VR Hire Gloucester
Twenty-plus event spaces at a Premiership rugby ground, a cathedral that has stood a thousand years, and a Georgian guildhall on Eastgate Street. Gloucester's venues are handsome and its access rules are specific.
We know Gloucester's venues
The Cross — where Westgate, Northgate, Southgate and Eastgate meet — is a pedestrian zone with timed access, so anything in the historic core needs its loading window booked rather than assumed. Kingsholm has a different problem: it's hemmed in by terraced residents'-parking streets about ten minutes from junction 11 of the M5, so a loading slot gets agreed with the club well before the day. Both are entirely manageable; neither survives improvisation.
Kingsholm carries the bulk of the corporate work with more than twenty spaces, 2 to 350 per room and up to a thousand on site. The cathedral hires event space too, though applications are assessed monthly rather than confirmed on a phone call, which is worth building into your timeline. Hatherley Manor three miles out offers exclusive hire to 250 with its own parking. One to note: Blackfriars Priory's council-run bookings end in May 2026, so we'd confirm a successor operator before listing it.
20+ spaces, 2 to 350 per room, up to 1,000 on site
Ballroom, Bluecoat and Henley rooms, Eastgate Street
Event spaces, applications assessed monthly
Exclusive hire to 250, three miles out
Campus conference and meeting hire
Quedgeley and Barnwood floors take a full build
Rooms we work in around Gloucester and the Severn Vale. Blackfriars Priory's council-run booking arrangement ends in May 2026, so we'd confirm who's operating it before quoting it.
What we bring to Gloucester events
VR Clay Shooting
The Severn Vale's field sport indoors — no licence, no mud, no cancelled Saturday.
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VR Golf
Signature holes from a Premiership rugby suite; the sporting crossover works.
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Virtual Sports Day
Team rounds and a final — Kingsholm's twenty-plus rooms take the whole build.
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Travel
No travel charge applies anywhere across Gloucester and the Severn Vale. Historic-core jobs book a timed access window, and Kingsholm bookings get their loading slot agreed with the club rather than negotiated at the gate.
Booking
Rugby fixtures shape Kingsholm's availability and cathedral applications need a monthly cycle. Everything else here books comfortably on a fortnight.
Good questions, straight answers
What's the timed access at the Cross?
Is Kingsholm easy to load into?
How does cathedral hire work?
Do you cover the Forest of Dean and the Cotswold edge?
What notice period suits best?
Can you work around a Gloucester Rugby fixture?
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Planning a Gloucester event?
Tell us the date and headcount — quotes back within one working day, with Gloucester travel and logistics already priced in.
Prefer to talk it through? Call 07306 803 133 — lines answered weekdays 9am to 6pm.
Get your Gloucester quote
Tell us the date and headcount — quotes back within one working day. Prefer to talk? Call 07306 803 133.