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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.

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.

Imagine it – Christmas dinner has just been eaten and the family have migrated to the sofa with a tub of celebrations at the ready. It’s on you to put on a Christmas film, but which one?

Well, we have you covered with some of our personal festive favourites below. We guarantee no Hallmark Christmas films here!

Elf – For the family

Buddy (Will Ferrell) was accidently transported to the North Pole as a toddler and raised to adulthood among Santa’s elves. Unable to shake the feeling that he doesn’t fit in, the adult Buddy travels to New York, in full elf uniform, in search of his real father. As it happens, this is Walter Hobbs (James Caan), a cynical businessman. After a DNA test proves this, Walter reluctantly attempts to start a relationship with the childlike Buddy with increasingly chaotic results.

Home Alone – For the mischievous

When bratty 8-year-old Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) acts out the night before a family trip to Paris, his mother (Catherin O’Hara) makes him sleep in the attic. After the McCallisters mistakenly leave for the airport without Kevin, he awakens to an empty house and assumes his wish to have no family has come true. But his excitement sours when he realizes that two con men (Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern) plan to rob the McCallister residence, and that he alone must protect the family home.

The Grinch – For the grumpy

In this live-action adaption of the beloved children’s tale by Dr. Seuss, the reclusive green Grinch (Jim Carrey) decides to ruin Christmas for the cheery citizens of Whoville. Reluctantly joined by his hapless dog, Max, the Grinch comes down from his mountaintop home and sneaks into town to swipe everything holiday-related from the Whos. However, the bitter grump finds a hitch in his plans when he encounters the endearing Cindy Lou Who (Taylor Momsen).

The Holiday – For the hopeless romantic

Dumped and depressed, English rose Iris (Kate Winslet) agrees to swap homes for the holidays with similarly unlucky in love Californian Amanda (Cameron Diaz) for a much-needed break. Iris finds herself in a palatial Hollywood mansion while Amanda navigates the lanes of a picture-perfect English village. Soon enough, both lovelorn ladies bump into local lads perfect for a romantic pick-me-up.

Die Hard – For the controversial

This may raise a few eyebrows and potentially has the power to cause a Christmas day bicker, but we’re putting it in as a Christmas film any way!

New York City policeman John McClane (Bruce Willis) is visiting his estranged wife (Bonnie Bedelia) and two daughters on Christmas Eve. He joins her at a holiday party in the headquarters of the Japanese-owned business she works for. But the festivities are interrupted by a group of terrorists who take over the exclusive high-rise, and everyone in it. Very soon McClane realises that there’s no one to save the hostages… but him.

Bonus Christmas Film – Love Actually – the modern Christmas classic

We liked this movie so much we showed it on our big screen back in early December paired with 5 delicious wines!

Nine intertwined stories examine the complexities of the one emotion that connects us all: love. Among the characters explored are David (Hugh Grant), the handsome newly elected British prime minister who falls for a young junior staffer (Martine McCutcheon). Sarah (Laura Linney), a graphic designer whose devotion to her mentally ill brother complicates her love life, and Harry (Alan Rickman), a married man tempted by his attractive new secretary.

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. 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

With awareness on the environment ever increasing, it is no surprise that people are now looking at ways to be more sustainable at Christmas.

From Christmas tree choices, to making your own advent calendar, we look at ways you can be more eco-friendly without ruining the festivities this season.

Rent a real tree for the festive season

A tree shouldn’t just be for Christmas, GWP found that as many as 8 million Christmas trees are thrown away each year. This includes 14 per cent of people who will even be binning their fake Christmas tree. Fake Christmas trees are made up of plastic and metals, therefore often can’t be recycled.

For next year, if your fake Christmas tree is in good condition, why not donate it to a charity shop and opt for a real tree instead? Simply Plants and Love a Christmas Tree, both offer tree renting services, enjoy the tree for Christmas and after, it gets planted back in the ground for Spring.

If you have bought a real Christmas tree this season, don’t worry, Birmingham City Council offer tree recycling which is free. Birmingham St Mary’s Hospice Treecycling also offer the service, although free, a donation of £10 is recommended, with all proceeds going to St Mary’s Hospice.

Christmas Tree

Make your home merry and bright with LED lights

Being sustainable doesn’t mean your home has to be dark and gloomy this Christmas. Choose LED lights to hang on your tree, LED lights use 80-90% less energy than non-LED, the cost of powering them is less too.

There’s lots of LED light options to choose from this Christmas, so you’ll be spoilt for choice!

Get creative with your wrapping paper

The amount of wrapping paper thrown away at Christmas in the UK alone would stretch to the moon, according to estimates by recycling advisors WRAP. That’s 225,623 miles of wrapping paper!

The problem with wrapping paper is often due to the foils, dyes, and paper it’s printed on which makes it unable to be recycled. There is alternative paper that can be used such as kraft paper, although brown, why not customise it with reusable ribbons and patterned biodegradable zero plastic Sellotape.

Wrapping Paper

Replace your throwaway advent calendar for a reusable one

Advent calendars and selection boxes add to the three million tonnes of extra plastic waste created every year during the festive period in the UK.

There are lots of ways to get a reusable advent calendar, support independent businesses and find one on Etsy. Or if creativity is your thing, upcycle old items to make your very own. You can fill it with chocolates, make-up, whatever you want!

Eat sustainably without cutting out on quality

During Christmas, 2 million turkeys, 5 million Christmas puddings, and 74 million mince pies get disposed while still edible, causing almost 270,000 tons of food waste in total during the festive season.

Earlier this year we wrote a blog about sustainable supermarkets to try in Greater Birmingham. There are also lots of other ways to eat more sustainable this Christmas.

Try planning your shopping for the winter break to avoid over buying and only buy what you plan to eat. Organise your fridge so you can store food properly, so it will last longer and not get spoilt. If you have leftover untouched food and it’s in date, look for a food bank to donate it to during the Winter to help others.

Christmas Dinner

Millennium Point and sustainability

This Christmas we have looked at how we can enjoy a sustainable Christmas, continuing our journey to be more eco-friendly. For example, our 39ft Christmas tree, which is rented, is fitted out with LED lights.

We have also placed a range of processes to ensure we’re not adding to our carbon footprint. Energy management and the journey to net zero carbon are at the heart of all our decisions. We try not to create waste but where we do, we segregate and recycle as much as we can. Lastly, we encourage staff, tenants, and visitors to make green travel choices when visiting us.

With Christmas Day just over a month away, we just can’t stop talking about our spectacular 39ft tree! That’s why we’ve put together some fir-tastic facts together about our decorations.

The Christmas tree is based in our event space Atrium for everyone to enjoy as soon as they walk into our landmark building.

It’s starting to look a lot like CHRISTMAS

The tree built was 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!

Where do you even get a 39ft tree from you ask? We’ll let you in on a secret, it’s not actually a real tree! The Christmas tree is made up of a metal frame with each individual branch attached separately each with their own power source.

As far as we know we are the biggest indoor tree in Birmingham at 12 metres tall. It’s also accompanied by two nutcrackers and a (currently) nameless bear giving visitors lot of opportunities to snap a festive selfie.

Excited to share the Christmas Tree with everyone

We wanted everyone to enjoy our Christmas Tree, and with last year, we realise how important this Christmas is. In November we invited our industry friends and colleagues to have a catch up at our festive meet-up under our Christmas Tree. The event was well received by everyone, and we enjoyed catching up after a long time away from face to face events.

Feel Christmas all around you with themed wine and Love Actually

Love Actually with Wine event

Feel the love this Christmas with a screening and themed wine tasting experience of the seminal 2003 festive rom com, Love Actually. Millennium Point have once again teamed up with movie geeks The Wine Events Company for a fun and unique wine tasting. This festive event will include five themed wines and a very big screen, all for the price of £31.95 (plus fees). The event takes place on Sunday 5th December at 5pm. Tickets can be purchased by clicking below.

Imagine, your event and our Christmas tree

With 17 versatile event spaces to choose from, make Millennium Point your venue of choice this Christmas. Contact our friendly events team on 0121 202 2200 or click below to explore our award-winning event spaces.

We understand at Millennium Point that this Christmas is more important than ever. That’s why we want to help bring the festive cheer with complimentary prosecco with Saturday Christmas party bookings.

Book a Saturday in November or December for your Christmas party at Millennium Point and we will upgrade your package to include complimentary prosecco for every table. We’ll also enter the booker into a prize draw to win £100 Amazon shopping voucher. Read more about our terms and conditions below.

Award-winning service without breaking the bank

Millennium Point has a range of bespoke packages to choose from:

Get a festive cinematic experience without Hollywood Film Party from £42.5pp + VAT

The Hollywood Film Party is suitable for party sizes of 70 – 350.

Get ready to party like never before with our Dinner Dance Party from £38.50pp + VAT

Get your dance shoes ready and go for a festive party experience with out Dinner Dance Party package. This package comes with a sumptuous three course Christmas banqueting menu, stylish house table centrepieces, your own DJ and dancefloor and a private fully licensed bar. Got room for more? You can upgrade from a two to a three-course meal for just £42.50pp + VAT.

The Dinner Dance Party is suitable for party sizes of 70 – 200.

You can find out more on our dazzling Christmas parties on our dedicated Christmas page here, we can’t wait to celebrate with you.

Christmas

Want something more personalised?

We want to make every Christmas party special, so if you have something more bespoke in mind our fantastic events team are happy to help! Get in contact to discuss more.

We LOVE Christmas at Millennium Point!

This month we’ve been busy decorating with our 39ft Christmas tree ready for all the Christmas parties booked with 23,000 energy saving LED lights built by The Christmas Decorators.

The Christmas tree being set up is just the beginning of what we have in store for Christmas. Along with the decorations, a festive schedule brimming with fun activities is planned through the next two months for everyone to enjoy. You don’t need a Christmas Party as a reason to visit Millennium Point this festive season, find out more here.

Terms and Conditions for Late Space Offer

Choose an eligible Saturday in November or December for your Christmas Party at Millennium Point and we will upgrade your package to include complimentary prosecco for every table. In addition, the booker will be entered into a prize draw to win £100 Amazon shopping voucher.

Terms & Conditions

Contract must be signed by 3^rd December 2021. Following confirmation your package will automatically be upgraded and the event booker will be entered into the prize draw.
Upgrade is 1 bottle of Prosecco which will be given complimentary per 5 guests up to a maximum of 200 guests
Competition to win an Amazon voucher starts 8^th November 2021. Prize draw will take place on Friday 3^rd December 2021 with the winner being contacted shortly after via email.
Millennium Point Events may alter or withdraw this offer at any time.

Now Halloween is officially over, we’ve kicked off the festive season here at Millennium Point. Our impressive 39ft Christmas tree is back by popular demand, adorned in 23,000 energy saving LED lights. Built by The Christmas Decorators it takes just over eight hours to complete -see the time lapse below!

The tree is accompanied by two nutcrackers and a (currently) nameless bear giving visitors lot of opportunities to snap a festive selfie.

Along with the decorations, a festive schedule brimming with fun activities is planned through the next two months for everyone to enjoy.

Feel Christmas all around you with themed wine and Love Actually

The event will be a safe, fun, and interactive ‘wines and movie’ event in our multi-award-winning venue with one of Birmingham’s biggest screens.

The film is showing on the 5^th December, the doors will open at 4pm with the event starting at 5pm. There are limited tickets available so make your you secure your ticket for this fantastic festival event.

Have yourself a merry little ginmas with the Christmas wine and spirits fair

The Christmas wine & spirits fair is back after taking a forced Covid break in 2020. You don’t need to just be a wine fan for this event, there will be lots of spirits on show, including plenty of different gin’s, whisky, cognac, and some winter liqueur treats. Although not confirmed, but there might even be some beer and cider for you this year!

As well as spirits there will be a huge range of still, sparking & dessert wines. With a range of wines from modern classics to new quirky favourites, including some super special wines. The event will be held on 27^th November, you can book your tickets on their website here.

Make Millennium Point your place to go this Christmas with our bespoke packages

While we can’t guarantee snow, we can promise an outstanding Christmas party experience at our multi-award-winning venue, in Eastside Birmingham. We have two packages available for up to 354 guests, where you can choose from a glamorous VIP Film Premiere Party, reminiscent of classic Hollywood glitz, or a more traditional, yet stylish, party accompanied by a sumptuous three-course meal.

Make your event sparkle when booking with Millennium Point

Choose Millennium Point this Christmas to book your event with our beautiful tree on display to give your event the wow factor at no additional cost. Our multi-award-winning venue has 17 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 on our refurbished website here.

You can book your ticket here.

About the film – several modern love stories in one classic film

Nine intertwined stories examine the complexities of the one emotion that connects us all: love. Among the characters explored are David (Hugh Grant), the handsome newly elected British prime minister who falls for a young junior staffer (Martine McCutcheon), Sarah (Laura Linney), a graphic designer whose devotion to her mentally ill brother complicates her love life, and Harry (Alan Rickman), a married man tempted by his attractive new secretary.

Featuring: Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Alan Rickman

Certificate: 15|Running Time: 2 hours 15 minutes

‘To me, you are perfect’- You to the wine… probably

The ‘new classic’ Christmas movie will be paused to pour you a glass of festive cheer as The Wine Events Company shares with you their five perfect wines. The film and wine connoisseurs will also pause the film at appropriate moments to share some fun movie trivia. For example, did you know the word ‘actually’ is spoken 22 times throughout the movie?

The event will be a safe, fun, and interactive ‘wines and movie’ event in our multi-award-winning venue with one of Birmingham’s biggest screens.

Our movie + drinks nights are not to be missed

Our movie + drinks nights have been hugely successful with fans and are not to be missed. Want to get a feeling of what to expect? Check out our screening of the eighties classic Dirty Dancing below. Guests had the time of their lives with a live band, themed cocktails, and movie trivia from the film geeks at The Wine Events Company.

We pride ourselves on our outstanding hospitality, with a wide range of events there is something for everyone. You can keep up to date with all our events on our refurbished website here.

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.

Make Millennium Point your place to go this Christmas in our award-winning Birmingham city centre venue. Amazing hospitality isn’t the only thing that guests will expect to receive this Christmas when booking with us.

Confirm your Christmas party at Millennium Point by Friday 22^nd October 2021 and we will upgrade your package to include complimentary prosecco for every table. In addition, the person who books the event will be entered into a prize draw to win £100 Amazon shopping.

Award-winning service without breaking the bank

Millennium Point has a range of bespoke Christmas packages to choose from:

Get a Festive Cinematic Experience with our Hollywood Film Party from £42.50pp + VAT

Get ready to party like never before with our Dinner Dance Party from £38.50pp + VAT

Get your dance shoes ready and go for a festive party experience with our Dinner Dance Party package. This package comes with a Sumptuous three course Christmas banqueting menu, stylish house table centrepieces, your own DJ and dancefloor and a private fully licensed bar. Got room for more? You can upgrade from a two to a three course meal for just £42.50pp + VAT.

Smaller teams – Millennium Point has you covered with our shared Dinner Dance Party

Taking place at our award-winning Birmingham city centre venue on Friday 17th December, this package includes a traditional dinner, fully licenced bar, and the option to both dance the night away and sit back and watch a festive favourite on our giant screen.

With tickets costing £42.50 this is a great event to attend without having to break the bank. Tickets are sold by the table (minimum of 8 tickets).

Terms and Conditions

Spaces are filling up fast so make sure to contact our team to secure your booking for your chance to win.

Contract must be signed by 22^nd October 2021. Following confirmation your package will automatically be upgraded and the event booker will be entered into the prize draw.
Upgrade is 1 bottle of Prosecco which will be given complimentary per 5 guests up to a maximum of 200 guests
Competition to win an Amazon voucher starts 27^th September and ends Friday 22^nd October 2021. Prize draw will take place on Friday 29^th October 2021 with the winner being contacted shortly after via email.
Millennium Point Events may alter or withdraw this offer at any time.

Perfect for small teams and businesses, our Dinner Dance Party will have something for everyone at this shared party experience.

With tickets costing £42.50 this is a great event to attend without having to break the bank. Tickets are sold by the table (minimum of 8 tickets).

Make Millennium Point your place to go this Christmas

Start the festive cheer with your welcome drink and catch-up with friends under our stunning 39ft Christmas tree. Take your social media snaps against the photo wall. When dinner is announced take your seat and enjoy a lavish 3 course meal complete with stylish centrepieces and luxury crackers and novelties. Vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free options are also available, ensuring nobody leaves hungry.

After you have experienced our outstanding hospitality and enjoyed a crumbly mince pie… or two, take to the dancefloor and dance the night away to music played by the DJ. Or if partying and loud music isn’t your thing grab your complimentary bag of popcorn and head upstairs to our refurbished auditorium and enjoy a festive film.

Throughout the night don’t forget to enjoy the use of the on-site bar facility where it will be fully stocked with non-alcoholic and alcoholic options to choose from. Guests can also pre-order drink packages for the evening.

The party lasts from 7pm till Midnight, however the night doesn’t have to stop with us, we’re only a short walk from some of Birmingham’s best bars and clubs. Heading home? Millennium Point is also close to Moor Street Station, Grand Central and the Tram. If you’re driving, Millennium Point has a multi-story carpark with limited spaces to use.

You can buy tickets to our Dinner Dance Film and Party extravaganza on Eventbrite here.

Have higher guest numbers and want something a little more private?

Millennium Point has you covered with two packages that are sure to wow guests and make their night magical. Pick between either Hollywood Film Party or Dinner Dance Party, both with unique festive experiences for guests to enjoy, suitable for up to 70-350 with tickets starting from as little as £38.50.

Bring the glitz of Hollywood to your Christmas Party. Your guests will walk the red carpet and get their glamour snaps against the photo wall. Once they’ve had their fill of our outstanding hospitality, they can take their seat in our 354-seater auditorium and enjoy a film screening of your choice. Or enjoy the Dinner Dance Party and treat your business to an indulgent two or three course meals, before hitting the dancefloor and enjoying music from a private DJ.

Both packages have private bar facility, meaning no busy queues or time wasted during the evening.

You can find out more about all our packages here.

Early bird gets the prosecco

Confirm your Christmas Party at Millennium Point by Friday 22nd October 2021 and we will upgrade your package to include complimentary prosecco for every table. In addition, the booker will be entered into a prize draw to win £100 Amazon shopping voucher.

For more information get in contact with our team.

Have something different in mind? Let’s talk

Contact our friendly team about our bespoke Christmas packages – [email protected] or call 0121 202 2200.