The UK is blessed with sporting venues that cater to a huge variety of corporate meetings and events. Do you consider sporting spaces to be far more than hosts for winning sporting medals and world championship matches?
Our venue finding experts have curated a go-to list to get you off the starting line.
Haydock Park Racecourse
Merseyside’s Haydock Park Racecourse has fantastic facilities for meetings and event planners. It offers executive boxes and luxurious suites that accommodate up to 500 delegates and cater to any event, from corporate away days to conferences.
Are you hosting a gala dinner or employee awards? The venue has multiple banqueting suites with panoramic views across the racecourse, which is perfect for this. It even caters for exhibition-style events, with 1,000 square metres of indoor exhibition space and 13 acres of hard-standing exhibition areas for up to 20,000 people.
Saints Events, Southampton Football Club
Heading south to Saints Events, Southampton Football Club delivers some truly ambitious events. We love this venue for its personal touch that mirrors our own at Bien Venue!
With 15 event spaces and 30 meeting rooms, the venue provides meetings and event planners with real flexibility – catering for up to 500.
It’s another venue that offers great transport links, too. It has complimentary car and coach parking and is accessible from M3 and M27. Moreover, the train station and ferry terminal are just a 20-minute walk away, and Southampton Airport is only a 10-minute drive from the venue.
Southampton FC has a range of flexible packages designed to suit any event objective with unique touches like stadium tours and presentations from ex-Southampton Football Club players that can add that extra flair to any event.
Exeter Racecourse
The Jockey Club’s Exeter Racecourse sits overlooking the beautiful Devon Countryside, just five miles from the end of the southbound M5.
17 flexible areas and meeting rooms can be adapted to your needs and accommodate two to 300 delegates in one location. So, while it’s perfect for a unique Devonshire corporate getaway, it also suits everything from conferences, meetings, seminars, and roadshows to business celebrations, outdoor teambuilding, and events.
An exciting joint venture between Jockey Club Racecourses and its award-winning caterers, Jockey Club Catering, enables the venue to offer locally sourced menus. The caterer can tailor these menus to meet your needs and inspire your corporate guests, from working lunches to fine dining!
It’s also a competitive venue in terms of costs, so it’s really worth speaking to our team about what you need for your next event in the area.
Silverstone
As Silverstone says – it is much more than a motorsport circuit! Your meeting or event will take pole position here, with its state-of-the-art facility and outdoor space designed to provide immersive experiences.
With Silverstone’s 600 acres and 12,500 metres of meeting and events space at the high-tech International Conference and Exhibition Centre, you’ll find a space fitting for your delegates.
Choose from 22 versatile spaces, including five large halls and smaller International Media Centre suites that are perfect for meetings of all shapes and sizes.
And as for events with impact, Silverstone has it all…
Ever considered hosting a corporate festival for employees, clients, suppliers and more? You can take over Silverstone’s race paddock or wander the woodlands. With this much space, you can create multiple festival zones – wellbeing, education, creative, innovation, hydration – inside the large halls or within Silverstone’s unique race garages. Imagine your outdoor music stage, food stalls, live demonstrations, and festival rides! You can even get colleagues driving on track.
As for the food stall options, think street food, bowl food, smoothies and mocktails – the choice is yours with a bespoke menu using locally sourced produce from Northamptonshire’s finest artisan producers.
Silverstone is perfect for team building or employee recognition events, too. The obvious choice for this awe-inspiring venue would be drive experiences. Yet it can host anything from wellness incentives and live chef demonstrations to awards dinners for up to 900 guests. Your guests could make a memorable entrance through Silverstone’s unique glass bridge overlooking the start-finishing line.
Did you know?
Your guests have a choice of accommodation at Silverstone. From the Hilton Garden Inn Hotel to Glamping in the woods, or even its private trackside residences at Escapade. You can read more about Escapade in our blog, 2024 hotel and venue openings.
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
The award-winning Tottenham Hotspur Stadium is the UK’s most technologically advanced Stadium and venue. Home of Tottenham Hotspur, the London NFL, and a diverse range of stunning, unique venue spaces, it offers maximum choice and event flexibility.
From private suites overlooking the pitch to an open-plan seminar auditorium, prepare to impress your delegates with a one-off event that traditional conference spaces can’t match.
The Stadium offers full customisation through a range of inspirational, flexible spaces. Excitingly, it has a network of 1800 digital screens, giving you branding opportunities for any activity.
East Quarter Level Three is the venue’s largest purpose-built event space. It is ideal for large-scale conferences, exhibitions, and dining events and offers stunning views of the Stadium.
A range of cuisines, from authentic street food to Michelin-inspired menus, means the Stadium can flawlessly cater for all tastes and concepts.
Our favourite space is the Stadium’s Beavertown Tap Room. It’s a really unique space, with views over the Beavertown Lab Microbrewery. Here, you can host up to 200 guests for an experiential event, including beer and food testing with the Beavertown master brewer.
Wolverhampton Racecourse & Conference Centre
Wolverhampton Racecourse is a versatile events venue. With easily accessible suites and halls with loading areas, 22 acres and hard-standing grounds, it’s ideal for conferences, exhibitions or product launches.
The spaces vary in infrastructure between gated entrances, turnstiles, sound systems, and digital screens. It is conveniently located just ten minutes from the M54, with 1500 free parking spaces.
With all that green space, plus suites with balconies to bring the outdoors indoors, it really is perfect for corporate events. Its largest suite, The Ringside, holds 600 delegates on the ground floor, making it ideal for exhibitions and conferences. Meanwhile, the Taylex Suite provides Parade Ring views, and the popular first-floor Sunbeam Suite, which works well for smaller conferences or events, has a balcony overlooking the racecourse.
What’s more, the team offers special summertime day delegate packages between April and September. These day delegate rates (DDR) include select food and beverage (F&B) options and FREE race tickets. What’s not to love about that?
Twickenham Stadium
The home of England Rugby is a premier London event venue. With excellent facilities, world-class AV, and a wealth of space, Twickenham Stadium provides large business get-togethers, private dinners, networking receptions, and meetings.
There are 34 dedicated spaces and over 150 executive boxes for small meetings. Many provide attendees and delegates with a view of the famous pitch that inspires England’s national rugby team.
Alongside heaps of space for indoor meetings and events, Twickenham has lots of outdoor spaces for corporate summer parties. Fancy a pitch-side barbecue with team building? Or a rooftop celebration in the British Airways Rose Garden? Us, too!
And if event food is as important to you as it is to us at Bien Venue, we can’t undersell Twickenham’s catering and food experiences. From homemade vegan pastries to delicious banqueting menus and beyond. They really will impress your delegates.
If you’re looking for a venue that prioritises sustainability, Twickenham Stadium is right up there with the best. The organisation has begun 2050 net zero corporate strategy planning and driven a significant reduction in operational energy consumption. For the last eight years, the Stadium has been operating under a “Zero waste to landfill policy”. Any waste unsuitable for recycling is incinerated to provide energy back to the National Grid.
Etihad Stadium
Take your conferences and events to the next level with Etihad Stadium’s stylish suites and facilities.
The venue’s boxes and suites, with their stunning views of the arena, are versatile enough to cater to all types of events and capacities. One of our favourites is the Directors Guest Lounge. It’s ideal for smaller meetings – a stylish and inviting space.
We love the Mancunian on the second floor of the Colin Bell Stand. It has full and spectacular panoramic views of the Etihad pitch.
On the 2nd floor of the East Stand, the 1894 suite has a private reception space, making it perfect for meetings. 1894 is also great for multiple breakout or networking areas to support the other event suites in that area of the venue. Plus, it has a private bar – so it’s ideal for events such as Christmas parties, corporate dinners, and awards evenings.
The stadium has a great location too – accessible by car or tram, with free parking for over 2,500 cars to make life easy for delegates.
Doncaster Racecourse Exhibition & Conference Centre
The Doncaster Racecourse grounds boast a broad choice of conference and event space. From a five-storey grandstand with a purpose-built exhibition Hall of 3,400 square metres to over 40 private meeting suites – host two to 3,000.
Most of the 40 meeting spaces have impressive floor-to-ceiling sliding doors that open out to a balcony. And it’s peaceful, too—with lovely racecourse and countryside views.
Doncaster Racecourse also provides accommodation to a number of your delegates via its on-site 154-bedroom Hilton Garden Inn Hotel.
One of our favourite spaces is The Old Weighing Room restaurant and bar. It has undergone a significant redevelopment, which preserves its 1920s architectural design features.
Wembley, London
Hosting your event at world-famous Wembley Stadium really is iconic.
Picture your grand gala event taking place in The Bobby Moore Room, Wembley’s grandest space. With two levels, it can provide banqueting facilities for up to 1900, cocktails for 3,250, or a conference for 1000.
Imagine seeing your delegates’ faces as they take their seats or drinks in The Great Hall! That high glass wall and stunning panoramic views over Olympic Way will really wow!
The pitch View room is probably our favourite, though—it’s a real ‘wow’ with full-length windows that give you a panoramic view of the iconic Stadium Bowl. A presentation, dinner, or drinks reception here would be an experience you’d never forget.
And Wembley does small, too, with over 160 corporate suites or boxes to choose from – with spectacular views over the famous pitch. Catering is available for 8-20 people, making it the perfect place to impress your VIP clients or colleagues.
Other rooms include The Atrium (1400 square metres), The Pitch View Room (For 50-300 people), The Arc (952 square metres and room for up to 800 guests), The Wembley Suite (616 square metres), and The Three Lions (1409 square metres).
The stadium has recently rebranded its premium hospitality services, now named Experiences by Wembley Stadium (formerly Club Wembley). The rebrand follows a record-setting period of membership sales and renewals over the past three seasons. It aims to enhance the stadium’s hospitality offering, providing top-tier seating and exclusive access to major events.
Celtic Park, Glasgow
This venue is unique, with exceptional staff and state-of-the-art facilities. It provides the perfect platform to create an outstanding event for you and your delegates. It has executive boxes overlooking the pitch, bespoke suites and spacious lounges. So it fits, whether you are hosting a meeting for two or a dinner for 600.
Its largest suite – the Kerrydale Suite – has room for up to 600 and sits in the magnificent Jock Stein Stand. It’s perfect for various large-scale events, from Conferences to gala dinners. Easy access to six sub-lounges on the same floor offers ideal breakout areas for team building, drinks receptions and more.
With room for up to 250, the venue’s Club Celtic Lounges are great for large conferences, seminars, workshops, or standalone smaller meetings. Each has screens and projectors and offers a bright, flexible, creative space.
Other rooms available include The Jock Stein Lounge (with room for up to 80), The Number 7 Restaurant (with room for up to 200) and private boxes (for 2-14 people).
Emirates Stadium, London
The home of Arsenal Football Club blends modern amenities with sporting heritage to give you an exceptional event backdrop.
It has four large meeting and event spaces, all capable of holding up to 1200 guests in a reception-style room layout. These spaces can be customised for various events and offer impressive views of the Stadium’s world-class pitch.
Dial Square offers magnificent pitch views for up to 800 delegates—it sits at the famous clock-end of the Stadium! Royal Oak is an alternative environment to traditional event spaces, adding an intimate experience of the club’s heritage with room for up to 1200 people.
You can also choose from The Woolwich (for up to 1200), The Highbury (for up to 1000 people), The Executive Boxes (for 10-24 people), and many more.
What’s more, it takes your teambuilding to the next level with its pitch event packages. Start your session with light refreshments before kicking off a 90-minute football match in front of your own spectators. End it with your choice of Pitch Party Menus or Diamond Buffet and drinks package options including Arsenal-themed cocktails, beer and wine.
Villa Park, Birmingham
With 114 suites, boxes, and rooms, Villa Park offers meetings and event space all occasions in Birmingham. Bien Venue’s team can tailor its function rooms to suit your plans, too. Picture an evening of business awards and networking, or interactive team training!
The Lower Grounds accommodates up to 700 guests. There’s also a mezzanine level and three additional function rooms, making it a fantastic setting for various events. Dating back to the 19th century and fully restored, the ground-floor suite represents the proud Villa Park heritage. The Lower Grounds also offers its own bar and private entrance, adding to the exclusive feel of this exclusive space.
Situated on the first floor of the Trinity Stand, the 82 Club is a contemporary events space for up to 350 guests. Depending on your needs, it can be split into two areas: the 82 Lounge and 82 Restaurant. This state-of-the-art facility has stunning park views and plenty of screens to display images or branded presentations.
Other rooms available include The Lions Lounge (room for up to 100 people), The Director’s Club (room for up to 180 people), The McGregors (room for up to 160 people) and many others.
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