Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival 2026 Crowdfunder!

Aim

The GBPT festival team need your help to raise an incredible £5,000 by 20 September to keep Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival thriving.

WHO WE ARE

Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival (GDODF) is Scotland’s biggest free community and heritage event where you can go behind the scenes of buildings all over the city into spaces not normally open to the public, and enjoy walking tours, workshops, performances and family-friendly events, all across four inspiring days.

The festival has been organised by Glasgow Building Preservation Trust (GBPT) since it began in 1990 as part of the City of Culture celebrations.

WHAT WE DO

The festival is also a powerful collective moment in the city’s cultural calendar, bringing communities together, fostering understanding, breaking down barriers to access, and bridging the physical and cultural divides between Glasgow’s people, historic buildings, and institutions. It's a celebration of the city's architecture and the story of its people. Through shared experiences, the festival helps to build and boast civic pride, nurture a sense of belonging, and celebrate the diversity and beauty of the city we call home.

WHY WE NEED YOUR HELP

This year, we’re warmly appealing to our wonderfully supportive festival audiences and the wider public to help us raise a vital £5,000 by 20 September - the final day of the festival to keep the festival thriving!

As funding for well-loved festivals like ours becomes increasingly competitive and ever more scarce, we are turning to you - our loyal audiences - to ask if you could donate whatever you can to help us keep the festival going and the doors open.

If you’ve had a great time learning about the city’s heritage or meeting fantastic people at the festival over the last 37 years, or if you were one of the 13,000 visitors in 2025 who helped make it our busiest festival yet, we would be deeply grateful for your support this year.

Every donation we receive will help GBPT to bridge this year’s funding gap and support festival operations into next year and beyond.

WHERE YOUR MONEY GOES

Our GBPT Festival Team's really small but extremely dedicated. We will proudly invest every pound raised from our Crowdfunder campaign into helping us continue to coordinate and promote the hundreds of festival participants who open their doors every year (most of whom give their time voluntarily to the festival). Your support will also enable us to grow our Schools Programme in the South, North and East of the city and create heritage site based learning opportunities for our team of 50 festival volunteers. 

To donate, simply choose the amount you’d like to give, and follow the steps. 

If you’re a UK taxpayer, you can add Gift Aid to boost your support at no extra cost. 

This year's Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival 2026 programme launches for bookings on our GDODF website on 5 August and runs from 17-20 September.

See you there!

Funding method

Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made by 20th September 2026 at 11:55pm