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Festival of Hobbies

New Year, New Hobby?

Hobbies are good for you! Throughout January 2020 Harland Works will be tackling the January blues with a positive, upbeat campaign on the benefits of having a hobby.

Lots of the businesses based at Harland Works started out as hobbies - and now offer other people the opportunity to have a go at activities like pottery, yoga, animation, knitting or even, commissioning your own tattoo.

If you’re convinced by the benefits of hobbies, and would like to explore ideas for a new hobby for you, sign up to join Harland Works’ Festival of Hobbies this January.

Each day we’ll email you info on somebody’s favourite hobby - so that’s 31 ideas by the end of January. Each email will tell the story of someone’s experience of that hobby, and why they love it. And there’ll be a link to a way you can have a go yourself if you’d like to give it a try.

Sign up, and by the end of January you might have a whole new ambition for a hobby to try - and you could be enjoying the benefits throughout 2020.

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The 31 ideas!

We are looking for 31 people to share info on their favourite hobby! Could that be you? Help spread the word about how great your hobby is and what people can get from it. If so, we’d love you to be part of our January Festival of Hobbies. Send us your contact details here and we’ll be in touch to arrange how we to capture your story.

Do you run a sport, class, workshop, voluntary group, craft or art activity, social group that would like to attract new members in 2020? Is there someone in your group (or you?) who’d be happy to tell others about their experience? Can you offer a taster session for people to give it a try? If so, we’d love to hear from you! Contact us here and we’ll send you info on how we could feature your group in our January Festival of Hobbies.

From the archives - Festival Of Hobbies - New Year, New Hobby?

A few years (January 2020 … a lifetime ago!) ago we did a series on hobbies. The inspiration for the series was a post we did in Summer 2019 on wild swimming which is one of my family’s favourite hobbies. Lots of people contributed their favourite hobbies to add to a series that we shared throughout January - with the aim of cheering people up! It was good fun to do … and you can still read some of the blog posts that came out of it here. And if you have a hobby that brings you joy, that you’d be happy to share with us, please get in touch using this link - we’d love to update this series and run it again in January 2024….



Do you have a hobby you love?

We’d love to hear about your hobby!

We’re looking for updated suggestions for great hobbies to try for us to share in a new Festival of Hobbbies series planned for January 2024.

If you have a hobby you love, and you’d be happy to share the info with others, please tell us a little more about it by answering the questions we’ve added below.

We’ll collect ideas and then use what people have told us to create suggestions for 31 different hobbies people could have a go at in 2024.

Then we will share the ideas and suggestions for hobbies on our website and social media throughout January - with the aim of encouraging more people to find hobbies they love.

Thank you if you’re up for helping us spread the love for Hobbies, and you’re up for telling others of the great benefits that you get from your hobby.

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