{"id":45031,"date":"2026-01-09T18:12:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T18:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=45031"},"modified":"2026-01-09T18:12:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T18:12:45","slug":"ihbcs-research-signpost-heritage-open-days-festival-impact-review-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=45031","title":{"rendered":"IHBC\u2019s Research Signpost: Heritage Open Days Festival Impact Review 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/heritage_open_days.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/heritage_open_days.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26787\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Heritage Open Days Festival Impact Review 2025 captures the biggest festival yet, delivered by a growing and increasingly diverse community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Heritage Open Days writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230; With the help of new micro-grants and partnerships over 5,879 events were organised offering people more places to visit and stories to explore than ever before\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From expert led conservation workshops at a local primary school to an LGBTQ+ audio trail and a discussion of architectural myths in a pub cellar. Our community put on a spectacular showcase of heritage this September, building community pride and inspiring further engagement along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The community<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2,549 organisers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>104 coordinators<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The festival<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>5,879 events<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1.3 million visits<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Bernard Donoghue OBE, Director, ALVA \/ Museums + Heritage Award judge, on Heritage Open Days receiving Sector Impact Award [said]:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018When it was first created it was a great, inspiring and generous idea and it has only grown in size, importance and impact over the years. When something so loved and so well-established becomes part of the heritage landscape it sometimes is in danger of being taken for granted. This award shows that we don&#8217;t take it for granted but celebrate it, encourage it and thank all those who make it so special.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritageopendays.org.uk\/resource\/festival-impact-review-2025.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more and download the Review&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Heritage Open Days Festival Impact Review 2025 captures the biggest festival yet, delivered by a growing and increasingly diverse community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[658,48,6,40,18,30,23,62,29,22],"class_list":["post-45031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog","tag-access","tag-architecture","tag-building","tag-community","tag-conservation","tag-environment","tag-expertise","tag-funding","tag-heritage","tag-skills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45032,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45031\/revisions\/45032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}