The six week holidays in Sheffield city centre 🌞
There's plenty to keep everyone entertained in Sheffield city centre over the six week holidays 👏
As part of this special feature we've pulled together some of the many highlights that are on offer at the back end of July and throughout August to help make the most of the coming weeks.
Simply scroll down to see what's happening week-by-week (or click the week you're most interested in) to find some suitable inspiration for your next visit to the city centre 🤩
Listings by week
📅 Week 1 - w/c Monday 22 July
📅 Week 2 - w/c Monday 29 July
📅 Week 3 - w/c Monday 5 August
📅 Week 4 - w/c Monday 12 August
📅 Week 5 - w/c Monday 19 August
📅 Week 6 - w/c Monday 26 August
Or how about? 🤔
🤩 Events and activities at the city centre's top attractions
🔥 Special six week holiday offers
Ready? Let's go!
This week's highlights include:
Paddington’s Holiday 💼
A fun treasure hunt around the store. Can you find Paddington's holiday belongings that have been hidden around the children's section? Find all of the items and claim a reward 🎁
📅 From Saturday 20 July until Tuesday 20 August 2024
🎟️ FREE
📍 Waterstones, Orchard Square
🖱️ Summer Activities | Events at Waterstones Bookshops
Summer Reading Challenge 📖
Celebrate the Summer with Waterstones and explore new books by taking part in their Summer reading challenge. Read a book from each of their six themes over the holidays to collect six stamps. Collect all six and receive a prize and certificate. Happy Reading!
📅 From Saturday 20 July until Sunday 1 September 2024
📍 Waterstones, Orchard Square
🖱️ Summer Reading Challenge | Events at Waterstones Bookshops
Sheffield by the Seaside 📖
One of the most popular free events in Sheffield city centre's events calendar. Open daily from 10am until 6pm. Character visits every Wednesday.
📅 From Thursday 25 July until Tuesday 27 August 2024
🎟️ Free Entry
📍 Peace Gardens
🖱️ Sheffield by the Seaside (welcometosheffield.co.uk)
Under the Sea 🐟
Orchard Square's free trail for kids is back this summer! With an exciting new theme to get your 'little undersea adventurers' hunting for shells throughout the Square. Find the secret word and receive a special treat 🎁
📅 From Friday 26 July to Sunday 1 September
🎟️ FREE
📍 Orchard Square
📝 Collect your trail sheet from Sheffield Plate in Orchard Square and return your completed sheet to claim your prize.
Gruffalo Day 🐾
Celebrate The Gruffalo's 25th birthday with Waterstones in Orchard Square. They'll have colouring sheets, activity sheets and a Gruffalo themed storytime at 2pm 📖
📅 Saturday 27 July 2024, From 11am
🎟️ FREE
📍 Waterstones, Orchard Square
🖱️ Gruffalo Day | Events at Waterstones Bookshops
Kids Karaoke at Kommune 🎤
Get ready for a fun-filled day of kids singing their hearts out at Kids Karaoke at Kommune! It's the perfect opportunity for your little ones to showcase their vocal talents in a supportive and encouraging environment.
📅 Sunday 28 July 2024, 12pm - 2pm
🎟️ FREE
📍 Kommune, Angel Street
🖱️ Kids Karaoke @ Kommune Tickets, Sun 28 Jul 2024 at 12:00 | Eventbrite
South Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Open Day 🧯
Sheffield's Central Fire Station will be throwing open their doors for a family-friendly open day offering a range of activities and demonstrations throughout the day.
📅 Sunday 28 July 2024, 11am - 4pm
🎟️ FREE
📍 Eyre Street
Ongoing events and activities include:
💼 Paddington's Holiday, Waterstones, Orchard Square
🐟 Under the Sea Summer Trail, Orchard Square
⛱️ Sheffield by the Seaside, Peace Gardens
🕹️ Summer Fun, National Videogame Museum
This week's highlights include:
The Safari Stomp 🐘
Join Sheffield Cathedral for a ‘Stomp through the Safari’ with award-winning children’s author, Caryl Hart. Aimed at children aged 3 to 7 years, Caryl will lead an 'interactive movement and story time' followed by a safari animal craft making session.
📅 Tuesday 30 July 2024, 11am - 12pm
🎟️ £6 per child
📍 Sheffield Cathedral
🖱️ Safari Stomp: Story Time With Caryl Hart
Family Activity: Metal Embossing 🧵
Discover the ancient art form of metal embossing using a stylus on a metal sheet to create a fantastic 3D pattern.
📅 Wednesday 31 July 2024, 12pm - 3pm
🎟️ FREE (Suggested donation: £3)
📍 Millennium Gallery, Arundel Gate
🖱️ Family Activity: Metal Embossing - Sheffield Museums Trust
Sheffield Bricktropolis 🦁
Get set for a wild adventure across Sheffield city centre with the BRICK LIVE Safari brick model trail. Safari features 17 amazing animal models hosted by a wide range of local businesses as part of a fabulous visitor trail around the city centre.
In addition to the sculpture trail, there'll be a number of other activites to keep all ages entertained including:
🧱 The Stay & Play Zone at Sheffield Cathedral
🧱 A wonderful Adult Fans of LEGO® Exhibition at Sheffield Hallam University
🧱 Giant Mosaic Builds at Sheffield Hallam University
🧱 'Bricks and Bakes' sessions at the Builder's Brew Cafe on East Parade
📅 From Saturday 3 August to Sunday 18 August 2024
🎟️ All activities are FREE to attend. Please note the Sculpture Trail Maps cost £1.
🖱️ Sheffield Bricktropolis
New Tricks: Gameboy Camera Photography Workshop 📸
Learn how to use the Gameboy Camera to take your own images and make your own prints as part of the Site Gallery's Cyber Cafe exhibition.
📅 Saturday 3 August, 11am - 2pm
🎟️ FREE
📍 Site Gallery
🖱️ New Tricks: Gameboy Camera Photography Workshop - Site Gallery
Adult Fans of LEGO® (AFOL) Exhibition 🏗️
Adult Fans of LEGO® (AFOL) from across the country will display their own models and unique creations. Great fun for LEGO® fans young and old with a wide range of incredibly intricate models created from the nation's favourite bricks.
📅 Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 August 2024
🎟️ FREE
📍 Hallam Hall, Owen Building, Sheffield Hallam University
🖱️ AFOL User Group weekend - Sheffield Bricktropolis (Sheffield BID)
Moana's Voyage: Mini Disco with the Princess of Adventures 👸
Join Cambridge Street Collective for a fun-filled event with Moana herself! Dance to your favourite tunes, play games, and meet Moana for a magical experience.
📅 Sunday 4 August 2024, 10am - 12pm
🎟️ FREE
📍 Cambridge Street Collective
🖱️ Moana's Voyage: FREE Mini Disco with the Princess of Adventures! Tickets, Sun, Aug 4, 2024 at 10:00 AM | Eventbrite
Ongoing events and activities include:
💼 Paddington's Holiday, Waterstones, Orchard Square
🐟 Under the Sea Summer Trail, Orchard Square
⛱️ Sheffield by the Seaside, Peace Gardens
🕹️ Summer Fun, National Videogame Museum
This week's highlights include:
Sheffield Bricktropolis 🦁
It's the first full week of the 'wild adventure across Sheffield city centre' with the BRICK LIVE Safari brick model trail. Safari features 17 amazing animal models hosted by a wide range of local businesses as part of a fabulous visitor trail around the city centre.
In addition to the sculpture trail, there'll be a number of other activites to keep all ages entertained including:
🧱 The Stay & Play Zone at Sheffield Cathedral
🧱 A wonderful Adult Fans of LEGO® Exhibition at Sheffield Hallam University
🧱 Giant Mosaic Builds at Sheffield Hallam University
🧱 'Bricks and Bakes' sessions at the Builder's Brew Cafe on East Parade
📅 From Saturday 3 August to Sunday 18 August 2024
🎟️ All activities are FREE to attend. Please note the Sculpture Trail Maps cost £1.
🖱️ Sheffield Bricktropolis
Giant Mosaic Build 1 🧱
Take part in one of the biggest builds that Sheffield has ever seen. Pick up your base plate and your bricks and help create a giant safari-themed mosaic over two days of epic building.
📅 Monday 5 and Tuesday 6 August 2024
🎟️ FREE
📍 Hallam Hall, Owen Building, Sheffield Hallam University
🖱️ Join in a Giant Mosaic build - Sheffield Bricktropolis (Sheffield BID)
Bricks & Bakes 1 🧱
Head over to see the good people at the Builder's Brew Cafe on East Parade and get stuck into building your own masterpiece.
As part of this Sheffield Bricktropolis fringe activity, you'll have access to their cafe's designated build area in their upstairs function room, where you can build your own 'safari-themed masterpiece'. Enter your creation into a competition to win a Tiger LEGO® set and a £20 voucher to spend at the cafe.
📅 Wednesday 7 August 2024, 11am - 3pm
📍 Builder's Brew Cafe, East Parade
🎟️ FREE. Please note booking is essential as places are limited.
🖱️ Bricks & Bakes 🧱 - Sheffield Bricktropolis (Sheffield BID)
Eat, Treat & Moor 🍽️
Join The Moor Sheffield at Eat, Treat & Moor, a celebration of all thing’s food, drink, and entertainment for the whole family. Feed your soul over this two-day event with over 30 stalls of delicious food and drink.
📅 Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 August 2024, 10am - 6pm
🖱️ Eat, Treat & Moor at The Moor’s Food Event - (moorsheffield.com)
Ongoing events and activities include:
💼 Paddington's Holiday, Waterstones, Orchard Square
🐟 Under the Sea Summer Trail, Orchard Square
⛱️ Sheffield by the Seaside, Peace Gardens
🕹️ Summer Fun, National Videogame Museum
This week's highlights include:
Sheffield Bricktropolis
The wild adventure continues across Sheffield city centre with the BRICK LIVE Safari brick model trail.
Safari features 17 amazing animal models hosted by a wide range of local businesses as part of a fabulous visitor trail around the city centre.
In addition to the sculpture trail, there are a number of other activites to keep all ages entertained including:
🧱 The Stay & Play Zone at Sheffield Cathedral
🧱 A Giant Mosaic Build at Sheffield Hallam University on Thursday 15 and Friday 16 August
🧱 'Bricks and Bakes' sessions at the Builder's Brew Cafe on East Parade on Wednesday 15 August
📅 From Saturday 3 August to Sunday 18 August 2024
🎟️ All activities are FREE to attend. Please note the Sculpture Trail Maps cost £1.
🖱️ Sheffield Bricktropolis
Bricks & Bakes 2 🧱
Head over to see the good people at the Builder's Brew Cafe on East Parade and get stuck into building your own masterpiece.
As part of this Sheffield Bricktropolis fringe activity, you'll have access to their cafe's designated build area in their upstairs function room, where you can build your own 'safari-themed masterpiece'. Enter your creation into a competition to win a Tiger LEGO® set and a £20 voucher to spend at the cafe.
📅 Wednesday 14 August 2024, 11am - 3pm
🎟️ FREE. Please note booking is essential as places are limited.
📍 Builder's Brew Cafe, East Parade
🖱️ Bricks & Bakes 🧱 - Sheffield Bricktropolis (Sheffield BID)
Family Activity: Adventures in Animation at Millenium Gallery ✏️
In collaboration with the Millenium Gallery, the National Videogame Museum invite you to experiment with different types of animation in this fun, hands on activity. From flip books to mini, stop-motion movies – what will you create?
📅 Wednesday 14 August 2024, 12pm - 3pm
🎟️ FREE (Suggested donation: £3)
📍 Millennium Gallery, Arundel Gate
🖱️ Family Activity: Adventures in Animation - Sheffield Museums Trust
Make Your Own Minnion Puppet
Free children's arts and crafts fun with My Arty Party and Despicable Me 4.
📅 Wednesday 14 August 2024, 11am-3pm
🎟️ FREE
📍 Light Cinema
Character visit - Elsa & Olaf
A very special visit to the Moor Market from Frozen's Elsa and Olaf.
📅 Thursday 15 August 2024, 11am-3pm
🎟️ FREE
📍 Moor Market
Giant Mosaic Build 2 🧱
Take part in one of the biggest builds that Sheffield has ever seen. Pick up your base plate and your bricks and help create a giant safari-themed mosaic over two days of epic building.
📅 Thursday 15 and Friday 16 August 2024
🎟️ FREE. No need to pre-book, just turn up and build.
📍 Hallam Hall, Owen Building, Sheffield Hallam University
🖱️ Join in a Giant Mosaic build - Sheffield Bricktropolis (Sheffield BID)
Clay Model Workshop
Create your own clay animal model with a free clay model workshop at the Light Cinema.
📅 Saturday 16 August 2024, 11am-3pm
🎟️ FREE
📍 Light Cinema
Character visit - Meet Cody from CoComelon
Cody from CoComelon will be visiting The Entertainer on The Moor, pop down and say hello 👋
📅 Saturday 17 August 2024
🎟️ FREE
📍 The Entertainer, Moor Sheffield
Classics on The Moor 🚗
Back for the 14th year, The Moor's classic car show in association with Rotary Sheffield Vulcan. Step back in time to discover vehicles of the past with over one hundred vehicles on display.
📅 From Sunday 18 August 2024, 10:30am - 4pm
🎟️ FREE
🖱️ Classics on The Moor - (moorsheffield.com)
Ongoing events and activities include:
💼 Paddington's Holiday, Waterstones, Orchard Square
🐟 Under the Sea Summer Trail, Orchard Square
⛱️ Sheffield by the Seaside, Peace Gardens
🕹️ Summer Fun, National Videogame Museum
This week's other highlights include:
Animal Encounter at Sheffield Plate
Enjoyed meeting all the LEGO animals on the Sheffield Bricktropolis Safari?
Visit Sheffield Plate on Wednesday 21 August for the chance to meet some of the planets most interesting animals.
📅 Wednesday 21 August, from 10:30am
🎟️ £8
🖱️ Animal Encounter @ Sheffield plate Tickets, Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 10:30 AM | Eventbrite
Kids Corner at Orchard Square
August Bank Holiday fun courtesy of Orchard Square and theie kids crafts and entertainment. Head for the Kids Corner tent near Sheffield Plate between 12pm and 3pm for FREE family fun at their Bank Holiday ‘Big Weekend’ event.
Activities include children’s crafts, face painting, glitter tattoos and balloon modelling.
📅 Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 August 2024
🎟️ FREE
🖱️ Orchard Square - 🌟✨ August Bank Holiday - Kids Crafts &... | Facebook
Devonshire Green Festival
Visit Devonshire Green for Little Hummingbird Events' Devonshire Green Festival with an emphasis on family friendly, food and drink and supporting independent businesses ❤️
📅 Saturday 25 August 2024, 12pm - 8pm
🖱️ Devonshire Green Festival on Facebook
Ongoing events and activities include:
💼 Paddington's Holiday, Waterstones, Orchard Square
🐟 Under the Sea Summer Trail, Orchard Square
⛱️ Sheffield by the Seaside, Peace Gardens
🕹️ Summer Fun, National Videogame Museum
This week's other highlights include:
New Tricks: Gameboy Camera Photography Workshop 📸
Learn how to use the Gameboy Camera to take your own images and make your own prints as part of the Site Gallery's Cyber Cafe exhibition.
📅 Saturday 31 August, 11am - 2pm
🎟️ FREE
📍 Site Gallery
🖱️ New Tricks: Gameboy Camera Photography Workshop - Site Gallery
Special events and activities at the city centre's top attractions
🚨 National Emergency Services Museum
Head to the National Emergency Services Museum this August for 'Toy Town' and explore old and new toys from their amazing collection, create your own puppet toy, and let your inner child shine.
📝 Open Wednesday to Sunday 10am to 4pm
🖱️ Plan your visit | 999 Museum (visitnesm.org.uk)
🕹️ National Videogame Museum
Summer Fun at the National Videogame Museum.
🕹️ The Arcade: 24 July to 11 August 2024 - Explore the new look Arcade as the National Videogame Museum showcase a narrative focus on how arcades became vibrant social spaces in the 1980’s and early 1990’s.
🎮 The Lab: 12 to 25 August 2024 - Who makes videogames? Everyone! The Lab area showcases how anyone of all ages from any background can make, create and design videogames.
⚔️ Made In Sheffield: 26 August to 3 September 2024 - Explore Sheffield’s rich gaming heritage as the National Videogame Museum shine a light on forty years of history, that all began with Gremlin Graphics.
📝 Open every day from Wednesday 24 July to Tuesday 3 September between 10am to 1pm and 2pm to 5pm.
🖱️ Summer Fun - National Videogame Museum - Sheffield, UKNational Videogame Museum - (thenvm.org)
🖼️ Sheffield Museums - Millennium Gallery
📝 Open Tuesday to Saturday from 10am to 5pm and Sunday from 11am to 4pm.
🖱️ Millennium Gallery - Sheffield Museums Trust
📖 Central Library and Central Children's Library
📝 Central Library open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 10am to 5pm; Wednesday 10am to 8pm and Saturday and Sunday 10am to 4pm. Children's Library open Monday to Friday 10am to 5pm and Saturday 10am to 4pm.
🖱️ Our libraries | Sheffield City Council
🌊 Ponds Forge International Sports Centre
📝 Ponds Forge holiday camps programme provides children aged 5-13 years, a fun, safe, stable environment where they can come make friends and learn sporting skills.
🖱️ Ponds Forge | Gym, Swimming Pool, Sports Hall & Lessons (sheffieldcitytrust.org)
🖱️ Multi Sports Holiday Camps | Holiday Camps for Kids | Sheffield City Trust
🎬 City centre cinema
Sheffield city centre is home to four excellent cinemas, catering for all types of tastes.
There's the Curzon hidden away on George Street, the Light at the back of The Moor, the ODEON Luxe on Arundel Gate and the Showroom Cinema on Paternoster Row.
Here's just a taster of what the city centre's 'big four' have to offer this summer.
The Curzon sits inside a Grade II listed building that was previously the home of the Sheffield Banking Company.
💡 We recommend heading to their 'hidden' rooftop bar for refreshments on a hot day...you won't be disappointed!
💷 Visit before 5pm on a Monday, Tuesday, Thursday or Friday - or at any time on a Wednesday - and it's £9.75 for an adult ticket and £6 for a child ticket.
💡 The Curzon also host dog-friendly screenings every Sunday as part of their Dog Day Afternoons programme. So grab the gang, and your pooch, for a very special screening for all the family to enjoy 🐶
🖱️ Curzon - Curzon Sheffield Cinema Showtimes & Film Listings
The Light is one of The Moor's most popular destinations. They offer an exciting cinema experience featuring state of the art facilities, comfortable seating and showing the latest releases as well as great films from the past.
💡 Family Specials at the Light are the ultimate treat for you and your little movie buffs! Showing every Saturday and Sunday, you can enjoy a family favourite from just £5.75 a ticket. Better still, their Family Special screenings are also shown from Monday to Friday throughout the school holidays.
💡 Toddler Time screenings are designed exclusively for pre-school children and their parents or carers and audience participation is encouraged. Tickets are from just £3.50 for children, with their parent / carer free.
🖱️ Welcome to The Light Sheffield
The ODEON Luxe on Arundel Gate offers an immersive, luxury viewing experience with their high tech sound systems, reclining seats with ample foot space and retractable tables. The ODEON Luxe has 10 screens showing a wide variety of films.
💡 Check out their Family Cinema Tickets & Family Movies in Cinemas (odeon.co.uk) section for your next movie and take advantage of some great deals.
🎟️ Book online and you can get an adult ticket for £9.95 with children's tickets priced at just £7.50.
🖱️ ODEON Luxe Sheffield Cinema | Cinematic Luxury From £9.95*
Head to the Showroom Cinema for Family Time: Staycation for the best possible summer 'staycation on the big screen'.
Sheffield Film Festival’s Family Time strand is themed around a “staycation”, celebrating the local area as the destination for a summer of cinematic adventures.
All the Family Time films in August take place in or were inspired by locations within travelling distance of Sheffield, reminding you that some of the best stories take place right on our doorstep!
Saturday 03 August | The Railway Children
Saturday 10 August | Robin Hood
Saturday 17 August | The Princess Bride
Saturday 31 August | Mary and the Witch's Flower
🖱️ Relaxed Saturdays: Family Time and Autism-Friendly Films - Showroom Workstation - Sheffield
🎟️ Tickets for Showroom Cinema start from £9.80 for adults and are always £5 for under 15s. NHS/Blue Light discounts are available for adult tickets. Group family tickets are available from £20.50. Family Time tickets are £5 per person of all ages, every Saturday at 11am.
💡 The Showroom Cinema's Sheffield Film Festival is a new annual celebration of the rich film heritage and thriving film culture of Sheffield, and the surrounding region. The inaugural edition, running from 2 August, celebrates the work and contributions of Sheffield’s thriving film community.
Still looking for some big screen inspiration? Here are just a few of this summer's hottest releases to keep an eye out for 🔥
From 12 July 2024
🎬 Despicable Me 4
📝 Gru returns for one more adventure aided, as always, by his faithful minions.
🖱️ https://www.universalpictures.co.uk/micro/dm4
From 17 July 2024
🎬 Twisters
From the producers of the Jurassic, Bourne and Indiana Jones series comes Twisters, a current-day chapter of the 1996 blockbuster, Twister.
🖱️ https://www.warnerbros.co.uk/movies/twisters
From 31 July 2024
🎬 Harold and the Purple Crayon
'Everything he draws is about to get real'.
🖱️ https://harold.sonypictures.co.uk/
From 8 August 2024
🎬 Borderlands (12A)
Lilith, an infamous bounty hunter with a mysterious past, reluctantly returns to her home, Pandora, the most chaotic planet in the galaxy. Her mission? To find the missing daughter of Atlas.
🖱️ https://borderlands.2k.com/en-GB/
From 9 August 2024
🎬 Gracie & Pedro: Mission Impossible
Left stranded in an unfamiliar land after a mishap at the airport separates them from their family, Gracie and Pedro face the seemingly impossible challenge of finding their own way home!
🖱️ https://gracieandpedrofilm.co.uk/
Special offers at city centre businesses 🔥
Here are just a few of the great deals to make your money go further this summer. Click the link for further details and any associated offer terms and conditions.
Bowling 🎳
🎳 £5.99 for one game of bowling and a junior burger meal at Tenpin. It’s £8.49 for the adults.
🎳 £5 bowling for kids at Roxy Ballroom on Charter Row.
Escape Rooms 🔐
🔐 One person plays for free at Crack the Code on Carver Street. Valid for teams of 4 and above.
Kids Eat Free 🍽️
🍽️ Bella Italia, Sheffield St Paul's (in conjunction with Sheffield Bricktropolis)
🍽️ The Head of Steam Sheffield (in conjunction with Sheffield Bricktropolis)
🍽️ Sheffield Plate, Orchard Square
🍽️ Pizza Express, Sheffield St Paul's (offer available until 11 August 2024)
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Week-by-week listings
📅 Week 1 - w/c Monday 22 July
📅 Week 2 - w/c Monday 29 July
📅 Week 3 - w/c Monday 5 August
📅 Week 4 - w/c Monday 12 August
📅 Week 5 - w/c Monday 19 August
📅 Week 6 - w/c Monday 26 August
🤩 Events and activities at the city centre's top attractions
🔥 Special six week holiday offers