Booking Newspeak House spaces

All bookings are requests and are subject to approval.

Faculty and Fellowship Candidates: common spaces

Log in to book the Terrace, Committee Room, Library and Lounge / Kitchen, or to request Newspeak Hall. This login does not cover the Guest Room.

Don't have your login details yet? Email anchit.som@gmail.com to get them.

Guest Room and outside NH bookings

Faculty and Fellowship Candidates: to book the Guest Room, fill in the request form, choose Guest Room and give your own name as sponsor.

Outside Newspeak House: the easiest way to book a space is to ask a Faculty member or Fellowship Candidate you know to book it for you. If you don't know anyone, fill in the request form and we will get back to you. Guest Room requests need a sponsor from the house.

Open the request form

Newspeak Hall: If you are not affiliated with the 2026/27 fellowship of Newspeak House and want to book Newspeak Hall, please email Ed at edsaperia@gmail.com.

What counts as a booking

A booking is exclusive use of a space for a set period. The person running the booked event may ask others to leave the space for that time. Faculty and Fellowship Candidates are still welcome to use the spaces informally when they are not booked. Each booking needs a few sentences saying what the space will be used for.

Monthly hours

Fellowship Candidates can book up to 50 hours of the regular spaces in each calendar month, Faculty up to 35.
Hours count towards the month in which the booking takes place, not the month in which you make it, so booking ahead does not use up this month's hours. Unused hours do not carry over.
Cancelling a booking gives its hours back.

Spaces

Terrace, Committee Room, Library and Lounge / Kitchen: booked by the hour, first come first served.
Newspeak Hall: every booking is a request, pending confirmation from Ed. Does not count towards your monthly hours.
Guest Room: must be requested through the request form at least 72 hours before arrival and is subject to approval. Give your arrival and departure times, on the hour, for a stay of up to 14 days. Does not count towards your monthly hours.

If you are booking for someone else

People and organisations outside the house can use a space through a sponsor, a Faculty member or Fellowship Candidate who books it using their own hours and attends the whole event.

Looking after the space

Whoever is responsible for a booking cleans up afterwards, keeps noise down, finishes at a reasonable hour and listens to residents' concerns.

Commercial events are not booked here.