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The Displaysense LT950 is a freestanding lectern, 1180mm high by 685mm wide by 370mm deep, with clear acrylic. It is delivered free to UK Mainland.
£47.00
(Inc VAT)
£39.17
(Exc VAT)
A wooden podium tells an audience where the speaker is standing. A clear one lets them watch the speaker. The LT950 is built from clear acrylic throughout, so whoever takes the floor stays visible head to foot instead of vanishing behind a panel. A room follows the person, not the outline of a box in the way. Gesture, posture and eye contact all stay part of how the message lands. Nothing about the finish dates it to a decade or ties it to one setting. The same lectern suits a stone chapel, a school hall and a glass-walled boardroom without looking borrowed from somewhere else. Staff lift and carry it single-handed between sessions, so a venue booked at short notice gets a podium in place without anybody first hunting down a trolley to shift it there. Building one takes minutes using the fixings in the carton, and the whole thing goes back into a cupboard afterwards without coming apart. Best suited for schools, places of worship and conference venues where the audience needs to see who is talking to them.
| Schools, Colleges and Universities | Assemblies, prize-givings, student presentations and visiting speakers. Young audiences read a presenter's face and hands as much as the words, so keeping the speaker visible holds a hall that a voice on its own would start losing halfway back. |
| Churches and Places of Worship | Sermons, readings, eulogies and ceremonies. Worshippers watch whoever speaks, and glass-clear acrylic settles against medieval stone, Victorian oak or a new-build worship space without arguing with any of them for a congregation's eye. |
| NHS, Hospitals and Healthcare | Handover meetings, mandatory training, clinical updates and patient information. Every surface takes a wipe between uses, and estates staff walk one from a seminar room to a ward area unaided, without waiting on portering to free somebody up. |
| Corporate, Conferences and AGMs | Keynotes, panel introductions and shareholder meetings. Where a screen behind the speaker carries the message, transparent furniture keeps the room looking at speaker and screen together, not at a wooden box parked in between the pair of them. |
| Events, Awards and Ceremonies | Charity evenings, launches and civic occasions. Photographers get the speaker and the backdrop without a dark block interrupting the frame, which matters when those images become the record of the evening long once everybody has gone home. |
| Hotels, Venues and Function Rooms | Wedding speeches, seminar series and private dining. A clear finish works against any theme a client brings in, so a venue never has to apologise for furniture that matches last year's colour scheme instead of the scheme this booking wanted. |
The same lectern comes in black wood for formal, traditional settings and light wood for a warmer room. Same dimensions, same reading panel, same shelf underneath.
Call us on 01279460460 or tell us the venue and we will say which finish fits.
LT950 is a Clear Acrylic Floor Standing Lectern Podium with Shelf from Displaysense. What marks it out is fully transparent construction, so a speaker stays visible from head to foot instead of standing behind a solid panel. Angled reading panel with a raised front lip. Storage shelf set underneath. Freestanding on hard floors, stages and carpet. Wipe-clean acrylic. Minimal assembly with all fixings supplied. Used in schools, colleges, universities, churches, places of worship, NHS hospitals, healthcare, corporate conferences, AGMs, events, awards, ceremonies, hotels, venues and function rooms. Displaysense, UK display product specialists since 1978.
The reason schools, churches, hospitals and conference venues are replacing wooden lecterns with clear acrylic is not aesthetic preference. It is communication. A solid wooden lectern creates a physical and visual barrier between the speaker and the audience. The speaker disappears behind a box. Eye contact drops. Body language is hidden. The presentation becomes a voice behind furniture. A clear acrylic lectern removes that barrier entirely. The speaker is fully visible from head to foot. The audience sees the person, not the podium. In a school assembly where a headteacher is addressing students, in a church where a minister is delivering a sermon, in a hospital lecture theatre where a consultant is briefing staff, the difference between connection and disconnection is whether the audience can see who is speaking to them.
The transparent construction has no colour, no wood grain, no finish and no style that ties it to any particular era, venue or interior. It works equally well in a stone-walled medieval church, a modern school assembly hall, a corporate boardroom with brushed steel and glass, and an NHS lecture theatre with institutional finishes. One lectern for every setting the venue hosts throughout the year. The contemporary aesthetic also photographs cleanly. In event photography, a wooden lectern creates a dark block in every image. A clear acrylic lectern is invisible in the shot, leaving the speaker and the backdrop as the only visual subjects.
At 8.1kg this lectern is genuinely portable. One person picks it up and carries it between rooms, between floors, between buildings without needing a trolley or assistance. Schools move it from the assembly hall to the classroom to the library. Churches carry it from the nave to the parish hall. Event venues reposition it between function rooms during a multi-session conference. The 685mm x 370mm angled reading panel is wide enough for A4 landscape notes or an open folder, and the 50mm lip prevents papers and tablets from sliding forward during the presentation. The internal shelf holds spare materials out of the audience's sightline.
The acrylic is durable enough for daily institutional use. It does not chip, splinter or degrade the way painted MDF lecterns do after a year of handling by multiple users. It wipes clean with a soft cloth and warm water between presentations, which matters in NHS and education environments where hygiene and cleanliness are operational requirements. The freestanding base at 685mm wide provides stable positioning on hard floors, stage surfaces and carpeted areas without the lectern rocking or tipping when the speaker leans forward to address the front rows.
We supply lecterns to schools, universities, NHS trusts, churches, hotel groups and corporate venues across the UK. For multi-unit orders our team can provide a tailored quote with coordinated delivery to your schedule.
Call us on 01279460460 or send us your requirements and we will come back to you.
Displaysense Clear Acrylic Floor Standing Lectern with Shelf. Displaysense exclusive, UK-designed. 1180mm H x 685mm W x 370mm D. Weight 8.1kg. Clear acrylic construction. Angled reading panel 685mm x 370mm with 50mm lip for notes, tablets and documents. Internal shelf for mid-presentation storage. Freestanding on hard floors, stages and carpet. Wipeable acrylic surface. Minimal assembly with all fixings. Suitable for schools, universities, churches, NHS, corporate conferences, events, hotels and function rooms. Also available in black wood and light wood. Displaysense, UK display product specialists since 1978.
Technical reference for the clear acrylic floor standing lectern with shelf, model LT950. Every measurement is taken on the assembled lectern. Transparent construction, an angled reading panel and a one-person carrying weight are the three things that define it.
| Specification | Detail | What This Means for You |
|---|---|---|
| Overall Dimensions | 1180mm (H) x 685mm (W) x 370mm (D) | Standing height for an adult presenter, on a footprint compact enough for a stage, a hall or a meeting room without crowding the space or the seating around it. |
| Weight | 8.1kg | A one-person carry between rooms, floors and buildings. No trolley to fetch and nobody needed on the other end of it when a session moves elsewhere. |
| Material | Clear acrylic throughout | See-through construction keeps the speaker in full view. No colour or finish to argue with a venue interior, and the whole thing wipes down with a soft cloth. |
| Reading Panel | 685mm x 370mm, angled | Tilted toward the speaker for comfortable sight lines through a long address. Takes A4 landscape notes, an open folder or a tablet laid out flat. |
| Front Lip | 50mm | Sits proud along the leading edge so pages, a hymn book or a tablet cannot slide away, which leaves both of the speaker's hands free. |
| Front Panel | 1120mm x 345mm, clear acrylic | Gives the lectern its silhouette while staying fully transparent, so an audience reads the person speaking and not the furniture standing in front of them. |
| Shelf | Internal, below the reading panel | Takes spare pages, water or a phone within reach of the speaker and out of the room's sight line, which leaves the working surface itself clear. |
| Base | 685mm wide, freestanding | Holds steady on a hard floor, a staged platform or carpet, with nothing fixed down and no rocking when somebody leans in toward the front row of seats. |
| Assembly | Minimal, all fixings supplied | Put together straight from the carton without specialist tools, and taken apart just as quickly when it goes back into a store cupboard. |
| Maintenance | Soft cloth and warm water | Cleans between sessions in moments, which counts in any setting where infection control forms part of the daily routine rather than an afterthought. |
| Also Available | Black wood and light wood | Matched on every measurement, with the same panel and storage beneath. Choose wood where a room calls for something warmer or more traditional in feel. |
| Storage | Upright, no dismantling | Occupies wall or cupboard depth when idle. No parts come off first, so putting it away and bringing it back out are both short jobs. |
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Q: What is the best lectern for a school assembly hall?
A: The LT950 suits that job. Clear acrylic keeps a headteacher visible head to foot in front of an audience that reads faces as much as words. Standing 1180mm tall and weighing 8.1kg, the lectern shifts between the hall, a classroom and the library without help from anyone else on the staff.
Q: Why choose clear acrylic over a wooden podium?
A: Wood and painted board mask a presenter from around chest height downward, taking the hands out of play and planting an object between them and the seats. See-through construction hands all of that back, which is why broadcast studios and modern churches moved across to acrylic years back and stayed.
Q: What are the dimensions of this acrylic podium?
A: The assembled lectern stands 1180mm high, 685mm wide and 370mm deep, weighing 8.1kg. The angled reading panel comes in at 685mm by 370mm with a 50mm lip running along its front, and the clear front panel at 1120mm by 345mm. The base spans 685mm across, matching the full width of the reading panel directly above.
Q: Will notes and tablets slide off the reading panel?
A: No. A 50mm lip runs the front edge of the panel. The surface also tilts back toward the speaker, so gravity settles material against that edge instead of carrying it away. The speaker keeps both hands free the whole way through an address, however long that address happens to run.
Q: Will this podium suit a church or place of worship?
A: Yes. A congregation follows the person delivering a sermon, a reading or a eulogy, and transparent construction keeps them in view. The podium settles against stone, oak or a modern worship space, and the front lip holds a bible, a hymnal or a service sheet steady right the way through a reading or a eulogy.
Q: What is the internal shelf used for?
A: Sitting under the reading surface, the shelf takes spare pages, a bottle of water, a phone or anything else wanted mid-address. Whoever is presenting reaches down without breaking off, and the seats in front see none of that, which keeps the top surface clear for whatever is being read out.
Q: Can one person carry this lectern between rooms?
A: Yes. 8.1kg sits inside a comfortable single-handed carry across rooms, floors or whole buildings, with no trolley wheeled out at any point at all. Sites shift one around through a day of assemblies, and conference teams walk one from function room to function room as a programme changes across the day.
Q: How durable is the acrylic in daily institutional use?
A: Constant handling will not chip an edge or raise a splinter, which is where painted board gives out after a year of being lifted by whoever is nearest. Warm water and a soft cloth handle cleaning in the gap between one session and the next on the schedule.
Q: Does this acrylic lectern work in NHS settings?
A: Yes. Departmental briefings, mandatory training, ward rounds and patient sessions all run from this podium. Surfaces wipe down between uses, and at 8.1kg facilities teams move one between lecture theatres, meeting rooms and ward corridors with no porter booked in to help them.
Q: Does the lectern need assembling?
A: Only minimally, and every fixing arrives in the pack. No specialist tools are involved, so a caretaker, a churchwarden or a venue facilities team assembles the podium without calling anyone in. Breaking the lectern down again for storage runs as the same short job in reverse order.
Q: Where does this lectern go between events?
A: Straight into a corner, a cupboard or a store room, still assembled. Because no fixings hold it down and no parts come away, clearing the floor takes one person a few seconds. A gym, a dining hall or a committee room is usable again immediately afterwards, with no clearing up first.
Q: Does this lectern come in a wood finish?
A: Yes. The same lectern and shelf come as LT950BK in black wood for formal, traditional rooms and LT950WD in light wood where an interior runs warmer. All three match on dimensions, reading panel and shelf between the three of them. Free UK mainland delivery applies, with a 28-day returns policy.
The lectern is one element of a well-presented event, lecture or ceremony. How the venue is signed, how the audience is directed and how the brand or institution is represented across the space all contribute to the impression. These guides cover the broader display and signage decisions that support effective presentations and events.
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Overall rating: 4.8333335 / 5 from 12 reviews.
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"the item is great, customer service is wonderful and very helpful, the only issue is the delivery/courior or packaging of the goods, which unfortunatly were damaged in tansit - sorted at once by cuctomer service but this could be avoided with better care the lectern is just want we wanted and looks lovely and is now in use"
"Impressive Lectern for the money. Arrived quickly and looked the part for our conference. Was easy to move around with the handle slots and also like the little shelf for a glass of water. All in all a great buy."
"The quality of this lectern is excellent for the price. I've used them in our conference centres and they look much more expensive. I also added a sticker with our logo on the front which sets it off"
"Very good quality, really pleased with the product, just what we wanted."
"I love this Podium exactly what I wanted .I would recommend it good quality, good price, I got it on time Rev Althea Robinson Uk 🙌 🇬🇧"
"The product meets my needs & value for the price, its quality, standard in depth & length, but only that some of the edges are sharp & cutting."
"More than what l expected."
"Good value for money"
"value for money, Does the Job"
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