VR Hire Worcester
A cathedral with an Undercroft you can dine in, a racecourse on the riverbank with sixty-plus suites, and a rugby ground straight off the M5. Worcester's event rooms are unusually good and unusually close together.
We know Worcester's venues
The Severn is the thing to understand. Only two road bridges cross it in the city, so anything on the far bank at the wrong moment adds real time — and the river floods with some regularity. Pitchcroft, where the racecourse sits, is on the floodplain and its car park goes under most winters. That doesn't stop events there; it just means a winter booking gets a conversation about contingency rather than a shrug.
The rest is refreshingly straightforward. Sixways sits right by junction 6 of the M5 with room for 500 and parking to match, the University Arena offers a 1,300-seat hall and a riverside conference suite, and Bank House out at Bransford gives you a country hotel with capacity for 400. The cathedral's Undercroft seats a smaller group in a genuinely extraordinary room. Worth noting Sixways changed hands after the 2022 administration and has been trading normally for events since.
M5 J6, spaces for up to 500
Pitchcroft riverside, 60+ suites, free parking
Nave hire plus the Undercroft, 95 seated
1,300-seat hall and riverside suite
Bransford country hotel, capacity to 400
Blackpole and Shrub Hill floors fit us
Rooms we work in around Worcester and the county. The riverside venues are the loveliest and the most weather-dependent — worth factoring in if your date is a winter one.
What we bring to Worcester events
Worcestershire's field-sport staple, indoors and immune to a flooded field.
Explore VR Clay Shooting →Signature holes from a racecourse suite with the Severn out of the window.
Explore VR Golf →Team rounds and a final — Sixways has the floor and the parking for the full build.
Explore Virtual Sports Day →The practical bit
Travel
Travel within Worcester and the surrounding county is included in every quote. Winter riverside bookings get a flood contingency agreed at quote stage, because the Severn has a long history of making that decision for everybody.
Booking
Race meetings and December tighten things; the rest of the year is open. Summer riverside dates are the ones worth booking early, for obvious reasons.
Good questions, straight answers
Does flooding actually affect events here?
What's the simplest space to set up in?
Can you run something inside the cathedral?
Do you cover Malvern, Evesham and the wider county?
What lead time suits best?
Is the University Arena a practical venue?
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Planning a Worcester event?
Tell us the date and headcount — quotes back within one working day, with Worcester travel and logistics already priced in.
Prefer to talk it through? Call 07306 803 133 — lines answered weekdays 9am to 6pm.
Get your Worcester quote
Tell us the date and headcount — quotes back within one working day. Prefer to talk? Call 07306 803 133.



