Conference and Meeting venues in Sunderland

This rapidly improving city however benefits from being a modern centre with stunning coastal scenery and accessible countryside, both ideal for teambuilding events and corporate activities, and a selection of comparable venues for meetings, conferences and events.

Sunderland is easy to reach being close to both the A1 an A19, via good rail links including direct services from London, and via flights into Newcastle Airport for international delegates.

The Stadium of Lightboasts some of the finest conference and banqueting facilities of the North East. Home to Sunderland AFC, this sporting venue offers a range of superb meeting spaces and conference suites with capacity for up to 600 delegates and provides a memorable backdrop to any conference, training event or wedding. The Quayside Exchangeis a historic Grade II listed building overlooking the waterfront offering a variety of multi-purpose conference rooms with capacity for up to 300delegates, ideal for meetings, training and teambuilding events, exhibitions orweddings. The Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardensoffer exhibition space and a modern function suite for meetings and training events whilst the Sunderland Empiretheatre also offers purpose-built stylish and modern conference spaces with capacity for up to 1,868 delegates. Academic venues include the University of Sunderlandwhich provides numerous fully equipped, versatile meeting rooms and conference suites catering for up to 440 delegates. Sunderland hotels also offer excellent conference facilities. For example the Sunderland Marriott Hotelhas 6 meeting rooms, the largest providing 264sqm of exhibition space, accommodating up to 300 delegates, whilst the Best Western Roker Hoteloverlooks the North Sea from an enviable vantage point and offers 3 conference spaces including the ballroom which hosts 350 delegates.