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To celebrate Christmas in July, we’ve got some very festive announcements! Christmas in summer? You might think we’re mad, but trust us when we say it’s the best time to start planning your Christmas activities. Whether you’re looking to book a Christmas party at our award-winning venue or attend one of our public events, we’ve got everything festive you need all under one roof.

Exclusive Party Night (from £40.00 per person)

Give your guests a VIP experience this Christmas with our Exclusive Party Night. This package gives businesses an exclusive hire of our Platform space, which includes an arrival drink under our 39ft Christmas tree, a two-or-three-course traditional Christmas dinner and a DJ and dancefloor until midnight. The package also includes exclusive use of the fully licenced bar and features branded up-lighters, table crackers and novelties.

Fancy further enhancing your guests experience? Why not customise this package to include our spectacular Auditorium. Formerly the first IMAX in the West Midlands, our Auditorium is perfect for awards, speeches or playing a Christmas film on the giant screen.

Shared Party Night (from £40.00 per person)

Ideal for smaller businesses who still want the big office party experience, our Shared Party Night gives you the same benefits as the exclusive package, but is shared with other businesses.

Get more when you book with us

How does extra prosecco sound? Take advantage of our early incentive and get your package upgraded to include complimentary prosecco for every table when you confirm your booking before Friday 29th July. In addition to this, the person that makes the booking will be entered into a prize draw to win a £100 Amazon voucher. This offer applies to both the exclusive and shared party nights.

Our special offers don’t stop there! Other bookings outside of the Christmas packages, will receive a 10% off drinks receptions under our Christmas tree in November and December.

What’s On at Millennium Point this Christmas

Rock around the Christmas Tree, Silent Disco style! Our Silent Disco night is back by popular demand – and this time full of festive fun! Get your dancing shoes ready, put your Santa hats on and pull off your best moves around our spectacular 39ft Christmas tree.

Priced at £10 per person, the night will feature three DJs and an assortment of genres from current chart toppers, RnB, and Hip Hop to Old Skool, Rock, Indie and Power Ballads alongside all of the Christmas classics. Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased by clicking below.

Who doesn’t love a festive film classic? Throw in some themed wines and Millennium Point is your place to be this Christmas! Teaming up once again with our good friends at The Wine Events Company, experience It’s a Wonderful Life on our giant screen, paused at various points to serve you your next glass of festive cheer.

We’re transforming into a Winter Wonderland

A Winter Wonderland is heading to our corner of Birmingham this year and it’s not one you’ll want to miss. Our spectacular 39ft Christmas tree (which makes the perfect backdrop for that festive selfie snapshot) is just the start. We’ve got a heap of decorations arriving, including colourful lighting, Nutcrackers and two of Santa’s Reindeers, that might even be happy to grab a photo with you.

Find more interesting content from Millennium Point over at our news section, or follow us for daily updates on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn with @MillenniumPoint. Millennium Point is a landmark public building and multi-award-winning events venue in the Eastside of Birmingham City centre. Profits from our commercial activity are invested by the Millennium Point Charitable Trust into projects, events and initiatives which support the growth of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) and education in the West Midlands.

This is your last chance to claim our early bird offer on your Christmas Party booking for 2022. Confirm your Christmas Party at Millennium Point by 29th July 2022 and we’ll upgrade your package to include complimentary prosecco for every table. Beat the heatwave by looking ahead to cooler times and a crisp bottle of prosecco with your name on it. This offer applies to both our exclusive and shared party.

Have a night to remember this Christmas for your exclusive private party

Give your guests the VIP treatment with our Exclusive Christmas Party package. The package comes with a delicious two-course Christmas banqueting menu, DJ, and private bar with all the trimmings.

Guests will be treated to an arrival drink under dazzling 39ft Christmas tree. After you have finished, take your seat for your sumptuous two-course Christmas dinner. If you have room for more, you can upgrade to a three-course meal for just an extra £5 per head.

Tables will be dressed in stylish centre pieces with a luxury cracker and associated novelties for each guests to enjoy. Prefer a personal touch? Light up the space with brand colours, with the option to bring your own centre pieces to really make the space your own. Later, guests can party on the dancefloor with our resident DJ and take full advantage of the private fully licenced bar.

For guests that want a bigger experience, our events team are always happy to help discuss bespoke packages. Why not book our big Auditorium space as an additional extra, previously an IMAX cinema, now one of the biggest screens in Birmingham. Perfect for hosting awards, having a presentation, or treat your staff to a festive film.

The Exclusive Christmas Party package is suitable for party sizes of 70-200, enquire now.

For smaller teams, Millennium Point has you covered with our shared Christmas Party

Taking place at our award-winning Birmingham city centre venue on Saturday 10th December, this package includes a three-course dinner and a fully licenced bar. Throughout the night enjoy all the festive classics while you dance the night away on the dancefloor.

Tickets just cost £40 +VAT, this is a great event to attend without having to break the bank. Tickets are sold by the table (minimum of 8 tickets). Book your table now.

Whichever you choose, you can be assured that you and your guests will receive outstanding hospitality, which is big on quality without maxing the company card. Find out more about our Christmas packages here.

A menu worth talking about

Our new Christmas menu is sure to leave guests more than satisfied, with vegan, gluten free and other alternatives available, there is something for everyone this festive season.

Start off with a mushroom & sage ragout, served with garlic rubbed sourdough crostini. Choose between traditional roast turkey with all the trimmings or go for a butternut squash, ricotta & spinach filo parcel, seasonal greens, and a find herb cream sauce. If you have room for all, finish the meal off with a baked vanilla cheesecake & mulled berries.

Find out more about our Christmas menu here.

Early bird gets the prosecco

Confirm your Christmas party at Millennium Point by 29th July 2022 and we will upgrade your package to include complimentary prosecco for every table. Meaning you can truly bring in the Christmas cheer with your team.

In addition, the person who books the event will be entered into a prize draw to win a £100 Amazon voucher.

Terms and conditions can be found here.

Our Christmas Tree makes the perfect selfie backdrop

Our 39ft Christmas tree is put together by Christmas experts The Christmas Decorators. It takes a team of 5 installers and a team of 7 decorators, to prepare the branches and baubles. The Christmas tree takes around 10 hours to complete. With good reason too as there are over 21,000 lights and 1,500 baubles to set up!

We boast one of the largest indoor Christmas trees in Birmingham at 12 metres tall. It’s also accompanied by two nutcrackers giving visitors lots of opportunities to snap a festive selfie.

Make your event sparkle when booking with Millennium Point

Choose Millennium Point to book your event with our beautiful 39ft tree on display to give your event the wow factor at no additional cost. Our multi-award-winning venue has 11 versatile spaces to choose from ensuring the perfect space is offered for your event.

If you have something in mind our friendly events team have over 40 years in events experience and are happy to help. Get in contact for any questions you may have with our team.

Are you looking to book an event and love a good Summer sale? If so you’ve come to the right place. Book an event for September at our award-winning venue and get 20% off your room hire. We’ll also throw in a complimentary round of tea and coffee on us. Simply use the code MPSUMMER22 on our enquiry form.

What does Millennium Point offer?

Our venue is equipped with 11 versatile event spaces, ranging from outdoor networking spaces to one of Birmingham’s biggest screens. Whatever your event needs, we have you covered, our friendly events team are on hand to help you all the way, ensuring your event will be a winner.

If you’ve got an event in mind, don’t hesitate to fill out our short form below and our team will give you a call back.

Make a big impression on our giant screen

Accommodating up to 354 delegates, our Auditorium is just what you need for making that big impression. Along with having one of Birmingham’s biggest screens, this space offers high tech AV (with on-site support), LED lighting, a newly refurbished performance stage and branding opportunities.

We also offer affordable Virtual and Hybrid packages available in the Auditorium.

The big question you’re probably wondering is what event types are suitable for this space? Well we are pleased to say our Auditorium can cater for a large range of events including conferences, lectures, product launches, AGM’s, award ceremonies, film screenings and much more.

Take a virtual tour here.

Dress and lay out our Platform space any way you want

Directly below our Auditorium takes you to Platform, an incredibly versatile event space that can be dressed and laid out any way you want.

This space is perfect for receptions, launches, banquets, fund raisers, award ceremonies and much more, giving you the open and spacious feel that a conventional meeting room doesn’t have.

Take a virtual tour here.

Flexible interconnected conference suites

Experience a truly flexible approach to conferences and meetings with our Connect event suite. Accommodating up to 100 delegates, this interconnected space offers three rooms equipped with the latest AV and presentation facilities, making it the perfect solution for hosting meetings, conferences, workshops, training days and away days.

Take a virtual tour here.

Help support STEM in the region by booking with us

Help support STEM in the region and widen your CSR just by booking an event at Millennium Point. Commercial profits from our multi-award-winning events business and landmark public building go towards our charitable trust. The Millennium Point Charitable Trust reached a landmark £30m in STEM support to organisations across the West Midlands over the last seven years.

Millennium Point have once again teamed up with innovative event specialists The Wine & Events Company to present a fun and unique showing of the classic all-American romantic musical comedy Grease, alongside four themed cocktails and a very big screen.

Tickets are just £35.95 per person for this singalong movie classic with four themed cocktails included and a truck full of fun from Tony and his fellow ‘T-Birds’.

Our Grease with Cocktails party at Millennium Point takes place at 7pm on Saturday 17^th September on Birmingham’s biggest screen with a state-of-the-art sound system, to really get your motor started.

Need more convincing? Well, this show will be systematic, hydromatic, ultramatic – Why, it’s guaranteed to be Greased Lightnin’!

Grab tickets from Eventbrite before they sell out!

Summer heat, boy and girl meet

Experience the friendships, romances, and adventures of a group of high school kids in the 1950s. welcome to the singing and dancing world of ‘Grease’, the most successful movie musical of all time. A wholesome exchange student (Olivia Newton-John and a leather-clad Danny (John Travolta) have a summer romance, but will it cross clique lines?

Grease

‘They call me Cha Cha because I’m the best dancer at St Bernadette’s’ – You after cocktails… probably

Tickets are priced at £35.95 per person (plus Eventbrite fees) and you’ll get more than just a film screening!

Grease on a very BIG screen:

Hosted in our giant screen auditorium – previously the regions biggest and best IMAX—Our host Tony ‘Zuko’ Elvin from film geeks The Wine & Events Company will be providing entertainment and movie trivia throughout. For example, do you know the cast chewed about one hundred thousand pieces of bubble gum during the shoot?

Along with all of this, the film will be paused at intervals so you can enjoy four themed cocktails.

Our movie and cocktail events are not to be missed!

Check out one of our last ones of the eighties classic Dirty Dancing below. Guests had the time of their lives with a live band, themed cocktails, and movie trivia with host Tony Elvin. To keep up to date with all our current events please click here.

Tickets are selling out fast, so, grab your Danny or your Sandy, your T-Birds or Pink Ladies, and prepare to spend a perfect September ‘Summer Night’ at Millennium Point.

Getting to Millennium Point

Millennium Point is in the Eastside of Birmingham City Centre just 5-minutes’ walk from Moor Street and 15-minutes from Grand Central and the tram. There is also limited parking on-site which means we’re easy to find regardless of how you travel. For more information please click here.

We’re delighted to announce that we are now members of Tech She Can, which seeks to attract more women and girls into technology roles.

Our membership forms part of our wider strategy to support STEM in the region – visit our charity page to find out what else we’re up to.

Who is Tech She Can?

Tech She Can’s mission is to make sure that everyone can participate in developing technology, and for women to play an equal role in how our world works, looks, thinks, and feels. Started in 2018 Tech She Can is a programme of free learning materials, for use by teachers or parents, to inspire both boys and girls about a future career in technology.

Since 2018 Tech She Can’s membership has grown ten-fold to over 200 member organisations, all ready to collaborate, celebrate and inspire the next generation.

Find out more on their mission on their website and see how you can support.

Why did Millennium Point want to get involved?

Our vision to inspire the next generation who will shape technology, industry, and the world of tomorrow aligns with the mission of Tech She Can. As it stands only 19% of tech workforce are women. Only through making digital and tech more accessible and inclusive can we unlock the try potential of the future workforce.

Joining up with Tech She Can will further raise the visibility and accessibility of digital and tech careers with women and girls across Birmingham and the West Midlands.

We’re always on the lookout to work with STEM businesses and initiatives

Our portfolio of support for STEM education includes a wealth of projects, from organising activity days for schools to funding for scholarships at Birmingham City University. Discover more on our website to keep up to date on all the amazing things we’re up to.

We love to work with like-minded businesses and individuals to help promote STEM in Birmingham and greater West Midlands. If you think there is a way we can work together, we can’t wait to hear from you! Let’s talk.

To coincide with this summer’s Commonwealth Games, the Millennium Point Trust has announced the award of a £22,000 grant to Aston Villa Foundation, to help the charity broaden its schools outreach programme, which aims to engage and inspire young people to experience STEM through sport.

The project will be delivered as education activations to over 1,300 pupils at 22 different Birmingham schools, primarily within the Foundation’s target constituencies of Perry Barr, Ladywood and Erdington.

These will take place on 22 different days, providing an introductory coding session to the children, teachers and schools. It will run until the end of the Autumn Term 2022 and coincide with the start of the Commonwealth Games, as well as a post-games legacy piece of work.

Teaching core attributes of Commonwealth competitors

The school workshops will feature Commonwealth Games themes such as Athletes, Stadiums, Perry the Mascot, Sports and Events – as well as embedding core values such as resilience, working together and desire to achieve – all key attributes of Commonwealth competitors.

Paul Hughes, Schools Manager at Aston Villa Foundation, commented: “The funding from Millennium Point is greatly appreciated to allow us to be a driving force for STEM Education in Birmingham. By providing unique learning experiences, the resources and opportunities to experience technology our aim is to help and guide children to develop their skill set for an ever-advancing technological world.”

Abbie Vlahakis, CEO of Millennium Point, commented: “This project is the perfect example of why we do what we do – to promote STEM education across the region and increase the opportunities for the next generation via some of the most exciting career paths available.

“Aston Villa is the epitome of how STEM careers run throughout sport – from physiologists and nutritionists to sports equipment designers and grounds people. We hope this project will give children a small insight into the amazing opportunities that are on offer to them.”

Find out more about what we do

To find out more about grants from the Millennium Point Trust: www.millenniumpoint.org.uk/trust/grants/

A panel of keynote speakers which includes former 5,000m world record holder David Moorcroft OBE, Commonwealth gold medallist Adam Whitehead and Dr Emily Hoodless, Consultant Physician, head up an afternoon of networking and discovery at Millennium Point, where businesses can meet like-minded businesses and discover the exciting STEM opportunities in the world of sport.

The SciSport Showcase on July 7th, from 3.30pm to 5.30pm, forms part of a day of activity funded by the Millennium Point Charitable Trust at the landmark Millennium Point building, which is in association with the ‘United by Birmingham 2022’ programme welcoming the Commonwealth Games to Birmingham this summer.

SciSPORT – Showcasing the importance of STEM in Sport

Millennium Point’s “SciSport Showcase” will welcome more than 1,000 school children from 28 schools across the region to participate in a range of thrilling activities, workshops and talks delivered by a host of organisations and personalities from the world of science and sport.

Abbie Vlahakis, CEO of Millennium Point, commented: “This SciSport event is a perfect example of why we do what we do – to promote STEM across the region and increase the opportunities for the next generation via some of the most exciting career paths available.

“STEM careers run throughout sport – from physiologists and nutritionists to sports equipment designers and groundspeople. We hope this event will give children a small insight into the amazing opportunities that are on offer to them.”

Network with likeminded individuals

Businesses can register for the free afternoon event here by emailing [email protected]

When Millennium Point heard about LoveBrum’s volunteering opportunities, they were eager to get involved. Earlier this month a few members of the Millennium Point team joined Moor Pool Heritage Trust to help tend to the green spaces. Once overgrown, the space’s pathways are visible once more for all to enjoy.

Who are LoveBrum?

LoveBrum is a registered charity that supports hidden gem projects across Birmingham that are often volunteer led and that deliver real change, with outcomes that can be seen, measured, enjoyed, and loved.

They support the ‘hard-to-reach’ projects, those causes that do not receive the platform or funding that they probably deserve. LoveBrum aim to support over 30 projects per year, and to reach out to all corners of the city to remind people how great Birmingham is. Every penny raised from individual memberships and fundraising stays in Birmingham and goes straight to the chosen causes.

LoveBrum have funded almost 200 local, hard to reach causes, ran 11 successful fundraising events raising over £200,000 to fund Birmingham projects. Since beginning LoveBrum now have over 1,000 members who are passionate about Birmingham.

Who are Moor Pool Heritage Trust?

The Moor Pool Heritage Trust is a charity born out of the Moor Pool Residents Association in 2011, formed specifically to acquire the community facilities for the benefit of the local and wider community. Following this success, the Trust now strives to protect and preserve Moor Pool for the benefit of future generations, but also to ensure it raises awareness of its importance to the wider public.

We caught up with one volunteer, Vanessa, Head of PLD at Millennium Point to find out how the day went

As a charity we are keen to help and support other local charities and we were quick to respond when LoveBrum asked if anyone would like to volunteer to help Moor Pool Heritage Trust, based in Harborne who were looking for a team to help tend to their green spaces as they had become rather overgrown! This was a fantastic opportunity to give something back to our local community and do something to help Moor Pool residents and schools.

Volunteer

The day was amazing from start to finish – the team at Moor Pool looked after us like we were family, the sun was shining and after a quick tour around we were soon chopping down a massively overgrown orchard area used by local schools, weeding outside the community hall, and clearing pathways. The results were amazing and rewarding as the outcome of our work was quickly visible. We may have picked up a few stings from the very tall stinging nettles and scratches from brambles, but the team worked seamlessly together to get the work done. It was quickly apparent how easy the work seemed to be as we were truly working as a team. The day is one that we would like to repeat, and I think each one of us took away a secret wish to move one day to Moor Pool estate to live. It is only a short distance from the city centre but is has a rich history and is a real hidden gem to visit.

Volunteer

Why did Millennium Point volunteer?

Millennium Point recently became a patron for LoveBrum who offered us the opportunity to volunteer. As a community driven organisation, we are eager to support activities that can benefit the city and the region. By teaming up, we can make a better future for all.

This isn’t the only way we try to help; we are a strong supporter of STEM education and provide funds for grants, projects, and scholarships. You can keep up to date with all our latest news on the Trust here.

Our CEO Abbie Vlahakis and members of the Millennium Point Charitable Trust were invited to King Solomon International Business School to unveil a plaque commemorating our support for their eco-friendly STEM garden.

The “Breaking The Barriers To Stem” project is a great example of the Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) education projects we fund in the West Midlands region. It was great to catch up with staff and pupils at King Solomon, seeing the positive impact the project has had.

(Pupils from King Solomon International Business School holding the plaque, with Abbie Vlahakis, Millennium Point CEO and Jean McLeod, Head of PSP.)

Who’s running the project?
The project is managed by a parent’s voluntary organisation in partnership with King Solomon International Business School – Birmingham’s first all-through (4-19) Christian free school, which specialises in international business and entrepreneurship. The Parent School Partnership (PSP) was established in 2015 by parents of pupils who attend the school. To this end, PSP activities have been by donation of time, gifts and resources from willing parents and community partners – and now Millennium Point.

What’s it all about?
An inner-city school in Birmingham with a high proportion of BAME (Black, Asian and Ethnic Minorities) pupils, its ambition at the start of the project, was to ‘break barriers’ and increase STEM engagement across the entire pupil population, whatever their gender or ethnicity, through a series of onsite activities, workshops, clubs, as well as STEM-related off-site trips. For a lot of children at the school, this will be their only chance to experience this kind of specialist learning in addition to the national curriculum and the aim is for them to be immersed into the world of STEM; give them opportunities that they otherwise would not have to boost STEM participation and be excited about the possibilities of careers in STEM.

The PSP and school has identified gaps in the children’s exposure to STEM learning and wants to reach individuals from urban, challenged or hard to reach backgrounds by providing all of this free of charge to prevent barriers to their involvement.

The project includes the following:

Code Club – an after-school club designed to immerse students in the world of code – HTML, Java, CSS etc.
Eco-friendly sensory wildlife garden – designed to help students explore science in a practical way and learn about life cycles, growing, plants, climate, habitats, weather. The Code Club will create a QR code for the various plants and environments, which can be scanned to get the information about the optimum climate for growth etc.
Equipment – for a variety of science and maths experiments, including one which will measure the carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide levels in classrooms and outside areas.
Excursions – a range of STEM-related school trips, including Dudley Canal and Tunnel Trust; Planetarium at Thinktank; Jaguar Land Rover Wolverhampton; Birmingham Botanical Gardens.

What impact has the project made?
The project has been a breath of fresh air to the school, offering opportunities within STEM, that without the funding, would not of been possible. The garden has helped pupils explore science in a fun engaging way, developing their education around life cycles, growing plants, climate effects, habitats and weather.

It was also fantastic to hear the positive impact the “Code Club” has had on the pupils. Pupils have been immerged in the world of code, with top technical practices such as HTML, Java and CSS being learned at the school.

These skills go a long way in providing the pupils a brilliant opportunity to kickstart their career within STEM.

How the Millennium Point Charitable Trust can help you
The Millennium Point Charitable Trust is committed to supporting the growth of STEM education in the West Midlands region, through funding, resources, projects and events.

Explore what we do or get in touch to see how we can work together.

We’re shining a light on local STEM projects and activities as part of our objective to champion the growth of STEM and education in Birmingham and the West Midlands.

Join Tenstar and Fellowship of Gaming this half-term where kids can go do creative tasks and activities on Minecraft: Education Edition.

The event will take place on the 30^thMay till 1^st June 2022, 10am – 2:30pm. No need to teleport to the Nether either for this event, as it will all be held completely online.

Tickets start from £25 and can be bought here.

All about Tenstar and Fellowship of Gaming

Tenstar is a fun and inclusive esports organisation that is driven by passion and desire to become a new global leader within the industry.

Fellowship of Gaming believe that education should be accessible, engaging, and all-inclusive. They use digital tools such as Minecraft: Education Edition, their tutors and educators create a digital space to learn coding, English, and graphic design.

Grab your shovel, wood planks & diamonds in Minecraft

Join Tenstar at the most exciting half-term boot camp and learn from real online creatives and gaming professionals.

Using various gaming titles including Minecraft: Education Edition their industry specialists will go through a structured learning programme designed to build confidence and develop key skills. They will guide and coach through a range of creatives tasks and activities, with live online mentors and coaches giving the out the best digital experience.

All delivered from the comfort of your own home. Zero hassles with pick-up and drop-offs, packed lunches, and interruptions to your day. The bootcamp is suitable for children 7yrs – 13yrs and loves gaming, community, learning through play and wants to be a part of a safe and inspiring environment.

About Minecraft: Education Edition

Camps, clubs & after-school programs are using Minecraft: Education Edition to engage learners in STEM and coding. It can provide creative problem-solving challenges, collaborative learning, and e-sports.

The game has features built specifically for learning environments to supports and promotes key 21^st century skills that prepare students for the future workplace including creativity, problem solving and critical thinking.

Book your child’s space now and learn something brilliant this half-term

The event will take place on the 30^th May till 1^st June 2022, 10am – 2:30pm. Taking place virtually there is no need for drop-offs/ pick-ups. Tickets start from £25 and can be bought here.