Category: Maker Know-How

The practical stuff -tips and advice to help you plan, fund, promote and pull off your Fun Palace as well as ideas and inspiration.

Making a Fun Palace with 5 weeks to go

You’ve decided to make a Fun Palace. You have FIVE WEEKS to do it – here’s how: 1. Find someone/a group of people to do it with you.Start with who you already know. Friends, neighbours,…

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Five Ways to Wellbeing

It’s Fun Palaces weekend!!! I’m writing this on a train to Rotherham, where I’ll be visiting Riverside Library Fun Palace. Then onto Blackburn, Preston and Lancaster to visit Fun Palaces and their Makers. This weekend,…

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Bringing Communities Together

This weekend thousands of people will come together in their communities across the UK to make Fun Palaces, and it’s not too late for you to either. The Fun Palaces Weekend is a great excuse to…

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Tiny is mighty… It’s not too late to make a Fun Palace!

The Fun Palaces Weekend of Celebration is almost here and yes, you can absolutely still join in. Whether it’s a handful of neighbours round a kitchen table or a quick online skill-share through Whatsapp, tiny…

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Picture of Tamasin making an umbrella with arts materials in the foreground

Hosting a Climate-Friendly Fun Palace in Your Community

At its heart, a Fun Palace is a celebration of creativity, community, and culture, made by the people, for the people. This grassroots movement empowers everyone to share their skills, passions, and local knowledge in…

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