Meet at RAMM Garden Reception. Have you considered how fungi affect our daily lives? How do they affect human populations and how do changes in the management of chronic health conditions affect fungal diseases? How important are fungi for us and our environment? There’s much more to fungi than meets the eye! From keeping our soils healthy, to producing medicines, to brewing beer – fungi play a vital role in our world. To celebrate UK Fungus Day and inspired by our exhibition Living Labyrinths: Art and Fungi, Professor Mark Ramsdale, from the University of Exeter, will guide you on a journey through the fascinating connections between fungi, plants, animals, and humans. Enjoy a gentle foray around Rougement Gardens and Gandy Street, where we will explore the many ways fungi influence our daily lives and environment, often without us even realising. This will be a relaxed and informal event with plenty of opportunities to meet others, chat, share your thoughts, and ask questions. We expect the event to last around 60 to 75 minutes. Please wear suitable clothes for an outdoor event. To sign up please visit https://rammuseum.org.uk/whats-on/the-wonderful-world-of-fungi-an-urban-foray-on-uk-fungus-day/

Join us as we venture into the woodland in search of the season's fascinating fungi. Whether you're an experienced recorder or simply curious, our field meetings offer a friendly opportunity to learn, explore, and share discoveries with fellow mycology enthusiasts.

Family friendly fungi festival. Guided fungi forays, talks, workshops, market stalls, wild food, chaga coffee by the fire and more!

This unique art exhibition explores the cultural world of fungi through a lens of scientific enquiry. By bringing together the work of leading contemporary artists, Living Labyrinths suggests ways to reimagine our relationship with the earth. It explores themes of symbiosis, and biodiversity, as well as concepts from medical mycology. Through artworks in a range of media including ceramic, glass, photography, painting and textile, Living Labyrinths offers thought-provoking interpretations of mycorrhizal networks. The exhibition considers how fungi shape both our physical and conceptual worlds. Newly conserved dried specimens, natural history drawings and lantern slides from across RAMM’s collections of fungi have inspired two new art commissions. A large-scale drawing of the human mycobiome by Gemma Anderson-Tempini, and bio-sonic sound art of mycelial networks by Jason Singh feature in the exhibition. Also on display will be watercolours of fungi by Beatrix Potter, better known as the children’s author and illustrator, and Cy Twombly’s influential collage series Natural History, Part I, Mushrooms from 1974. These major loans will be displayed alongside innovative and inspiring work by eight internationally renowned contemporary artists: Sian Bonnell, Seana Gavin, Andy Harper, Hilde Hauan Johnsen, Lucy Mercer, Jo Pearl, Chantal Powell, and Holly Stevenson.

Fungi Town is the annual 'mushroomification' of Hay-on-Wye, when a whole town gets together to celebrate the kingdom of fungi. Visitors can expect family-friendly talks from leading fungi experts, walks and workshops, stalls, delicious food, and even a parade. Events take place in Hay Castle, the Globe at Hay, and in shops and venues across town. Mushroom costumes are optional.

The NEFSG will have a stall at the North East England Alpine Group Plant Fair & Show. Join us there to see our display of local fungi and have a chat.

The Edinburgh Fungi Festival (EFF) brings together science, art, and local knowledge in a weekend of education and appreciation of Kingdom Fungi for people of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities. Expect interactive workshops (i.e. mushroom cultivation, fermentation, making mycomaterials), guided walks (led by expert foragers), & varied talks (i.e. fungi in folklore, Scottish fungus identification, advanced microscopy). The event is free and held in a fully accessible venue, with forays in surrounding woodlands. All ages and backgrounds welcome!

We will be having a competition for the children to find knitted mushrooms hidden around the field with fungus picture books as prizes. There will also be face painting and one of our members will be dressed up as a fly agaric. The table will be loaded with educational material and experts to answere any questions

We will explore the reserve searching for fungi. Experts will be on hand to help with their identification and explain their ecological roles and other fascinating facts about them. There will be two walks, each starting from the visitor centre and lasting about two hours. The morning session starts at 10.30 AM and the afternoon one at 1.30 AM. A selection of the finds will be displayed at the visitor centre after each session.

Join us as we venture into the woodland in search of the season's fascinating fungi. Whether you're an experienced recorder or simply curious, our field meetings offer a friendly opportunity to learn, explore, and share discoveries with fellow mycology enthusiasts.

Silent disco - we will dance spent mushroom substrates into the growing of a community garden that grows and gives away 4000 meals

This October, join HMS Victory's Conservation Team for a fascinating look at one of the ship's smallest but most persistent challenges: fungi. As part of UK Fungus Day, discover the different types of fungi that conservation specialists encounter while caring for HMS Victory, and learn why monitoring and managing them is essential to preserving this iconic historic vessel for future generations. Meet the experts who work behind the scenes, explore the science of conservation, and have a go at some of the techniques used to assess and care for the ship's historic fabric. Test water samples using pH indicator strips to understand how environmental conditions affect preservation, or try cleaning a sample of timber using specialist conservation methods. Whether you're interested in history, science, heritage, or conservation, this is a unique opportunity to speak directly with the team responsible for protecting one of Britain's most important historic ships. Included with a valid HMS Victory ticket. Drop in during advertised Meet the Team sessions.

Have you considered how fungi affect our daily lives? How do they affect human populations and how do changes in the management of chronic health conditions affect fungal diseases? How important are fungi for us and our environment? There’s much more to fungi than meets the eye! From keeping our soils healthy, to producing medicines, to brewing beer – fungi play a vital role in our world. To celebrate UK Fungus Day and inspired by our exhibition Living Labyrinths: Art and Fungi, Professor Mark Ramsdale, from the University of Exeter, will guide you on a journey through the fascinating connections between fungi, plants, animals, and humans. Enjoy a gentle foray around Rougement Gardens and Gandy Street, where we will explore the many ways fungi influence our daily lives and environment, often without us even realising. This will be a relaxed and informal event with plenty of opportunities to meet others, chat, share your thoughts, and ask questions. We expect the event to last around 60 to 75 minutes. Please wear suitable clothes for an outdoor event. Meet at RAMM Garden Reception.

Sámi artist Hilde Hauan Johnsen has travelled from Sápmi, Norway, in the Arctic region to show her artwork in RAMM’s exhibition Living Labyrinths: Art and Fungi. For Hilde’s first public talk in the UK, she discusses her fungi-dyed textiles alongside a philosophical approach to making and ecology with Exeter-based artist Amy Shelton. Hilde is a textile artist based in Northern Norway whose artistic practice is rooted in the land where she lives. Johnsen works with natural dyes from foraged plants and fungi. She uses these materials to interrogate the concept of national borders. In Johnsen’s work, natural dyeing becomes a way of holding landscape and memory together. Amy Shelton is a visual artist and founder of Honeyscribe, a visual arts charity that leads creative projects centred on people, plants, and the natural world. Amy creates botanical artworks of plants which she gathers and preserves. By collaborating with other specialists, each artwork illuminates a specific locality, highlighting the relationships between biodiversity, human and environmental well-being. This event is part of a programme of events inspired by RAMM’s exhibition Living Labyrinths: Art and Fungi

A private tour of my ceramics studio in the garden where I make ceramic mushrooms and mycelium bowls. These ceramic pieces were exhibited at Collect Art Fair 2026 (Somerset House) with The Joanna Bird Gallery and also at Daylesford. I don't open up my studio often but if you contact me through my website you will be able to browse and purchase the full range of mushrooms and mycelium vessels that I have recently made and see the environment that I work in. You could also have a walk on Dover's Hill which is a fantastic National Trust spot with far reaching views and a very good place to see mushrooms in the woodland.

The Botanic Garden is a great place to come and look for wild fungi, you’ll find all types of mushroom-friendly habitat here – woods, fields, lawns and flower beds. Some of our fungi are very special. We have wild mushrooms that have been found nowhere else in Wales, fungi that are rare across the UK and on our Waun Las National Nature Reserve, we have a meadow that has an internationally important collection of multi-coloured waxcap fungi. We also have some of the most bizarre and beautiful fungi on earth. Explore the weird and wonderful world of fungi for yourself by coming along to the event. There will be a series of captivating talks and tours, activities for all ages and a fungal display where you can explore their fascinating and intricate details for yourself up close.

Sorby Fungus Group (Sheffield area) will be celebrating UK Fungus Day with Sheffield City Council and Shire Brook Heritage Group at Shire Brook Valley Nature Reserve. We will be based at Shire Brook Visitor Centre, off Stone Lane, Sheffield, S13 7BR. Grid Ref, SK 41285 84314. The car park is located before the visitor centre. This is a free family friendly fungi event for UK Fungus Day to learn about fungi. There will be fungi displays, fungi information, craft activities, refreshments and a show and tell fungi display. A self-guided fungus trail with a map will run from 11am -3pm from the Shire Brook Visitor Centre. A guided Fungi Walk will start from the Visitor Centre at 1pm. No booking needed.

Fungus Foray, meet at 10.30 am in car park. Expect to pay a parking fee. There are toilets and a good cafe onsite.

General foray open to the public, children, dogs

We will explore the reserve searching for fungi. Experts will be on hand to help with their identification and explain their ecological roles and other fascinating facts about them. There will be two walks, each starting from the visitor centre and lasting about two hours. The morning session starts at 10.30 AM and the afternoon one at 1.30 AM. A selection of the finds will be displayed at the visitor centre after each session.

Step into the fascinating world of fungi! Bring the whole family along to join scientists and local experts for a day of discovery, woodland exploring and creative activities for curious minds of all ages. 🍄 Head out on a Fungi Foray Start your morning with local expert Mal Greaves on a guided walk to spot the mushrooms growing around the Arboretum. This is a separately ticketed, paid event—book your Fungi Foray place on our website. 🔬 Discover a microscopic world Head over the Tree Health Centre and join Fera Science mycologists Aiga and Ann for mini lab sessions throughout the day. Get a close-up look at the extraordinary shapes and structures of fungi, from distinctive spores to rusts and mildews found around the Arboretum. 🌳 Become a tree health detective Explore our plant disease displays with scientists George and Joy, then join plant pathologist Charles Lane in the afternoon for a guided walk investigating tree pests and diseases, with a special focus on fungi. Discover the clues that reveal when a tree is unwell. 🔍 Take a closer look at lichens Discover what lichens are and explore a display of these easily overlooked wonders before exploring the diverse collection of lichens on our living collection of trees in the arboretum. 🍂 Follow the fungi trail Explore some of the fungi recorded here at the Arboretum, with illustrated information boards revealing where to look and what to look for. Pick up a trail leaflet with interactive activities for children. 🎨 Get creative with fungi crafts Let little imaginations grow with hands-on activities in the Tree Health Centre making mushroom models from a colourful assortment of craft materials or enjoy colouring pages, fun-gi facts, puzzles and quiz. 🌍 Find out why fungi matter From the food we eat, gardening to the wider environment and innovative packaging, discover the surprising ways fungi enrich our lives. Come along, get curious and see fungi in a whole new light!

Join the reserve team on National Fungus Day on a guided walk around The Lodge nature reserve and learn about the weird and wonderful lives of fungi. National Fungus Day is on 10th October, but we will have another walk on Sunday 8th November. With more than 700 species recorded at The Lodge, we will look at ways to identify fungi and tips on how to photograph them but be aware that this is not a photography workshop. This guided walk is designed for adults and teens with a general interest in fungi and does not focus on what is edible or poisonous for potential foragers. It is not a foraging walk, and fungi will not be collected for consumption.