Looking for a space to hold your training event, away day, meeting, exam or award ceremony? We have a range of event spaces available for hire in Cambridge, Chelmsford and Writtle.
Contact us to find the perfect venue for your meeting
In 2025/26 we hosted 1,725 events across our campuses. We have lots of repeat customers.
Hire a lecture theatre for 400 people or a small meeting room that fits up to 16, with theatres and classrooms of many sizes in between.
A wide range of catering options is available from our in-house catering team.
All of our rooms come with presentation facilities, built-in speakers, HDMI and USB-C cables; lecture theatres have microphones.
Free on-call IT support for set-up during working hours. Technicians can be arranged for evenings and weekends.
You can share a guest login with your delegates.
ARU Venues is part of a network of leading UK venues committed to high standards, best practice and delivering exceptional meeting and event experiences.
In central Cambridge you can hire classrooms, lecture theatres, dedicated conference rooms and specialist creative spaces.
Just ten minutes from the city centre, our venues range from smaller classrooms and executive spaces, to large lecture theatres.
Just two miles from the city of Chelmsford, our beautiful countryside campus is a perfect venue for events from lunch meetings to corporate away days.
For more information about venue hire or catering, or to make a booking, contact the ARU Venues team in Cambridge, Chelmsford and Writtle (quoting your desired campus). We aim to respond within a day.