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Westgate Hall is a spacious, flexible community venue for hire in Canterbury, Kent

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Westgate Hall is a distinctive, neutral space in the heart of Canterbury’s city centre. Our bright, airy 360-square-metre venue with adjacent car park is open to everyone.

Flexible, accessible and fully equipped

The Hall can be transformed to suit a variety of large and small events and functions. Choose from a range of event space layouts. Use our professional onsite catering kitchen and licensed bar. Connect with our recommended suppliers and audio-visual specialists. Enjoy free WiFi, and an exceptional, personalised customer service.

All at an affordable price and just 60 minutes from London by high-speed train.

Let’s turn your moment into lasting memories

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Community shapes Westgate Hall

We can shape our venue to become the event function space you need to gather family, friends, colleagues, social groups, clubs, students, festival-goers and performers in one, unique place.

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Photos: Carlos Dominguez Photography

A party event at Westgate Hall showing a stage, colourful lighting and people eating.

Parties, Celebrations and Weddings

Make those special moments memorable at Westgate Hall - Canterbury’s atmospheric community venue for hire. Come together in our large space, right in the heart of the city centre.
A group of lawyers attending a conference, sat at tables listening to to a panel of speakers.

Corporate events and training

Connect with employees, investors, networks and colleagues in an impressive, fully equipped yet affordable and practical venue that can flex for meetings, training, workshops, away-days, conferences and as additional workspace.
People browsing at an arts and crafts Market at Westgate Hall

Markets and Fairs

Bring stallholders and buyers together all under one spacious roof. Use our onsite cafe and break-out room. Whatever the theme, we're ready to help you to showcase your products and maximise sales.
Event venue hire at Westgate Hall - Canterbury Festival

Events and performances

Community shapes Westgate Hall and you can shape our venue to become the event function space you need to gather family, friends, social groups, clubs, students, festival-goers and performers in one, unique place. Let's turn your moment into lasting memories.
Bemix community venue hire at Westgate Hall

Community and Education groups

Westgate Hall is your extracurricular support system. Learn how teachers, educators and professionals can create an extra classroom, rehearsal space, exam hall, graduation and conference venue for students and colleagues in our multi-purpose venue.

Health and wellbeing venue hire at Westgate Hall

Health and Wellbeing

Westgate Hall takes care of your event needs so that you can focus on taking care of our community. Trusted by the NHS for years, civic duty is second nature for us. We can accommodate large-scale health screenings and tests, and provide a safe space for wellbeing markets, fairs and fitness events.
Filming at Westgate Hall. Photo by Carlos Dominguez

Filming and production

Spacious yet intimate, private and flexible, Westgate Hall is an indoor filming venue for hire that provides the perfect setting for your creativity to come alive. Online tutorials, virtual performances, media interviews - whatever you're shooting or editing, we can facilitate your production needs.
Holly Broadley, Oasis Domestic Abuse Service

"We held a full-day conference at Westgate Hall with professionals. From initial enquiries through to the event itself, nothing was too much trouble. The day itself ran so smoothly, all thanks to the work of Clare and her excellent team. I would not hesitate to recommend Westgate Hall."

Amanda McKean, Canterbury Festival

"Hosting live performances during Covid-19 seemed a challenge, until we worked with Westgate Hall. They covered all the minutiae and thought of absolutely everything. The space transformed into the perfect backdrop for our social-distanced events, providing ample space without losing great atmosphere"

Social Enterprise Kent

"Westgate Hall has stepped up to the mark in every way. They helped to solve our Covid-challenges at really good value and made it stress-free and easy for us to connect with staff, and have continued to do so in the years since. It’s such an asset to have this great venue on our doorstep"

Dom, Betteridge & Milsom (B&M)

"We held a brilliant night quiz night fundraiser at Westgate Hall. The team were excellent – we felt very supported. We raised £6,000 for Porchlight, which we are really pleased with! Thank you Westgate Hall for making the night very smooth for us – your knowledge and experience were so valuable."

International Rescue Committee

"Let me thank you for the wonderful hospitality and support you provided for our graduation event yesterday. We had lots of great feedback about you and your colleagues. Everything was perfect. We would love to see you again for our future events.