Venue Yorkshire - Yorkshire Tourist Board

• Bradford
• Doncaster
• Harrogate
• Hull
• Leeds
• Rotherham
• Sheffield
• Wakefield
• York
• Barnsley
• Calderdale & Halifax
• Huddersfield

Centrally located in England with excellent road and rail links, the Wakefield District is the ideal location for your meetings, seminar or conference.  The city is prospering and attracting plenty of investment and the city’s conference portfolio is continually increasing and improving, making it an exciting destination for conferences and events.   Wakefield brings together the very best of old and new, urban and rural, add this to a wide choice of hotels, purpose built conference venues, excellent corporate hospitality and team building facilities, makes Wakefield a special conference destination.

Contact Details:
Nicola Lockwood
Conference Leeds
White Rose House
28a York Place
Leeds
LS1 2EZ
Tel:         0113 220 5631
Fax:        0113 220 3834
Email:     info@conference-leeds.com
Web:       www.conference-leeds.com

Wakefield's strengths:

• Unique venues
• 70 % of the district is rolling green belt land - but the city is also dynamic and prospering

New developments:           

• The Hepworth Gallery is due to open early 2010

Largest capacity venues:

• Cedar Court Hotel (upto 400 delegates theatre style)
• Minsthorpe Training Centre (upto 600 delegates theatre style)
• Chasley Hotel Wakefield (upto 250 delegates theatre style)

Something different in Wakefield:

• Snowzone at Xscape, able to accommodate 5 to 500 people.
• Take your guests 140m underground at the National Coal Mining Museum for England
• Waterton Park Hotel - a beautiful Georgian Mansion on an Island, surrounded by a 26 acre lake.

How to get there: