Worship School is a course designed to equip Christian Worship Leaders, Musicians and Pastors. The course takes place on seven Saturdays between October 2008 and June 2009. Worship School uses all of the conference facilities that are available here at the Clarendon Centre, holding large seminars and meetings in the Main Auditorium, as well as practical workshops, master classes and smaller seminars in each of The Clarendon Centre's Meeting rooms, the Lounge and the Whitefield room.

With an event of this size and type, the Clarendon Centre is an ideal conference venue here in Brighton. Simon Brading, the Worship Pastor at CCK and the Worship School Director, had this to say about the Clarendon Centre after the School's first visit,

"It's a superb building to host the course as it offers us many conference rooms with separate PA rigs and projectors, a large lounge with serving area, and the main auditorium with professional sound and lighting rig - all of which are needed to make the course work."

The primary aim of Worship School is to teach and develop a deeper understanding of worship and how this applies to our lives, local church and culture. There will be teaching on a vast number of theological topics, with seminars and masterclasses being given by a wealth of speakers, including Joel Virgo, Simon Brading, Stuart Townend, Lou Fellingham, Paul Oakley, Phatfish, Terry Virgo, and special guests Graham Kendrick and Terl Bryant.

The Clarendon Centre looks forward to hosting Worship School over the next 9 months and again, the Clarendon Centre has demonstrated that when at it's full capacity, it is able to perform and deliver to a standard that competes with conference centres across Brighton and Hove.

On the 22nd October, Kimberly-Clark held their quarterly Town Hall meeting at the Clarendon Centre. Conference call facilities and a full A/V setup were used in the Whitefield room, with Kimberly-Clark's 60 strong Brighton team taking full advantage of the Lounge as a reception area, being served pastries and refreshments by our in house catering team.

Kimberly Clark has been built on the simple yet insightful values of providing quality, service and fair dealing. These values have helped establish Kimberly-Clark as a leading-edge global company that produces superior health and hygiene products used by families and professionals from all walks of life and cultures around the world. Kimberly-Clark employs more than 55,000 people worldwide and it's global brands are sold in more than 150 countries.

The purpose of the meeting was to bring their team based in Brighton together for "an update on the company’s activities, targets and achievements within the last quarter and to pass on company news."

The Clarendon Centre is now a Free WiFi Spot. Across the Brighton based conference facility, 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 conference facilities that are 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 of the conference 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 and conferences 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 Associates 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 conference 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 not only as a conference centre but also as a venue for graduations, music concerts and even Oscar style events. This growth is largely due to the centre's unique offering at affordable prices, so we have created this website to launch our new logo and to further raise the profile of this fantastic venue here in the heart of Brighton!