Private Events & Celebrations.

Christmas Parties & End-of-Year Functions

Finish the year in style.

Swap the standard office Christmas dinner for a private venue where everyone can actually relax.

Common Room works brilliantly for team Christmas parties and end-of-year celebrations, with flexible catering, your own bar, music and plenty of room to mingle before moving onto the dance floor.

Keep it casual or dress it up — we’ll help shape the space and the evening around your group.

Birthday Parties

Whether it’s a 21st, 30th, 40th, 50th — your birthday deserves a proper celebration.

Common Room gives you the freedom to celebrate your way. Start with drinks and food, add speeches and cake, bring in a DJ or band, then turn up the music and make use of the dance floor as the night goes on.

With your own bar, indoor and outdoor spaces and a late licence, there’s no need to move everyone on just when the party is getting started.

Whether you’re planning something intimate or filling the venue with friends and family, Common Room makes a birthday feel like an occasion.

Family & School Reunions

Bring everyone back together.

The best reunions are less about formality and more about giving people somewhere comfortable to reconnect, reminisce and enjoy being together.

Common Room’s relaxed layout, bar and garden area make it easy for guests to mingle throughout the evening, while food can be kept casual with bites and sharing plates or built into something more substantial.

Add some music, photographs, speeches or entertainment and make the venue your own for the night.

Hens & Stag Parties

One last big night — make it a good one.

Gather the crew and make Common Room your base for the evening.

With your own private venue, fully licensed bar, music, dance floor and the freedom to bring in entertainment, you can create the night you want without sharing the space with another crowd.

Start with food and drinks, organise some entertainment, then keep the celebration going until late.

Wedding Receptions & After-Parties

The formalities are over. Now celebrate.

Our dedicated stage gives performers a proper focal point and makes it easy to incorporate entertainment into your event.

Common Room is a great choice for couples who want their wedding celebration to feel relaxed, personal and a little different.

Host your reception here, or bring everyone to Common Room after your ceremony or dinner for drinks, music and dancing into the night.

With a bar, dance floor, stage and garden area all in one venue, it’s perfectly suited to the part of the wedding where everyone can relax and celebrate.

For something extra special, we can also combine your Common Room celebration with a group lunch or dinner at Off The Track, creating an easy two-venue wedding package.

Corporate Events & Functions

Business — but not as usual.

Bring your team, clients or suppliers together somewhere with a little more personality.

Common Room is ideal for staff celebrations, client entertainment, networking evenings, conference after-parties, product launches and end-of-year functions.

Its central Hastings location makes it particularly convenient for businesses hosting visitors from out of town or groups attending events elsewhere in the city.

Keep things relaxed with drinks, food and conversation, or add live entertainment, a DJ or music later in the evening.

Engagement Parties

Celebrate the yes before the “I do”.

Bring friends and family together for an engagement celebration that can be as relaxed or lively as you like.

Drinks, sharing food, speeches, music and dancing all work naturally within the Common Room space, giving you an easygoing alternative to a formal function venue.

After-Parties

Not ready for the night to finish?

If your main event wraps up early, Common Room gives your group somewhere private to carry on.

It’s ideal for wedding after-parties, conferences, awards evenings, sports functions and other events where everyone wants to stay together and keep celebrating rather than scatter between different bars.

Have another idea?

Not every great event needs a category.

If you have a reason to bring people together, talk to us. From themed parties and fundraisers to album launches, awards evenings and private performances, Common Room has always been a place for doing things a little differently.