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This year we celebrated three decades of connecting communities and helping them discover the stories on their doorstep. Over 1 million visitors enjoyed the 5,427 events organised by our community of thousands of local volunteers and organisations.

This beautiful historic theatre in Cheshire not only knows how to pull in the crowds for a show, but how to engage visitors with its history! Their backstage tours with a local historian are always popular but this year they expanded their repertoire to reach an even wider audience with two new events: a pantomime costume workshop, and a spooky escape room created in collaboration with young adults.

This cultural and community development organisation leads one of our most creative and diverse festival hubs. In addition to using the festival platform to showcase their work in preserving, documenting and celebrating the history of Milton Keynes, they also coordinate the wider local festival network on behalf of the City Council.