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Heritage Open Days is England’s largest festival of history and culture, involving thousands of local volunteers and organisations. Every year for 10 days in September it brings people together to celebrate their heritage, community and history. Stories are told, traditions explored, and histories brought to life. It’s offers the public a chance to see hidden places and try out new experiences – and it’s all FREE.
Heritage Open Days (HODs) returns this September with thousands of free events and experiences.
Brought to you by the National Trust, supported by players of People’s Postcode Lottery and run by
thousands of local organisations and volunteers, HODs brings people together to celebrate their heritage,
community and history.
From historic houses to factories, museums to music halls, formal gardens to graveyards, places and spaces will again open for free this autumn. Across the country, thousands of intriguing events and fun new experiences will happen as part of Heritage Open Days, the country’s largest festival of history and culture, which they have been since 1994 – the same year the world’s first smartphone came to market, the Channel Tunnel opened, and Sunday trading was legalised in England.
Over the three decades since Heritage Open Days began it has grown in scope and scale. What began as a weekend dedicated to revealing buildings not normally open to the general public has exploded into a tenday festival, celebrating a myriad of different aspects of heritage and culture. With more than 100,000
events and over 39 million visits across 30 years, it has grown from just 700 events in the first year to over
5,250 in 2023. Still committed to its founding principles of free access and being community led, it’s a muchloved event that many look forward to every year.
Hundreds of activities will adopt this year’s theme, Routes – Networks – Connections, bringing together
the past and present in a festival that includes workshops, talks, hidden spaces, walks and activities for all
the family.
The festival features thousands of events and activities across the country including a wide range of places that usually charge, free sites that put on extra special events for the festival and places that aren’t usually open to the public.
