Kowhai Room: Flexible, large meeting room for hire for presentations & celebrations

Te Pai is an incredible community venue in the heart of West Auckland. Perfect for businesses, government, community and of course our family of sports clubs, we have quality facilities that will make your event easy and successful.

The Kowhai room is a large and flexible space with views out over our indoor arena. It's a blank space that works for everything from a simple presentation to a wedding. You can really make it your own.

We recommend the room for conferences, meetings, weddings, presentations, birthday parties, Christmas parties, corporate functions, community gatherings, training and team workshops.

The room hire includes:

Set up and pack down, full clean post event, use of all the AV kit including microphone, sound system, large screen and projector, wi-fi and whiteboard.

The room is light filled and spacious. It has a large open space with options to present on a large screen on the arena side or window side. It has it's own bar and a serving area for catering.

The room AV is set up to work for professional events. There is a microphone, speakers, high quality screen and projector. The use of this is included in the room hire, just let us know what you need at checkout so we can get it set up for you. It can seat 240 banquet style and accommodate 350 cocktail style. It's completely private and quiet as upstairs from our main centre.

Function Equipment:

Rectangle tables (seats x8): 34

Round tables (seats x10): 10

Bar Leaners: 7

Black fabric chairs: 300

The room hire does not include:

Catering - see below for options

Out of hours fee - for all events requiring staff after 4pm or before 9am a fixed $50 fee is automatically added to the booking.

Security - if your event will serve alcohol to the public in the evening, we will supply 2 security guards for a minimum of 2 hours during your event. Please add this option to the booking at checkout if this applies to you.

Netball Waitakere Members

If you're a Netball Waitakere member, you will automatically get a 20% discount by using the discount code NWMEMBER2021 at the checkout. This will be checked against our database and is only for NW members.

Catering and Alcohol

We are happy for you to self cater your event or bring in an external caterer. Alternatively we have convenient options from Fernz

We work with Fernz Catering to provide lots of different and delicious food and drink options for your event. They can create a bespoke option for your event or choose from their tried and tested package options:

• Finger food - Tasty options like antipasto, chicken skewers and slow roasted pork belly sliders
• Buffet - Hot options like Beef Stroganoff and roasted potatoes and big sharing salads like spiced baby beetroot
• Staff Party - hot meat platters like triple glazed champagne ham, buffet dinner and beautiful sharing salads
• Breakfast - hot options like build your own brekkie and a selection of continental options like croissants, cereals and freshly baked artisanal breads.
• Wedding - Affordable full wedding service including bubbles on arrival, canapes and delicious multi course dinner.

To discuss options for your event, contact Andrew@fernzcatering.co.nz or checkout www.fernz.co.nz Fernz will remove the stress of catering so you can confidently relax and enjoy the event with your guests.

Fernz is our exclusive catering supplier, so unfortunately we don't allow any other caterers for your event.

The Kowhai room has a fully stocked and licensed bar that Fernz Catering runs. You're welcome to use this as part of your event.

Decorations and customising the space

The room can be transformed with drapes and lighting - check out the photos to get some inspiration. We're happy to discuss options and ideas with you and can recommend trusted suppliers to work with you on getting the space to look and feel how you want it.

Why you should choose Te Pai for your event?

We support with set up and pack down, so you can get started straight away when you arrive

This is a clean, modern and affordable venue where you can make your event your own

We have easy and affordable catering to make organising food & drink incredibly stress free

We have easy to use, professional standard AV and presentation facilities

We have a great location with lots of parking available.

We love to host all types of users, from our local sporting community to businesses and other organisations.