1Free! (worth double-checking)Fi.Fest
Experience Fi.Fest: a feel good family-friendly summer music festival in Fifield, perfectly placed between Windsor and Maidenhead in Berkshire. Join…
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10 picks around Old Windsor and Wraysbury, from 9 local venues. The map pin is doing actual work here.
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1Free! (worth double-checking)Experience Fi.Fest: a feel good family-friendly summer music festival in Fifield, perfectly placed between Windsor and Maidenhead in Berkshire. Join…
at Parish Church Of St Jude Englefield Green
An opportunity to hear both our grand pianos together: Julian Hellaby and Peter Noke will play works from Germany, Argentina and Russia. As usual admission is free (though we welcome donations), and there will be refeshments in the interval.

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at Popworld
LITTLE RAVERS – SUMMER SPECIAL Get ready for the ultimate family daytime rave at Popworld Reading Saturday 25th July 2PM – 4PM Expect an afternoon packed with: Live DJ & party anthems Free foam batons Free inflatables Unlimited squash for kids 🅿 Free buggy parking Quieter chill area Licensed bar for adults Tickets Under 2s – FREE Kids – £10 Adults – £8 BONUS OFFER: Kids eat for just £1 at Slug & Lettuce Riverside or Slug & Lettuce Friar Street when dining with an adult. Perfect for toddlers, young kids, parents, and anyone who loves a family-friendly disco atmosphere #LittleRavers #SummerSpecial #ReadingEvents #FamilyRave #KidsParty #PopworldReading #ThingsToDoInReading
4Free! (worth double-checking)In a pursuit of better understanding her father, Riwa finds a letter he sent to his own late dad. With this discovery, she unlocks a quest that travels through timelines and across conversations with family members, piecing together a puzzle. Pulling in puppetry, silhouettes, and verbatim audio, How I Grew a Moustache explores how grief and silence travel across generations, and what it means to inherit stories that are left untold. At its heart, the work asks how diasporic families carry love, loss and memory across time.
5Free! (worth double-checking)at Studio 338
We’re excited to announce Indigenous at the legendary Studio 338 - our biggest standalone London show of 2026. After a packed start to the year across London and beyond, with more exciting announcements still to come for summer and the months ahead, many of you have been asking what our major London summer gathering would look like this year. On Saturday 25th July, we bring it to one of the most iconic spaces in electronic music culture - a venue we’ve admired throughout our entire journey, and one that has hosted some of the most respected names in global dance music. This event will also mark the official launch party of Indigenous Records. The label has always felt like a natural progression for us - an opportunity to take the sound and identity we’ve been building on dancefloors and give it a home beyond the events themselves. We can’t wait to share some of the music and artists that will shape the label’s future with you throughout the day and night. Taking place across both the open-air Garden and the world-famous Terrace, this is a full day into night experience built around scale, atmosphere and complete immersion. From daytime energy beneath the summer sun through to deeper late-night moments inside one of London’s most celebrated electronic music spaces, Indigenous takes over the venue for a 12-hour journey soundtracked by some of the most exciting DJs in London right now.
6Free! (worth double-checking)Tough Mudder Yorkshire at Broughton Hall isn’t just tough, it’s the muddiest course on the calendar. Winding through untouched terrain, woodland slogs, and leg-screaming hills, it delivers ankle-deep sludge, scenic suffering, and a healthy dose of northern grit. Set in the grounds of a grand Georgian estate, it’s as brutal as it is beautiful. Easily accessible from northern cities, but once you’re out there, it’ll test you every step of the way.
7Free! (worth double-checking)This guided walking tour takes in the colourful history of London’s West End around St Giles, Seven Dials and Covent Garden. Learn about the notorious gin craze of the 18th century, the history behind William Hogarth’s famous Gin Lane, gallows, plague pits and prostitution. Meet at the Dominion Theatre on Tottenham Court Road to be guided from Denmark Street to Holborn, ending at the Foundling Museum where you can see some more famous Hogarth paintings.
8Free! (worth double-checking)The Pr0t0typ3 exhibition showcases the explorations and experimentations created by Nihal during his 3-month artist residency at St Margaret's House. Building on from his pre-existing community carpentry practice, Nihal combines physical computing and experimental music to create multidisciplinary prototypes - a fusion of artistic expression.
9Free! (worth double-checking)This event features 'People Who Live in the Skies,' a 20-minute Kathak dance performance by the Amina Khayyam Dance Company, followed by a 15-minute participatory workshop. It is aimed at families with children aged 4-11 and explores topical environmental issues.
10Free! (worth double-checking)Put on Ghunghroo’s (bell anklets), move to the mesmerising rhythms of the ‘tabla’ and the enchanting strings of the sitar, and step into character as the story unfolds through Kathak dance.
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