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Today to Thu 16 Oct, By Distance closest first.

The New Barn - Open Garden for NGS

Sat 27 Sep and Sun 28 Sep The New Barn, Leicester LE9 9GS A large, sloping ¾ acre garden with wonderful views. Enter via a side gate and follow a narrow path opening up into what feels like a secret garden,... READ MORE>

Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre Open Day

Sat 20 Sep Bosworth Battlefield Visitor Centre, Ambion Lane, Sutton Cheney, Nuneaton CV13 0AD Heritage Open Day: Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre invites you to attend our Heritage Open Day! Explore our award-winning exhibition, take a... READ MORE>

Braunstone Stable Block Museum

Today Braunstone Park Stables Museum, Braunstone Park, Leicester LE3 1HX Heritage Open Day: Old stables to Braunstone Hall (Winstanley Hotel now). We have 5 rooms of displays of local history and details of the last Lord... READ MORE>
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Leicester Brick Festival

Sat 27 Sep Braunstone Leisure Centre 2 Hamelin Road Leicester LE3 1JN A LEGO fan event dedicated to all things brick! This will be a great day for families, collectors, adult builders and every other kind of LEGO... READ MORE>

Family Fortunes: The Winstanleys and Braunstone – historic talk

Fri 19 Sep St Anne's Church Hall, 89 Letchworth Road, Leicester LE3 6FN Heritage Open Day: Dr Susan Barton will deliver a lecture on 'Family Fortunes: Braunstone, the Civil War and the Winstanleys', as... READ MORE>

The Elephants' Big Day Out- Farewell Weekend

Sat 4 Oct and Sun 5 Oct LOROS Hospice, Groby Road, Leicester LE3 9QE Join us at LOROS Hospice for a free, family fun day – and this year, it’s extra special, because the Elephants are coming!... READ MORE>

Discover the Architectural Treasures of Bradgate Park

Sat 20 Sep Bradgate Park, Hallgates, Roecliffe Road, Cropston, Leicester LE7 7HQ Heritage Open Day: Discover the Architectural and Geological Treasures of Bradgate Park Bradgate Park invites you to explore its rich architectural... READ MORE>

Fully Fashioned Memories Exhibition

Today, Fri 19 Sep Atkins Building, Lower Bond Street, Hinckley LE10 1QU Heritage Open Day: Fully Fashioned Memories is a photographic exhibition celebrating the everyday Atkins factory worker at work and play from the... READ MORE>

VE and VJ 80th Anniversary Exhibition

Today, Fri 19 Sep, Mon 22 Sep to Fri 26 Sep Atkins Gallery Atkins Building Lower Bond Street Leicestershire LE10 1QU Remembering the end of the Second World War with Hinckley & District Museum and Atkins Gallery. 2025 marks 80 years since the end of the Second... READ MORE>

Fully Fashioned Memories

Today, Fri 19 Sep, Mon 22 Sep to Fri 26 Sep Atkins Gallery Atkins Building Lower Bond Street Leicestershire LE10 1QU This exhibition celebrates the everyday factory worker at work and play with objects, photos and stories from the 1960s to 2002 Part of Heritage... READ MORE>

Hinckley and District Museum

Sat 20 Sep, Sun 21 Sep Hinckley and District Museum, 30 Lower Bond Street, Hinckley LE10 1QU Heritage Open Day: Grade II Listed 17th century timber framed and thatched cottages once home to framework knitters and now a local history museum... READ MORE>

Underwater Photographer of the Year

Mon 6 Oct, Fri 10 Oct, Mon 13 Oct, and more dates until Fri 7 Nov Atkins Gallery Atkins Building Lower Bond Street Leicestershire LE10 1QU Underwater Photographer of the Year is an annual competition, based in the UK, that celebrates photography beneath the surface of the ocean, lakes,... READ MORE>

Nativity! The Musical

Sun 5 Oct to Sat 11 Oct STOCKWELL HEAD LE10 1RE Nativity is a feel–good, hilarious and heart-warming musical for the whole family. Featuring all of your favourite songs from the movies including:... READ MORE>

St Andrew's Church, Jarrom Street

Today St. Andrew's Church, 53 Jarrom Street, Leicester LE2 7DH Heritage Open Day: St Andrew's is one of Leicester's hidden secrets - it looks much bigger and more impressive from the inside than from... READ MORE>

Jain Centre Leicester

Sat 20 Sep Jain Centre, 32 Oxford Street, Leicester LE1 5XU Heritage Open Day: Features include 44 magnificently carved sandstone pillars, a beautiful temple dome and ceiling with traditional carvings, a white... READ MORE>

Great Meeting Chapel: Open Days, Tea in the Garden and special exhibition

Today to Sun 21 Sep East Bond Street, Leicester LE1 4SX Heritage Open Day: An inner-city gem: a 1708 Chapel, Leicester's oldest complete brick building, with unique octagonal ceiling, innovative roof... READ MORE>

St Margaret's Church, Leicester

Sat 20 Sep St Margaret's Church, St Margaret's Street, Leicester LE1 3EB Heritage Open Day: The Church is open for visitors to browse at their leisure. Major Church READ MORE>

FREE taster session with the Hinckley Rock Choir

Mon 22 Sep, Mon 29 Sep, and more dates until Mon 24 Nov Richmond Primary School, Towers Drive, Hinckley LE10 0ZD Do you want to learn to sing near you? Your local Hinckley choir is run by Leicestershire based musician Mark O'Malley... READ MORE>
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Leicestershire and Rutland Research Centre Visit

Sat 20 Sep 7-9 Every Street, Leicester LE1 6AG Heritage Open Day: Look down onto Town Hall Square from a different vantage point by visiting the LRFHS Research Centre in Leicester's famous... READ MORE>

Lunchtime Jazz

Today, Thu 25 Sep, Thu 2 Oct, Thu 9 Oct, Thu 16 Oct The Donkey Pub, 203 Welford Road, Leicester. LE2 6BH Thursday lunchtime Jazz Session with The Titanic Jazz Band, (now in its nineteenth year). Playing traditional and swing style jazz... READ MORE>

Jazz lunch

Tue 23 Sep, Tue 30 Sep The Wheatsheaf, 203 Thurcaston Road, Thurcaston, Leicester. LE7 7JN The Titanic Jazz Band play a mix of traditional and swinging Jazz every Tuesday lunchtime in the Skittle alley... READ MORE>

Sandi Toksvig - Friends of Dorothy

Sandi Toksvig - Friends of Dorothy Sat 27 Sep De Montfort Hall Granville Road Leicester LE1 7RU Come and join the comedian, broadcaster, campaigner (and tiny Danish beacon of hope) for an evening celebrating her love and passion for writers and... READ MORE>

The Dinosaur That Pooped - A Rock Show

The Dinosaur That Pooped - A Rock Show Sun 28 Sep De Montfort Hall Granville Road Leicester LE1 7RU Brand New for 2025! When Danny and Dino’s favourite rock band are playing their last ever concert, they go on a quest to get the last two tickets... READ MORE>

Philharmonia: Beethoven and Shostakovich

Philharmonia: Beethoven and Shostakovich Tue 30 Sep De Montfort Hall Granville Road Leicester LE1 7RU Nil Venditti conductor Anastasia Kobekina cello BEETHOVEN Coriolan Overture SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concerto No. 1 BEETHOVEN Symphony No... READ MORE>

Sophie McCartney - One Foot In The Rave

Sophie McCartney - One Foot In The Rave Thu 2 Oct De Montfort Hall Granville Road Leicester LE1 7RU After last year’s phenomenal 70 date international tour, award-winning comedian and number one bestselling author Sophie McCartney is back with a... READ MORE>
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