Open House Festival is a London-wide festival that opens up and celebrates the city’s architecture, special sites and neighbourhoods, with open days and events taking place across all 33 London boroughs.
To get involved in the festival as a contributor, visitor or volunteer, you’ll need to register for an account. This will then allow you to log into the Open House Festival website. Follow the links below to register for an account, depending on how you’re planning to get involved.
Visitors to the Open House Festival can explore the city’s most remarkable homes, architecture and landscapes, and learn about London’s unique heritage and communities.
Volunteers help contributors to open buildings and run events. Volunteering is a fantastic way to meet people, learn about London’s architecture and visit special places.
If you already have a visitor account, you can convert it to a volunteer account here.
Contributors are the individuals, groups, collectives or organisations who open up a building or run an event during the festival.
Open House Festival is run by Open City, a charity dedicated to making architecture, special sites and neighbourhoods more open, accessible and equitable. If you enjoy the festival and would like to support us to keep staging it, while at the same time enjoying a year-round programme of specially curated tours and events, please consider becoming an Open City Friend.
Your support will enable life-changing educational programmes for children and young people from under-represented communities, help open up critical debate on the big issues that shape the urban landscape today by supporting Open City’s year-round programme of free podcasts, films and advocacy, and help us to keep running the Open House Festival, allowing tens of thousands of people access to places and conversations they are normally locked out of.
If you’d like to know more about the Friends scheme, its benefits and how we use your money, email friends@open-city.org.uk or visit this page.
Open House Festival attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors. We work with leading private and public sector organisations including most London boroughs and the Greater London Authority to engage large audiences with built projects and brands.
If you are interested in becoming an Open House Festival partner, please get in touch by writing to sponsorship@openhouse.org.uk.