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Call for Activities

Festival of Communities Saturday 8 June 2024. The words rest on a background of pale blue sky and green hills with trees, tents, bunting, and the tall beige Queen Mary clock tower. in the foreground are small figures enjoying the Festival, a squirrel and a butterfly.

The Festival team are looking for community organisations, groups and projects to join us at Festival 2024 in Stepney Green Park by showcasing local projects and opportunities to Tower Hamlets residents encouraging their involvement, raising awareness of different campaigns or running listening exercises to help shape local priorities.  

The activities at the Festival are designed for local families to learn something new or try something different, and to provide an opportunity for everyone involved to meet and interact with people they haven’t met before. These varied activities will need to be table-top based but could be hands-on, demonstrations, stalls, sharing stories and views, or another way – we’re open to different ideas!  

Support

There is a suite of support on offer to assist you in taking part in the Festival of Communities: 

  • Find out more about the Festival and our plans for 2024 at a Festival Information Webinar.
  • Discuss your activity ideas with the Festival team at a  1:1 advice session
  • Come along to a 'Hands-On Engagement: Design your Festival of Communities Activity'  session delivered by the Queen Mary Centre for Public Engagement team. 
  • Funding of up to £200 is available for activities led by community organisations which wouldn’t be able to take part otherwise, to create new engagement activities to feature at the Festival of Communities 2024. More details can be found in the Guidance Document below.  

Submit your Activity 

Fill in the form below to submit your Festival activity pitch. 

The Festival of Communities 2024 - Guide to taking part_Updated [PDF 780KB]contains key information which will help you design your activity and strengthen your pitch.

There is also guidance for those who might need funding to take part Festival of Communities 2024 Funding Guidance - Community Organisations_Updated [PDF 69KB].

Please make sure you read these before submitting the online form below. 

You are able to download the Festival of Communities 2024 Activity Call Questions - Community Organisations_Updated [DOC 38KB] as a document to help plan your activity and responses. When you're ready to submit, please use the online form below. 

The deadline for funding applications is the end of day on Wednesday 27 March. 
All applicants will be informed by the end of Wednesday 24 April if their activities have been successful to feature in the Festival. 

 

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