Organiser Information & Guidelines
These pages provide Heritage Open Days participants with nearly everything they need to get started: information on entry criteria and registration, newsletters, facts and figures, all components of the registration pack, a marketing tool kit, comments from fellow organisers and the full Heritage Open Days workshop programme.
And if you need some tips and ideas to make your local event a great success, have a look at our education and learning pages and download our Organiser's Handbook.
Participation
Anybody can participate and register a property with Heritage Open Days, provided that they own or manage the property. If you are a Civic Society, Preservation Trust, Local Authority or other organisation and wish to open properties in your locality which you do not own or manage, please approach the owners of the respective properties and ask for their consent before registering the property with Heritage Open Days.
But Heritage Open Days is not just about opening buildings. You can also organise guided tours and all kinds activities to bring local history and culture to life.
In addition, you have to fulfil the following entry criteria:
Entry Criteria
- Properties included in Heritage Open Days should be of architectural, cultural or historic interest.
- All openings must take place on either Thursday 11th, Friday 12th, Saturday 13th, or Sunday 14th September 2008. (Organisers can choose the days they wish to open properties/organise events. You do not need to participate on all days.) (Please note that HODs does not include the Monday anymore.)
- Admission to properties and participation in activities must be free during the chosen Heritage Open Days opening period.
- Properties that do normally open free of charge should either open an additional part of the property or arrange a special activity.
- Visitors must be offered some explanation or interpretation of the history/architectural merit/function of the property.
All of the elements of the registration pack are available on our 'Registration Essentials' page
Newsletter
Provisional Interest
If you are interested in participating in Heritage Open Days 2008, please contact us via hods[at}civictrust.org.uk*.
*As we receive a huge amount of spam mail, we decided not to have direct email links from our website. Should you wish to send us an email, please replace the brackets with @.
