HODs Community Resource
The festival is just a few months away and an exciting programme with thousands of events and experiences is already taking shape. From historic houses to factory floors, museums to music halls, churches to mandirs, and greenhouses to graveyards, a diverse array of places, spaces and community groups will offer up free events for all this Autumn.
Each year the festival is brought to you by the National Trust, supported by players of People’s Postcode Lottery and delivered by thousands of local organisations and volunteers. It brings over a million people together to celebrate their heritage, community and history.
Hundreds of organisers will embrace this year’s theme, Architecture, with so many stories to tell, celebrating the makers, the menders, the materials and more!
The festival will feature thousands of events and activities such as:
- a chance to step into the miniature world of Pendon Museum in Oxfordshire, showcasing 1930s English rural life
- hands-on demonstrations from Newark Civic Trust showcasing the skills required to maintain and repair historic buildings
- a fully explorable Bridlington in Minecraft from East Riding Archives
- a sea shanty-tinged flash mob at Ipswich’s Heritage Harbour, led by the Orwellermen and the Shefarers of Pin Mill
- a chance to uncover mansions and large country houses lost to time at The City Bookshop in Norfolk
Find out more
- Press gallery - Access further images and contact information
- Case studies - Hear more from local organisers
- Festival Review 2024 - Find out more about what happened last year
- How to get involved - Feeling inspired? Why not join the community?!
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