Open City Friends: Events Programme

Open City’s programmes, including the Open House Festival and our educational programmes, would not be possible without the support of Open City Friends.

As a thank you, Open City run a programme of events, tours and workshops every year. See what’s coming up below. Events titled ‘walking tour’ are exclusive for our Friends at Core (£12) and Keystone (£25) levels.

Find our more and Join our Friends programme here.

Get access to the Friends Programme by joining our community of regular supporters

Foundation Friend

£6 per month

Core Friend

£12 per month

Keystone Friend

£25 per month

Friends Events Programme FAQs

  • Tickets are made available around 2 weeks before the event.

    We send all Friends a link to book via email.

    Please ensure friends@open-city.org.uk is a trusted sender in your email provider to prevent these emails going into spam/junk.

    Tickets are first-come-first-served, and we are trialling a ticket ballot to ensure more equitable access to tickets.

  • Yes, this covers administrative fees and to decrease instances of drop-outs to our limited-placed tours.

  • Behind-the-scenes access tours of buildings are available to all Friend Tiers.

    Events labelled ‘Walking Tour’ are exclusive to Foundation (£12) and Keystone (£25) Friends. There is one of these tours every month, they are completely free and drawn from our outstanding public tours programme.

    The programme also includes discounts on all of our year-round-tours, shop products, and access to exclusive ballots for Open House Festival.

  • Yes. We want as many Friends as possible to enjoy the programme. To go on our waiting list just email friends@open-city.org.uk

  • If your query has not been answered above, email friends@open-city.org.uk

Past Friends Events