Events
Details of events where the Friends of Gressenhall will running activities or will just be available to have a chat about membership or volunteering.
Earth Day - Friday 11 April 2025
At Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse Museum 10:00 - 16:00
Friends of Gressenhall Activities
Friends of Gressenhall will have a stall at this event. Do come and say 'hello'.
There will be a competition to raise money for the Friends: Guess the square where you think the two Suffolk horses are hiding and you could win a voucher to visit the Thursford Collection or a voucher for Family entry for Gressenhall. Just £1 a guess*.
Museum Service Activities
Enjoy crafting, mapping and making with plenty of activity stations across the museum. Meet some experts helping wildlife to thrive, including Norfolk Wildlife Trust, talk: Wildlife and the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society. Learn more aboout what the Northgate Orchard Committee, and much more.
For full details of the event, see the Norfolk Museums Service website.
Dereham Day - Saturday 10 May 2025
At Neatherd High School, Dereham NR20 3AX
Friends of Gressenhall Activities
Friends of Gressenhall will have a stall at this event. Do come and say 'hello'.
There will be a competition to raise money for the Friends: Guess the square where you think the two Suffolk horses are hiding and you could win a voucher to visit the Thursford Collection or a voucher for Family entry for Gressenhall. Just £1 a guess*.
Buy raffle tickets for our Summer Raffle. Lots of brilliant prizes to be won (Draw date: 24 August 2024)
Free to do: Make flower pots and plant sunflower seeds
Spring Fairy Tale - Wednesday 28 May 2025
At Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse Museum
Friends of Gressenhall Activities
Friends of Gressenhall will have a stall at this event where we will be selling handmade crafts, jewellery, crochet keyrings and more, to raise money for the Museum. Do come and say 'hello'.
Buy raffle tickets for our Summer Raffle. Lots of brilliant prizes to be won (Draw date: 24 August 2024)
Museum Service Activities
An event aimed at young families/early years children, inspired by Learning’s Once Upon a Time sessions with activities and crafts across site.
Open Farm Sunday - Sunday 8 June 2025
Free Entry at Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse Museum
Friends of Gressenhall Activities
Friends of Gressenhall will have a stall at this event where we will be selling handmade crafts, jewellery, rare breed crochet keyrings and more.
Win a plant on the Plant tombola or buy raffle tickets for our Summer Raffle. Lots of brilliant prizes to be won (Draw date: 24 August 2024)
Do come and say 'hello'.
Museum Service Activities
Free entry to the site as part of the national LEAF Open Farm Sunday initiative.
Home Front Stories: Norfolk in 1945 - Sunday 24 August 2025
At Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse Museum
Friends of Gressenhall Activities
Buy Raffle tickets for our Summer Raffle. Lots of brilliant prizes to be won (Today is the draw day)!
Museum Service Activities
Bank holiday event focused on what was going on in Norfolk in 1945, e.g. domestic experiences, WLA, ARP, Home Guard, American forces in residence – timed to coincide with 2025’s VE & VJ Day anniversaries.
Battle of Britain Memorial Flight flyover TBC.
Heritage Open Day and Friends of Gressenhall 50th Anniversary - Sunday 21 September 2025
Free entry at Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse Museum
Friends of Gressenhall Activities
We will be running a soft toy tombola, but the whole site will be open to celebrate our 50th Anniversary.
Exact details to follow, but if you are a Friend, or have been a Friend, it is not one to miss!
Museum Service Activities
Free entry to the site as part of the HOD festival nationwide – and in celebration of the Friends of Gressenhall’s 50th anniversary, to the day!
Volunteer teams will be showcasing the skills and expertise they use throughout the year at the Museum. Horses will be working and select visiting partners will join us to celebrate keeping heritage open.
Apple Day - Sunday 12 October 2025
At Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse Museum
Friends of Gressenhall Activities
Buy plants (some which come from the Museum gardens) and crafts made by our volunteers.
Museum Service Activities
Autumn event running since 1991, celebrating heritage fruit, local Norfolk food, farming, folk practices, crafts and traditional living.
* The Suffolk Horse competition closing date is 10 May 2025 at the Dereham Day event.