The Clarendon Centre is now a Free WiFi Spot. Across The Clarendon Centre, in each of the meeting rooms, as well as the Lounge , the Whitefield room and the Main Auditorium, a free WiFi service has been installed that is now available to all clients and personnel that use the building with password and username available on booking confirmation. The free WiFi is a great addition to the high standard of service that is available at The Clarendon Centre, whether using it for 2 or 2000 people.

Several times during the year, Newfrontiers, a worldwide family of churches together on a mission, with over 600 churches in over 50 nations, uses several rooms at The Clarendon Centre, to train its future leaders. It's training courses run for 3 to 4 days at a time with speakers including Andrew Wilson from King's Church Eastbourne, John Hosier from Church of Christ the King based here at The Clarendon Centre and Greg Haslam from Westminster Chapel in London.

Newfrontiers has a passionate commitment to building the church according to New Testament principles, believing that the most effective form of evangelism is worked out from strong local churches. Therefore, the training that they do here at The Clarendon Centre, in the Carey and the Hudson Taylor rooms is essential in providing them with the necessary leaders that they need.

BIMM (Brighton Institute of Modern Music) hosted their graduation ceremony at The Clarendon Centre on the 18th September, making use of the Lounge, the Whitefield room and the Auditorium.

"At last, a real school for real players...BIMM rocks!" - Ace (Skunk Anansie)

The Brighton Institute of Modern Music runs various full-time and part-time programmes from entry level to BA Honours degree for guitar, bass, drums, vocals, song writing and live sound/tour management and their ceremony at The Clarendon Centre catered for around 400 people, including 80 students.

During the main ceremony in the Auditorium, the graduands were addressed by BIMM Head of Higher Education Mark Irwin, BIMM Principal Vaseema Hamilton (MA), and the University of Sussex Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education) (VC) Prof Joanne Wright.

Photographers Ede & Ravenscroft were setup in the Whitefield room, making sure the graduands' day was recorded properly. Live bands played in the Lounge and the Auditorium before and after the main ceremony, testing and demonstrating the Professional A/V equipment in both locations to be of industry standard.

The bar in the Lounge was in full swing and busy guests were served by The Clarendon Centre's friendly staff throughout. BIMM was a pleasure to have in the building and once more demonstrated the strengths The Clarendon Centre has at putting on events of this size.

Pure Associates, a creative telephone fundraising agency have regularly been using the Carey room at The Clarendon Centre for two day training events for their staff. Pure are committed to providing the highest level of service to the charities they work with and to all their supporters. They focus on maintaining high quality calling, supporter satisfaction, achieving excellent results, ensuring added value and cost effectiveness to their clients fundraising and so their training is of great importance. Pure have helped demonstrate the capabilities of the Carey room and the versatility of the various meeting rooms at The Clarendon Centre.

Brighton's Black And Minority Ethnic Community Partnership (BMECP) have hosted a drop-in every Friday over the past few weeks in the lounge at The Clarendon Centre, aimed at helping people into employment through access training and one to one support. BMECP have also been offering help with finances and assisting in access to other council services.

The team have been using the Lounge, making great use of the cafe and the professional sound system to create a relaxed and friendly atmosphere in which people from all over Brighton have felt welcomed.

Around 300 European students from Brighton's STS Language School attended a series of six discos at The Clarendon Centre over the summer period, culminating in an entertaining Pop Idol event on the final evening. The students, from several European countries such as Sweden, Finland and Hungary, primarily used the Lounge, making the most of its high quality AV equipment.

A staff member serving on the evening was quoted as saying;

"It was a great evening, around 60% of the students were dancing at any given time and the all seemed to be enjoying it".
Naomi Fuller - Bartender

The Clarendon Centre's bar was open all evening with two of our friendly and helpful barmen on duty at all times.

It was a great night for everyone involved and demonstrates, once more, the versatility of the Lounge at The Clarendon Centre for events of either similar size or function.

An estimated 1,000 people visited The Clarendon Centre on 13 July 2008 for a dynamic meeting where guest speaker Mark Driscoll spoke to Church of Christ the King.

Mark Driscoll is an American minister. The co-founder and preaching pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, Washington, he co-founded the Acts 29 Network, and has contributed to the "Faith and Values" section of the Seattle Times. He helped start The Resurgence, a repository of missional theology resources.

The Main Auditorium reached its full capacity and the downstairs Lounge and Whitefield Room housed many more with a video overflow link of the event being broadcast.

The Clarendon Centre easily caters for conference events of this size.

The Clarendon Centre has been in existence since 1996 serving as the primary base for Church of Christ the King as well as serving as an excellent venue for local business, community and charity events. As well as being part of the Brighton Fringe Festival, demand and interest in The Clarendon Centre has grown due to its unique offering at affordable prices, so we have created this website to further raise the profile of this fantastic venue!

The Clarendon Conference Centre, hosted an outstanding Jazz Night as Part of the Brighton Fringe Festival. With near 500 in attendance the audience was treated to an assortment of World Class Jazz from musicians such as Mark Edwards, Martin Van Gent & Dave Fellingham.

The Clarendon Centre recently hosted the Brighton and Hove Council's Drugs & Alcohol Team's Annual Conference. It was an excellent event which promoted the team's outstanding work and helped raise further awareness whilst encouraging many in this vital field. They were able to use the internal digital broadcasting system to visually communicate the work they do and thoroughly enjoyed the fantastic food provided for them!