Now just 5 days to go until the Fun Palaces Weekend 3-5 Oct 2025!!! It’s so wonderful seeing all the Fun Palaces popping up across the UK! But it’s not too late to create a Fun Palace in your local area - why not make a Tiny Fun Palace? 🔗 funpalaces.co.uk 📸 Roswitha Chesher

Creative Voices, Activist Voices in Blackburn! ❤️ 📍 The Bureau Centre, Blackburn | 16 Sept–5 Oct | FREE Discover how creativity fuels social change through stories & objects from UK communities. ✊ Join us Sat 4 Oct, 1-4pm for placard-making. Come create & share your call for justice!

1 week to go until Fun Palaces Weekend 3-5 October 2025 🎉🎪 There’s still time to get involved! 📍 Stick your pin on the map 👫 Connect with people near you ✨ Make a Tiny Fun Palace! Explore the Fun Palaces Makers Toolkit and join a movement of connection, creativity & culture. ❤️ 📸 Roswitha Chesher

The pre-weekend party is around the corner, but you’ve still got time to join in! 👇🏽 🎉 ❤️ 🗓️ Tues 30 Sept | 🕐 1:00 - 1:35 PM | 💻 On Zoom

🎉 #FunPalaces are popping up across #Cornwall! 🎨 Big Door, Bright Ideas: Help reimagine their door with colour and #creativity 🎶 Organised Atoms: Turn minerals into music 🖍️ Community Colouring For All: Add to a giant sheet This is what Fun Palaces are all about: local people coming together ❤️

If you're in #Sydenham, you have a wonderful #FunPalace at Sydenham Centre on Saturday 4th October! 👇🏽

10 days until the #FunPalaces Weekend 3 - 5 October 2025!! 🎉 All you need is a time and a place where you can share what you love with your local community - along with thousands of others across the UK. ❤️ Put your Fun Palace on the map now: funpalaces.co.uk/create Photo credit: Helen Murray

Did you know one of the original sites for Joan & Cedric’s 1960s Fun Palace was on the Isle of Dogs? 🎪 This year, Trapped in Zone One, brings a Fun Palace nearby!! Join their Alpona workshop, celebrating a traditional Bangladeshi art form. They have patterns to guide you, and space to create.

✨ Tiny is mighty! ✨ Thinking about making a #FunPalace but not sure where to start - or wondering if it's too late? Spoiler: it's not! 💡 Get inspired and find out how easy it is to get involved in the latest blog:
 funpalaces.co.uk/tiny-is-migh... ❤️ Make a Fun Palace: funpalaces.co.uk/create

In just 2 weeks, the #FunPalaces Weekend 3-5 October 2025 will be here! 🎉 Join our movement. Create your own Fun Palace and connect with people in your area. 💻 Make a Fun Palace - it's not too late: funpalaces.co.uk/create 📸 Renoir Saulter at Manor Park Library Fun Palace with Iroko Theatre

Fun Palaces are all about community, arts, sciences, and play - and Worksop Library Fun Palace is bringing all that and more on Saturday 4th October 2025, from 10am to 3pm! 🧪🎨 🔗 Find out more: funpalaces.co.uk/fun-palace/w... 📍 Put your Fun Palace on the map: funpalaces.co.uk/create/

🎉 Let’s kick off Fun Palaces weekend 2025 early... Join our Kick-Off Party: 🗓️ Tues 30 Sept | 🕐 1-1:35 PM | 💻 Zoom If your Fun Palace is on the map, this celebration is for you! 💫 🎟️ www.tickettailor.com/events/funpa... 🗺️ Still planning your Fun Palace?
 Add it to the map: funpalaces.co.uk/create

🎉 Creative Voices, Activist Voices is now at The Bureau, Blackburn! 📍 5 Exchange St, BB1 7JN 📅 16 Sept – 5 Oct 🎟️ Free Entry Discover how culture creates change, through stories, photos & objects from Fun Palaces Makers across the UK: funpalaces.co.uk/about-fun-pa... 📸 Roswitha Chesher

It is (just under) 3 Weeks to go until the Fun Palaces Weekend! How’s it going? Who’s excited? Fun Palaces have been popping up on the map over the weekend. Is yours on there yet? If you’d like to create some positive ripples in your community this October, it’s by no means too late to join in!

If you're in #Swansea, you have a fabulous #FunPalace at Oxfam Castle Street on the 4th October. (And they have some other great stuff happening for #FairtradeFortnight - check it out!)

Newham Libraries Fun Palaces are back! 🎉 From eco crafts to henna, macramé, chess & stories, all libraries across Newham will be buzzing with creativity. Join the fun 3–5 Oct - create, connect, celebrate! 📍 Put your Fun Palace on the map & find your nearest one: funpalaces.co.uk

“It’s the moment where we (collectively) shout from the rooftops that arts, sciences and culture belong to us all, and can look how we want them to” 💡 Learn why Fun Palaces matter in our recent blog: funpalaces.co.uk/one-month-to... ❤️ Join in on the weekend: funpalaces.co.uk/create/

🎉 Fun Palaces are free local celebrations of arts, science & community. Anyone can make one! Share skills, connect, and have fun in a park, library, your front room or street. No experience needed. 🔗 Sign up: funpalaces.co.uk/create/ 💡 More info: funpalaces.co.uk/about-fun-pa...

There's one month to go until the Fun Palaces weekend 🎉 From 3 - 5 October (or whenever works for you), turn any space into a Fun Palace! 📮 Register and receive a free pack of promotional materials: funpalaces.co.uk/create/ 🔗 Discover how you can join in: funpalaces.co.uk/one-month-to...

Two amazing Welsh Fun Palaces are coming up during the Fun Palaces 2025 October weekend - and you’re invited! 1. Fairtrade Fun Palace: Learn about Fairtrade through creativity 2. Cwm Garw Fun Palace: Loads of fun for all ages 📍 Put your Fun Palace on the map: funpalaces.co.uk/create/

There’s still time to sign up for tomorrow's workshop! Learn how you can create a Fun Palace this October, put your community on the Fun Palaces map, and celebrate community-led culture - it's never too late to get involved… 🗓 Thursday 4 September 🕙 1pm 📍 Online 👇 Free ticket below

Join Fun Palaces in attending The Fate of Britain Convention! We can - and will - collectively make a better way to live. 🗓 11/09 🕙 10am - 3:30pm 📍 Conway Hall, London Alex Lockwood from Absurd Intelligence writes about the convention in our latest blog! 🔗 funpalaces.co.uk/convention-o...

Looking through the archives, we came across this article written in 2017 from Lancaster Fun Palace Maker, Aliki Chapple - it still resonates now: funpalaces.co.uk/15936-2/ ❤️ "One way to fight hate is #FunPalaces...Local, grassroots, for, by, and about everyone. Radically inclusive. Neighbourly."

Fun Palaces can happen anytime - not just the Oct 3-5 weekend! 🚀 📣 Grange Big Local’s final Fun Palace is on 6 Sept: funpalaces.co.uk/fun-palace/g... After 10 years in East Finchley, they’re celebrating closing with one last Fun Palace ❤️ 📍 Make your own: funpalaces.co.uk/create/

🎉 A bold first for UK galleries and museums! The National Gallery is handing real decision-making power to a lottery-selected Citizens’ Assembly, giving everyday people a say in shaping its future. 🗳️👥 Democracy meets culture like never before: www.nationalgallery.org.uk/about-us/pre...

✨ Our latest blog is a Maker’s Story from Cristina’s Craft Club at Swinton Library! Cristina reminds us: You don’t need to be an expert to share your passion - 'you just have to be open to learning and growing together.' ❤️ 👉🏽 Read the full story: funpalaces.co.uk/news/maker-s...

Join our last free workshop of the year! Learn how you can create a Fun Palace this October, put your community on the Fun Palaces map, and celebrate community-led culture. It's never too late to get involved! 🗓 Thursday 4 September 🕙 1 - 1:35pm 📍 Online 🎟️ buytickets.at/funpalaces/1...

One Year On: How is the Arts Sector Really Doing? Campaign for the Arts revisited five key metrics to assess how engagement, education, provision, funding, and employment in the arts have shifted over the past year. 🔗 See where the arts stand now: www.campaignforthearts.org/the-state-of...

Fun Palaces Shout Out: "Let’s Do Art" Fun Palace in Redcliffe, Bristol 🎨 ❤️ Let’s Do Art is a chance for people to come together, reflect on our roles in the community, and take time to recharge. 🔗 Want to take part? Head to our website, or start one of your own: funpalaces.co.uk/create/

📣 Calling all Makers and organisers: join Fun Palaces in attending The Fate of Britain Convention! 🗓 11 Sept 🕙 10 - 3:30 📍 Conway Hall, London A day for people to connect, reflect & act on how we can collectively and collaboratively make a better way to live 🎟 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-fate-o...

Planning a Fun Palace? Check out our free toolkits on: ❤️ Accessibility ❤️ Publicity ❤️ Health & safety ❤️ Digital tools ❤️ Engaging young people ❤️ Sustainability …and more! Our website is packed with resources to help you create community-led events: funpalaces.co.uk/makers-toolkit/resources

Fun Palaces Shout Out: Australia 🎉 ❤️ Cairns Libraries Fun Palace returns, taking place on the Fun Palaces Weekend 2025 this year ❤️ Plus Fraser Coast Libraries Fun Palace is happening on Friday 26th September! Think, Play, Create & Connect, with fun for all ages 🔗 funpalaces.co.uk/find-a-fun-p...

A landmark Community Right to Buy is here! But we need bolder action to make it work for everyone. And new neighbourhood-level decision-making which is genuinely hyper-local. 📢 Community groups: sign @right-here.org's open letter: www.right-here.org/will-the-eng...

🌍✨ Want to bring your community together and care for the planet? Often Fun Palaces are climate-friendly by nature 🌱 💚 Check out our latest blog for practical tips on creating a climate-friendly Fun Palace that’s joyful, local, and kind to our planet: funpalaces.co.uk/hosting-a-cl...

Green Libraries Week 2025 is coming! 27 Oct – 2 Nov 🌱This year’s theme: ‘Seeds of Change – Make a Difference with Your Library’, encouraging libraries at all stages in their sustainability journey to celebrate their climate action Find out more and participate: www.cilip.org.uk/page/greenlibraries

Fun Palaces aren’t fêtes or festivals, but tiny revolutions of connection. So they don't need to be expensive or extravagant. If you’re wondering how to fund your Fun Palace - or make it happen with no budget at all - check out the blog below👇🏽 🔗 funpalaces.co.uk/funding-your...

The 2025 Fun Palaces weekend takes place on 3 -5 October! 🎉 Every year thousands of people make Fun Palaces for their local community – sharing skills, meeting new people, creating connections. ❤️ 🔗 Add yours to the map and receive a free pack of promotional materials: funpalaces.co.uk/create

Fun Palace Shout Out: Lancaster Library is back for its 12th annual Fun Palace, with 18 across Lancashire! 🎉📚 It'll be packed with a range of fun, science, art and cultural activities to participate in, all free of charge🧪🎨 ❤️ Want to take part? Join in: funpalaces.co.uk/fun-palace/l...

🚀 This year's Fun Palaces weekend is 3-5th October! But what happens after the weekend? Over the last 5 years, 85% Makers reported that something else came out of their Fun Palace! 🔗 From continued collaboration to building skills, read our blog to find out more: funpalaces.co.uk/what-happens...

Come along to tomorrow’s workshop at 1:30 for top tips on making your Fun Palace sustainable!👇🏽 🔗 www.tickettailor.com/events/funpa...

🎨 Creative Voices, Activist Voices launched its tour at the end of May in Portrush, Northern Ireland at Swell. In our latest blog, producer Rachel reflects on the visit with sociologist Dr Katy Pilcher, exploring how creativity is sparking activism in Portrush: funpalaces.co.uk/swell-and-th...

Come along to our workshop on creating climate-friendly community events, with Fun Palace Maker Greener and Cleaner! 🌍 📅 Tues 5 Aug ⏰ 1:30pm 💻 Online & Free Join for inspiration, tips, & tools to support your climate-conscious community work! 🔗 Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/funpa...

Fun Palaces Workshop - Coming to Margate! 🎉 We're bringing a free Fun Palaces workshop to Margate at Turner Contemporary – and it's all about you, your creativity, and your community. 🗓 Mon 4 August 🕑 2–4pm 📍 Turner Contemporary, Margate, CT9 1HG 🔗 www.tickettailor.com/events/funpa...

Want tips on how to promote a community event? Join us tomorrow at 1pm for our free marketing workshop! ❤️ From social media to flyers, media to word of mouth, we've got you covered. 🔗 RSVP: www.tickettailor.com/events/funpa...

How do you promote a community event? How do you make sure people show up to enjoy your Fun Palace? Find out top tips in next week's workshop: 🗓️ Tuesday 29 July ⏰ 1–1.35pm 🎟️ Free Whether you're at the early stages or final countdown of your planning, join us: www.tickettailor.com/events/funpa...

We've published a blog exploring how you can fund your Fun Palace if needed - plus loads of practical tips for making it happen on zero budget The most important thing about a Fun Palace is that it brings people together, and you can do that for free! 🔗 funpalaces.co.uk/funding-your...

Tomorrow: come to our workshop in Conwy, and find out all about Fun Palaces! 🗓️ Tomorrow, Wednesday 23 July ⏰ 2pm-4pm 📍Aberconwy House, Castle Street, Conwy, LL32 8AY

There’s still time to sign up for tomorrow’s workshop all about practicalities!👇🏽 Join us at 1.30 as we break down safeguarding, risk assessments and insurance. 🔗 www.tickettailor.com/events/funpa...

Tomorrow Portland College in Nottinghamshire have their first Fun Palace. It'll be a day of free art, sport and performance for the whole family. 🔗 Find out the details: funpalaces.co.uk/fun-palace/p...

Earlier today Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council had their first Fun Palace of the year - Swinton Fun Palace at Swinton Library! 🎉 Here's a photo of one of the students from Milton School contributing to the painted mural 🎨