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Venues and Accessibility

If you have any access requirements, please contact us (hello@festivalofdebate.com) or the venue directly to ensure your visit is comfortable. We've tried to make this venue guide as accurate as possible. More information is available at accessable.co.uk

If you have any additional needs - for example, knowing how to get to and from a venue, having a seat saved for you, or accessing a venue before the event begins - please get in touch.


ACCESSIBILITY KEY

  • Level Access and Automatic Doors - Level access to entrance, sensor or push pad-operated automatic doors (or no doors), space for wheelchair (75cm).
  • Access by ramps, slopes and/or manual doors - Easy/moderate ramp/slope with manual
    or automatic doors at entrance or inside venue. Space for wheelchair (75cm).
  • Seat Available - Seating is available as standard or can be requested.
  • WC Accessible - Step-free access to accessible toilets, with grab rails, drop-down rails and space for wheelchair (75cm).
  • WC Standard - Step-free access to standard toilets on ground floor or other floors accessible by lift.
  • Parking 3* - Venue has its own car park.
  • Parking 2* - Blue badge on-street parking, or venue can provide parking to blue badgeholders with prior warning.
  • Parking 1* - Public car park within 200m of venue.

2024 VENUES


ADVANCED WELLBEING RESEARCH CENTRE
SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY, OLYMPIC LEGACY PARK, 2 OLD HALL RD, S9 3TU

  • Access by ramps, slopes and/or manual doors

  • Seat Available

  • WC Accessible

  • WC Standard

  • Parking 2*

  • Parking 1*


BLOC PROJECTS
71 EYRE LN, S1 4RB

  • Access by ramps, slopes and/or manual doors

  • Seat Available

  • WC Accessible

  • WC Standard

  • Parking 1*


BROOMHALL COMMUNITY CENTRE
BROOMSPRING LN, S10 2FD

  • Access by ramps, slopes and/or manual doors

  • Seat Available

  • WC Accessible

  • WC Standard

  • Parking 1*


CEMETERY ROAD BAPTIST CHURCH
1 NAPIER ST, S11 8HA

  • Access by ramps, slopes and/or manual doors

  • Seat Available

  • WC Standard

  • Parking 2*

  • Parking 1*


CENTRAL UNITED REFORMED CHURCH
60 NORFOLK ST, S1 2JB

  • Access by ramps, slopes and/or manual doors

  • Seat Available

  • WC Accessible

  • WC Standard

  • Parking 3*


CHARLES STREET BUILDING
SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY, CITY CAMPUS, CHARLES ST, S1 1WB

  • Level Access and Automatic Doors

  • Access by ramps, slopes and/or manual doors

  • Seat Available

  • WC Accessible

  • WC Standard

  • Parking 1*


THE CIRCLE
33 ROCKINGHAM LN, S1 4FW

  • Access by ramps, slopes and/or manual doors

  • Seat Available

  • WC Accessible

  • WC Standard

  • Parking 2*


CITY OF SANCTUARY
37-39 CHAPEL WALK, S1 2PD

  • Access by ramps, slopes and/or manual doors

  • Seat Available

  • WC Standard

  • Parking 2*

  • Parking 1*


COMMON GROUND COMMUNITY CENTRE
MACHON BANK, S7 1GR

  • Access by ramps, slopes and/or manual doors

  • Seat Available

  • WC Accessible

  • WC Standard


CROOKES SOCIAL CLUB
MULEHOUSE RD, S10 1TD

  • Access by ramps, slopes and/or manual doors

  • Seat Available

  • WC Standard

  • WC Accessible

  • The venue has its own car park.

  • Parking 3*


THE DIAMOND
32 LEAVYGREAVE RD, S3 7RD

  • Level Access and Automatic Doors

  • Access by ramps, slopes and/or manual doors

  • Seat Available

  • WC Accessible

  • WC Standard

  • Parking 2*

  • Parking 1*


DOROTHY FLEMING LECTURE THEATRE
SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY, CITY CAMPUS, CHARLES STREET BUILDING, S1 2LQ

  • Level Access and Automatic Doors

  • Access by ramps, slopes and/or manual doors

  • Seat Available

  • WC Accessible

  • WC Standard

  • Parking 1*


GREEN ESTATE
SHEFFIELD MANOR LODGE, 197 MANOR LN, S2 1UJ

  • Access by ramps, slopes and/or manual doors

  • Seat Available

  • WC Standard

  • Parking 3*

  • Parking 2*


THE HIDE
30 SCOTLAND ST, S3 7AA

  • Access by ramps, slopes and/or manual doors

  • Seat Available

  • WC Standard

  • Parking 2*

  • Parking 1*


KELHAM ISLAND INDUSTRIAL MUSEUM
ALMA ST, S3 8SA

  • Level Access and Automatic Doors

  • Access by ramps, slopes and/or manual doors

  • Seat Available

  • WC Accessible

  • WC Standard

  • Parking 3*


LEADMILL
6 LEADMILL RD, S1 4SE

  • Level Access

  • Seating Available

  • WC Accessible

  • WC Standard

  • Parking 2*


MAPPIN HALL
SIR FREDERICK MAPPIN BUILDING, MAPPIN ST, S1 3JD

  • Access by ramps, slopes and/or manual doors

  • Seat Available

  • WC Accessible

  • WC Standard

  • Parking 1*


MILLENNIUM GALLERY
48 ARUNDEL GATE, S1 2PP

  • Level Access and Automatic Doors

  • Seat Available

  • WC Accessible

  • WC Standard

  • Parking 2*


PENNINE LECTURE THEATRE
OWEN BUILDING, SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY, S1 1WB

  • Access by ramps, slopes and/or manual doors

  • Seat Available

  • WC Accessible

  • WC Standard

  • Parking 3*


QUAKER MEETING HOUSE
10 ST JAMES’ ST, S1 2EW

  • Access by ramps, slopes and/or manual doors

  • Seat Available

  • WC Accessible

  • WC Standard

  • Parking 2*

SHOWROOM WORKSTATION
15 PATERNOSTER ROW, S1 2BX

  • Access by ramps, slopes and/or manual doors

  • Seat Available

  • WC Accessible

  • WC Standard

  • Parking 2*


SOFT GROUND
37-41 THE MOOR, S1 4PF

  • Access by ramps, slopes and/or manual doors

  • Seat Available

  • WC Accessible

  • Parking 1*


STAR HOUSE
43 DIVISION ST, S1 4GE

  • Level Access and Automatic Doors

  • Access by ramps, slopes and/or manual doors

  • Seat Available

  • WC Accessible

  • WC Standard

  • Parking 1*


THEATRE DELI
CUTHBERT HOUSE, ARLEY ST, S2 4QP

  • Access by ramps, slopes and/or manual doors

  • Seat Available

  • WC Accessible

  • WC Standard

  • Parking 3*


UNION ST
20 UNION ST, S1 2JP

  • Access by ramps, slopes and/or manual doors

  • Seat Available

  • WC Standard

  • Parking 2*

  • Parking 1*


UTOPIA THEATRE
11 ROCKINGHAM GATE, S1 4JD

  • Seat Available

  • WC Standard

  • Parking 2*

  • Parking 1*


VICTORIA HALL
NORFOLK ST, S1 2JB

  • Level Access and Automatic Doors

  • Access by ramps, slopes and/or manual doors

  • Seat Available

  • WC Accessible

  • WC Standard

  • Parking 2*

  • Parking 1*


WESTON PARK MUSEUM
WESTERN BANK, MUSHROOM LN, S10 2TP

  • Level Access and Automatic Doors

  • Access by ramps, slopes and/or manual doors

  • Seat Available

  • WC Accessible

  • WC Standard

  • Parking 2*