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ACTIV8 Fun (Peterborough) Limited, which operated the ACTIV8 VR venue, went into creditors’ voluntary liquidation on 22 September 2026. The venue, at Serpentine Green Shopping Centre in Peterborough, England, has closed, the Peterborough Telegraph reported on 24 September.
The company’s shareholders and creditors appointed Dylan Audley Quail as liquidator on 22 September, according to notices in The Gazette. His firm, Money Managers (UK) Ltd, trades as Business Guardian and is based in Chorley, Lancashire.
In a creditors’ voluntary liquidation, shareholders close an insolvent company, and an authorised insolvency practitioner uses the company’s assets to pay creditors, according to GOV.UK.
The venue opened in June 2024 as VRXtra Peterborough, in a Serpentine Green unit that had been a TUI travel agency. The Peterborough Telegraph reported it was the latest VRXtra franchise.
It opened with 20 VR headsets, 13 VR escape rooms and more than 60 games, the Peterborough Telegraph reported. Two free-roam spaces took up to four players each, so at most eight guests could play free-roam at one time.
In November 2024 the venue dropped the VRXtra name and became ACTIV8 VR. We Love Peterborough, a local Instagram and Facebook page, posted the announcement. The post said the venue kept the same games and had added interactive darts.
The Peterborough Telegraph reported that the venue added a climbing wall inside the unit a few months after opening.
ACTIV8 Fun (Peterborough) Limited was incorporated on 2 May 2025, ten months after the venue opened as VRXtra Peterborough, according to Companies House. Its first registered office was the Serpentine Green unit.
A Gazette notice dated 8 September called a meeting of creditors and shareholders for 22 September, to appoint a liquidator. The meeting was held remotely.
For single-site VR operators, ACTIV8 VR ran 20 VR headsets. It added interactive darts by November 2024 and a climbing wall a few months after opening. For VR franchise brands, the venue dropped the VRXtra name in November 2024, five months after opening.
What happened to ACTIV8 VR in Peterborough? The venue at Serpentine Green Shopping Centre closed. Its operator, ACTIV8 Fun (Peterborough) Limited, went into creditors’ voluntary liquidation on 22 September 2026.
What is a creditors’ voluntary liquidation? Shareholders close a company that cannot pay its debts. An authorised insolvency practitioner, the liquidator, takes charge of the winding-up, according to GOV.UK.
Who is the liquidator in the ACTIV8 VR venue liquidation? Dylan Audley Quail of Money Managers (UK) Ltd, which trades as Business Guardian, in Chorley, Lancashire. The company’s shareholders and creditors appointed him on 22 September 2026.
What did the ACTIV8 VR venue in Peterborough offer? It opened in June 2024 as VRXtra Peterborough. It ran 20 headsets, 13 VR escape rooms and more than 60 games. It took the ACTIV8 VR name in November 2024.
