About Us

2024-2025 will mark The Renfield Centre’s thirtieth year as a Scottish charity delivering fair access to quality, fit-for-purposes spaces that enable life-changing work across sectors.

We provide serviced spaces to facilitate a wide range of social, professional, learning and creative activities.  On average every year we support 280 organisations with a footfall of over 60,000.  We play a crucial role supporting development within the performing arts, as well as subsidising accommodation for charities enabling them to continue doing vital work benefitting diverse communities.  

The Renfield Centre must make sure we can continue to support third and cultural sector organisations and fulfil our charitable purposes in a changed landscape that has more people and communities in need than any time in recent memory.

We will be reopening our café and developing an inviting, stimulating and flexible indoor-outdoor communal space where people can come together to mix and enjoy time.

We see a future where people and communities are healthier and more vital, purposeful, adaptable, productive and inspired.  We can deepen our impact by working in partnership, pooling resources and expertise, to deliver programmes that support people’s feeling of belonging and their opportunities for learning and work, wellbeing, civic participation and creative engagement.

30 years on, we still have people, community groups, charities and professional organisations at our core, with a small and hardworking team and hands-on trustees, all working to support our next chapter.  Now, in addition to benefitting the charity’s diverse communities, we will play our part in meeting the challenges and opportunities for Glasgow city centre, helping to enrich the quality of life for the area’s growing residential population.

Working collaboratively with stakeholders, we are a vibrant, sector-leading activity-events hub and soon-to-be café-bistro that will transition seamlessly from day to night-time, creating a hive of community activity and a liveable, walkable neighbourhood and theatre corner on Bath and Elmbank streets.

First class facilities and tailored expertise to meet your every need

Set up in 1994, the Renfield Centre is situated at 260 Bath Street, Glasgow. 

The Centre has a range of halls and rooms that can accommodate everything from small meetings of 8 people through to assemblies of 200.

Our various well-equipped halls are regularly used to facilitate a wide range of activities, spanning:

  • Music (Choirs, Opera, Recitals, Concerts Music Exams)

  • Theatre (performance and rehearsals)

  • Dance (Displays and weekly Ceroc dance Sessions)

  • Youth work (Boys’ Brigade, Girl Guiding)

  • Education: Training courses (run by a variety of organisations and academic institutions) including E.S.O.L classes

  • Charities (providing support and information ranging from cancer, head injuries to visual impairment)

  • Hobby and fellowship groups

  • Self-help groups such as AA, GA and Gam anon

  • Christian Worship.

The above is illustrative

Whatever your own activity, we have the facilities and experience to meet your requirements.

We also invest in our staff through the provision of appropriate training and education. This helps to ensure you will have a positive and value-for-money customer experience using our accommodation.

We look forward to welcoming you.