VR Hire Telford
Fifteen thousand square metres of exhibition halls, a 1,450-seat auditorium, and a Victorian town you can hire whole down in the gorge. Telford has more usable event space than most cities twice its size.
We know Telford's venues
This is a 1960s new town and it behaves like one. There is no conventional high street — just grade-separated dual carriageways linking numbered roundabouts — which means a postcode routinely deposits a driver on the wrong side of a carriageway with no U-turn available for the best part of a mile. Knowing which roundabout serves which entrance is the entire skill here, and it is not something a satnav has ever managed reliably.
The International Centre anchors everything, and its surroundings are currently a building site: a £250m Convention Quarter scheme is adding a hotel, a lake and new public realm, so access routes shift as the phases progress. We confirm the current arrangement before each job rather than relying on last time. Down in the gorge, Blists Hill Victorian Town offers something no conference centre can match, though the approach roads are steep, narrow and have a history of landslip closures.
15,000m², three halls, 1,450-seat auditorium
Eight conference rooms, largest 350
AFC Telford, West Stand, 17 spaces
Oakengates, minutes from the M54
Ironbridge Gorge, gala dinners and corporate days
Halesfield and Stafford Park units fit us
Rooms we work in around Telford and Shropshire. The football ground has traded as the SEAH Stadium since 2022 — anything still calling it New Bucks Head is out of date. One practical note on the 1,450-seat auditorium: raked, fixed seating is the single Telford space that cannot take a station, so an auditorium booking normally pairs with a flat foyer or breakout hall for the play area itself.
What we bring to Telford events
VR Drone Racing
FPV speed runs for the birthplace of industrial engineering; the fit is almost too neat.
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VR Racing
Wheel, pedals and live timing — the exhibition-stand crowd-stopper.
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Virtual Sports Day
Group stages and a final; these halls could hold three tournaments at once.
Explore Virtual Sports Day →Team building, Christmas parties and celebrations in Telford
Team building in Telford
A new town built around industry means business parks with wide doors and space to park — quick for us, easy for you. The international centre brings larger corporate bookings through the year.
Team building →Christmas parties in Telford
December leans on the international centre and the hotels beside it, and because that capacity is large, Telford stays bookable when Shrewsbury and Birmingham have not.
Christmas parties →Birthdays & parties in Telford
Modern estate housing gives predictable rooms, and the town's community centres take a substantial party without stretching a family budget.
Birthdays & parties →The practical bit
Travel
No travel charge across Telford and the immediate Shropshire ring. Every job is routed by roundabout number and building entrance, because in a new town that is genuinely the only reliable way to arrive at the right door.
Booking
The exhibition calendar drives this diary rather than the party season. Show weeks fill hotels and dock slots months ahead; outside them, Telford is usually comfortable on a fortnight. Theatre bookings over at Oakengates work to the venue's own programme, so those want naming earlier than the hotels do.
Good questions, straight answers
Why is a new town harder to navigate than an old one?
Is the International Centre still fully accessible during the redevelopment?
Can you run an event at Blists Hill or in the gorge?
How big can a Telford event get?
Do you cover the rest of Shropshire?
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Planning a Telford event?
Tell us the date and headcount — quotes back within one working day, with Telford 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?
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