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If you are struggling to find a central venue to hold a meeting, record interviews, hold press conferences or networking events, then look no further.

Take advantage of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art’s excellent venue facilities and its Central London location. This unique venue has a host of spaces to offer and is full of history, personality and theatrical flair.

Located just off Tottenham Court Road in the heart of London, minutes away from Russell Square Media Transport Hub and on the Olympic Route Network (ORN) the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art is an ideal venue for business meetings, office space and themed parties and events.

For more information on our spaces visit our Seasonal Events page.

Whether you are speaking to an intimate group of colleagues, or delivering a key note speech to a large auditorium, we can all improve the way we communicate to our audience. Here are some top tips to ensure your engage your audience, and deliver your message with clarity and impact.

1. Plan out what you are going to say – know your content well so you avoid having to look at your notes throughout.
2. Practise your presentation – always aloud.
3. Try doing a tongue twister to help with articulation, such as 'Please, Paul, pause for applause' and repeat 10 times.
4. Take time for a warm up – your body, as well as your voice needs to be ready. Release any tension in your shoulders by bringing your shoulders up to your ears and drop them and repeat three times. Then alternate raising your right shoulder, then your left shoulder repeat six times.
5. Keep calm, take a moment to gather your breath before you start to speak.

A practical, one-day in-house course exploring how to communicate successfully during tele-conference meetings and conference calls.

Whether it is due to cutting costs, or more teams being spread across geographical locations, more and more meetings are conducted remotely. Clarity of communication is vital as technology such as webcam and conference calls have a greater role in our lives.

The training will allow you to adopt some simple techniques to help you communicate effectively and understand how your body language translates on to a screen, and how your vocal delivery carries along a telephone line.

For more details please visit Virtual Communication.

From this January RADA has acquired the lease of its neighbouring venue, The Drill Hall on Chenies Street. The building will now be operating under the name of RADA Studios.

The acquisition of the lease will help to ensure the Academy’s financial self sufficiency in the future, providing further opportunity for income generation and sustaining us as a charity. We will be developing our venue hire operations as well as expanding our education and outreach work while continuing to support community based activities.

On January 17, RADA hosted the London Chamber of Commerce By Invitation Only networking reception in the Jerwood Vanbrugh Theatre. Sandie Miller, one of RADA Enterprises' senior business communications tutors spoke at the event about our training, coaching and event services.

The theatre took on a real transformation, with students props and scenery displayed, music from José Albela, RADA technical support, and canapes provided by our in-house caterers Harbour and Jones. Another wonderful event ran by our very own event management team.

Visit us on Stand 322 to discover how our communication skills training and team building activities can improve your employees' personal development and bring transformational change to your organisation.

We will also be presenting "Behaviours to Help You Succeed" in the Learning Area on 26 April at 9:30-10:00.

With RADA in Business senior tutor, Adrian Kirk, this interactive forum theatre session will show you how to start a business relationship on the right footing and stay there.

HRD Exhibition 2012 will take place 25 -26 April at Earls Court.