Functions and events

Welcome to the Royal British Legion National Remembrance Gardens, the nation’s year-round place to remember.


Founded over 25 years ago, from a seed of an idea our grounds have flourished into a stunning and ever-evolving living landscape. Over 25,000 trees stand tall and proud in remembrance of our Armed Forces, Emergency Services and civilian organisations, punctuated with inspiring sculptural memorials rich in symbolism and design. 

This very special place is a remarkable location for your next event offering award-winning event spaces and facilities for 10 – 300 guests for:

  • Services of Remembrance
  • Conferences, meetings and away days
  • Charity balls, award ceremonies and evening receptions
  • Private functions including celebrations of life, anniversaries and birthday parties. 

Our location in the heart of the country, was deliberately chosen to ensure people from across the UK could reunite, reflect and remember. Bringing people together to celebrate lives lived and commemorate lives lost is what we do. 

Our organisers, work with you to create a stress-free event experience with options to personalise it to you

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Armed Forces Memorial from above

Our location

Centrally located in South Staffordshire, the National Remembrance Gardens is the perfect place to bring people together from across the UK and beyond. 

 

  • Just off the A38, with strong motorway links to the M6 (Toll) M42 and M1
  • Less than 60 minutes’ drive to Leicester, Coventry, Nottingham, Uttoxeter and Wolverhampton 
  • Direct rail services from Lichfield Trent Valley to London in as little as 1 hour and 17 minutes and to Manchester in as little as 1 hour and 30 minutes
  • International guests can choose to arrive to Birmingham International Airport (25 miles) or East Midlands Airport (28 miles), with both airports a 32-minute drive away. 

 

Set between Burton-on-Trent and the cathedral city of Lichfield, a wealth of accommodation, attractions and activities in the local area makes Staffordshire an excellent choice for business or pleasure. 

Why us?

Every year, we welcome over 300,000 visitors to the National Remembrance Gardens, a special place that means so much to so many, as a place:

  • where people come to remember those that they have loved and lost
  • where new memories are made with family, friends and comrades
  • where the next generation feels empowered with a knowledge of history, a sense of identity and an understanding of remembrance and why it’s an important human need
  • where nature lives and grows - this former mineral extraction site is a much-loved home to 25,000 trees along with the animals and insects that inhabit them
  • that provides positive mental health benefits, as a space to explore difficult emotions or to shed the constraints of everyday living, and feel better for it.