A Christmas party people show up to.
No round table, no awkward DJ, no banqueting-hall carpet. Run an escape room, throw an axe, eat together. Alcohol-free venue, so this is the daytime / early-evening party — the bar half happens somewhere else.
Christmas party, redesigned.
Office Christmas at Angle Entertainment is the antidote to the carvery-banquet-and-cheese-plate format that everyone's spent the last decade quietly resenting. Activities (escape rooms, coached axe throwing, the only public indoor bouldering wall in Peterborough, the gaming lounge) plus a pre-ordered festive group food slot from the Angle Grill. Soft drinks at the counter — Angle is an alcohol-free venue by design. Talk to us about a reserved private area for bigger office groups, or an exclusive evening for the company-wide.
December books up early. If you can, get in touch in October to lock in a Friday slot — the prime Friday evenings inside the first three weeks of December are usually gone by mid-November. Mondays through Thursdays in December have more give. We can run the party from late afternoon into the early evening (a typical 3:30pm start gets you through three activities and food by 7pm), or as a half-day daytime party — your call.
Check availabilityWhy Angle works for an office Christmas
The classic problem with an office Christmas party is that the only universally-enjoyed bit is the food, and the only universally-tolerated bit is the venue. Activity-led Christmas parties solve the engagement problem because the team is doing something together rather than sitting in pre-allocated seats trying to make small-talk with the partners of people from a different department. Escape rooms split the office into teams who race; axe brackets give everyone something to laugh about with someone they'd normally only Slack; the bouldering wall is a great equaliser; the gaming lounge gives the introverts a soft landing.
It also solves the post-pandemic Christmas-party problem that quite a few HR managers are still working through: how do you run an office party that includes people who don't drink, people who have safeguarding concerns about drinking around the team, and people whose religion or recovery puts a drinks-led party out of bounds? An alcohol-free activity day with a sit-down food slot includes everyone. Most of our office Christmases roll into a city-centre bar or restaurant for an optional drinks-half afterwards, with full consent and a clean conscience.
Festive group food from the Angle Grill
Christmas group menus from the Angle Grill: a festive group food slot designed to land on the reserved table the moment your last activity wraps. Burgers, loaded fries, sharing platters and seasonal mains. Vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free and dairy-free all handled. Tell us about allergies and dietary requirements at the pre-order stage (a few days before the party) and we'll work them in.
For bigger company-wide bookings the food slots are staggered so the whole group eats together at the end, with the kitchen pacing the orders. Festive cakes welcome — drop yours off in the morning, we'll keep it cool and bring it out at the food slot.
Big office, exclusive use and the event stage
For company-wide Christmas parties (60+) we can offer exclusive or partial-exclusive use of the venue. The lower-floor event stage seats around 40 at table seating with AV, microphones and a screen — useful if you want to bolt an end-of-year awards moment or a speech-from-the-CEO onto the front of the party before the activities kick in. The rest of the venue runs the activity rotation around that.
Talk to us early for company-wide Christmas bookings — these are the ones that need locking in by September if you want a December Friday. Smaller team Christmas socials (one team, 10–20 people) have much more give in November and December and we can usually fit them in on a couple of weeks' notice.
A Peterborough venue with room for the whole office
Angle is at 939 Lincoln Road in Walton, ten minutes from the city centre and ten minutes from Peterborough rail station. Free on-site parking, big enough for the whole party in one car park — no NCP search in the cold, no walking the team from a multi-storey in coats and lanyards. Direct from the A1(M) at Junction 17, which keeps the door-to-door time inside an hour for most of the East Midlands and East Anglia.
Single invoice on request, payable after the event by BACS with PO if your finance team needs one. Generic risk assessment available; site-specific RA on request. Living Wage Foundation accredited.
Built around your group.
Pick a package, add anything you like, and we'll prep the venue ahead of you.
Festive Half
POATwo activities + a festive group food slot. About two and a half hours.
- Two activities (your pick from axe, escape, bouldering, gaming)
- Festive group food slot from the Angle Grill
- Reserved seating
- Single invoice on request
- Allergies and dietary requirements handled at pre-order
Festive Full
POAThree activities + a festive group food slot + lounge time afterwards. Four to five hours.
- Three activities
- Festive group food slot
- Lounge time afterwards
- Reserved private area
- Single invoice + RA on request
Festive Takeover
POABigger group, exclusive or partial-exclusive use, optional event-stage speeches slot.
- Exclusive or partial-exclusive venue
- Custom run-of-show
- Event-stage speeches / awards slot
- Staggered food slots for big groups
- Catering options through the Grill
A typical Friday-afternoon office Christmas.
For a team of 18–28 starting at 3:30pm and out the door for 7pm. Adjust to taste.
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3:15pm
Arrival, coats, coffees at the counter
Free on-site parking. Coats and bags dropped in the reserved area, hot chocolates and coffees from the counter.
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3:30pm
Group brief, split into rotation pods
Lead coach runs the brief and splits the office into two pods. Decorations live on the reserved table.
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3:45pm
Axe-throwing brackets
Pod 1 hits the axe range — coached, scored, WATL-rules bracket with the office leaderboard on the lane screen. Pod 2 takes an escape room.
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4:45pm
Rotate
Pods swap. Same coaches stay with the apparatus, consistency maintained.
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5:45pm
Re-group + pre-ordered festive food
Reserved seating, festive group food from the Grill lands. Group photo from the axe range printed and on the table.
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6:30pm
Gaming lounge / wind-down
Free lounge access — board games, Xbox stations. Soft drinks at the counter, soft landing into the evening.
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7:00pm
Out the door
Roll into a city-centre bar or restaurant for the drinks half if that's the plan.
What works best.
From experience: these are the activities that consistently land for this kind of group.
Escape Rooms
Splits the office into teams who race. The Candy Shop, the Vault and Blade of the Father are popular Christmas-party picks.
Axe Throwing
Coached, scored, WATL rules. Photogenic, low effort, very high satisfaction. £15pp Mon–Thu, £20pp Fri–Sun.
Festive Group Food
Pre-ordered festive group food slot from the Angle Grill. Vegan, veggie, GF, DF all handled.
Alcohol-free venue
Soft drinks counter, hot chocolate, coffee, milkshakes. Roll into a city-centre bar for the drinks half if you want one.
Bouldering
Peterborough's only public indoor bouldering wall. Useful as a rotation break — and a real equaliser.
Event-stage speeches slot
Optional — useful for an end-of-year awards moment or CEO speech before the activities kick in.
A Christmas-party venue actually inside Peterborough.
Lincoln Road, ten minutes from the city centre. Free parking, direct from the A1(M), train-accessible.
939 Lincoln Road, PE4 6AF
In Walton, ten minutes from the city centre and from Peterborough station. Direct trains from London Kings Cross, Cambridge, Leicester, Nottingham, Stamford and Grantham.
Free on-site parking
Off Lincoln Road, big enough for the whole office in one car park. No NCP search in December darkness.
Inside, warm, and lit
Whatever the December weather does, the activities run. Heated venue, fairy-lit event stage, soft drinks counter, hot food.
Single invoice + RA
Single invoice on request, BACS payable after the event, with PO. Risk assessment shared in advance.