What's On in Oxfordshire

The Christmas Experience

Venue: Roves Farm

Website: www.rovesfarm.co.uk

Try your hand at making a delicious treat for Rudolph and friends. And don’t miss the amazing Elf Show, featuring some much-loved Christmas characters.Hop aboard Father Christmas’ sleigh for a photo...

Youth Theatre School Years 1-6 (Autumn 2024)

Venue: Cornerstone Arts Centre

Website: www.cornerstone-arts.org

This fun and energetic class explores various theatre techniques to help children and young people of all abilities to develop their artistic, personal and social skills. Participants will be encouraged...

Better Holiday Activities

Venue: Various locations in Oxfordshire

Website: www.better.org.uk

Better offer a range of term-time holiday activities for kids that help them learn about fitness and develop keys skills while having fun at the same time. From tots to teens, find activities to keep your...

Birthday Parties at Milletts Falconry Centre

Venue: Milletts Falconry Centre

Website: www.milletswildside.co.uk/hire-us/birthday-parties

A birthday party at Millets Farm Falconry Centre is a great way to celebrate! From time spent with the birds of prey,to Meerkats or reptiles, they have the experience and the ability to offer a tailor-made...

Cranford House School

Venue: Cranford House School

Website: www.cranfordschool.co.uk

With unbeatable pastoral care and superb facilities for sport and the performing arts, Cranford’s pupils enjoy educational excellence. To discover first-hand what a Cranford education can offer your...

d'Overbroeck's Oxford

Venue: d'Overbroeck's Oxford

Address: 333 Banbury Rd

Website: www.doverbroecks.com

A high-achieving day and boarding school for 11 to 18-year-olds, d’Overbroeck’s offers a progressive education that unlocks each student’s unique academic and personal potential.They run a series...

Family Days

Venue: Science Oxford Centre

Website: www.scienceoxford.com/whats-on/family-days

Explore, discover and play in the Exploration Zone, where children and grown-ups alike have fun experimenting with interactive exhibits every Saturday. Enjoy spooky woodland pumpkin hunt Sat 26 Oct and...

Family-Friendly Sundays

Venue: Museum of Natural History

Website: www.oumnh.web.ox.ac.uk/event/family-friendly-sundays-103

Join this Sunday afternoon of nature-themed activity backpacks, crafts, family-friendly trails, and more! All provided by Museum volunteers. Drop-in, no booking needed.

Go-Kart Party

Venue: Various venues

Website: www.gokart-party.co.uk

Go-Kart Party will delight both boys and girls aged 4-11 using unique electric go-karts driven by your little racers around an inflatable track. They hold parties indoors or outdoors (weather permitting)...

Holiday Clubs of Oxfordshire

Venue: Oxford University Sport

Address: Iffley Road Sports Centre

Website: www.holidayclubsofoxfordshire.co.uk

At Holiday Clubs of Oxfordshire their aim is to provide fun, engaging activities for children to enjoy during the school holidays. At Oxford University Sport, the children have access to world-class facilities...

Kumon Free Assessment

Venue: Various venues

Website: www.kumon.co.uk

Designed to help any child, of any ability, realise their potential and become an enthusiastic learner. Through daily worksheet study and Instructor guidance, your child will work at the 'just-right' level...

Minecraft Church

Venue: Kidlington Methodist Church

Website: www.kidlingtonmethodists.org.uk

Minecraft Church is a creative style of church in which adults and children explore stories from the Bible together. Usually on the fourth Sunday of the month at 3pm, but do check before going, especially...

NOX Gym

Venue: NOX Gym

Website: www.noxgymnastics.com

Somersaults, backflips, twisting acrobatics, pitching and catching, tempo, balance work: Acrobatic Gymnastics is dynamic beauty and static excellence. Set to music on a 12x12m floor, it mixes choreography...

Open Mornings and Visits

Venue: Cokethorpe School

Website: www.cokethorpe.org

Whether at the earliest stages of learning or in the final preparations for A Levels, expert consideration is given to the approaches to learning at each stage of a pupil’s academic development at Cokethorpe.Visit...

Oxford Active

Venue: Various venues

Website: www.oxfordactive.co.uk

Action-packed camps in Oxfordshire for children aged 4-14, featuring multi-sports, swimming, arts and crafts, and more! Their camps provide care from 8.15am to 6pm, all-inclusive, with flexible pick-up...

Retro Games Night

Venue: The Light

Address: Spiceball Park Road, Banbury

Website: www.banbury.thelight.co.uk/whatson

Visit the Lower Decks every Monday from 4pm to play some of your favourite retro games, including Jenga, Scrabble, Uno, Jumanji and lots more! Free to attend.

STEM Saturday Club

Venue: The Engineering Skills Academy

Website: www.satstemclub.org

Designed for 8-13 year olds who have an interest in STEM, the Saturday club courses run for 11 weeks during term time. Kids explore and complete fun STEM projects, with the aim to link what they do during...

Swim School of Oxfordshire

Venue: Oxford High School and Oxford University Sports Centre

Website: www.swimschoolofoxfordshire.co.uk

Following the Swim England Learn to Swim Framework and providing fully qualified Swim England Swimming Instructors they teach a valuable life skill whilst also promoting fun and fitness. They currently...

TCC2 Thame Children's Choir

Venue: John Hampden School

Website: www.tcc2.org.uk

A choir for any child from Thame and the surrounding area who loves to sing. It provides a unique opportunity for children not only to sing together but also to challenge their minds and their voices,...

Jack and the Beanstalk

Venue: Chipping Norton Theatre

Website: www.chippingnortontheatre.com

Chipping Norton Theatre’s famous Christmas panto reaches for the clouds with the most gigantic panto of them all. Join them on their giant adventures to the Viking kingdom of Smorgasbord with young Jack,...

Christmas at Blenheim Palace

Venue: Blenheim Palace

Website: www.blenheimpalace.com

Discover a festive atmosphere like no other at Blenheim Palace in 2024. The historic Palace and Gardens will once again come alive with thousands of twinkling lights, seasonal scents, sparkling baubles...

The Great Skate

Venue: Blenheim Palace

Website: www.blenheimpalace.com

This Christmas, make memories that last a lifetime with The Great Skate at Blenheim Palace, a brand-new experience for 2024. For the first time ever, come to skate with family and friends in the Palace's...

Santa's Grotto

Venue: Webbs Garden Centre

Website: www.milletsfarmcentre.com/santas-grotto-at-webbs-garden-centre

Webbs Garden Centre will once again be hosting their Santas Grotto event from November through to Christmas Eve.Join them for an elf-tastic adventure where you’ll complete fun festive tasks to prove...

Sleeping Beauty

Venue: Oxford Playhouse

Website: www.oxfordplayhouse.com

We all know the story of Sleeping Beauty, right? Evil fairy curses baby, baby grows into a beautiful teenage princess, princess pricks her finger on a spindle and... time travels across 1000 years. Oh...

Christmas Fairytale

Venue: Fairytale Farm

Website: www.fairytalefarm.co.uk

Step into the enchanting world of the Christmas Fairytale 2024, where the magic of the season comes alive with every twinkling light and festive experience.Tickets are available exclusively online, and...

Find Santa’s Reindeer

Venue: Waterperry Gardens

Website: www.waterperrygardens.co.uk

Help Rudolph find his friends who are lost all around the gardens! £3.95 per child with a prize. Children must be accompanied by an adult for whom the normal garden entrance fee applies. Open 10am until...

Real Reindeer

Venue: Waterperry Gardens

Website: www.waterperrygardens.co.uk

For this one weekend you will have the opportunity to meet real reindeer at Waterperry Gardens. You will be able to get very close, have photos taken and even feed them. Knowledgeable handlers will be...

Adopt a bird

Venue: Milletts Falconry Centre

Website: www.milletswildside.co.uk

Why not adopt an animal as a present? Perfect for birthdays, Christmas, Mothering Sunday. When you adopt your favourite bird at the centre, you will receive an adoption pack welcoming you to the Millets...

Be Yourself, Be Amazing at Pauline Quirke Academy of Performing Arts

Venue: Various locations

Website: www.pqacademy.com

Your child will get hands-on with professional filmmaking equipment in their Film & TV classes, and write their own monologues and comedy sketches in their Comedy & Drama module.PQA offer everyone the...

Better Holiday Activities

Venue: Various locations in Oxfordshire

Website: www.better.org.uk

Better offer a range of term-time holiday activities for kids that help them learn about fitness and develop keys skills while having fun at the same time. From tots to teens, find activities to keep your...

Birthday Parties at Milletts Falconry Centre

Venue: Milletts Falconry Centre

Website: www.milletswildside.co.uk/hire-us/birthday-parties

A birthday party at Millets Farm Falconry Centre is a great way to celebrate! From time spent with the birds of prey,to Meerkats or reptiles, they have the experience and the ability to offer a tailor-made...

Choristerships in New College

Venue: Choir of New College Oxford

Website: www.newcollegechoir.com

The choir recruits boys aged between 7 and 13 from the local area, who attend New College School - a day school near the college Auditions are held each January for boys in school Year 2 (aged between...

Creative Courage for Life at Stagecoach

Venue: Various venues Oxford

Website: www.stagecoach.co.uk

Students can expect a warm and friendly welcome at their local Stagecoach Performing Arts school.Classes usually run for 12 weeks during the school term. Each class is small to allow teachers and their...

d'Overbroeck's Oxford

Venue: d'Overbroeck's Oxford

Address: 333 Banbury Rd

Website: www.doverbroecks.com

A high-achieving day and boarding school for 11 to 18-year-olds, d’Overbroeck’s offers a progressive education that unlocks each student’s unique academic and personal potential.They run a series...

Discover the Fun of the Sparks Film Set

Venue: Oxford High School

Website: www.sparksarts.co.uk/about-us/film-school-locations/oxford

Join Sparks Filmmaking Classes for ages 7-14. In fun, friendly classes, students learn about every aspect of filmmaking, from screenwriting, shooting, editing and starring on screen too. Their next term...

Family Days

Venue: Science Oxford Centre

Website: www.scienceoxford.com/whats-on/family-days

Explore, discover and play in the Exploration Zone, where children and grown-ups alike have fun experimenting with interactive exhibits every Saturday. Enjoy spooky woodland pumpkin hunt Sat 26 Oct and...

Family-Friendly Sundays

Venue: Museum of Natural History

Website: www.oumnh.web.ox.ac.uk/event/family-friendly-sundays-103

Join this Sunday afternoon of nature-themed activity backpacks, crafts, family-friendly trails, and more! All provided by Museum volunteers. Drop-in, no booking needed.

Go-Kart Party

Venue: Various venues

Website: www.gokart-party.co.uk

Go-Kart Party will delight both boys and girls aged 4-11 using unique electric go-karts driven by your little racers around an inflatable track. They hold parties indoors or outdoors (weather permitting)...

Holiday Clubs of Oxfordshire

Venue: Oxford University Sport, Iffley Road Sports Centre

Website: www.holidayclubsofoxfordshire.co.uk

Holiday Clubs of Oxfordshire aim is to provide fun, engaging activities for children during the school holidays. Within the surroundings of Oxford University Sport, the children have access to world-class...

Kumon Free Assessment

Venue: Various venues

Website: www.kumon.co.uk

Designed to help any child, of any ability, realise their potential and become an enthusiastic learner. Through daily worksheet study and Instructor guidance, your child will work at the 'just-right' level...

Merry Christmas from Dry Kids

Venue: Online

Website: www.drykids.co.uk

At Dry Kids, they all love the Christmas holidays. It's the ideal time to get your outdoor gear on and go and have family fun together enjoying the crisp winter weather! Dry Kids' waterproofs are generously...

Minecraft Church

Venue: Kidlington Methodist Church

Website: www.kidlingtonmethodists.org.uk

Minecraft Church is a creative style of church in which adults and children explore stories from the Bible together. Usually on the fourth Sunday of the month at 3pm, but do check before going, especially...

NOX Gym

Venue: NOX Gym

Website: www.noxgymnastics.com

Somersaults, backflips, twisting acrobatics, pitching and catching, tempo, balance work: Acrobatic Gymnastics is dynamic beauty and static excellence. Set to music on a 12x12m floor, it mixes choreography...

Out of the Deep

Venue: Museum of Natural History

Website: www.oumnh.web.ox.ac.uk/event/weekly-out-of-the-deep

Join this family-friendly specimen handling and explore the underwater world of marine reptiles. Drop-in, no booking needed. Suitable for all ages. Every Saturday in 2024 except 28 December.

Oxford Active

Venue: Various venues

Website: www.oxfordactive.co.uk

Action-packed camps in Oxfordshire for children aged 4-14, featuring multi-sports, swimming, arts and crafts, and more! Their camps provide care from 8.15am to 6pm, all-inclusive, with flexible pick-up...

Retro Games Night

Venue: The Light

Address: Spiceball Park Road, Banbury

Website: www.banbury.thelight.co.uk/whatson

Visit the Lower Decks every Monday from 4pm to play some of your favourite retro games, including Jenga, Scrabble, Uno, Jumanji and lots more! Free to attend.

STEM Saturday Club

Venue: The Engineering Skills Academy

Website: www.satstemclub.org

Designed for 8-13 year olds who have an interest in STEM, the Saturday club courses run for 11 weeks during term time. Kids explore and complete fun STEM projects, with the aim to link what they do during...

Storytime at The Mill

Venue: The Mill Sonning

Website: www.millatsonning.com

Go along on Wednesday mornings for children’s Storytime. The bar is open from 10am and the story begins at 10.30am. Enjoy a magical experience as pre-school children are treated to a story and singing...

Summer Fields Oxford

Venue: Summer Fields Oxford

Website: www.summerfields.com

Summer Fields, a leading day and boarding school for boys aged 4-13, offers a setting that encourages curiosity, confidence, and learning. The school welcomes new pupils from Reception to Year 7. Register...

Swim School of Oxfordshire

Venue: Oxford High School and Oxford University Sports Centre

Website: www.swimschoolofoxfordshire.co.uk

Swim School of Oxfordshire provide intensive swimming courses and weekly lessons to adults and children seven days a week. Following the Swim England Learn to Swim Framework and providing fully qualified...

TCC2 Thame Children's Choir

Venue: John Hampden School

Website: www.tcc2.org.uk

A choir for any child from Thame and the surrounding area who loves to sing. It provides a unique opportunity for children not only to sing together but also to challenge their minds and their voices,...

Wychwood School

Venue: Wychwood School

Website: www.wychwoodschool.org

Wychwood School is a co-educational day and boarding school for pupils aged 11-18 in the heart of Oxford. For pupils in years 5 and 6, the Wychwood Inspires Saturday programme offers free sessions designed...

Appleton Players present: A Sherlock Carol

Venue: Appleton Village Hall, Abingdon

Website: www.experienceoxfordshire.org/event/appleton-players-present-a-sherlock-carol

Join the Appleton Players for a merry mash-up of two beloved classic tales – a heartwarming treat for all ages! £12 (£10 with concessions).

Stargazing at The Clumps

Venue: Earth Trust Centre

Website: www.earthtrust.org.uk/events/stargazing

Explore the incredible dark skies above Wittenham Clumps and take in the wonders of the universe, at this stargazing event led by the friendly and enthusiastic team of astronomers from Newbury Astronomical...

Cogges Christmas Market

Venue: Cogges Manor Farm

Website: www.cogges.org.uk

The sparkly season begins with the Cogges Christmas Market with two barns and a farmyard full of beautiful artisan crafts, gifts and homewares with a difference. Make magical memories and visit Christmas...

Roves Farm Christmas Experience

Venue: Roves Farm

Website: www.rovesfarm.co.uk

Enter a wintery scene, where you will be met by one of the elves. You will then be taken through the magical Grotto to meet the man himself.  This is a 1 to 1 visit for each family/group. Selected dates....

Santa’s Christmas Cracker

Venue: The Kenton

Website: www.thekenton.org.uk

Join Father Christmas and friends for a fun, festive, musical adventure to discover the wonder of Christmas – you may even get to pull a cracker with Dotty the Elf! Afterwards the adventure continues...

Science Saturday

Venue: Museum of Natural History

Website: www.oumnh.ox.ac.uk/event/science-saturday-51

Enjoy hands-on science-based activities for families, and explore a range of topics from insects to fossils, skeletons to rocks and minerals.This activity is designed for children aged 8+ and is not suitable...

Steam into Christmas and help Santa find his missing reindeer

Venue: Didcot Railway Centre

Website: www.didcotrailwaycentre.org.uk

Santa has lost all his reindeer and needs you to help him find them so he can deliver the presents on Christmas Eve. Visit Santa in his toy workshop with his mischievous elves, take unlimited train rides...

Steam into Christmas and help Santa find his missing reindeer

Venue: Didcot Railway Centre

Website: www.didcotrailwaycentre.org.uk

Santa has lost all his reindeer and needs you to help him find them so he can deliver the presents on Christmas Eve. Visit Santa in his toy workshop with his mischievous elves, take unlimited train rides...

Disney's The Muppet Christmas Carol in Concert Live to Film

Venue: New Theatre Oxford

Website: www.atgtickets.com

Disney’s The Muppet Christmas Carol in Concert Live to Film will be kicking off the festive period with a screening of the complete film with the musical score performed live to the film.

Hansel and Gretel

Venue: The North Wall

Website: www.creationtheatre.co.uk

Creation Theatre are transforming The North Wall into a winter wonderland full of magic, mystery, and misadventure. Join Hansel, Grettel, and a host of bewitching characters and feathered friends as they...

Nutcracker

Venue: The Kenton

Website: www.thekenton.org.uk/events/nutcracker

The Let’s All Dance Ballet company creates high quality, accessible and fun productions for children and families. Their narrative and character led shows are easy to understand, exciting and inspiring....

The Nutcracker

Venue: The Mill Arts Centre

Website: www.themillartscentre.co.uk

Join Clara and her heroic Nutcracker Prince as they encounter wondrous snowflakes, delightful dancing dolls, waltzing flowers, a magnificent Christmas tree that seemingly touches the heavens and, of course,...

101 Dalmatians

Venue: New Theatre Oxford

Website: www.atgtickets.com

When fashionista Cruella de Vil plots to swipe all the Dalmatian puppies in town to create her fabulous new fur coat, there’s trouble ahead for Pongo and Perdi. This classic canine caper is brought to...

Hurry Up Father Christmas!

Venue: Oxford Playhouse

Website: www.oxfordplayhouse.com

From the creative team that brought you last year’s production Dear Father Christmas comes this interactive show for children aged 3 to 6 years. Join them at the North Pole for stories, songs, activities,...

The Gruffalo

Venue: The Mill Arts Centre

Website: www.themillartscentre.co.uk

Join Mouse on a daring adventure through the deep, dark wood in Tall Stories’ magical, musical adaptation of the classic picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. Songs, laughs and monstrous...

Christmas at Cogges

Venue: Cogges Manor Farm

Website: www.cogges.org.uk/Event/christmas-cogges

Meet Father Christmas and his elves in Santa's Grotto, with story time and a gift for every child. As dusk approaches, visit for the 'Later' session where a Festive Light Trail brings magical surprises...

Christmas Fair

Venue: Oxford Botanic Garden

Website: www.obga.ox.ac.uk/event/christmas-fair

The Christmas Fair returns to Oxford Botanic Garden for two days of festive shopping and entertainment plus a variety of local craftspeople, suppliers, and producers. There will be live music, delicious...

Christmas Market

Venue: Fison Barn, Earth Trust Centre

Website: www.earthtrust.org.uk/events/christmas-market

Step into a world of sustainable delights, inspired by the natural world, crafting the perfect Christmas atmosphere. Stroll through the stalls of carefully chosen makers, designers and crafters to find...

December Christmas Market

Venue: Waterperry Gardens

Website: www.waterperrygardens.co.uk

Includes Arts and Craft Stalls with gorgeous handmade gift ideas and festive food and drink all nestled under cover in the plant area with Christmas shopping from the Gallery, Gift Barn, Christmas Shop...

Digestion Detectives

Venue: The Yang Science Centre

Address: Abingdon School

Website: www.scienceoxford.com

Discover the secrets of your stomach and follow the amazing journey of food through your body! Have you ever wondered what happens to your food after you eat it? Follow the tum-trail: make a model of the...

Festive Weekend

Venue: Chiltern Open Air Museum

Website: www.coam.org.uk/events/festive-weekend

The Museum’s collection of historic buildings will be decorated traditionally for Christmas with ivy, natural foliage, and candles.Tudor re-enactors will be bringing the site to life showing pre-Christmas...

One Snowy Christmas Eve with Korky Paul

Venue: The Woodshed

Address: The Story Museum

Website: www.storymuseum.org.uk

Get ready for the festive season and come and discover the real story of Father Christmas! Join the amazing illustrator Korky Paul as he shares his new picture book in an event that will feature stacks...

Pie Protectors

Venue: Science Oxford Centre

Website: www.scienceoxford.com

Code and create a security system to protect your festive pies from peckish elves! With the help of a bite-sized BBC micro:bit and a dollop of imagination, use pressure-sensors and motion detection alarms...

The Snowman Live with Wantage Silver Band

Venue: The Beacon Wantage

Website: www.beaconwantage.co.uk

Join the award winning, championship section Wantage Brass Band in a family Christmas concert featuring the best festive tunes. The concert with centre around a performance of the soundtrack to the 1982...

An Elf Advent-ure

Venue: Cornerstone Arts Centre

Website: www.cornerstone-arts.org

This magical, multi-sensory theatre experience is for 0-3 years olds and their families, championing the wonderful values of advent: Hope, Peace, Love and Joy - and all the fun in-between! This ‘magical’...

Poems and Carols

Venue: Former United Reform Church

Address: Summertown

Website: www.creationtheatre.co.uk/show/poems-and-carols

Join Creation for a very special evening of poems and carols. Their favourite actors, creatives and collaborators will be gathering to read a selection of Christmas poems, and lead in the singing of some...

The Doorstop Elves: The Elves and the Magic Bear

Venue: The Mill Sonning

Website: www.millatsonning.com

The Doorstep Elves are bringing their sell out show to Sonning this Christmas. Following the 35 minute performance, every child will have the opportunity to meet the elves, get a nice list certificate...

Chandlings Prep Open Morning

Venue: Chandlings Prep

Website: www.chandlingspst.org

You are warmly invited to join Chandlings Prep, a co-educational school for children aged 2 to 11 years, for their Early Years Christmas Open Morning 9.30-11.30am. Book your place on their website at chandlingspst.org/open-mornings....

Home Educator Days

Venue: Science Oxford Centre

Website: www.scienceoxford.com

Engaging and educational opportunities for home educators. Tailored for home schooling the events, activities and hands-on experiments aim to ignite curiosity and engage critical thinking and scientific...

The Elves and the Shoemaker

Venue: Pegasus Theatre

Website: www.wildboor.com/whats-on

From the team that brought you Winnie and Wilbur - A Christmas Adventure comes a brand-new sing-along, interactive show full of silliness, puppetry and fun. Perfect family fun for children aged 2-8. Run...

Christmas Jumper Day 2024

Venue: Nationwide

Website: www.savethechildren.org.uk

It’s super-simple to take part on Christmas Jumper Day. All you have to do is sign up, put the date in your calendar then on Thursday 12 December, put on your favourite Christmas jumper, donate £2 to...

Experience Christmas Magic at Orchard Centre

Venue: Orchard Centre

Website: www.orchardcentre.co.uk

Experience Christmas Magic at the Snow Globe in-centre on 14 and 15 December, between 10am and 4pm. You can secure a spot for Experience Christmas Magic at Santa’s Grotto on 21, 22 and 23 December, with...

Play2Give's Christmas Fayre

Venue: Cornerstone Arts Centre

Website: www.cornerstone-arts.org

Join Play2Give's Christmas Faye with around 20 stalls in total inside the building and outside in the courtyard, along with Santa, choirs, musicians and fun entertainers!This festive event will raise money...

Snow White

Venue: The Kenton

Website: www.thekenton.org.uk/events/snow-white

This fun-filled festive extravaganza is bursting at the seams with all the ingredients audiences have come to expect from our much-loved pantomimes: dazzling costumes, spectacular dance routines, a hilarious...

Sparkling Science

Venue: Science Oxford Centre

Website: www.scienceoxford.com

Experiment with liquids to grow crystals and paint your own crystal art. Every snowflake is unique! Investigate how ice crystals form these tiny structures and make your own 2D and 3D paper decorations...

A Christmas Carol - Performed by Gerald Dickens

Venue: Didcot Railway Centre

Website: www.didcotrailwaycentre.org.uk

Gerald is an actor, author director and producer and is the great great grandson of the author Charles Dickens. In 1993 he created his first one-man show, a theatrical performance of A Christmas Carol...

A Christmas Carol - performed by Gerald Dickens

Venue: Didcot Railway Centre

Website: www.didcotrailwaycentre.org.uk

Back for the second year after a sell out performance in 2023, Gerald is pleased to return to Didcot Railway Centre for 2024. Gerald is an actor, author director and producer and is the great great grandson...

Cinderella

Venue: Cornerstone Arts Centre

Website: www.cornerstone-arts.org

The enchanting tale of Cinderella will be dazzling audiences with all the delights of a traditional pantomime. Oh yes it will! This sparkling production promises to entertain families for the festive season....

Cinderella Ice Cream Seller

Venue: The Story Museum

Website: www.storymuseum.org.uk/whats-on/cinderella-ice-cream-seller

In this new musical for families and children, join Talvi and Caldwell, loyal employees of Cinderella’s, as they share her rags to riches tale, and confront their own desires, hopes, and the magic that...

Elves Workshop

Venue: Millets Farm Centre

Website: www.milletsfarmcentre.com/elves-workshop

Children can enjoy stuffing their very own snowman to take home with them. Once completed they will journey to the story room where the Head Elf “Chip” will dance and sing Santa’s favourite songs...

Little Robin Red Vest

Venue: Bicester Leisure Centre

Website: www.themillartscentre.co.uk

Join Mill Arts for this brand-new adaptation aimed at children aged 2-6 and their families. Using original songs, puppetry and integrated Makaton, the playful performers will share this heartwarming tale...

Santa Cruises

Venue: Hobbs of Henley

Website: www.hobbsofhenley.com

Hobbs of Henley Santa Cruises are back once again due to popular demand.These cruises are from £16 per person and are running at 9.30-11am, 11.45am-1.15pm and 2-3.30pm. For magic and lots of festive,...

Santa Cruises

Venue: Hobbs of Henley

Website: www.hobbsofhenley.com

Hobbs of Henley Santa Cruises are back once again due to popular demand.These cruises are from £16 per person and are running at 9.30-11am, 11.45am-1.15pm and 2-3.30pm. For magic and lots of festive,...

A Winter’s Tail

Venue: The Beacon Wantage

Website: www.beaconwantage.co.uk

Led by The Last Baguette theatre company, A Winter’s Tail is a fun, relaxed play-along theatre adventure. Expect to play, move, watch and laugh. The show lasts 1 hour including a stay and play session,...

NW Inventors: Lantern Making Workshop

Venue: The North Wall

Website: www.thenorthwall.com

Join NW Inventors to make beautiful willow lanterns. All materials (including lights) will be provided.They aim to create a welcoming and inclusive space for all young people to flourish and work alongside...

The Stealer of Stories Performance

Venue: Miletts Farm Centre

Website: www.milletsfarmcentre.com/christmas-performance

Millets Farm are delighted to be welcoming local theatre group, WhatNot Theatre to site this Christmas with their interactive, family friendly performance of ‘The Stealer of Stories’ that is filled...

Theatre and Creativity Christmas Workshops

Venue: St Peter's Church

Website: www.creationtheatre.co.uk/school-of-creativity

Creation Theatre are offering 1-day workshops for ages 6-12 including Hansel and Gretel in a Day, Comedy Masterclass, Circus Skills Masterclass.

Rapunzel

Venue: The Kenton

Website: www.thekenton.org.uk

With more hirsute jokes than you can shake a comb at, this Panto is Head and Shoulders above the rest. Expect the normal HCT humour as this Tangled Tale is unspun by a jolly, and exuberant cast, including...

Sensory-friendly Family Days

Venue: Science Oxford Centre

Website: www.scienceoxford.com

Sensory-Friendly Family Days are designed to better accommodate and support families who experience autism and/or have other additional needs. Explore, discover, and play in the Exploration Zone, where...

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Venue: New Theatre Oxford

Website: www.atgtickets.com

The multi award-winning show has been performed hundreds of thousands of times including multiple runs in the West End and on Broadway, international tours in over 80 countries worldwide and has become...

OXOPS presents Cinderella

Venue: New Theatre Oxford

Website: www.atgtickets.com

OXOPS are thrilled to return to the New Theatre, Oxford with Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella.Based upon the classic fairy-tale, Cinderella tells the story of a young woman forced into servitude...

This is Us Cartoon Workshop

Venue: The Story Museum

Website: www.storymuseum.org.uk

A family autism and SEND-friendly workshop with The Cartoon Museum. Using simple templates you will draw a cartoon version of yourself, complete with speech bubbles and then work together to create a giant...

Lambing

Venue: Roves Farm

Website: www.rovesfarm.co.uk

Spend some time on the viewing walkway looking out over the lambing shed as the day’s action unfolds. You may be lucky enough to see a lamb or two being born. Once all ewes have lambed, Meet the Lambs...

The Manor Preparatory School

Venue: The Manor Preparatory School

Website: www.manorprep.org

The Manor Preparatory School in Abingdon is holding its annual Pre-Prep Open Day on Saturday 25th January 2025, 10-11.30am. This is a great opportunity to visit The Manor to find out how every child, from...

The Dragon's Visit

Venue: The Woodshed

Address: The Story Museum

Website: www.storymuseum.org.uk

Take a sensory journey through J.R.R. Tolkien's The Dragon’s Visit, inspired by The Story Museum's Here Be Dragons exhibition. In this interactive workshop, use all your senses to explore the story and...

Beauty and the Beast

Venue: Cooper School Hall

Address: Bicester

Website: www.ticketsources.co.uk/lvp

The Launton Village Players put on a pantomime every February with all profits donated to the Hummingbird Centre, a cancer support and therapy centre. Not only does it help us raise money for good causes,...