Book a Hall in Manchester

Hall Booking Market Notes for Manchester

Manchester hall hire pricing sits one tier below London and runs roughly three bands. Club rooms and small function suites (100-400 capacity) across Cheetham Hill, Rusholme, Longsight, and the Northern Quarter clear £1,200-£5,000 for a weekend night, usually inclusive of in-house PA and a basic light rig. Mid-tier theatres and ballrooms (500-1,500 capacity) — Albert Hall Manchester, the O2 Ritz, Manchester Academy 2, hotel ballrooms along Deansgate and the Salford Quays corridor — run £5,000-£20,000 with AV add-ons and stagehand minimums on the legitimate-theatre rooms. Arena scale (Co-op Live, AO Arena Manchester) is quoted per show with revenue-share splits negotiated against the touring promoter. For Pakistani, Bangladeshi, and broader South Asian community events — weddings, sangeets, mehndi nights, Eid receptions, and Punjabi/Pakistani concert pop-ups — the most-used Greater Manchester halls are the Mercure Manchester Piccadilly ballrooms, the Marriott Worsley Park, the Britannia hall network across Bolton and Oldham, the Pakistan Community Centre in Longsight, and a growing belt of purpose-built South Asian banquet halls in Cheetham Hill and along Bury New Road. Where Manchester gets complex is licensing. Every venue's permanent permission sits under a Premises Licence granted under the Licensing Act 2003, and the licensing authority is whichever Greater Manchester borough the building physically sits in — Manchester City Council, Salford City Council, Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, or Wigan — each with its own committee, conditions, and review history. One-off events (community fundraisers, private hires at unlicensed venues, pop-up bars) need a Temporary Event Notice filed at the relevant borough council with at least ten working days' notice, capped at 499 attendees and 168 hours. Catch Movement holds direct relationships with bookers at each major room and tracks licence conditions and recent review outcomes borough by borough, so we flag risk before contracts are drawn.

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