The UK's Premier Mobile Arcade and Virtual Reality Experience company Themed events?? WE LOVE THEMED EVENTS!!
The UK's Premier Mobile Arcade and Virtual Reality Experience company, offering customers such as shopping centres, shopping malls, colleges and universities unforgettable gaming experiences for their customers. Arcade Pop Up create an experience like no other, combining retro gaming with state of the art technology. Whether your objectives are increasing dwell time, reducing anti-social behaviour
or simply entertaining prospective customers, Arcade Pop Up are the service for you. Customers can enjoy;
Retro Arcade Machines
4th Gen Gaming
Gaming Competitions
Virtual Reality Experiences
**All to suit most budgets!**
Short on space? Our staff are experts in their field and can help you make the most of the space you have and ensure customer health & safety at the same time as delivering a fun unforgettable event! Whether it's Star Wars, video games, sporting events such as the FIFA World Cup ETC
Check out our list of events on our events page.
21/05/2025
Check out the list of upcoming events in Oldham throughout 2025. It's truly amazing what our partners Spindles Town Square Shopping Centre do for their events..
Mark your calendars!!
📍Spindles Town Square Shopping Centre
Saturday 14th of June 12noon - 4pm
📍Spindles Town Square
Saturday 5th of July 12noon - 4pm
📍Spindles Town Square Shopping Centre
Tuesday 5th of August 12noon - 4pm
📍Spindles Town Square Shopping Centre
Tuesday 12th of August 12noon - 4pm
📍Spindles Town Square Shopping Centre
Tuesday 19th of August 12noon - 4pm
📍Spindles Town Square Shopping Centre
Saturday 27th of September 12noon - 4pm
📍Oldham Spindles Halloween Event
Saturday 25th October 12noon - 4pm
All of the events we host are family friendly and great for all ages, from 3+ right up to teenagers with our broad range of attractions!!
17/05/2025
What a couple of weeks we've had, entertaining students at in with our range of attractions including and
Then over to our our friends at entertaining shoppers with our range of , and large touch screens
And guess what??
All the players didn't pay a penny, it was all completely free to play!
Want to learn more about our services and range of attractions? Check out our website www.arcadepopup.com.
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18/04/2025
What an week we've had!
2 days of fun with at followed by the with
Shoppers have enjoyed Easter themed Virtual Reality Experiences, and many more amazing attractions!
02/04/2025
Networking, Networking.. NETWORKING!!
Shamelessly promoting Arcade Pop Up amongst the members of BNI Oldham, BNI Saddleworth and the businesses in & surrounding areas.
Talking to the members about our list of attractions;
Retro Arcades
Gaming Stations
Large Interactive Touch Screens
Virtual Reality Experiences
Virtual Reality Simulators
We're wanting to talk to more for & or for
Arcade Pop Up
We bring the fun!!
Thanks to Brian from Evo Smart Ltd and Phil from Ever After Flooring for allowing us to stand in for your quality businesses!
22/02/2025
Today at Illuminate Oldham festival at Spindles Town Square Shopping Centre we were entertaining everyone.. even bears!
We showcased our new arrival our arcade machine which was a certain hit!
And guess what, thanks to it was all free to play for shoppers!
Thanks to everyone for coming out.. because we bring the fun!
16/02/2025
WE'RE BACK!!
Back with the wonderful team from Spindles Town Square Shopping Centre on Saturday 22nd of February to celebrate Illuminate Oldham from 1pm til 5pm, providing our;
📍 Retro Arcades
📍 Gaming Stations
📍 Large Interactive Touch Screens
📍 Virtual Reality Experiences
AND we will be unveiling a new attraction this week, I wonder what it could be?? 🚛🚛🚛
As always, the event will be and to members.
See you there, and remember..
WE BRING THE FUN
16/02/2025
WE'RE BACK!!
Back with the wonderful team from Spindles Town Square Shopping Centre on Saturday 22nd of February to celebrate Illuminate Oldham from 1pm til 5pm, providing our;
📍 Retro Arcades
📍 Gaming Stations
📍 Large Interactive Touch Screens
📍 Virtual Reality Experiences
AND we will be unveiling a new attraction this week, I wonder what it could be?? 🚛🚛🚛
As always, the event will be and to members.
See you there, and remember..
WE BRING THE FUN!!
Join us on Saturday 22nd February for our first Kids Club of 2025!
All your favourite activities are back:-
📆 Saturday 22nd February
⏰ 1-5pm
📍 Face Painting outside the Perfume Shop
📍 Crafts near Subway
📍 Retro Arcade Games opposite River Island
After Kids Club don't forget to watch the amazing Illuminate parade that starts at 6pm - pick up a leaflet to see the full event list for the evening!
Arcade Pop Up Mascot Mark - Promotional Mascot & Character Costumes For Hire.
29/01/2025
Huge week of this week already!
Visiting the members of;
BNI Saddleworth on Tuesday
BNI Oldham Renaissance today
Hearing about the variety of businesses in attendance.
Promoting to the members our amazing services
Arcade Pop Up we bring the fun!
05/01/2025
Ahh.. the good old days 📼🕹
30/11/2024
Series is now in development (2025)
Apparently featuring
is Developing a Live-Action Legend of Zelda Series
YES|NO??
18/11/2024
Check out the photos from Saturday's light switch on event at Spindles Town Square Shopping Centre .
More fun planned this coming Saturday from 12-4pm, come find us at Unit 1 opposite River Island
17/11/2024
🌟Thank you so much to those that came out for the Light Switch On Event at Spindles Town Square Shopping Centre. First of many of the going on in the build up to Christmas day!🎄🎅❄️🌟
Shoppers enjoyed some Festive VR Experiences including;
VR Snowball Challenge ☃️
VR Santa's Sleighride 🛷
And many more! ❄️🎅🎄
And guess what?? Same again next Saturday, from 12-4pm at Unit 1, opposite River Island 🎅❄️☃️!
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Our Story
Esports Events UK have been established since June 2018, originally SLBC Events LTD. but rebranded in September 2019. The story of our business begins long before this, in the front room of the founder, Bernie Coughlin,’s home... many years ago.
Bernie and his mates were massive fans of the earlier titles of the EA FIFA series, and regularly got together to compete against each other on a 1 on 1 basis, when someone suggested “We should have a tournament! and a trophy!”. Bernie made this happen, got a trophy made and the first of the FIFA Tournaments took place between 8 friends.
Those 8 friends soon became 10, then 12, until the front room of Bernie’s modest, humble home was no longer big enough to cater for the number of players... nor the mess they left behind! He then had a conversation with a local bar “Venue” in Colne Lancashire, and held their first competition on neutral ground, using their large projector screen! For BIG SCREEN FIFA!
The bar loved it... not only were the players drinking whilst competing for the FIFA Champion’s Trophy, their punters were stopping to watch the games unfold and were enjoying the experience as much as the players! Cheering their goals, celebrating their wins and consoling their losses!
A business was born...
Bernie then teamed up with Stephen Littler, another fan of the game to set up and run becoming Co-Directors of SLBC Events LTD, the business specialised in running EA Licensed FIFA Tournaments, making sure the events fell within the EA Community Guidelines and therefore licensed by the game developer. Facilitating competitions for their customers and making sure that they were doing so in the correct manner and not infringing the game’s intellectual property.
Steve and Bernie agreed to part ways in 2019, and Bernie continued the business as the sole Director re branding the business to Esports Events UK, a trading style of Esports Events (NW) LTD. The business has grown from strength to strength, dealing with customers like Rochdale AFC, Hyde United, Chorley FC and Barnsley FC. And now more recently, diversifying to offer Retro Arcade and VR Experiences!
The plan for the business is to continue the trajectory of growth, working with more bars, grass roots football clubs and charities to further refine the proposition. We also have plans to further diversify into other sports, such as Ice Hockey and Basketball.
The business will soon be seeking investors, so if you want to get involved and help us grow, feel free to get in touch for investor opportunities!!
