Resources
Below you can find ideas and information to help you make your Fun Palace.
It’s important to us that everyone joining in at a Fun Palace knows they are part of a wider campaign of community-led culture, please check the Style Guidelines and Posters and Logos in particular, so the people enjoying your Fun Palace know they are part of something very local AND much bigger.
Planning your Fun Palace
- ACCESSIBILITY (PDF): how to make sure everyone is included at your Fun Palace.
Accessibility Toolkit Web Version - OPPORTUNITIES AND COLLABORATORS (PDF) want to do more? looking for local partners? Click for further info and ideas.
Opportunities and Collaborators Web version - DIGITAL FUN PALACES advice for running an online Fun Palace
Digital Fun Palaces Web version - WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, WHY, HOW this brochure is handy if you want to know more about Fun Palaces or want to share information with others. Download here or email to ask for some paper copies in the post.
For Libraries
- LIBRARIES visit this page for specific Fun Palaces in libraries resources.
Marketing and Press
- PUBLICITY TOOLKIT (PDF) All sorts of info about publicity and how best to share your Fun Palace with everyone.
Publicity Toolkit Web Version - QUICK, SIMPLE STYLE GUIDELINES Our Style Guide to using the Fun Palaces branding material. (PDF)
- MORE DETAILED STYLE GUIDELINES: Our Style Guide to using the Fun Palaces branding material. (PDF)
- FUN PALACES 2026 TEXT FOR WEB (we think this may be useful as a basis for your own copy and wording). (.docx)
- POSTERS AND LOGOS All sizes, all formats, download them here.
- TEMPLATE PRESS RELEASE (.docx)
- MP, Councillor, Welsh Assembly Member, member of Scottish Parliament invitation (.docx)
Other Resources
- SUSTAINABILITY (PDF):This contains tips and ideas for making your Fun Palace as climate friendly as possible, as well as a handy sustainability checklist for you to use while making your Fun Palace.
Sustainability Toolkit Web Version - 16-18s TOOLKIT (PDF) – If you’re aged 16-18 and want to make a Fun Palace, we’ve put everything you might need to know in this toolkit.
16-18s Toolkit Web Version - YOUNG PEOPLE AND FUN PALACES (PDF) – Lots of people want to engage children and young people in their Fun Palaces. This document is packed with ideas and tips on how to handover to them to take charge of their Fun Palace and have a say in what culture counts as for them.
Health & Safety
- HOW TO COMPLETE A RISK ASSESSMENT Advice to make sure you’ve thought of everything that might pose a risk at your Fun Palace. (PDF)
- RISK ASSESSMENT TEMPLATE An example of a filled-out risk assessment form. (.doc)
- PUBLIC LIABILITY INSURANCE: if your Fun Palace is in a public building check with the building, most will have PLI for a one-off event. If not, your usual insurance provider will be able to help you. Make sure to ask for just the time limit of your Fun Palace – eg one or two days. Creative Lives have a great briefing document on insurance here.
- MEDIA RELEASE CONSENT FORM if you’re filming yourself or others at your Fun Palace for our annual film or mini Maker soundbite films. (.doc)
Funding
FUNDING YOUR FUN PALACE How to fund your Fun Palace (or make it with no extra funding like around 80% of Fun Palaces Makers each year) – we’ve got ideas from borrowing from your neighbours to applying for official funding. (PDF)