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Willen On Ice at dusk: the rink marquee, observation wheel and lakeside fairground

Real ice rinks for your venue

We take on the work, and much of the risk. Real-ice rinks designed, built and run for shopping centres, town centres and parks, bringing tens of thousands of extra visitors a season.

A rink at your venue

Turnkey and fully staffed. You provide the space, power and water; we handle build, staff, ticketing, marketing and derig.

Kit and software for your rink

WM Technics resurfacers (we are a UK distributor), rental skates, skating aids and cooling. Plus RinkTix, the platform we run our own rinks on.

skaters a season at our larger venues
100k+
online views of content from our rinks
10M+
Willen On Ice doubled in size, 400 to 800 m²
2×
Christmas rinks in Europe (The Guardian)
Top 10
A young skater laughing under falling snow at Willen On Ice

Willen On Ice, Milton Keynes

A lakeside rink under a decorated marquee that doubled in size for its second season and reached over 10 million people online.

“This year we’ve gone bigger, brighter, and even more festive.”

Rob Wood, Executive Director, Willen Lake
ice pad
800 m²
views
10M+
seasons
3
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Trusted by

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Victoria Place logo
Willow Place logo
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Why venues choose us

Designed and built in the UK

Our rink equipment is made here, not imported and subcontracted. Odd shapes and tight access get an engineered answer, and spares are never weeks away.

Run by us, start to finish

Staff, coaching, ticketing, marketing, food and drink, health and safety, derig. Your team gets a centrepiece, not a project.

Numbers you can see

Our own booking platform gives you live visitor and revenue figures all season, not a spreadsheet in February.

Racks of rental skates at Willen On Ice

Run by people who skate

Robert Cook has skated since he was eight. He worked at temporary and permanent rinks before founding Ice Leisure Group in 2013, after board and technology roles in financial services, healthcare and insurance. Denisa Cook ran a multi-facility leisure centre near Bristol (gym, pool and spa) before joining as Operations Director. She runs every rink day to day: staffing, operations and health and safety. When you call us, you speak to one of them.
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Robert and Denisa Cook

Founder and Director · Operations Director

Skaters on the ice under purple lighting

Most sites are booked by summer

Planning next winter? Tell us about your space. We’ll come back within two working days with what would fit and how the numbers could work.

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