Things To Do from the BBC

Things To Do bbc.co.uk/thingstodo lets people find free and non-commercial activities by the BBC and their partners connected to BBC TV, Radio & Campaigns. Visitors to the website can simply enter a postcode and find hundreds of activities going on in their area.

They welcome partners who run on a not-for-profit basis or are a public service organisation to upload their activities and get them publicised for free. If your organisation offers exciting activities that engage children, families and individuals to participate in activities then share them with Things To Do and gain the benefits of publicity through this free BBC Knowledge & Learning website. They want to be sure that partners’ benefit from a long-term partnership with Things To Do.
 
They promote activities run by not-profit organisations across bbc.co.uk as well as getting regular promotions for our site on BBC programmes, channel sites as well as BBC Homepage which attracts over 1 million unique users a day. They have also just launched a widget on all the regional news pages which is sending plenty of traffic to the site to discover the activities on offer.

How do I register and upload? Go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/thingstodo/activitymaker
 
All activities should relate to one of our BBC projects and the sectors that they represent:   
1)      Arts & crafts (Handmade in Britain)
2)      Performance arts & music (London 2012: Festival)
3)      Local history, heritage or culture located in Torch Relay locations (Torch Relay)
4)      Olympic or Paralympic sports (Sports Tasters)
5)      Photographic history (Britain’s First Photo Album)
6)      History & culture of your local area (The Great British Story)
7)      History & culture of Wales (Story of Wales)
8)      General history (Hands on History)
9)      Nature & UK wildlife (Springwatch/Autumnwatch)
10)   Outdoor & adventure (Countryfile)
11)   Dinosaurs & paleontology (Planet Dinosaur)
12)   Coming soon! Science (Bang Goes the Theory)
 
Once you have registered, sign up as a partner against each project that you have suitable activities for and start uploading your activities. If you or another organisation has any questions, please email the team via: activitymaker@bbc.co.uk

All the Bells – Ring a bell for Martin Creed in South Cambridgeshire

Register before 27 July

Take part in one of Turner Prize winner Martin Creeds biggest ever works ‘All the Bells’ by ringing a bell between 8.00am and 8.03am on the morning of Friday 27 July.  Bells of all shapes and sizes are welcome – hand bells, door bells, bicycle bells, church bells, town hall bells, sleigh bells, cow bells, school bells, last orders bells, dinner bells – where there is a bell, Martin Creed would like someone to ring it!  For more information and to register to ring a bell, please visit www.allthebells.com.