The Bl Hugh Faringdon Centre

GROUP FACILITIES

Whether your group needs accommodation for a mid-week or weekend retreat or conference, or a location for a single day meeting, the Bl Hugh Faringdon Centre at Douai could be the ideal place.
At present we have three conference rooms, a fourth will be available in autumn 2007.

	Left: the largest Conference Room which will hold up to fifty people. Right: a smaller Conference Room for about sixteen people.

We have a refectory which can seat 48, and full meals can be provided, as well as simpler snacks, ploughman's lunches, or soup and bread, according to your requirements.

Left: the guest refectory. Right: tea and coffee making facilities.

The guesthouse can be used for over-night events.
LOCATION

Douai Abbey, situated on high ground in the Berkshire countryside overlooking the beautiful Kennet valley towards the distant Hampshire downs, is within easy reach of London, Reading, Bracknell, Newbury, Basingstoke or Oxford. Guests are welcome to join in all the community services in the Abbey Church and to enjoy the spacious monastery grounds, and the surrounding countryside and woods. Click for a Location Map. For further information please e-mail guestmaster@douaiabbey.org.uk

Wild flowers in spring in the monastery woods.

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THE DOUAI COTTAGES

A row of three farm labourers' cottages has been converted into one and sleeps 15. It is centrally heated and has a kitchen, scullery, dining room, lounge and chapel and provides simple 'hostel' style self-catering accommodation suitable for youth and student groups.

Click for more information about the cottages.