Seal, D.J. Burt, G. Chyhyrynets, E. Hryhorenko, O. Longuevergne, D. Malyshev, O.B. Marks, H.S. Marshall, E.A. Pira, C. Sian, B.S. Valizadeh, R. JACoW Publishing Geneva, Switzerland 2226-0366 978-3-95450-215-8 10.18429/JACoW-LINAC2022-THPOGE10 English 818-821 cavity SRF site operation superconducting-RF Contribution to a conference proceedings 2022 2022-09 https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-LINAC2022-THPOGE10 https://jacow.org/linac2022/papers/thpoge10.pdf Research is ongoing into the use of superconducting thin films to replace bulk niobium for future radio frequency (RF) cavities. A key part of this research requires measuring the RF properties of candidate films. However, coating and testing thin films on full-sized cavities is both costly and time-consuming. Instead, films are typically deposited on small, flat samples and characterised using a test cavity. A cost-effective facility for testing such samples has recently been built and commissioned at Daresbury Laboratory. The facility allows for low power surface resistance measurements at a resonant frequency of 7.8 GHz, temperatures down to 4 K and sample surface magnetic fields up to 1 mT. A brief overview of this facility as well as recent results from measurements of both bulk Nb and thin film coated samples will be presented.