Gloucester BID - Business Improvement District

UK Indie Day
2021-07-03 08:00 - 2021-07-04 17:00 (Europe/London)
Independents’ Day UK in association with Maybe* is a campaign that exists to support and promote independent retail businesses across the UK all year round, but with an annual focus on July 4th: ‘Independents’ Day’ itself. Independents account for something in the order of 65% of the approximately 290,000 retail outlets in the UK and are at the heart of local communities throughout the country.
As a shopper Independents’ Day UK is your chance to show some love for the independent retailers you value most both in your local communities and online: the ones you wouldn’t want to live without. Here’s how you can get involved to help make Independents’ Day UK a success for those businesses and others.
In addition:
• Follow and engage with the campaign across our social media platforms.
• Share the campaign with you friends.
• Give a shout-out on social media to the independent retailers you love and value most – be sure to tag us in any post using the hashtag #ukindieday.
• Ask the independent retailers you visit or know if they are involved with Independents’ Day UK – if not, please direct them to our website.
• Make a list now of one or two independent retailers that you’ve never visited before, or even local favourites you’re famililar with and pledge to visit them on Independents’ Day on July 4th – your visit will make the world of difference.

Gloucester Goes Retro
2021-08-28 09:00 - 18:00 | Gloucester
More information will be shared when available.

Double Points Week 16-24 October
2021-10-16 08:00 - 2021-10-24 23:00
This week we are doubling your points! Thus increasing your number of entries into a prize draw just for these nine days!
Mi Rewards Gloucester is the city centre loyalty scheme that rewards you with the chance to win monthly and bonus seasonal prizes for spending with local businesses.
Visit mi-rewards/gloucester for more information and to register for a FREE account to be in with a chance of winning.

October Feast
2021-10-16 17:00 - 2021-10-24 23:00
As part of this year’s Purple Flag month we are sharing places and encouraging you to eat out in the evening in Gloucester this week. From tasty tapas to extravagant extra specials, enjoy eating out. Let someone else do the cooking and washing up.
There will be some great deals and offers to check out.

Gloucester Folk Trail 2022
2022-02-18 14:00 - 2022-02-20 22:00 | Gloucester
The Gloucester Folk Trail first arrived in the city in 2018.
Folk musicians, artists and poets from around the county congregate in venues around the city, paying homage to traditional forms of Folk music, performance, entertainment, and arts & crafts.

Pelican Winter Ales Festival
2022-03-10 12:00 - 2022-03-13 22:00 | The Pelican Inn, 4 St Mary's Street, Gloucester, GL1 2QR, United Kingdom
The Pelican Winter Ales Festival 10th-13th March. At least 45 Cask and 10 Craft Keg will be available over the weekend with 28 casks available at any time. As beers run out imsimple replace them with a different beer from the list. Tasting Cards give you 15 thirds (12 Cask & 3 Keg) for £20 or you can buy Pint & Halves as normal. This is our eighth winter fest, each one bigger and better than the last. For a beer list go to Untappd. business.untappd.com/boards/56220

Gloucester's Easter Eggsplorers
2022-04-02 08:00 - 2022-04-24 17:00 | Gloucester
Eggsplore Gloucester this Easter! Collect 10 different stickers from a choice of 15 locations, before collecting your very own wooden Easter egg to decorate at home.
This is a completely free activity, and will hopefully help you to discover some new places around the city. There are only 300 cards available, so don’t miss out!
WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO?
– Collect a card from the Museum of Gloucester on Brunswick Road (closed on Mondays)
– Collect 10 different stickers from a choice of 15 locations (see below)
– Each location will have a poster displayed to show that they are a sticker collection point
– Each sticker must be stuck onto your card
– Once you have collected 10 stickers, take your completed card back to the Museum of Gloucester
– You will be given a wooden Easter egg for you to take home and decorate, using the designs on the stickers that you have collected as inspiration
– Once you have decorated your egg, please share a photo with us on social media, using #gloseastereggsplorers, for a chance to win a prize!
Find out where you can collect stickers from: https://www.visitgloucester.co.uk/eggsploregloucester

Urban Art Nature Trail
2022-04-06 08:00 - 2022-09-30 17:00 | Gloucester
Take part in the #BouncingBack Urban Art Nature Trail. Find all the images and complete the tick-box download – available by clicking on the link DOWNLOAD TRAIL I-SPY LIST
Urban artists have completed a project to brighten up Gloucester City streets with the painting of utility boxes.
The concept, sponsored by Gloucester Business Improvement District (BID) and the City Council via the Welcome Back fund, is to enhance the street scene by converting often unkempt and distressed street furniture into bright points of interest. City Centre visitors can walk around the Gate Streets and immediate adjoining lanes and spot the artwork.

Easter Egg Hunt
2022-04-09 08:00 - 2022-04-24 17:00 | Gloucester Quays
Somebody has dropped their eggs in shop windows all over the Quays.
Use your eggsperience to track them down and you will be rewarded with a free Lindt chocolate egg.
Pick up a trail map from Gloucester Quays Customer Services and begin to Explore the Quays
Find all 11 eggs and spell out the missing words then hop back to our Customer Services to collect your mini Lindt egg.
£1 donation entry per child
All proceeds will be donated to our chosen charity Pied Piper Appeal
Terms and Conditions apply, One egg per child, whilst stocks last.

Blues Night: Maxwell Street Blues Band
2022-04-15 19:00 - 22:30 | Pilgrim’s Yard, Cross Keys Lane, Gloucester, GL1 2HQ
Come to Pilgrims Yard for their opening in Gloucester city centre. Maxwell Street Blues Band will be opening the Pilgrims stage for our first blues night of the year. 15th April 2022
Free entry
Doors @ 7PM

Spring Family Challenge Days: Get loading
2022-04-30 10:00 - 14:00 | Waterways Museum, Llanthony Warehouse, Gloucester Docks, GL1 2EH, United Kingdom
Join the Canal & River Trust Explorers team at the National Waterways Museum Gloucester for a series of Spring Challenge Days. Families will be able to learn a new waterway skill, get competitive, go exploring or discover a new talent. There will be something different each spring Saturday between 10am – 2pm.
30th April – Get loading – Don’t sink the boat! How much can you load onto your plasticine boat?
The challenge days are drop in sessions and are included in the price of your museum entry or free if you have an annual ticket. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Check out our website for access information and how to find us. canalrivertrust.org.uk/gloucester

Your museum ticket lasts for 12-months so when you pay on your first visit, every visit after that is free for 12-months!
Ticket price: Adult (16+) – £8.50; Child (6-15) – £5.00; Child (5 and under) – Free; Family – £20.00; Concession – £7.50.

Launch of Kings Square
2022-04-30 11:30 - 21:00 | Kings Square
The event celebrates 50 years after the square was first opened in 1972, and aims to showcase the square as an events space by featuring lighting displays, dance performances and a dramatic high wire walk.
Throughout the day there will be a buzz of performances and free circus skills activities for children and young people, as well as a new show from hip-hop contemporary dance group, Avant Garde. SCRUM, is a 35-minute immersive experience merging dance with virtual reality and will invite visitors to scan the QR codes to view the hidden virtual layers.
In the evening, onlookers can enjoy a specially commissioned new collaboration between Gloucester based Strike a Light and Avant Garde, who have worked with 125 dancers across the city on a vibrant new performance.
The evening will culminate in a breathtaking show called Wave at the Moon, which has been created for the launch about the relationship between the moon and the tidal bore. It’s a collaboration between Cirque Bijou and the Bullzini High Wire Company who’ve performed in both national and international festivals and will feature wire walker Chris Bullzini, aerialist Eloise Currie and musicians Michael Fergie and Tilly Chester.

Llanthony Secunda Priory - Summer Fair
2022-05-01 11:00 - 16:00, 2022-05-02 11:00 - 16:00 | Llanthony Secunda Priory, llanthony secunda priory, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, GL2 5QT, United Kingdom
Llanthony Secunda Priory is inviting you to join them at their Summer Fair this weekend to shop small and fabulous! 🛍🌞
Henry Dene Hall will be bustling with the most unique, creative and artisan gifts and treats from some of Gloucestershire’s loveliest little businesses:
Jacqueline Hammond Art ֍ Wicked Whisk Bakes ֍ Birch Cottage Crafts ֍ Painting House Crafts ֍ Kay’s Pots ֍ Made in the Button Room ֍ Taylor Made Melts ֍ Katherine Ford ֍ Girl Guiding ֍ Fire Phoenix ֍ Cuthbert the Croc ֍ Under Capricorn ֍ Clement’s Cafe ֍ Friends of Llanthony Secunda
Take a leisurely stroll around the beautiful heritage buildings and tranquil grounds – the knowledgeable volunteers will be on hand to answer all your history questions!
You can also grab a drink and ice cream from the Clement’s Café from 11am. The perfect family and friends day out this Bank Holiday!

Spring Family Challenge Days: Get Knotted
2022-05-07 10:00 - 14:00 | Waterways Museum, Llanthony Warehouse, Gloucester Docks, GL1 2EH, United Kingdom
Join the Canal & River Trust Explorers team at the National Waterways Museum Gloucester for a series of Spring Challenge Days. Families will be able to learn a new waterway skill, get competitive, go exploring or discover a new talent. There will be something different each spring Saturday between 10am – 2pm.
7th May – Get knotted – learn the ropes with Explorers and make a boatman’s ‘cheese’
The challenge days are drop in sessions and are included in the price of your museum entry or free if you have an annual ticket. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Check out our website for access information and how to find us. canalrivertrust.org.uk/gloucester

Your museum ticket lasts for 12-months so when you pay on your first visit, every visit after that is free for 12-months!
Ticket price: Adult (16+) – £8.50; Child (6-15) – £5.00; Child (5 and under) – Free; Family – £20.00; Concession – £7.50.

Orchard Street Market
2022-05-07 10:00 - 2022-05-08 17:00 | Orchard Square, Gloucester Docks, Gloucester, United Kingdom
Join us on the first weekend of the month from February to October* for our monthly Orchard Street Food and Craft Market.
Located at the stunning Gloucester Quays, the market offers a great mix of delicious, locally sourced food and drink, artisan arts and crafts, jewellery, homeware, plants and seasonal goods, plus amazing streetfood and bars.
Come along, enjoy great food and drink and live music from an eclectic range of busking acts, soak up the atmosphere of market day and meet our friendly, dedicated, and enthusiastic producers
We have around 70 fantastic traders, your regular favourites, and great new companies for 2022 too! We can’t wait to see you there!
*There is no market in June 2022 as the Gloucester Tall Ships will be taking place (3rd – 5th June)

Spring Family Challenge Days: Get Going
2022-05-14 10:00 - 14:00 | Waterways Museum, Llanthony Warehouse, Gloucester Docks, GL1 2EH, United Kingdom
Join the Canal & River Trust Explorers team at the National Waterways Museum Gloucester for a series of Spring Challenge Days. Families will be able to learn a new waterway skill, get competitive, go exploring or discover a new talent. There will be something different each spring Saturday between 10am – 2pm.

14th May – Get going – make your own boats and race them against each other

The challenge days are drop in sessions and are included in the price of your museum entry or free if you have an annual ticket. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Check out our website for access information and how to find us. canalrivertrust.org.uk/gloucester

Your museum ticket lasts for 12-months so when you pay on your first visit, every visit after that is free for 12-months!
Ticket price: Adult (16+) – £8.50; Child (6-15) – £5.00; Child (5 and under) – Free; Family – £20.00; Concession – £7.50.

Polish Heritage Day 2022
2022-05-14 12:00 - 19:00 | Kings Square
The event will take place in the newly redesigned King’s Square in Gloucester city centre from 12pm on Saturday, 14 May.
The day will once again feature traditional Polish food, music, dancing and performances after the 2020 and 2021 editions of the event were cancelled due to the pandemic.

Spring Family Challenge Days: (Don't) Get Lost
2022-05-21 10:00 - 14:00 | Waterways Museum, Llanthony Warehouse, Gloucester Docks, GL1 2EH, United Kingdom
Join the Canal & River Trust Explorers team at the National Waterways Museum Gloucester for a series of Spring Challenge Days. Families will be able to learn a new waterway skill, get competitive, go exploring or discover a new talent. There will be something different each spring Saturday between 10am – 2pm.

21st May – (Don’t) Get lost – learn how to use coordinates and follow instructions to find clues around the museum

The challenge days are drop in sessions and are included in the price of your museum entry or free if you have an annual ticket. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Check out our website for access information and how to find us. canalrivertrust.org.uk/gloucester

Your museum ticket lasts for 12-months so when you pay on your first visit, every visit after that is free for 12-months!
Ticket price: Adult (16+) – £8.50; Child (6-15) – £5.00; Child (5 and under) – Free; Family – £20.00; Concession – £7.50.

Spring Family Challenge Days: Get Arty
2022-05-28 10:00 - 14:00 | Waterways Museum, Llanthony Warehouse, Gloucester Docks, GL1 2EH, United Kingdom
Join the Canal & River Trust Explorers team at the National Waterways Museum Gloucester for a series of Spring Challenge Days. Families will be able to learn a new waterway skill, get competitive, go exploring or discover a new talent. There will be something different each spring Saturday between 10am – 2pm.

28th May – Get Arty – learn how to paint like a narrowboat painter

The challenge days are drop in sessions and are included in the price of your museum entry or free if you have an annual ticket. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Check out our website for access information and how to find us. canalrivertrust.org.uk/gloucester

Your museum ticket lasts for 12-months so when you pay on your first visit, every visit after that is free for 12-months!
Ticket price: Adult (16+) – £8.50; Child (6-15) – £5.00; Child (5 and under) – Free; Family – £20.00; Concession – £7.50.

Gloucester Tall Ships
2022-06-03 10:00 - 2022-06-05 17:00 | Gloucester
Gloucester Tall Ships is back for 2022 with a jam-packed schedule of family fun and entertainment, setting sail over Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee Weekend, Friday 3rd – Sunday 5th June.

As well as performers and entertainers, the free-to-attend festival has a huge range of fantastic traders selling gifts, crafts, street food, drink, homewares and treats, so get ready to enjoy the magnificent maritime action as well as atmosphere, shopping and live music.

An event that inspired Hollywood producers to choose Gloucester Docks as a location to film the 2016 blockbuster Alice Through the Looking Glass, come aboard and see these impressive Tall Ships first hand, experience live battle re-enactments, take a trip on the water and more over this three day event.
BOARDING PASSES
Gloucester Tall Ships is a free to attend event, where everyone is welcome to enjoy a magical maritime display as well as family fun, stalls, entertainment, music, displays and a wide range of food and drinks – all setting sail over Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee Weekend.
If you’d like to board the vast array of tall ships and vessels, you can grab your very own Boarding Pass (£5 per person) – providing two hour access to explore these vessels to your heart’s content. Children under 5 are free for both Boarding Passes and Museum Entry with a paying adult.

Gloucester Shanty Festival 4th-5th June
2022-06-04 11:00 - 2022-06-05 17:00 | Gloucester
Gloucester Sea Shanty Festival to return alongside Tall Ships.

Sea Shanties have become a viral trend on Tik Tok, and now they arrive on Gloucester’s ‘shores’ at the 2022 Gloucester Shanty Festival. Expect lots of rhythmic thigh slapping and catchy nautical folk songs at the event.

It straddles the Queen’s Jubilee weekend of June 4 and 5, and will be playing alongside the Gloucester Tall Ships Festival, the most appropriate of settings. The Docks and pubs will of course be awash with music inspired by seafarers everywhere.

Venues for 2022 are:
The Fountain Inn
Cafe Rene
The Tall Ship
The Imperial Inn
Pilgrims Yard

Acts confirmed for 2022 so far….
Friggitt
LocTup Together
The Steepholmers
Blackthorn Buskers
Kings Shilling Shanty
Gloucester Diamonds
Shanty Time
ReBil
Spinnaker Shanty
High and Dry Shanty
Debra Hannis
Brian of Holcombe
Shropshire Boatmen
Rod Penlington
Lower Deckers Shanty Group
The Rusty Tubs

Beer Festival - Celebrating 10 years at The Pelican
2022-06-09 11:00 - 2022-06-11 22:00 | The Pelican Inn, 4 St Mary's Street, Gloucester, GL1 2QR, United Kingdom
The Pelican will be celebrating their 10th anniversary in June this year.
Hosting a beer festival which will have 35 real ales, 20 traditional ciders, 8 craft kegs.
Live music, ice creams, authentic curry, pork rolls.
Entry is only £5 and includes your first half on Mike, a commemorative glass, a beer list, a Foster’s Whippy ice cream and a 10th anniversary pin badge!

Gloucester Santa Fun Run 2022
2022-12-10 09:30 - 11:30 | Kings Square
Run, Walk, Stroll or Jog a 1 or 5 kilometre course:
We’re back in the city and can’t wait to see you in your festive fancy dress. This year the #GlosSantaFunRun is on Saturday 10th December 2022 outside the old Debenhams Store in Kings Square. Registration from 9.30am for a 10.00 start.
Last year you helped raise over £2,400 for local charities; so let’s see if we can beat that this year!

Gloucester Knife Angel
2023-02-01 00:00 - 2023-02-28 23:00 | Gloucester Cathedral
The 27-foot-high sculpture, made from over 100,000 seized blades is coming to Gloucester in February 2023 as part of its National Anti-Violence Tour. It was created to highlight the negative effects of violent and aggressive behaviour. Not only does it act as a catalyst for turning the tide on such behaviour, it also acts as a beautiful memorial designed to celebrate lives lost through these violent and thoughtless actions.
The Knife Angel will be outside Gloucester’s iconic Cathedral between 1st and 28th February 2023 as part of its National Anti-Violence Tour. The Knife Angel is a huge, stunning contemporary sculpture of an angel made out of confiscated knives received from 43 Police Forces across the UK. It weighs in at a hefty 3.5 tonnes.
Originating from The British Ironwork Centre in Oswestry and created by sculptor Alfie Bradley, it is on tour of towns and cities around Britain raising awareness of the issues of knife crime.
The Knife Angel’s arrival in Gloucester will be backed up by a month-long series of events, workshops and other activities across the city involving a range of organisations and people of all ages and backgrounds. The Knife Angel’s time in Gloucester will commence with an opening ceremony and conclude with a community vigil.

Gloucester Folk Trail 2023
2023-02-17 16:00 - 2023-02-19 22:00 | Various venues across Gloucester City
The Gloucester Folk Trail first arrived in the city in 2018.
Folk musicians, artists and poets from around the county congregate in venues around the city, paying homage to traditional forms of Folk music, performance, entertainment, and arts & crafts.
It is funded and supported by the businesses and venues involved and Gloucester BID.
For further details, including the line up, venues and a gallery of images, click here.

Run or Walk 5K #RunForRamarni
2023-02-20 19:00 - 2023-02-25 20:00 | Butlers Venue Bar, 99 Eastgate Street, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, GL1 1PY, United Kingdom
The power of community spirit fosters support for all families impacted by knife crime.
To coincide with the Knife Angel coming to Gloucester, the family of Ramarni Crosby, who lost his life to knife crime in November 2021, are organising a 5k run each night for a week in his memory.
Starting on Monday 20th to the Sunday 26th February, to coincide with half-term week, you are all invited to join Danny Lee Davis, Ramarni’s Uncle and local Knife Crime activist, to #RunForRamarni on any or all of these evenings.
Meeting at Butlers Bar on Eastgate Street each night at 7pm for a 7.15pm star, ending at The Knife Angel at Gloucester Cathedral Green.
On the last run, Sunday 26th, it will start earlier at Butlers for 4.30pm, run the route until ‘Boots Corner’ up to the Cathedral for a closing community vigil marking the departure of the Knife Angel the following day.
Families of victims who have lost lives to knife crime will be together carrying the ‘Knife Torch’ from ‘Boots Corner’ to Gloucester Cathedral.
Please feel free to come and join us each night from 7pm to run, walk, or just cheer on.
Donations are welcomed but optional. Buckets will be out each evening outside Butlers and all monies donated will be added to the Ramarni Trust Fund to facilitate Gloucester’s fight against knife crime in the City. Knife Angel merchandise will be on sale at the closing vigil and all funds raised will support the legacy fund to continue education and awareness raising post February.
For more information about the Knife Angel and its programme of events in February here.
For more information about the Knife Angel Legacy Fund here.

Tours of the Folk of Gloucester - "If Only Walls Could Talk!"
2023-03-02 11:00 - 12:30 | The Folk of Gloucester, 99-103 Westgate Street, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, GL1 2PG, United Kingdom
Be one of the first to explore this building which was closed for several years! Walk on the squeaky floorboards and smell the history!
Gloucester Civic Trust have taken over this amazing and unique row of three Tudor houses from the City Council and want to bring life back into the buildings and keep them safe for future generations.
Guided tours are now available and tell the stories of the buildings themselves and the people who owned them or worked or lived in them during the last 600 years. The tour guides will be dressed in costume, representing a real person connected to the building.
Find out why someone was hiding in the loft of the coal house, or who received special dispensation from the Privy Council in the sixteenth century. Hear the story about Bishop Hooper and the room he is reputed to have stayed in the night before he was burnt at the stake in 1555.
Who owned and lived in these buildings during the Civil War and the Seige of Gloucester in 1643? Who set up the largest pin making factory in Gloucester here in the 18th Century and exhibited their state-of-the-art machinery in the Great Exhibition in 19th Century? Who was the very last baby to be born here in 20th Century?
And –
Where was the witch’s bottle found?
All these questions will be answered during the tour.
You will also hear about our plans for the future of the buildings which will no longer be a museum but an exhibition and events space and a centre for the local community.
Notes
Please note that the Tour takes about 90 minutes and costs £7 for adults, £3 for children under16 (who must be accompanied by and adult). There is a limit of 10 people on each tour. Book now to avoid disappointment.
Access to the first and second floors is via staircases. There is no lift access. This means the tour is unsuitable for pushchairs, users of wheelchairs and those with limited mobility.
The Café will be open so please come a bit early and support our efforts to keep these beautiful buildings open by buying a cup of tea or coffee before the Tour as the Introduction to the Tour usually starts here.The Folk of Gloucester is managed by Gloucester Civic Trust Limited
Registered in England | Company No.01078805 | Charity No.264719
Registered Office: Bishop Hooper House, 99-103 Westgate Street, Gloucester, GL1 2PG

A Night at the Opera
2023-03-03 19:30 - 21:30 | Gloucester Cathedral
London Concertante present a sensational evening at the opera with an array of the finest opera arias and overtures, including works from Puccini, Verdi, Rossini, and Mozart – some of the best from Madame Butterfly, Turandot, Tosca, The Barber of Seville, Carmen, Cosi fan Tutti and so much more. Presented by Candlelight with some of the country’s greatest opera singers, this truly is an evening not to be missed.

Food & Craft Market
2023-03-04 10:00 - 17:00 | Orchard Square, Gloucester Docks, Gloucester, United Kingdom
Discover the very finest local food, drink, art, design, vintage and modern craft carefully selected from Gloucester artisans and businesses local to the South West.
