Share what you love with your community. Make a Fun Palace.
Fun Palaces are free, local events where people share their skills, passions and secret talents – and everyone gets to have a go. Anyone can make one, anywhere.
The next Weekend of Action is 1st-3rd October 2027.
What is a Fun Palace?
Culture made by everyone, for everyone
A Fun Palace is a free event made by local people, for their own community. Someone shares what they love – baking, coding, knitting, local history, a sport, a song – and everyone else gets to have a go.
Arts, science, crafts, tech, heritage, food: if you can share it, it counts. Fun Palaces happen in libraries, parks, community centres, pubs, front rooms and online. They can last 15 minutes or a whole weekend, with three people or three hundred.
★ Our big idea
Fun Palaces is a campaign for cultural democracy. We believe everyone should have a say in what counts as culture, who makes it and where it happens – and that there’s genius in everyone.
New here?
Three ways to join in
Make one
Make a Fun Palace
Share something you love with your neighbours. No experience or budget needed – just follow the step-by-step guide.
Go to one
Find a Fun Palace near you
Drop in, have a go and meet your neighbours. Every Fun Palace is free.
Stay in the loop
Get the good news
Stories, ideas and invitations from Fun Palaces everywhere, every week – and be first to hear about the 2027 launch.
Something new is coming in March 2027
Makers, friends and the Fun Palaces team are coming together – in person and online – to launch the next year of Fun Palaces. Be the first to know when the details are announced.
Getting started
Make your own Fun Palace in three steps
No experience needed, no budget needed – and you don’t have to do it alone.
1
Find your people and your thing
Ask friends, neighbours or a local group what they love doing. Everyone has a secret skill.
2
Pick a place and a date
A library, park, café, front room – or online. Join the Weekend of Action on 1st-3rd October 2027, or choose any date.
3
Put it on the map
Sign up so people can find you, then spread the word. The free Makers’ Toolkit has templates, posters and ideas.
Exhibition · free · open any time
Step inside our exhibition
Creative Voices, Activist Voices: sensory stories of creative communities
Can finding your creative voice unlock your activist voice? Wander room by room through photographs, recordings, handmade objects and stories from Fun Palace Makers across the UK – with an audio guide in every room. It’s toured eight venues around the country, and now it’s open to everyone, wherever you are.
WHAT HAPPENED LAST YEAR?
For organisations
Bring Fun Palaces to your organisation
Councils, libraries, museums, theatres and community organisations: book a workshop for your team, venue or network, and explore how to hand over, open up and make culture with your community.
For partners, funders and the curious
Ten years of Fun Palaces in stories, facts and figures
Our Impact Report shows what happens when communities make culture together – and what we have learnt along the way.
