VR Hire Peterborough
A 1,700-seat auditorium, a medieval cathedral precinct with its own conference centre, and hotel meeting space for 450. Peterborough lost its biggest exhibition venue in 2023 and the rest of the city has quietly picked up the slack.
We know Peterborough's venues
The city is ringed by 50mph parkways — Nene, Fletton, Frank Perkins — and getting anywhere means choosing the right parkway junction rather than trusting a postcode. Bridge Street in the centre is bus-only, so a van heading for the cathedral quarter needs the approach planned rather than improvised. It's a fast, modern road network that punishes hesitation and rewards knowing which exit you want before you commit to it.
One important gap to know about: the East of England Arena, long the city's biggest exhibition venue, closed in July 2023, surrendered its events licence, and its redevelopment was refused planning in late 2025. It is not bookable, whatever older listings suggest. What's left is genuinely good — KingsGate's 1,700-seat auditorium with three suites and seven meeting rooms, the Weston Homes Stadium, and Orton Hall's parkland setting for something smaller.
1,700-seat auditorium, three suites, seven rooms
Peterborough United, Executive Suite to 180
14 rooms, Buckingham Suite to 450
Ten meeting spaces in a parkland setting
Cathedral precinct, up to around 70
Lynch Wood and Hampton floors take a full build
Rooms we work in around Peterborough and the Fens. The East of England Arena closed in 2023 and is not bookable despite still appearing in plenty of directories — worth knowing before you plan around it. KingsGate now carries the large end of this market on its own — a seventeen-hundred-seat auditorium plus three suites and seven smaller rooms, all on one site with parking.
What we bring to Peterborough events
VR Clay Shooting
Fenland's field pursuit under cover, and local estates ask for it first.
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VR Racing
Live lap times, and a leaderboard that runs an evening without any help.
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Virtual Sports Day
Team rounds and a final; KingsGate's auditorium gives the finals a proper audience.
Explore Virtual Sports Day →Team building, Christmas parties and celebrations in Peterborough
Team building in Peterborough
Insurance, engineering and distribution employers cluster here, and the city's newer office stock has the access we want. Being on the East Coast line brings a lot of split-site teams together.
Team building →Christmas parties in Peterborough
December runs through the city hotels and the cathedral-adjacent venues, and availability holds later than Cambridge an hour south. That difference is the whole argument for booking here.
Christmas parties →Birthdays & parties in Peterborough
Estate housing across Werrington and Orton is straightforward for us, and the city's community halls take a large group cheaply.
Birthdays & parties →The practical bit
Travel
Getting to you anywhere in Peterborough or the immediate Fens costs nothing extra. Jobs are routed by parkway junction, and cathedral-quarter deliveries avoid bus-only Bridge Street entirely.
Booking
Losing the arena tightened the market for large events, so anything sizeable wants six weeks or more. Smaller bookings remain comfortable on a fortnight.
Good questions, straight answers
Can we use the East of England Arena?
What are the parkways and why do they matter?
How big can an event get now?
Do you cover the Fens and south Lincolnshire?
How much warning do you want?
Is Orton Hall a good fit for a smaller group?
We also cover
Planning a Peterborough event?
Tell us the date and headcount — quotes back within one working day, with Peterborough travel and logistics already priced in.
Prefer to talk it through? Call 020 3411 1264 — lines answered seven days a week.
What's the occasion?
Tap one to start — no account, no obligation.