Following three increasingly succesful editions in Nottingham, Britcon will have a new home in the East Midlands from 2025 onwards - Leicester DeMontfort University's "The Venue@DMU" building on the edge of Leicester City centre.
The Venue@DMU started life as a Spitfire factory (which is actually quite cool really for a historical gaming venue), then served as a sports hall for many years and more recently has been totally refurbished as modern, dedicated event space, which those of you who play of some of the GW rulesets may know as it has already played host to some of the very large "GT" events for those systems.
The hall is a flat floored single space, with full catering & kitchen facilities (of course that includes "a bar"!), allowing us to have everything and everyone together on one level. We also have the option of expanding and accommodating even more gamers into the immediately adjacent QEII Leisure Centre in the coming years
The Venue@DMU started life as a Spitfire factory (which is actually quite cool really for a historical gaming venue), then served as a sports hall for many years and more recently has been totally refurbished as modern, dedicated event space, which those of you who play of some of the GW rulesets may know as it has already played host to some of the very large "GT" events for those systems.
The hall is a flat floored single space, with full catering & kitchen facilities (of course that includes "a bar"!), allowing us to have everything and everyone together on one level. We also have the option of expanding and accommodating even more gamers into the immediately adjacent QEII Leisure Centre in the coming years
Like Nottingham, Leicester is also centrally located in the East Midlands near to the M1 and other major roads - very much "on the edge" of the Lead Belt if not actually in it - and the venue is just a short walk into the heart of Leicester city centre with its nightlife and many restaurants, and also only around 20 minutes walk from the main station.
We've also been able to maintain the other key element of the Britcon experience - discounted 'onsite' accommodation for players, with a deal being lined up even as we speak at the nearby Holiday Inn Express where we will be ablel bto offer "proper" hotel room & breakfast at comparable prices to those at Trent's student halls, including twin and other rooms for those looking to save even more money on accommodation. We are also still looking at other options too, ensuring that just like Nottingham there will be plenty of accommodation choices to suit all budgets close by, as well plenty of new pubs and restaurants to explore for post-gaming socialising too.
For 2025 one unavoidable consequence of us having to find a new venue at relatively short notice is that the dates for Britcon have ended up being a little later in the year than usual, and will see us running over the weekend of 22-23-24 August. From 2026 we will however be back again in our traditional "second weekend in August" slot and we now have a rolling reservation at The Venue@DMU for that same weekend going forward.
We've already been in touch with all of our Umpires and TO's for all of our events, and so far it looks very much like we will be running a full roster of competitions again in Leicester in 2025 on our new dates and at our new venue. We'll be aiming to speak to them in more detail over the next few weeks with the aim of confirming everything so we can get the tickets on sale for you all sometime before Christmas.
So, please do accept our apologies if this change of dates and venue causes you any inconvenience, but as we are sure you will understand Nottingham Trent's decision to no longer accommodate us has come completely out of the blue, and so finding such a great alternative as The Venue@DMU - even if for next year we do need to run a little later in August than usual - is probably a bit of a result all things considered.
We'll be sending out details of the accommodation and other onsite facilities along with ticket info once we have nailed everything down, so do watch out for them sometime before Christmas - and hopefully we will see you at Britcon 2025 in Leicester over the weekend of 22/23/24 August next year - in a former Spitfire factory ...
For 2025 one unavoidable consequence of us having to find a new venue at relatively short notice is that the dates for Britcon have ended up being a little later in the year than usual, and will see us running over the weekend of 22-23-24 August. From 2026 we will however be back again in our traditional "second weekend in August" slot and we now have a rolling reservation at The Venue@DMU for that same weekend going forward.
We've already been in touch with all of our Umpires and TO's for all of our events, and so far it looks very much like we will be running a full roster of competitions again in Leicester in 2025 on our new dates and at our new venue. We'll be aiming to speak to them in more detail over the next few weeks with the aim of confirming everything so we can get the tickets on sale for you all sometime before Christmas.
So, please do accept our apologies if this change of dates and venue causes you any inconvenience, but as we are sure you will understand Nottingham Trent's decision to no longer accommodate us has come completely out of the blue, and so finding such a great alternative as The Venue@DMU - even if for next year we do need to run a little later in August than usual - is probably a bit of a result all things considered.
We'll be sending out details of the accommodation and other onsite facilities along with ticket info once we have nailed everything down, so do watch out for them sometime before Christmas - and hopefully we will see you at Britcon 2025 in Leicester over the weekend of 22/23/24 August next year - in a former Spitfire factory ...
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