Inner Space, London’s oasis of calm, welcomes visitors back for the Open House Festival. Join us over two weekends for free Guided Meditations, Personal Development talks and inspiring wellbeing workshops that support and nurture mindfulness, resilience and inner balance. Take a moment to pause in our Quiet Room, a space that will leave you feeling reconnected, refreshed, uplifted, and renewed.

The first purpose-built new-build community centre to be built in the heart of Soho for generations, located within the renowned Phoenix Gardens. Winner: RIBA London Award. Designed by RIBA London Architect of the Year Winner.

Office Sian Architecture + Design, 2018

Built in a Renaissance style with high level Diocletian windows and a prominent grand cupola. In 2016 a new Fly Tower opened followed by remodelling of the auditorium in 2018 and the creation of a new basement space opened in 2022.

Bennetts Associates, 2022

A Church of Scotland in London, home to the longest-established Presbyterian congregation in London, worshipping in this location in Covent Garden since 1719. The current building is red brick with Portland stone dressings in a restrained, finely crafted Free Style. Three storeys, recessed slated attic, mullioned and transomed windows. Fine stained glass, most of which is by Farrar Bell.

Eustace Balfour, 1909

This year marks the 52nd anniversary of when the wholesale market ceased trading and moved to the Battersea/Vauxhall area . The tour charts the evolution of Covent Garden, incorporating the piazza, the wholesale produce market, social residential areas and supporting neighbourhoods, and highlighting the social and commercial highs, lows and challenges. Contact tonyganio@gmail.com

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The area post 1700 became very cosmopolitan with immigrants mainly from Europe, and their influence on food and drink became increasingly important. This tour is based on food and drink, passing by restaurants, pubs, coffee bars, pâtisserie and delis that have been present for decades, finishing at a relatively new site.

Three centuries of Quakers in Westminster. Opened in 1883, with front doors added in the 1920s. It was bomb-damaged in 1941 and rebuilt in 1956. Grade II listed registered place of worship, it contains a peaceful meeting room and 1950s wood panelling and fittings.

W. W. Lee and J. A. Tregelles, 1883

Drawing Matter explores the role of drawing in architectural thought and practice. Central to our activities is the Drawing Matter Collection of many thousands of architectural and design drawings from across the world, dating from the Renaissance to the present day.

Come and look behind the scenes at our London Film School studios on Parker Street. Based above the Garden Cinema, a stone's throw from Covent Garden, the building has recently been refurbished to bespoke studios, edit suites and classrooms for the world-renowned British film school.

Chris Ager and Chris Thorne, 1930

The Smallest Gallery in Soho is a historic shop-front which faces onto 62 Dean Street, in the heart of Soho. The aim of this creative space is to display artwork that captures people’s attention on their journey through Soho and encourage them to stop, think and be inspired. The art displays are only to be viewed from the street and can be seen at any time of the day for free.

, 1911

Discover the many ordinary and working class people who lived and worked in Bloomsbury. Join me on a tour of Bloomsbury's mews and back streets to learn about slum quarters and social housing, street traders and factories, listening to marginalised voices from the time along the way.