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Things To Do Highlights

The Folk of Gloucester (2022)

An exquisite Tudor timber-framed building with some beautifully preserved original features.

Gloucestershire Arts and Crafts Centre

Browse beautiful local arts and crafts or sign up to an upcoming workshop at the Gloucestershire…

Bloomery

Come and join us for an interactive relaxing sustainable flower, terrarium, wreath, bouquet, or…

Gloucester Walking Tours App

Enjoy three self-guided walking tours on your smartphone around Gloucester City Centre and its…

Alney Island Nature Reserve

Alney Island is an 80-hectare site, located on the banks of the River Severn and less than one…

A bee painted on a fuse box

Take part in the #BouncingBack Urban Art Nature Trail. Find all the images and complete the…

Photo of people racing at JDR Karting

Gloucester's premier indoor karting arena! All of the karts are custom built reaching speeds of…

Spring at Batsford Arboretum

Beautiful 60 acre arboretum with colour and interest all year round. Browse the walled garden plant…

Berkeley Castle

Berkeley Castle is unique; lived in by the same family for almost 900 years, longer than any other…

Rana, Asiatic Lion, Cotswold Wildlife Park & Gardens

Get eye-to-eye with giraffes, watch rhinos grazing on the Gothic Manor House lawns or walk with…

outside the Museum of Gloucester

Found within the City of Gloucester is an internationally important collection of treasures of over…

St Mary de Lode Church

St. Mary de Lode is the city's oldest Parish Church being built in the 12th Century. It was built…

Rainbow Square Street

The creator of Gloucester's famous 'Rainbow Street', Tash Frootko, and her team have painted twenty…

Westgate Park & Boating Lake

Westgate Park & Boating Lake is a 9-hectare open space on the banks of the River Severn.

Photo of people paddleboarding in Gloucester Docks

Stand-up paddleboarding in Gloucester Docks, canal and River Severn. We’ll take you through water…

The New Gloucester Antiques Centre

Gloucester Antiques Centre has over 11,000 square feet of floor space spread across three floors,…

Heli Adventures

Heli Adventures is the premier helicopter pleasure flight company in the UK.

The outside of St Nicholas Church

This 12th Century Church is a city landmark with it's 15th Century leaning Tower and Spire. Inside…

Eastgate Viewing Chamber

Roman and medieval gate-towers and moat in underground exhibition chamber.

The swimming pool in GL1

Freedom Leisure, who operate GL1 Leisure Centre and Oxstalls Sports Park on behalf of Gloucester…

The Kings Theatre

Tucked just off Eastgate Street, close to the heart of Gloucester City Centre is this little gem of…

Brilliant Magpie Bookbinding

Create your own notebook, a sketchbook or a box!

Scrivens Conduit, Hillfield Gardens

Just outside the city centre lies Hillfield Gardens, a true hidden gem of Gloucester. This public…

Dean Forest Railway

Heritage steam railway running between Lydney Junction and Parkend.

What's On Highlights

Salsa At Butlers

Your friendly weekly dance night in Gloucester!

Openings

Season

1st July 2025-15th December 2026
Sunday Lunch at Brickhampton Court

Looking for the perfect place for a traditional Sunday roast near Cheltenham and Gloucester?

Openings

Season

1st January 2026-31st December 2026
Gloucesters Best Roast

The best Sunday Roast in Gloucester, and the queues prove it.

Openings

Season

1st January 2026-31st December 2026
Museum Quiet Mornings

Our weekly Quiet Mornings offer a calmer museum experience, especially suited to visitors who…

Openings

Season

16th April 2026-15th April 2027
After Work Club

Long day? We've got you.

Openings

Season

5th May 2026-1st September 2026
WhipZone Sunday Market buy and sell your car, van, motorbike and campervan

The UK's Sunday Market for cars, vans, motorbikes and campervans

Openings

Season

10th May 2026-31st December 2026
Margs on the Terrace

Pull up a chair, soak up the sun, and let the good times pour.

Openings

Season

18th May 2026-1st September 2026
Live Violin Music with Frances every Tuesday between 11 am to 1 pm at Eastgate Indoor Market

Enjoy live violin music with Frances

Openings

Season

19th May 2026-29th September 2026
City Guided Walks

Hear about the history of Gloucester from the Romans through to the Victorian era.

Openings

Season

22nd May 2026-30th September 2026
Photo of an entry to the competition last year

A free public art competition for adults (first prize £100) and children (16 and under) (first…

Openings

Season

4th July 2026-15th August 2026
Members of the public looking at an artwork in a city centre business window

A public art trail showing contemporary art in the windows of over 20 businesses throughout the…

Openings

Season

4th July 2026-28th August 2026
Nines Golf League

Nines is a new golf league for Gloucestershire & Cheltenham golfers.

Openings

Season

6th July 2026-6th September 2026
Lloyd of the Flies Trail

From the 18th July until 7th September, Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust are partnering with Aardman…

Openings

Season

17th July 2026-7th September 2026
Operation: Museum Heist

Enemy soldiers have infiltrated the museum and are attempting to steal our treasured artefacts!

Openings

Season

18th July 2026-30th August 2026
We're Going on a Hattie Hunt Afternoon Tea

Join us this summer for a magical family afternoon tea adventure at Hatherley Manor!

Openings

Season

20th July 2026-30th August 2026
Painted signs at the National Waterways Museum Gloucester

Visit the National Waterways Museum Gloucester this summer to explore our "Written on the…

Openings

Season

21st July 2026-29th August 2026
Nxt Gen Summer events

A Summer programme of events for deaf and hard of hearing tweens and teens aged 9 - 16.

Openings

Season

22nd July 2026-26th August 2026
Children enjoying arts and crafts at the museum

Complete all 9 challenges in and around the museum to collect your prize.

Openings

Season

1st August 2026-31st August 2026
Solo Stone Exhibition

My Journey With Stone is a free solo stone sculpture exhibition of 20 stone carvings by local…

Openings

Season

1st August 2026-16th August 2026
Lines Of Resistance

Watch artist Russell Haines complete his monumental painting telling the story of Gloucester's…

Openings

Season

3rd August 2026-28th August 2026
The hand-painted fascia sign above the entrance to the Gate

A two-week group exhibition of work by members of Gloucester Contemporary Artists

Openings

Season

3rd August 2026-16th August 2026
Student smiling with written task on the table

This popular intensive course for under 18's uses practical and written tasks to explain musical…

Openings

Season

3rd August 2026-7th August 2026
Elmore Festival

Now in its seventh year, Elmore Festival returns from 5 - 8 August 2026, bringing four days of…

Openings

Season

5th August 2026-8th August 2026
The Ready-Set-Sing Family Trail

Can you help the Cathedral's new chorister, Clara, get ready for her first big service at…

Openings

Season

5th August 2026-1st November 2026
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