessible within the entire building
Some of the flooring and wallpaper in our events spaces are made out of 95% recycled plastic bottles, and low VOC paints have been used throughout the building
All wood, including furniture, is sustainable hardwood

Our operations and suppliers

Spaces at The Spine works with caterer Company of Cooks (part of CH&Co. Group) to ensure our catering and food offer aligns with our sustainability goals. Recognising their commitment to operating in a socially responsible and sustainable way, Company of Cooks has been awarded three stars by the Sustainable Restaurant Association.

We recycle waste where possible across all areas of our venue. Each of our event floors has dedicated recycling point to encourage all delegates to recycle.

We try to avoid food waste where possible and encourage organisers to provide correct delegate numbers in order to cater correctly. Surplus ingredients from events are used to create daily specials in our cafe, The Base.

In 2024, The Base joined waste reduction app Too Good To Go, successfully reducing food waste even further.

Spaces at The Spine has been a paperless venue since day one, encouraging event organisers and delegates to work digitally as much as possible to reduce paper waste.

Digital wayfinding, screens and digital whiteboards can be found throughout the venue for wayfinding, branding and educational purposes.

Accreditations and awards

The Spine meets or exceeds a number of sustainability measures, earning us an Outstanding ranking by BREEAM, the world’s leading sustainability assessment method for buildings, and a series of award wins since our opening.

In November 2021, our building won the Environment and Climate Award at the Innovation in Business Awards by the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce.

Spaces at The Spine received Gold in the Venue Sustainability Award at the Conference & Events Awards 2022. We were commended by judges for our continued commitment and impressive sustainability credentials, described as ‘a benchmark for others to measure themselves against’.

We also hold a number of green accreditations by industry-leading bodies, including IACC Green Star (Gold) and Greengage ECOsmart (Gold).