Swansea Building Society Arena, Full Venue

Swansea Building Society Arena sits within a 1.1-acre coastal park, surrounded by independent restaurants and bars, two multi-storey car parks and is an easy walk to Swansea Train Station, City Centre, the beach, and the region’s famed coastal path. Swansea Building Society Arena is a 3,500-capacity, fully modular, multi-purpose entertainment and events venue. The Arena has already attracted some of the world’s top names in entertainment; hosting year-round events including music, comedy, theatre, e-sports plus conferences, exhibitions, away days, awards dinners and everything in between. The venue has 2,200m² of exhibition space to host up to 3,000 attendees; with a full dining experience catering for up to 650 guests, Swansea Building Society Arena is the perfect location for meetings, days off, graduations, conferences, events and AGMs.
The Arena is truly versatile with a 750 seat auditorium, an array of meeting rooms hosting 6 to 100 people, banquet space for up to 650 people and our 3 stunning concourses can host drinks, exhibitions and events. We have an inhouse tech support team to ensure that your event goes off without a hitch, and an inhouse food and beverage team, with our own chefs, to create bespoke experiences.

Swansea Building Society Arena is a state of the art, fully modular venue that has stunning interiors and a host of versatile spaces to meet all event needs. Our Main events space can be divided in half creating a self-contained conference theatre (our Upper Auditorium) with 750 seats, which can be used at the same time as our acoustically separated Main Floor. The Main Arena Space offers the following capacities:
Seated and standing combination: 3,500
Seated: 2,400
Banquet: 650
Cabaret: 456 seat (57 tables)
Shell Scheme Exhibition: 100-120 shell schemes with 2,500 - 3,000 attendees
Tabletop Exhibition: 150 tables with 2,500 - 3,000 attendees
The loading capacity on our rig and our stage size are the same as the O2.
The stage measures 26m x 12m with a completely flexible layout: the stage and bleacher seating store away using our computer-controlled stacking system, leaving a 32m x 35m of floorspace (the size of two basketball courts).
The full venue hire includes:
8 en-suite dressing rooms
2 band-rooms (can be joined)
Green room for 10
Crew kitchen
Fully connected production office with 4 desks
Loading dock: 5.46m x 4m wide and 6m from stage
Main stage size: 17m x 11m + wings and access ramp
6.7 ton mother truss capacity over stage
1 x sound tech and 1 x lighting tech