10.30am: Yate International Festival
Yate Heritage Centre
10.30am to 4.00pm
Yate Heritage Centre will come to life with music and creativity for Yate International Festival.
This annual event celebrates diversity and talent within our community bringing together an exciting mix of cultural performances, creative activities, and local organisations.
This year’s festival is extra special, as Yate Heritage Centre marks its 25th anniversary. Since opening in 2000, the Heritage Centre has been fundamental in preserving our individual and shared history with artefacts, documents, maps, photographs and exhibitions while also creating space for new stories to be told.
Event visitors can expect a packed day of live music, energetic dance performances, creative workshops, and stalls brimming with... Read more >>
Yate Heritage Centre
Yate and District Heritage Centre celebrates Yate’s cultural, historical, social and industrial past.
It does so by staging thought-provoking and varied exhibitions and events, including a regular series of quizzes, historical lectures and other one-off sessions - see the right hand side of this page for more details.
All parts of the community are involved in generating historical information at the Yate Heritage Centre. Admission is free and everyone is welcome.
| Monday | Closed |
| Tuesday | 10am-4pm |
| Wednesday | 10am-4pm |
| Thursday | 10am-4pm |
| Friday | Closed |
| Saturday | 10am-3pm |
| Sunday | Closed |
The Centre contains the two major local history collections and these are available to the public on open days and through appointment.
There are over 3,000 objects in the Centre’s collections acquired since the mid 1990s.
They include: historic 3D objects, maps, photographs and documents, as well as an educational handling collection.
The Centre also houses the Oral History Project Group's collection of photographs, tapes, documents and of course oral history, amounting to 4,000 items.
Yate and District Heritage Centre welcomes volunteers.
If you would like to help with displays or events, or would like to join the Friends Scheme, please get in touch.
The address is Church Road, Yate, BS37 5BG
You'll find the Heritage Centre between the White Lion Pub and St Mary's Church.
Its location is the site of former stables dating back to the 1840s.
This prestigious building and key location make the Centre accessible to visitors.
