About Our Workshops
There are thousands of brilliant workshops happening across the UK.
The problem is finding them.
They live on individual websites, booking platforms, Facebook pages, Instagram accounts, village hall noticeboards, and in the heads of people who already know where to look.
Our Workshops is here to bring them together.
Find Something You'd Love to Try
Our Workshops is a UK-wide directory for workshops.
Pottery. Cookery. Photography. Floristry. Foraging. Writing. Woodwork. Wellbeing. Money skills. Theatre. Gardening. Technology. Jewellery making.
And all the wonderfully specific, slightly unusual things that don’t fit neatly into a list.
The idea is simple: make it easier to discover workshops you might actually want to do.
You can search for something you already know you’re interested in, find workshops near you, or browse until something makes you think:
“Oh. I’d quite like to try that.”
That’s exactly what we’re hoping for.
What Do We Mean by a Workshop?
We’re interested in things you take part in.
A workshop should generally be:
Participatory. Guided. Purposeful.
You might make something, learn something, practise a skill, explore an idea, solve a problem, or simply try something you’ve never done before.
You don’t need to already be good at it.
In fact, not being good at it yet is rather the point.
Helping Independent Workshop Providers Get Found
Our Workshops is also here for the people running all these things.
Many workshops are run by independent makers, artists, teachers, experts, studios, small businesses, community organisations, and people with an interesting skill they know how to share.
Getting those workshops in front of the right people isn’t always easy.
So we’ve deliberately kept our model simple.
Providers can list their workshops throughout the year, and when somebody wants to know more or book, we send them directly to the provider.
We’re not trying to sit in the middle of the booking.
We don’t take a commission from workshop bookings.
We're Building This
Our Workshops is new.
That means the directory will grow as we discover workshops, providers join us, and people tell us about things we’re missing.
We’d rather be open about that than pretend we already know about every brilliant workshop happening in every corner of the UK.
If you know one we should know about, tell us.
If you run one, definitely tell us.
And if you discover something through Our Workshops that you’d never have thought to search for yourself, then this is doing exactly what we built it to do.
Learn Something. Make Something. Try Something Different.
You don’t need a five-year plan for your new hobby.
You don’t even need a new hobby.
Sometimes spending an afternoon learning to make sourdough, print a lino cut, identify wild mushrooms, take better photographs, understand your pension, or throw a slightly questionable pot is enough.
Go and try something.